The Roy Green Show Podcast
This is Roy Green's story about arriving in Canada as a 'reluctant' 13-year-old to becoming a 100% very proudly self-identified Canadian.
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Following Iranian revolution in 1979, Marina was arrested at 16 years of age and spent two years in the notorious Evin political prison in Tehran where she was tortured and came very close to being executed.
Eventually released, Marina came to Canada in 1991 and wrote her memoir, Prisoner of Tehran. In 2007 Marina received the inaugural Human Dignity Award from the European Parliament. In '09 she wrote her second book, After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed. What is it like to be a Canadian by choice?
Guest: Marina Nemat, Born in Tehran, Iran
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Immigration is a constant issue in Canadian debate. What makes Canada appealing to newcomers? What countries were you considering applying to as an immigrant and what made you decide to choose Canada? Also; do multi-generational Canadians support immigration numbers at 300,000 annually and are newcomers making a real effort to assimilate into Canada?
Guest: Mario Canseco, Immigrant from Mexico and vice president of Insights West polling firm.
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A year ago the massive wildfire which caused an evacuation and destruction of much of Fort McMurray resulted in Canadians donating $50 million through the Red Cross to their fellow Canadians from the Alberta community.
Guests: Stacy and Kevin, Fort Mac residents and evacuees.
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Reflections of Canada: Illuminating our Opportunities and Challenges at 150 years. A book published by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Thinking at the University of British Columbia. It contains 41 essays by some of Canada's most critical thinkers of the nation in which we live. The positive and the not so positive.
Guests: Margot Young, Professor of law at UBC and co-editor of Reflections of Canada.
Maxwell Cameron, Political science professor UBC.
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