Prisoner Justice Edition

Program Title: GroundWire Community Radio News
Description: Headlines

Pro-Life on campus at the University of Victoria
BC's doctor shortage ignores newcomers with medical training
Two deaths at a Quebec prison
Hunger strike at the Scarborough Detention Centre
PrisonerJustice Day across Canada, with audio from the Roberts Street Social Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and from speeches at Trout Lake Park in Vancouver
Features

Prison Farms: Amidst falling crime rates, the Federal Conservative Government is closing prison farms, but pressing to build more prisons. (Anabel Khoo | CHRY Toronto, with files from CFRC Kingston)
Moms and Babies in Prison: This fall, a lawsuit against BC Corrections will proceed on behalf of women who cannot keep their babies with them in prison. The province canceled its programs for moms and babies in prison in 2009. This is the story of moms in the Allouette Correctional Centre. (Gretchen King | CKUT Montreal, with files from Tiffany Chong, Jacky Tuinstra Harrison)
Community Radio Report

The new CRTC community and campus radio policy gets a review from Charlotte Bourne, John Harris Stevenson and Frieda Werden.

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Hosting & production: Tim Ashley, Jennifer Chan, Vei Chong, Melanie Cheah, Anabel Khoo at CHRY Toronto.

Headlines: David Parker, Jennifer Moreau, Ashley Jean Gaudry, Stark Raven, and Laurène Sénéchal.

Music: More Than Breathing/Ashkon Hobooti.
With thanks to: The Canadian University Press, CFRC's Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Kristiana Clemens, and Tiffany Chong from Vancouver Coop Radio.

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Host(s): Tim Ashley, Jennifer Chan,
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Credits: Hosting & production: Tim Ashley, Jennifer Chan, Vei Chong, Melanie Cheah, Anabel Khoo at CHRY Toronto.

Headlines: David Parker, Jennifer Moreau, Ashley Jean Gaudry, Stark Raven, and Laurène Sénéchal.

Music: More Than Breathing/Ashkon Hobooti.
With thanks to: The Canadian University Press, CFRC's Elamin Abdelmahmoud and Kristiana Clemens, and Tiffany Chong from Vancouver Coop Radio.

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GroundWire is listener-supported! Donate at ncra.ca

For info on contributing to GroundWire see: http://groundwire-communityradionews.wikispaces.com

This edition of GroundWire sponsored by the Elizabeth Fry Societies of Canada.
GroundWire thanks the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees for their Support.

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