Bad Harvest - the troubled Great Lakes fishery

As environmental advocates, we encourage people to get to know Lake Ontario. But some parts of the lake are so polluted that touching the water or eating the fish that lived there can be a health risk. We do not...

Dirty Little Secret (Aug. 4, 2009)

The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported,...

Rutgers University Quarterly Business Outlook, Third Quarter 2009

  Professional Podcasts, LLC, the Internet broadcasting subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications LLC is pleased to present the Rutgers University School of Business at Camden Quarterly Business...

Dump Site 41

Dump Site 41, a proposed dump on the pristine Alliston Aquifer, has become one of the most contentious environmental issues in Ontario today. This week, Living at the Barricades speaks with Mark Calzavara of The...

Nuclear disaster averted?

What's the fallout from the decision to shelve plans for a new nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Ontario? We'll speak with Greenpeace Canada energy expert Shawn Patrick Stensil about a future without nuclear...

Heart of a river (June 15, 2009)

From Artpark with the Tragically Hip, to Moosenee, Ontario, to New York City with the Waterkeeper Alliance. Lake Ontario Waterkeeper staff hit the road this week in the fight for swimmable, fishable, drinkable...

Senate road trip (Navigable Waters)

This is our third trip to the Canadian Senate to speak on the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Living at the Barricades’ hosts Krystyn and Mark hit the road to discuss our concerns with the changes to the Act...

Lobbying (April 29, 2009)

Lobbying has a major impact on the way decisions are made in the halls of power today. On this week’s episode we’ll hear from Mark Tovey of World Changing Canada, and former Neuse Riverkeeper and hog-farm...

Re-thinking Earth Day (Aprill 22, 2009)

Is Earth Day still as important as it was nearly 40 years ago? This week, host Krystyn Tully talks the relevance of Earth Day in 2009 with Kathleen Rogers, President of the Earth Day Network in Washington DC, UK...

In the dark: what we don’t know about our energy future

Jack Gibbons of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance and Long Island Soundkeeper Terry Backer join Krystyn and Mark this week to discuss the plans for investing in the future of power in Ontario, and...

Changes (April 8, 2009)

This week on Living at the Barricades we’ll hear from Pandora’s Locks author Jeff Alexander, St. Clair Channelkeeper Doug Martz, and Kevin McMahon, Director of the new...

Passover and the Holistic Haggadah

Since this program was such a success last year  we thought it was worth presenting it once again for this Passover. Contemporary Spiritual Commentary on the Meaning of Freedom and its Relationship to serving God Through The Holistic Haggadah, Dr. Michael Kagan shares...

Great Lakes wake: before the seaway

The St. Lawrence Seaway marks its 50th anniversary this week. Living at the Barricades looks back on the time before the Seaway changed the face of the river, the impacts it had on the people in the community, and...

Canaries: what mining issues say about environmental protection

The mining industry, and the laws and regulations that govern it, has historically been a bellwether for the state of environmental protections in Canada.  This week, Krystyn and Mark speak with Joan Barton...

Leveling the playing field (Mar. 10, 2009)

With so many different players in the Ontario energy game, its hard to believe they all play by the same set of rules. This week on the show, we’ll speak with Bruce Cox, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada,...

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