Green Majority Radio

It Takes Guts is a new documentary from CBC Doc channel following the unfolding story of gut microbes, particularly their role in obesity. Our diet does play a huge role in our health, but the way in which diet affects health isn't quite what we thought. Our first guests, Leora Eisen director for the It Takes Guts doc joins us live in studio to talk about the film.

For the rest of the show, Stefan and (just back) Kevin discuss the hollow feeling victory of the red wave. It's not as bad as it could have been under the conservatives, but did we win? We will see...

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Amara Possian from leadNOW joins us to talk about votetogether.ca and their election campaigning.

Sylvie Letourneau and Rob Shirkey from Our Horizon join host Daryn Caister on a roundtable about the most urgent #elxn42 developments.

Don't miss this one!

We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news

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Mark Bourrie, author of "Killing the Messenger: Harper's War On Your Right To Know" joins us for the first segment to talk about the way this government has attempted to shut out independent investigation and review of it's actions, it's war on science and information as well as it's attempt to control the media.

Up next is Dr. Matthew Rimmer, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Dr Rimmer gives us a very important review of what we do, and do not know about the supposedly already done "trade" deal called the TPP. There's a lot of scary rumours out there about this secret deal, and Dr. Rimmer sets us straight. *MUST HEAR INTERVIEW*

We also discuss a wide range of news items, and you can vote for which ones you want us to come back to for an interview or a more in depth look at our website each week! www.greenmajority.ca/vote_4_the_news

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Tony Turner is still unable to talk to the media, but Chris White gives us an update on the Harperman story (including that Tony has just retired) and a brief talk about the importance of the song, and the issues it raises in this election.

In the second half of the show, long-time economics and green/ethical investment correspondent Tim Nash joins us today to talk about the election, Tesla/Tony Stark (Elon Musk) and the importance of battery technology to the renewable revolution.

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Suhail Barot from TTC Riders joins us to talk about public transit both as an concept as well as specifically the TTC (Toronto Transit Comission) with reference to the upcoming election.

In the second half, Alex Speers-Roesch from Greenpeace also joins the panel to discuss a wide variety of this weeks top news. As we approach the federal Canadian election the rhetoric is heating up. What's nonsense and whose saying it now?

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Stefan and Daryn discuss the LEAP Initiative started by Naomi Klein and others, partially to show our support for it but also to criticize the dismissive way in which it is being covered by the mainstream media.

We also talk a bit about the "slow" movement, slow food, slow money slow everything? How do we slow down, and more importantly can we?

In the final section of the show, we get super philosophical and talk about the meaning of life. No really :)

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Francis Scherer, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Policy for Blanclink joins us today to talk about the Blancride app and the sharing economy in general.

In the middle section we talk about "The Epiphany" concept for movements when the ideology takes on a life of it's own and starts transforming culture and society of it's own weight, in other words the 'snowball' effect.

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This week Liam O'Doherty from Taking It Global joins the full program, we discuss a number of global and UN innitiatives preparing for worldwide collaboration on a number of social and environmental issues. It seems the worlds youth are done waiting for the politicians to work it out and are doing their best to improve the system and go around them when necessary.

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Paul Dore and Pj Kwong, co-hosts and producers of the Open Kwong Dore Podcast join us this week for a break from our regular programming. Today we talked for the whole show about the role of storytelling and ethics in social movements.

Paul and Pj help Daryn discuss an article about the failure of the occupy/protest movement, and much more about how stories and narrative shape our minds and by extension our world.

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Andrew Davies is the Executive Director of the No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Environment which provides inspiration, leadership and logistics for environmental art projects, for both students and public installations around Toronto. Andrew joins us today to talk about No. 9, specifically their just finished Waters Edge instillation for the Pan-American Photography Exhibition, and the very successful Imagining My Sustainable City program for grade 7 and 8 kids in partnership with the Toronto District School Board.

For the rest of the show, Stefan and Daryn discuss a variety of recent news stories, the ongoing election and start preparing for our upcoming interviews and stories on the critical, and potentially last chance for global action on climate change: COP 21 in Paris.

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