The Sunday Magazine

Cyber Misogyny; Roller Derby; Opening Chile's Black Box; Justice Murray Sinclair; Sarah Jeffrey on the Oboe; Ralph Nader

This week on The Sunday Edition for Aug 10, 2014, with guest host Francine Pelletier....

This week on The Sunday Edition for Aug 10, 2014, with guest host Francine Pelletier.

Cyber Misogyny - (0:30)  The stories are legion.  A UK politician tweets that a woman's image should be used on British currency and she is threatened with rape and murder. Female journalists write about a controversial subject and instead of speaking to the topic, online comments attack them personally. For many women the online world is a hostile, potentially dangerous place. Kasari Govender, a lawyer and the Executive Director of West Coast LEAF Women's Legal Education and Action Fund in Vancouver, calls this cyber misogyny and wants to see laws that will make the Internet a safer place for women and girls.

Roller Derby - (26:08) A new Canadian documentary film called Derby Crazy Love takes an affectionate look at roller derby, in which punk rock, queer culture, tattoos and a cast of indomitable women with names like Smack Daddy, Raw Heidi and Suzy Hotrod mix it up in an aggressive contact sport. While there are now teams springing up all over the globe, teams from New York, London and Montreal - called New Skids on the Block - are among the most dominant teams. Derby Crazy Love is produced and directed by Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott.

Documentary: Black Box - (46:17) Tomas Urbina's documentary about his father, a Chilean-Canadian man who said nothing for decades about the terrors of the 1973 Chilean coup that ousted Salvador Allende and brought Augusto Pinochet's regime to power. Until one day, he opened up and unspooled his story into his son's tape recorder. 

Legacy of Residential Schools - (1:05:55) Justice Murray Sinclair is Chair of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He spent five years listening to the stories of survivors of Canada's residential schools ... stories full of horror and families and spirits broken by a brutal system. But also stories full of resilience and sometimes even humour. We'll revisit Michael Enright's conversation with Justice Sinclair about the stories he's heard and the legacy of the residential school system.

Oboist Sarah Jeffrey - (1:36:49)  The oboe may just be the most essential instrument in an orchestra, but it is also the Rodney Dangerfield of orchestral instruments - misunderstood, maligned and disrespected. Sarah Jeffrey, the Principal Oboist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, explains the charm, importance and peculiar temperament of her instrument. 

Ralph Nader on Car Safety - (2:02:10)  Ralph Nader first made his name as North America's leading consumer advocate five decades ago with Unsafe At Any Speed - a devastating critique of the auto industry's lax safety culture. The industry and governments did beef up safety standards, but in the recent spate of car recalls and safety scandals, particularly GM's notorious ignition switches, Nader sees a disturbing return to complacency and cutting corners.