Retired OPP officer; Public pensions; Rebecca Solnit; and Living like a monk
This week on the Sunday Edition:...
This week on the Sunday Edition:
- Michael's Essay on why atheists should stop behaving like persecuted outsiders. (00:00:24)
- Michael Read, retired OPP officer of 33 years, speaks out about his concern that the police are increasingly isolated from the citizens they serve. Following a routine traffic stop, he was handcuffed and thrown in the back of a police cruiser. (00:04:02)
- Dr. Fernando Cervero on his mission to change the way we think about and treat pain. He's a Professor of Anesthesia and the Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University in Montreal and President of the International Association for the Study of Pain. (00:19:30)
- Figures in Flight - a documentary about a group of convicted murderers, drug dealers and sex offenders, who have spent many decades behind bars, and are now learning to dance. (00:42:42)
- Your responses to our interview with Mark Bowden about drone warfare. (01:04:02)
- Michael's interview with Alberta's finance minister, Doug Horner, and the chair of New Brunswick's Pension Task Force, Sue Rowland on current threats to public pensions, and tackling the problem head-on. (01:0818)
- Rebecca Solnit on her new book, The Faraway Nearby; and what her mother's descent into Alzheimer's Disease taught her about letting go. (01:31:17)
- Your responses to our interview with Ann Dowsett Johnston about her new book, Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol. (02:01:45)
- Craig Desson on what it's like to live like a monk for 10 days - waking at 4 every day, with no reading, writing or speaking -- and no eating after noon. (02:06:53)
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