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Tag: Canada
Happy Canada Day!
On behalf of everyone here at Mountain Lake PBS, we wish all our Canadian friends, donors and viewers a Happy Canada Day! Au nom de toute l’équipe Mountain Lake PBS, nous souhaitons à tous nos amis/es, donateurs/rices et et téléspectateurs/rices une joyeuses fête de Canada! We are so lucky to have such great neighbors to…
Tulip Festival
Jack LaDuke travels north of the border to Canada to give us the story behind Ottawa’s annual celebration of the one million tulips that spring to live every May. Jack tells us the seeds for the event date back to a dark period of World War 2 and the brutal Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Escalating Trade War
This week we report on the fallout from the new tariffs slapped on steel, aluminum & other goods crossing the Northern Border from Canada. Could North Country businesses, consumers, and tourists from both sides of the border get caught in the middle of the escalating trade war between the U.S. and Canada?
National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Canada is holding a nationwide investigation into hundreds of cases of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or are missing. Melanie Morrison, a Kahnawake Mohawk activist, helped lead the call for the National Inquiry. Melanie’s sister, Tiffany, disappeared in 2006. Her body was found 4 years later, and her homicide remains unsolved. Morrison…
Canada Sees Increase in Asylum Seekers
Canadian media reporting border guards have seen an increase of asylum seekers at the border over the past two weeks since President Trump ordered thousands of U.S. troops to the Southern Border to tighten security and crackdown on immigrants entering the United States illegally. Watch our coverage of the refugee crisis: Mountain Lake PBS producer…
Karl Moore Bonus Interview
Moore discusses Quebec Aerospace and Rail manufacturer Bombardier, which has a rail assembly plant in Plattsburgh, NY. He discusses sales of Bombardier’s C-Series and Global 7000 aircraft. Karl Moore is also the host of The CEO Series radio program that can be heard on CJAD-800 radio in Montreal: https://soundcloud.com/cjad800/sets/the-ceo-series The CEO Series podcasts are available…
Karl Moore on Hot Cities Tour, Trade & Baseball
McGill Business School professor Dr. Karl Moore joins us to talk about the Hot Cities to the World Tour that he took with students from his McGill Business School to the Far East to learn about evolving global markets and economies. Moore also discusses U.S./Canada trade, the status of the current NAFTA talks, U.S./Canada relations…
Refugee Crisis Interview
We meet some of the humanitarian workers who have made it their mission to help the migrants as they cross the border and face an uncertain future in Canada. To learn more about the groups Plattsburgh Cares and Borders Not Bridges: http://www.facebook.com/PlattsburghCares/ http://www.plattsburghcares.org http://www.bridgesnotborders.ca
Refugee Crisis
Volunteers are greeting the waves of migrants passing through the North Country on their way to Canada, providing them with information, food, warm clothing, and words of encouragement. More than 17,000 immigrants have used a remote road in Northern Clinton County to cross illegally into Canada in 2017. With a nationwide crackdown on immigration, many…
Sesame Street Diplomacy in Tehran
This is part of our ongoing series of interviews with MLPBS viewers and members about how PBS has impacted their lives. To share your story, get in touch! By Lenie Lucci Although Siavash Solati has been living in Canada for over 30 years, he still remembers the impact Sesame Street had on him as a…
