Rabbledocs

<p>From the South Pacific to big city streets, from big media to your inner ear, rabbledocs takes you on journeys of discovery with the best Canadian independent radio documentaries.</p>

A Tree Grows in Palestine

Today's rabble doc is a 5,000-year-old tree in Al-Walaja in the occupied West Bank and the voices of people who live in a town under siege.

09-13
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The Long Journey Home

A documentary by Carlos Tello and Aurora Tejeida exploring one woman's experience of the Guatemalan Civil War many years after it was over.

07-06
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Radio on the Canadian Prairies

In a time where communication was limited, the radio provided news, entertainment, and inspiration. Elaine Harder looks at 1930s Saskatchewan and the impact of radio.

03-30
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Art, Anguish, and Real Estate

Author Stephen Dale explores the connections between the arts community, gentrification, and real estate development.

03-23
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Occupy Vancouver: The Vets Who Took Hotel Vancouver

The Vancouver housing crisis is not a recent development. Carrie Swiggum's documentary looks into the situation for returning WWII veterans and their occupation of the Hotel Vancouver.

02-16
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People Powered: The Activists Behind Vancouver’s Climate Justice Movement

Rebecca Visser looks at what drives Vancouver-based activists in their fight for climate justice. Produced as part of the "Making Time for Radio" project of Simon Fraser's CJSF Radio.

01-12
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For peat's sake: Peat and resource development in provincial parks

In this documentary, Leif Larsen and Eric Reder talk about the value of peat, and why the Wilderness Committee are so opposed to any kind of resource development in provincial parks.

04-26
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Safety for cyclists

Jenna Morrison was one of two cyclists killed in Toronto. Tomas Urbina is a documentarian who has been covering the issue and he sent us this documentary on cyclist safety. Here's his doc.

02-22
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Ghosts Migrate

Ghosts Migrate - winner of the 2007 Radio-Canada digital diversity award.

04-10
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Listen to the land 1

From August to December 2006, broadcaster Michael Riordon recorded interviews and on-location sound impressions at eleven organic farms, as vegetables and herbs were harve

05-17
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Public Health or Private Wealth - Part 2

A glimpse at the privatisation of healthcare in Quebec by Carolyn Morris

04-07
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Public Health or Private Wealth - Part 1

A glimpse at the privatisation of healthcare in Quebec by Carolyn Morris

04-06
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Where Credit is Due

A documentary about microcredit by Sean Kelly

11-23
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Time to Deliver: Dispatches from AIDS 2006

Dispatches from the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.

11-16
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The Shouting Mountain

What does a border sound like? An audio portrait of a family in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights separated since 1967 by a minefield. Listen in Stereo.

10-13
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 4 of 4.

The Way Ahead: future challenges From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingsto

08-03
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 3 of 4.

Present Defence: current struggles From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingst

07-27
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 2 of 4.

Past Tense: the burdens of history From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of Kingst

07-20
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Tyendinaga: People of the Land. Part 1 of 4.

First Words: the meaning of the land From February to May 2006, students at Ohahase Education Centre on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory west of King

07-13
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Breaching Atlantica

Stuart Neatby of CKDU Halifax asks if the proposed "Atlantica" free-trade corridor between Canada and the US is an opportunity for economic revitaliztion, or an attempt at deep economic and cultural i

07-05
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