Labour Headlines | Laurier Memorial | G20 Media Reflection

Program Title: GroundWire September 13
Description: This week's edition produced by CKDU Halifax.
Hosts: Erica Butler, Sean Purdy

This week's Headlines focused on Labour News in Canada

Headlines
-Hotel Workers Unite during Toronto's International Film Festival
-Purity workers locked out In St.John's
-Worksafe B.C lays charges in mushroom farm worker's deaths
-Nova Scotia dairy workers end lockout, win three year contract

-Special Review on Securitas Union Efforts in Halifax (Sean Purdy, CKDU Halifax)

Features
-A Hundred Years of Struggle; Part of 1 of a documentary on the Laurier Memorial and its echos through a century of first nation's struggle to uphold treaty rights and sovereignty.

-Ontario will follow B.C in cutting funds for a special diet allowance. In the fallout from this announcement disability rights and anti-poverty activists were arrested for demonstrating against the cuts and doctors who support the Special Diet have been targeted (Jacky Harrison with files from Anabel Khoo | CHRY in Toronto)

Community Radio Report
Reflecting on G20 Media Coverage: Joey Grivala for Toronto Media Coop and Concordia University News

Headlines by Frieda Werden, David Parker, with files from Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Thanks to contributors Gunarjie O'Sullivan, Neskie Manuel, Emma Feltes,

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Featured Speakers/Guests: hosts Sean Purdy and Erica Butler

Credits:

Headlines by Frieda Werden, David Parker, with files from Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Thanks to contributors Gunarjie O'Sullivan, Neskie Manuel, Emma Feltes,

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