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Outsourcing Torture

By David Parker

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Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on vacation in Sudan on the recommendation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was beaten and threatened while detained with no charges. He remained in Sudan for six years.
He is one of many victims of Canada outsourcing torture, including Abdullah [...]

Uncovering Canadian Involvement in Honduras

By David Parker

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Since June 2009, Honduras has seen it’s democratically elected leader, President Manuel Zelaya, ousted from government and sent into exile. He now resides in sanctuary at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Canadian journalist Dawn Paley (Dominion Newpaper, MediaCoop.ca) is spending a month in Honduras to uncover Canadian corporate [...]

Canada to hear appeal for Omar Khadr’s repatriation from Guantanamo

By David Parker

Canada’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Canadian government of a lower court order to ask the United States to repatriate Canadian national Omar Khadr. Khadr is the only remaining citizen of a Western country detained at the infamous U.S. detention and torture centre, Guantanamo Bay. He was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, [...]

VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast

By David Parker

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VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.
The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.
Tune-in [...]

Investigating Haiti Since the Coup: Five Years of Resistance

By David Parker

The CKDU and CKUT Campus/Community Radio News Collectives present:
A SPECIAL BROADCAST TO INVESTIGATE HAITI SINCE THE COUP: FIVE YEARS OF RESISTANCE.
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On Operation Wake Up
CKDU 88.1fm
Tuesday to Friday,
March 10th to 13th,
8 AM to 9 AM.
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Five years ago, Canadian soldiers participated in a military operation to overthrow Haiti’s elected government. In the weeks following the 2004 coup [...]