Rick's World

In this week's episode, I speak to Dale Mcdermott who is head of Canada's LGBT+ chamber of commerce.

We discuss Canada's new drug policies, its gun laws, and how its culture helps with integration. 

The new intro music is by Lorcan Bowens. 

In this episode, Dale and I discuss the different political parties in Canada, as well as how its multi-lingual legacy has created a unique political atmosphere. 

In this episode, myself and Dr. Ahmed Jamal discuss how Pakistan has to deal with being located between India, China, Russia, and Afghanistan, while the USA is never far away. We discuss how its warm water ports have left it being the envy of the region, while the Soviet Union and the US invasions of Afghanistan have left it feeling vulnerable to outside pressure.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/21/india-kashmir-modi-eu-hindu-nationalists-rss-the-far-right-is-going-global/

https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/159448385X

https://www.ft.com/content/a3203b9e-3b54-11e5-8613-07d16aad2152

Today I am joined by Dr Ahmed Jamal to discuss the politics of Pakistan.

We go through its voting systems, political parties, economy as well as touching on some similarities between Ireland and Pakistan.

At the end, Dr. Ahmed outlines why Pakistan has enormous untapped tourism potential which he hopes improves in the coming years.

Hope you enjoy the podcast. 

In our second episode on Australia, Milan and Patrick teach us about Australia's immigration population, its aboriginal population and the economy.

For further information on what is discussed in the episode, you can look at the following. 

Within the episode we discuss the Uluru statement of the heart https://ulurustatement.org/

We also discuss Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Emu-Black-Agriculture-Accident/dp/1489403221

Paul Keating's speech on the impact of European settlement of Indigenous Australians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFaHP6w6tE

For more information on the economy you can look here https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/10/27/what-the-world-can-learn-from-australia

An in-depth discussion about Australia's electoral system and political parties.