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CBC News: The World This Weekend

Summary: CBC Radio's The World This Weekend is a comprehensive half-hour news and information program. The program aims to bring Canadians the most up-to-date developments on the key stories of the day. To that end, The World This Weekend offers listeners a comprehensive news package followed by a showcase of documentaries produced by the best journalists in Canada and around the world.

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 twtw sat july 14 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1766

The search for survivors continues in the British Columbia town of Johnson's Landing after Thursday's landslide. In Egypt, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offers a show of support for new leader Mohammed Morsi. And in Kabul, a deadly attack at a wedding leaves 23 people dead.

 twtw sun july 8 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1829

Wimbledon ends very well for Canadians with two more wins as Filip Peliwo follows Eugenie Bouchard taking another junior final, and Bouchard herself wins again in doubles. In Egypt President Morsi engages in a constitutional power play as he invites back the parliament that was dismissed last month by the military. And we visit an innovative mission in Toronto that may be forced to close because they cannot afford the city's garbage fees -- costs which similar facilities like Goodwill are exempt from.

 twtw - sat july 7 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1769

Libyans are voting today in the first national election in four decades. We have sounds and words from Libyans, a report on the unfolding drama in Tripoli and where the new government is headed, and comment from Libyans in Canada. Also a Canadian winner at Wimbledon; monarch butterflies far, far out of their range; and a small-town theatre in British Columbia gets a digital upgrade -- courtesy of donors.

 twtw - sun july 1 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1557

On Canada Day we feature some great travel stories on the show. There is a new service pairing visually impaired travellers with sighted guides, who travel at a discount, earning their keep by describing the sights. We look at France's rich heritage of church buildings, many in immediate peril of demolition, in part because they are municipally owned. And this is the opening weekend for a new Canadian national park -- and it's right in the middle of a city. We have a report from the shore of its storm water mitigation lake.

 twtw - sat june 30 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1769

A suffocating heatwave in the Eastern United States spawns violent storms. More than a dozen people have been killed and millions are without electricity. And we have a report from the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Calgary, where a series of huge upsets have changed the landscape of women's hurdling. These and many more stories tonight.

 twtw - sun june 24 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1830

Toronto's Heavy Urban Search and Rescue squad is in Elliot Lake tonight helping to find the missing in the Algo Mall collapse. Also we have analysis of the final result of the Egyptian Presidential elections and reaction from inside Israel, which shares a border and peace treaty with Egypt. And when the Olympics open, the French have a high expectation of winning a fencing medal. In France it is like a martial art -- a philosophy as much as method of fighting, and we visit with the next generation of fencers -- including a woman who designs spaceships for a living, but likes to fence for fun.

 twtw - sat june 23 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1772

We have a report from the Tsawout First Nation on Vancouver Island, where they are contributing to a giant on-line reserve of endangered languages established by the charitable arm of Google. The ancient language of the Tsawout is called Senchotin. Volunteers are transcribing and cataloguing its words and phrases, and practising to become fluent. Other endangered languages around the world are also being digitized -- in an effort to preserve their cultural and scientific legacies. We also hear from Rwanda where the world's largest judicial system was temporarily established in the wake of the 1994 genocide. The community-based system has done its work and was wrapped-up this week by the President. The trials of over 2 million suspects would have taken 300 years in the normal judicial system.

 twtw sun june 17 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1829

More on the capture of the suspect in the shooting deaths of three Edmonton people -- the latest from an RCMP news conference and emotional recollections from those who knew the dead. There is also the latest on the fatal stage collapse accident at the Radiohead concert in Toronto. Also -- the biggest garbage dump in Latin America has just been closed. A sprawling open air site in Rio De Janeiro was shut in advance of the 'Rio+20' environmental summit. But local recyclers say it's a superficial fix. And it illustrates some of the tensions in play at the summit itself -- where many think that consumption, rather than disposal, is the primary problem.

 twtw - sat june 16 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1773

Travis Baumgartner, wanted for the murder of three Edmonton armoured vehicle guards, has been caught while trying to cross into Washington State. One member of the crew is dead in a stage collapse in Toronto just as the gates open for a Radiohead concert. And -- a major environmental shift that's mostly hidden from humans: the rising level of acidity in the oceans of the world. It's thought to be a cumulative and increasing danger to life -- signalled by the fact that certain indicator species are growing to only half their expected size.

 twtw sun june 10 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1829

Norway is growing rich on oil revenue from off-shore production. The government has six hundred billion dollars accumulated in an oil fund -- that's over $100,000 for each citizen. The fund is still growing and the government has decided to cut spending of oil revenue by a billion dollars a year in order to slow inflation. The country is serious about managing the wealth so there are no inadvertent negative effects --- like the ones that jolted the Netherlands' economy when oil money hit like a tsunami a decade ago. We have an in-depth report from the city Stavanger. And we visit an exhibit of contemporary Canadian art is being staged in Massachusetts -- ambitiously assembled by curator Denise Markonish. It's one of the largest ever showings of Canadian art outside of Canada.

 twtw - sat june 9 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1770

Marseille France has the world's largest proportion of Muslims and Jews residing in a single urban area. They have co-existed for generations and share many things in common -- a North African heritage, similar food and even languages... but a few shocking acts of violence have both communities alarmed. Our report comes from the streets and mosques of this ancient city. We also visit one of the world's cleanest physics lab -- set up to study the behaviour of sub-atomic particles more than 2 kilometres below Sudbury Ontario. It sits at the bottom of a mine to prevent interference from the bath of radiation which rains down on earth from space constantly.

 the world this weekend - sun june 3 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1830

Mercury pollution at the Grassy Narrows First Nation has taken a grievous toll. Families who have several generations of people suffering from the effects of poisoning must make do with a small monthly payout from the Province's mercury compensation fund. We have the story of the patriarch of a stricken family who is coming to Toronto for the public release of a new research paper on mercury poisoning. And also the rededication of St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral in Iqualuit -- rebuilt after a devastating fire -- replete with a Narwhal tusk cross and sealskin collection plates.

 the world this weekend - sat june 2 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1772

Egyptians waiting to hear the fate of Hosni Mubarak now know -- his sentence is life in prison. The verdict is greeted with anger as many cry for the death penalty, but there is joy as well -- and as crowds gather, our reporter is there. Also we have coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Jubilee -- a day at the races, the upcoming pageant on the Thames, and a visit to the White Chapel Bell Foundry where eight special bells are being made for the event.

 the world this weekend - sun may 27 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1830

On the show: the latest developments in the horrifying deaths of 108 people in Syria. Also -- a young painter is graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a passion to illuminate her homeland of Afghanistan in her work. In Italy, the first major bicycle tour win ever for a Canadian. And the Stratford Festival moves into its 60th season with a new back-to-basics Artistic Director at the helm. All these stories and more...

 the world this weekend - sat may 26 2012 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1769

In Italy -- a new program puts Psychologists into drugstores where they are available to anyone for a free half-hour consultation. Also doctors and nurses in the Syrian city of Douma speak to the CBC and tell of their difficulty of treating patients in a covert medical underground. These stories and all the developments of the day on our podcast...

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