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John Ralston Saul

marc — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:45 +0000

This week we heard an excerpt of a lecture delivered by John Ralston Saul in Calgary on April 18th, 2012 at the Knox United Church.

Ralston Saul has written 5 novels and 11 nonfiction titles including The Unconscious Civilization as well as The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World. He is a companion of the order of Canada, the recipient of 14 honorary degrees, as well as a Governor General’s award for nonfiction. In 1995 Raulston Saul delivered that year’s Massey Lecture.

His talk in Calgary was put on by the Arusha Centre: a collectively run, member-supported organisation that provides resources and programming on local and global social justice issues. For more information on the Arusha Centre please visit www.arusha.org.

Alan Turing Episode 1

marc — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:54:13 +0000

The first in a series commemorating what would have been the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Alan Turing Centenary

Kat Dornian — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:31:20 +0000

In 2012 people around the world are celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Declared as the “father of computer science” he is also well known for aiding in cracking the enigma code during the second world war and establishing key concepts that shaped computer science. He was an innovator who couldn’t sit still. He showed interests in logic, mathematics, speech encryption and even biology. This series explores the many facets of turing’s life from his early paper completed at Princeton which clearly solved the perplexing decision problem all the way up to his tragic suicide in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England when he was only 41 years old.

Efficiency and the Northern Gateway Pipeline

marc — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:39:35 +0000

Canada’s National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency are currently holding hearings of a Joint Review Panel, assessing Enbridge Inc.’s proposal to build a pipeline that would connect Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitmat, British Columbia. Christopher Peter and Norman Jacob of C.J. Peter Associates Engineering presented testimonies detailing the amount of energy that would be expended in order to get resources from Northern Alberta’s Tar Sands to a refinery in China. CJSW’s Marc Affeld spoke to Christopher and Norman over the phone to try and make sense of the numbers, in this episode of CJSW Presents…

Christopher and Norman gave their testimonies at a Panel session in Prince George, British Columbia on January 18th, 2012 .You can find all of the transcripts of the hearings on the National Energy Board’s website.

Richard Gwyn on John A. Macdonald

marc — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:50:51 +0000

Part 2 of Richard Gwyn’s biography on Macdonald Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times was shortlisted for both the Writer’s Trust of Canada and Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. Gwyn sat down in the CJSW studios to discuss the biography.

makeCalgary

marc — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:32:50 +0000

makeCalgary is a new design event hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. It will take place from September 29th – October 1st, 2011.

Visit makeCalgary online at makecalgary.com

Listen to the special makeCalgary edition of CJSW Presents…

…featuring interviews with Rob Adams, Andreu Arriola and Ingrid Fetell.

Song featured in this episode of CJSW Presents… Boute (Au) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Calgary Microcredit Conference

marc — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:18:22 +0000

Student ticket giveaway!

‘CJSW Presents…’ featured an interview with Erin Pearce of the Fig Tree Foundation which is helping to put on the Calgary Microcredit Conference on October 1st.

For more information on the Fig Tree Foundation visit: www.figtreefoundation.org

For more details on the Calgary Microcredit Conference please visit: mc5360.rotaryglobal.net/p/home.asp

Aboriginal Writer’s Circle

marc — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:13:44 +0000

CJSW’s interview with Sarah Scout, the founder of the AWC:

The AWC Meets Every first Thursday of the Month @ the Calgary Central Public Library – 616 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, Alberta in the Basement floor meeting room 2
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Host: Sarah Scout
Email: aboriginalwriterscircle@gmail.com

For more information on the upcoming Aboriginal Wirter’s Circle’s schedule please visit them on Myspace and Facebook.

Calgary’s New Poet Laureate Position

marc — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:44:53 +0000

Photo by Angus Rowe MacPherson

Calgary is set to be the next city in Canada to join the poet laureate club. The position was approved by council on July 25th, and in January 2012, the newly minted Poet Laureate’s term will start. CJSW’s Andy Williams spoke with renowned experimental poet Christian Bök and Edmonton’s former poet laureate, Roland Pemberton professionally known as Cadence Weapon. But first, CJSW’s Brent Constantin interviewed Terry Rock, the President & CEO of the Calgary Arts Development Authority which was a key institution in securing the creation of the position

Globalfest 2011 Human Rights Forum

marc — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:52:34 +0000

Globalfest’s Bryan Francisco sat down with CJSW’s Andy Williams to chat about the Human Rights Forum happening this August 15-19.

For more information on the forum visit Globalfest’s website!