Episode 178: Rise of the Cossacks, Tighter Borders vs. Civil Liberties, Learning Dothraki and more
Ukraine, Russia and the Cossacks
"Armed men, some of them with masks on, others with Cossack hats rushed into the building next door and started taking out all sorts of equipment... As journalists, we went out and started shooting photographs... At the final moment one of the Cossacks saw us and they rushed over to us, they put me on the ground, put a gun to my head and they asked that I give up my phone."
-Dimiter Kenarov, freelance reporter
"Russians have always had a very romantic view of the Cossacks... in part because they were seen as a free people, and also a kind of caste of warriors. There's nothing comparable in Slavic or Russian history."
-Ellen Barry, former Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times
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Can Canada Stop Exporting Terror?
"Of course, if you have Canadians who are about to go off shore to kill other people it's our responsibility to try and thwart that in some way. The only way to do it is to keep these people at home."
-Ray Boisvert, former Assistant Director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
"This really is one more attempt to restrict people, to put people under surveillance and to cast an extremely wide net. I think Canadians who care about civil and political rights need to be concerned about this kind of restriction."
-Pearl Eliadis, human rights lawyer and a professor at McGill University's Faculty of Law
Brand New Ancient Language: Creating Dothraki
"When you create a language it feels like something that is inherently a part of you. Something that really doesn't exist apart from you. So the first time I ever heard somebody else speak (Dothraki) ... it was extremely disorienting."
-David Peterson created the languages Dothraki and Valyrian for the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones
More Rights for Pets
"This was once a fringe movement. Now, becoming one of the fastest growing areas of law is animal law and a lot of these practitioners really do believe in enhancing the rights of cats and dogs."
-David Grimm, news editor at Science magazine, and author of Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship With Cats and Dogs
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