Canadian heavyweight film director (and writer, and actor) Don McKellar points his camera at the skewed life of a young movie star in his new movie Childstar, starring himself, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and coming to theatres this November.
Bibb lettuce and fall pasta: New York chef Peter Berley has a passion for meals that salute the seasons and the senses, that is substantial but easy to prepare; he shares the love with us in his new book, Fresh Food Fast.
Every day, 4000 children die simply because they lack safe drinking water and adequate toilet facilities, two essentials we take for granted. As President and CEO of Unicef Canada, David Agnew makes it his job to save as many children around the world as he can. Today he takes us through what Unicef has been doing in the nightmare that is Sudan.
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Money laundering, trafficking in humans, grow ops, and gun smuggling are only some pieces of the organized crime puzzle in BC; Inspector Wayne Holland puts the puzzle together and brings the bad guys down in his role as the head of the RCMP's Criminal Intelligence Service.
www.cisc.gc.ca
From pitbulls to pomeranians, the issues around banning or restricting aggressive dogs are not about to go away. City councillor Tim Stevenson and dog trainer Gary Gibson engage the debate from opposite sides.
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Goodbye Frasier, Friends and Sex and the City, hello Corner Gas and Desperate Housewive; The Province TV critic Dana Gee sifts through the fall TV season in search of gems.
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Mark Fewer is the new concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. An international soloist whose skill and charisma earned him the first chair in the violin section, he still sometimes takes off his classical hat to make music with the Bare Naked Ladies.
www.vancouversymphony.ca
There are four thousand rules to writing a Torah, the holiest book of the Jews, until now, one rule about which gender you must be to do it. BC native Aviel Barclay is the first woman in history to become a certified Soferet, or Jewish ritual scribe, and the Torah she is making for the Kadima congregation of Seattle will be the first ever penned by the hand of a woman.
www.soferet.com
www.womenstorah.org
Dr. Art Hister, Studio 4's health expert, radio host and author of Dr. Art Hister's Guide to Living a Long and Healthy Life, came by to talk about the latest medical missives.
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In his mid-thirties, the former teacher, car mechanic and gardener Louis de Bernieres decided to get serious about his writing. Now the bestselling author of Captian Corelli's Mandolin takes on love, death and other epic themes in his new novel, Birds Without Wings.
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Books speak profoundly to acclaimed Canadian novelist, anthologist and nomad Alberto Manguel, and he willingly shares his eclectic vice with the world at large in his new book, A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books.
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