Category: TV
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Soldier explains why he’s returning to Ukraine’s eastern trenches
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Meet the English soccer fans putting community before glory
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Sub survivor recalls record-breaking Atlantic rescue mission 50 years later
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The ‘sustainability-linked’ financing for coal mine operator
Royal Bank of Canada is one of many global lenders that want to show that being green isn’t only about the colour of money, but recent revelations about its investment in fossil fuel companies call into question its climate-action bona fides
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Colour Crusader: How the ‘Robin Hood’ of the art world is liberating colour for everyone
Stepping into Stuart Semple’s world is like entering a Willy Wonka-esque fantasyland. Only instead of chocolate and candy, everywhere you look there are bags of bright powdered paint pigments, colour-mixing machines, paint-spattered canvases, sculptures, brushes and of course, brightly coloured bottles of paint.
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Ukrainian civilian fighters begin combat training in the UK
Speaking with some of the thousands of Ukrainian civilian volunteers with little to no military experience are now training in England.
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The Afghan families fleeing a second country in six months
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Drake to Guy Laliberté; how wealthy Canadians travelled during COVID-19
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How Bitcoin’s carbon footprint could be offset by blockchain’s green applications
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Speaking with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
“He couldn’t talk a lot, because, as I understood, there were people with him who didn’t let him (say) what he wanted.”
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Worshipping in a pandemic
My feature report on how worshipping has had to adapt, and how the pandemic may affect it into the future.
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Brexit: The End of the Beginning
After three-and-a-half years of rancour and delays, the UK finally leaves the EU. Here’s my take from Westminster on Brexit Day:
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Apple Maps’ Crimea border shift highlights role of online map providers in defining statehood
Tech giant Apple recently changed the borders of Crimea for users of Apple Maps in Russia. The border shift is highlighting the role of online map providers, including Google and Microsoft, in defining accepted international frontiers and sovereignty. Read more here: http://globalnews.ca/news/6306941/apple-maps-crimea-statehood/
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When covering a story changes the story
In May 2019, I discovered that the family of a Canadian solider, who was killed on D-Day, didn’t know a Normandy school was about to be named after him. In fact, his sister thought I was a scam artist when I first called her. Just a few days later, I sat down with her in…
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Normandy school renamed after New Brunswick D-Day hero
How a Normandy village chose to recognise the bravery of Canadian solider Pte. Louis Valmont Roy on D-Day. His sister and nephew travelled from Canada to unveil the new school name, 75 years after the soldier’s death. Watch the full story here: https://globalnews.ca/news/5367370/normandy-school-renamed-new-brunswick-d-day-hero/ A Normandy village school is renamed after a New Brunswick soldier who…
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How the UK painted itself into a corner
Explaining why the UK is finding it so difficult to leave the EU.
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The timeline of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance
What really happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi? As the mystery deepens, pressure is mounting on U.S. President Donald Trump to confront Saudi Arabia over the case. (click on image to view story)
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Amesbury couple “handled contaminated item”
A British government minister has accused Russia of using the United Kingdom as a “dumping ground for poison”. It comes as a team of British counter-terrorism investigators work on the second Novichok nerve agent poisoning in four months. (Click on picture to view the story).
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London Bridge attack
#LondonBridge witness “we saw someone (getting) CPR laying on the floor” @GlobalNational @BBCBreaking @bbc5live pic.twitter.com/m6XgurGWR2 — Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) June 3, 2017 Police urging people to leave scene #LondonBridge pic.twitter.com/kmS7NgNq8g — Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) June 3, 2017 BBC World News TV Global National television (Click on image): Global National news report June 4, 2017 (Click…
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Manchester Arena attack
Global National Newscast, May 22, 2017
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Three little words
Millions of people across the world do not have a formal mailing address, but precise GPS coordinates are very difficult to remember. To solve that problem, an app, developed in London, has divided the world into 57-trillion three-metre squares; each assigned an easy-to-remember three-word code. Click below to play:
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America’s best bud
Two of the past three U.S. presidents have invited Canada’s prime minister to be their first foreign guest at the White House. But British Prime Minister Theresa May will get that honour this time. Does this mean America will be looking east more than north under Trump? Click below to play:
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Cents and Sensibility
A micro-engraver etches the face of Jane Austen into four £5 notes, and quietly releases them into circulation. Each could be worth £20,000. Click below to play:
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Two sisters with the same name meet for the very first time
It was a rare privilege to witness such a powerful moment. Watch the video and read their story here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sisters-reunion-fredericton-south-africa-1.3642701
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Horsing around town
When you’re assigned to do a one-minute “rant” to camera about a meeting that hasn’t even happened yet, the challenge is to make it not suck.
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Cannabis makes up 22% of veteran drug payments
More than one-fifth of the money paid to veterans by the federal government for prescribed drugs in the fiscal year 2015-16 went toward medical cannabis. That’s up from just 0.5 per cent in 2013-14. Read more here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cannabis-veterans-drug-payments-1.3598954
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Mother calls for province to start publicizing teacher discipline
Two mothers say their children had to move schools after the result of a teacher discipline case was not made public. Read here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/oromocto-teacher-discipline-secret-1.3587223 Watch here:
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Tent City
I went to meet some of the people who live on a riverbank during the warmer months of the year.
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Staying on the wagon
How beer money helped this woman to stay on the wagon.
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Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet is the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent. I had the opportunity to meet her recently. Here’s what she told me about her time in Syria, and her thoughts on Canada’s refugee plan.
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Sometimes we do happy stories on the news
A man is found alive, five days after he went missing in the woods. This TV story is a little rough, but it was written and edited in 70 minutes. One of those days.
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NB Power pays J.D. Irving $12.3M in gypsum deal penalties, fees
A CBC News investigation reveals that provincial utility provider NB Power has paid a J.D. Irving company more than $12.3 million in penalties and contract renegotiation fees since 2009. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-pays-j-d-irving-12-3m-in-gypsum-deal-penalties-fees-1.3088090
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Green Generation
A four-part series on renewable energy in the province of New Brunswick http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-s-renewable-energy-target-a-numbers-game-critic-says-1.3032790 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-s-tides-trees-hold-energy-potential-say-experts-1.3034842 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sackville-couple-says-solar-power-becoming-affordable-1.3036748 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-looks-to-small-scale-renewable-energy-1.3038598
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The mysterious death of Selamneh Techane
Selamneh Techane went missing in 2010. Almost five years later, his body was found in the attic above the room he had lived in. The coroner says foul play is not suspected, but Techane’s brother and friends say it doesn’t add up.
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The invasion of Fredericton and journalistic licence
A few weeks ago, I was working on a light story about why eerie flocks of seagulls have been circling over buildings, sometimes for hours on end. To give the story a voice, I needed regular people on the street to say they’d seen it too. (Depending on where you live in the anglophone world, these folks are known…
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Martin Luther King’s visit that never was
In 1960, Martin Luther King and his wife were to visit Fundy National Park in New Brunswick. But he never took the trip, because an innkeeper was worried it would upset other U.S. tourists. This story ran on CBC News on the 86th anniversary of King’s birth, January 15, 2015.
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City improves security of bus passes
In March 2014, I illustrated how easy it is to make a copy of the new 2014 Fredericton transit passes. The city has now decided to add holograms for 2015.
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New MLA legislation in New Brunswick
Following the reports I filed on the expenses of New Brunswick MLA Greg Davis in March (including exclusive details of a party loan and how it remained secret), the province’s Legislative Assembly has introduced new legislation to ensure MLA expenses are reported more frequently and more transparently.
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A free ride
I showed a photocopy of the Fredericton monthly bus pass to the city’s transit manager. Here’s what happened.
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Discussing the Rob Ford scandal on TV3 Ireland
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Boeing Dreamliner visits Toronto (CBC News Toronto)
The Boeing 787 – a.k.a. “The Dreamliner” – visits Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on its global promotional tour
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Former scout leader charged (CBC News Toronto)
Another former Scouts Canada leader is facing charges after a Toronto man came forward alleging sexual abuse he says happened more than 37 years ago.
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Scarborough transit debate (CBC News Toronto)
Tempers are high at a town hall meeting about competing transit plans in Scarborough, Toronto.
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Why police don’t have to pick up horse poop (CBC News Toronto)
Dog owners face fines for not picking up after their pet. So why don’t mounted police officers have to do the same for their horses?
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Triple Taliban bombing in Pakistan (CBC Around The World)
Three bombings kill at least 27 people in Pakistan on October 23, 2009
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Kabul Indian Embassy attack, 2009 (CBC Around The World)
A suicide bomb kills 17 people at the Indian Embassy in Kabul on October 8, 2009