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09/02/10: Pt 3 - Kahnawake Evictions

The band council for the Kahnawake First Nation has handed out eviction notices to 24 non-natives who live on the reserve. The Grand Chief says it's about preserving Mohawk blood-lines. And that has sparked a fierce debate about who gets to define a community and how

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Canadian Major Marc Dauphin describes himself as "impulsive, aggressive, brash and brazen." And he says those are good things if you want run a hospital emergency room in a war zone. Listen to the documentary from the Role Three Multinational Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

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American activists say they are being stopped at the border and prevented from coming into Canada in the lead-up to the Vancouver Olympics. Some say that's an inappropriate crack-down on civil liberties. But others say civil liberties will have to be curtailed in order to maintain security and safety during the games.

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Paul Romer has a bold idea that he thinks will improve the lot of poor people all over the world. He wants give them some place better to live ... some place he calls Charter Cities

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The 2010 Winter Olympics is set to open on Friday. Hopes are high in Vancouver and Whistler. But Squamish, a town exactly half-way in between those two sites is feeling jilted. A story of Olympic-sized hopes and the reality that follows.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to make global maternal health a focus of the G8 Summit in Canada later this year. But critics say he should begin at home since two major studies published last week showed that there are serious short-comings in maternal health in Canada's aboriginal communities, especially in the north.

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Narco-Corrido is a musical genre that celebrates the lives of Mexican drug dealers. It has been around for decades. But now Mexico's ruling party wants to outlaw the songs and throw anyone who sings them in jail.

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Meet Denny Simon, a 67-year-old man from Calgary who gets his kicks from one of the most peculiar winter sports around riding the skeleton. Listen to Dominic Girard's, "In His Bones".

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Toyota has recalled 2.5 million vehicles in North America. And it has been hit by more than 100 un-related complaints. We get the latest on the situation in Canada.

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Stephen Harper rode into office promising open, transparent and above all accountable government. Four years later, we're asking whether he's delivered it.

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Letters - It's mail day. We hear your thoughts on the media's coverage of Haiti including our own story about the cruise ships that keep docking there despite the earthquake. Plus, we find out why Australian Senators are sometimes treated like rock stars and ask if there's a lesson there for Canada.

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Later today, a funeral will be held for a 10-year-old boy who died after being mauled by dogs in northern Saskatchewan. The incident has sparked a wave of concern and criticism about the number of wild dogs across Canada's north.

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A small, but very powerful group of Haitians are going to be at the centre of the efforts to re-build their country. Some say they're the best-equipped people for the job. But others say their power is part of the country's problem.

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We also look at the role that Voodoo, an age old system of beliefs, is playing in how Haitians cope with the aftermath and how they will rebuild their country.

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Many of the people who survived the earthquake have been left disabled. David Gutnick visits a charity called Healing Hands of Haiti, a group that provides artificial limbs for disabled Haitians.

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Canadian-Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi talks about the moment she decided to flee Iran and how it helped her gain a new perspective on what's happening there.

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Patrice Cormier was suspended for the season after he blind-sided an opponent with an elbow to the head. If he hadn't been playing hockey at the time, he might have been charged with assault. That's just one example of Canada's many parallel systems of justice. We assess how well they're working.

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A new report from the HIV/AIDS Legal Network has found that the prevalence of HIV in Canadian prisons is between 10 and 20 times higher than the country as a whole. The group blames the rampant use of dirty needles among injection-drug users. It also recommends implementing needle exchange programs because right now, not a single Canadian prison permits the distribution of clean needles.

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The Fraser Health Region in British Columbia has laid off 14 spiritual care practitioners ... people who used to provide spiritual advice and support for patients who felt they needed it. That has sparked a debate over the role of spirituality in publicly funded hospitals.

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A conversation with Raj Patel about his new book "The Value of Nothing". In it, he argues that free markets are failing us and that as a result, the relationship between price and value has been broken.

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