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The Roundtable Podcast 72: Crimes Against Headlines

September 29, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 28.09.2014

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Walking In LA | One Month to the Toronto Mayoral Election | Game: Crimes Against Headlines | Music: Tanya Tagaq | The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples | Paul Calandra | Is Canada Going to War? (Yes) | Fighting ISIS: The Coalition is Growing

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The Roundtable Podcast 71: Who Would Have Thought?

September 13, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 07.09.2014

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Scottish Independence? | Another War in Iraq? | NATO vs. Russia? | What’s Up with England? | #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly | Feature Article: Why Do Rebel Groups Love the Toyota Hilux? | Music: Robert Plant, “Little Maggie” | Canadians for a New Partnership | Brian Mulroney Says He’d Establish a Royal Commission to Investigate Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women | The Great Redford Portrait Contest | Doug Ford: the Black-and-White, All-or-Nothing Absolutist | Crested Butte, Montana, Becomes a Budweiser Commercial for $500,000

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The Roundtable Podcast 70: War & Religion

August 31, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 24.08.2014

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Pastafarians | Ferguson, MO | Toronto Election 2014 | The Islamic Caliphate: past and present | Religion and War | Why Care What Goes on in the World?

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July 27, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 20.07.2014

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Rob Ford’s nephew, Mikey Ford, running for councillor in Doug Ford’s Etobicoke riding | Remove a letter, ruin a band | Mike Duffy | Israeli troops battle Hamas in 2nd day of ground offensive, as Palestinian death toll tops 330 | Music: Future, “Shit” | Ukraine says Russia helping separatists destroy evidence at Malaysia Airlines crash site | Finish the Headline | Protests and crowd-funding can’t prevent N.B. Morgentaler clinic from performing final abortions | Peter MacKay’s Privacy Deficit Turned These Lives Upside Down

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May 6, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 04.05.2014
Al Feldstein

Rob Ford continued | News Clip: Nikki Ashton Calls on Federal Government to Hold Missing, Murdered Women Inquiry | Al Feldstein, longtime Mad magazine editor, dies at 88 | Doing Comedy | Bob Dylan’s original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone’s lyrics goes on sale | Music: Awon & Phoniks, “Forever Ill” | Burritos | Nigeria’s Stolen Girls | Shawn Atleo Resigns

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April 21, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 20.04.2014

Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Jim Flaherty | Rob Ford’s Campaign Party | Laureen Harper | Music: Willie Nelson, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” | Record Store Day / 4-20 | Justin Trudeau Selfie | Hipster Craft Beer Snobs Are Nerdgasming Over New Star Trek Brew | New Beer Store Ads | The Four Basic Ways to Tuck in a Shirt

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April 7, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 06.04.2014

The Campaigns for Kabul | Afghanistan: Seen Through the Lens of Anja Niedringhaus | Rwanda | Kurt Cobain: What Ever Happened to Nirvana | New Music: Timber Timbre, “Hot Dreams” | Chewbacca: The Cure For Bad Tattoos? | Food obsessives: the people searching for the perfect cheese, bread and coffee | Germans seize cocaine on its way to Vatican | Best Places To Live In Canada, And The Worst, According To MoneySense

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March 30, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 23.03.2014

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Video shows Rob Ford inhaling from pipe, new documents reveal | Malaysia Airlines MH370 search: No actual sighting from satellite image | Sister Cristina Scuccia on the Voice | New Music: The Internet, “Dontcha” | Alison Redford resignation: Did sexism play a role in her demise? | Ban Bossy | My Little Pony | Feminism | A Guy’s “Ideal Day” Would Include 4 Hours and 19 Minutes of Sex | Sharia to be enshrined in British legal system as lawyers get guidelines on drawing up documents according to Islamic rules

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March 10, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 09.03.2014

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Ukraine says progress made on Crimea mediation plan | New warrant issued in Mayor Rob Ford police investigation | Islamic Leaders Issue Fatwa Prohibiting One-Way Trips to Mars | Lev Tahor members stopped in Trinidad return to Canada Sunday night | New Music: Little Simz, “Mandarin Oranges Part 2” | Is Mississauga ready for a new mayor after 36 years of Hazel McCallion? | Parti Québécois election platform highlights values charter and French language | Nebraska shocked to learn it has Parti Quebecois-style religion law | Mandy Gives Online Dating Tips

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February 23, 2014 Wayne K. Spear 3 Comments

• Week of 23.02.2014

“It is what is is”: Patrick Brazeau Has a New Job | Yulia Tymoshenko freed; Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich impeached | Pa. couple sent to prison for 2nd prayer death of child | Blondie Bennett, Barbie-Obsessed Woman, Uses Hypnotherapy To Make Herself ‘Brainless’ | New Music: Lake Street Dive, “Bad Self Portraits” | Blue Tooth Toothbrush | WhatsApp | Viral Drinking Game, NekNomination | Tim Hortons cuts back menu, drops Cold Stone Creamery | Harper Goes to Mexico | Federal research shows oil sands tailings ponds are leaking | The government wants to hear your views about prostitution

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February 15, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 09.02.2014

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Old People News: the 50-Year Anniversary of the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Appearance | Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-2014 | (Yet) More Rob Ford | Bangladesh factory owners surrender after 2012 fire that killed 112 | Featured Article of the Week: The Olympics: A lie we all tell ourselves | Subway to remove chemical from bread | Industrial band Skinny Puppy demand $666,000 after music is used in Guantánamo torture | Iranian poet and peace campaigner Hashem Shaabani hanged for ‘waging war against God’ | Scientifically Accurate Flintstones | Woody Allen | Mandy Goes Ice Fishing | New Music: Guided By Voices | Sloe Gin | Moist, Gotye, and other forms of torture

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January 19, 2014 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 12.01.2014

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Ariel Sharon | York University standing by choice to excuse student from group work with women over religious beliefs | Stephen Harper’s ’24 Seven’ Show Has North Korean Vibes | Featured Article: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person | How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre | Music: Thee Silver Mt. Zion, “Take Away These Early Grave Blues” | Ont. Nazi’s Hitler-inspired house at centre of family feud | The KKK in Ontario: Found documents tell of Klan activity 90 years ago | Satanic Temple unveils 7-foot goat-headed Baphomet statue for Oklahoma Capitol | China’s new ‘secret ingredient’: cockroaches | App lets business users send messages that self-destruct

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December 29, 2013 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 28.12.2013

2013

Thousands across eastern Canada still in the dark | Stephen Harper thanks ‘brave men and women in uniform’ in annual Christmas message | Canada departs Afghanistan in 100 days | Featured Article: The Corporate “Free Speech” Racket – How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation | Associated Press announces Top 10 stories of 2013 | Music: Ian and Sylvia, “Got No More Home Than A Dog” | Edward Snowden says government surveillance now far worse than George Orwell’s 1984 envisioned | Activists clear to come home after Russian charges dropped | Wisconsin Has So Much Cheese They’re Using it to De-Ice the Roads | Botched circumcision allegations against Quebec doctor grow | 27 Things to Leave Behind in 2014

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December 15, 2013 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 14.12.2013

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Nelson Mandela: July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013 | Josh Matlow urges council to hit pause on Scarborough subway | Top Ten List: How to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017 | Game: Finish the Headline | Beyoncé | Featured Article: The End of the College Essay, An essay | Police In Thailand Lay Down Vests and Barricades In Solidarity With Protestors | Music: Greg Ashley, “True Love Leaves No Traces” | Google is now funding numerous Tea Party groups | Bots now ‘account for 61% of web traffic’ | Public-health advocates pushing for graphic, cigarette-style health warnings on wine, beer and liquor containers

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December 1, 2013 Wayne K. Spear Leave a comment

• Week of 01.12.2013 | Black Friday

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Black Friday shopping in US marred by violence | ‘This isn’t Toronto,’ sheriff says after U.S. mayor’s drug arrest | Afghanistan to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery | Game: Finish the Headline | Featured Article: Rumsfeld’s War and Its Consequences Now | Syria war ‘damaging a generation of children’, UN warns | Music: Queens of the Stone Age | Feds spend $40 million to pitch natural resources | Feds to monitor social media round-the-clock | New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto | Highlights from Boring Tweeter ‏@b0ringtweets | Teacher’s attempt to educate students on Internet safety turns into weird viral science lesson | Meindfeld | Why I Keep a Spreadsheet of Everyone I’ve Ever Slept With

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