July 5, 2012 show: Professor Michel Seymour on collective rights for peoples

On July 5, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Professor Michel Seymour (Department of Philosophie, University of Montreal) about his academic research on the collective rights of groups and associations of citizens within a national state, rights beyond the simple rights of individuals.

SAC Director and La Rotonde Editor in Chief on campus developments, administrative misbehaviours

On February 2, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed University of Ottawa student union staff Director of the Student Appeal Centre Mireille Gervais and La Rotonde Editor in Chief Anais Elboujdaini on University of Ottawa campus developments regarding some of the university administration's various misbehaviours.

Main topics were:

• Three medical doctors dismissed by the Faculty of Medicine
• President Allan Rock refusing to meet with student media, questionable behaviour

Update on Bradley Manning -- USA government's insane reaction to Wikileaks

On June 2, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa, Canada) The Train's Denis Rancourt first explained the efforts he has been making to secure pro-Israel (Israel Lobby) radio guests to balance the show's critical reports against the ongoing war crimes of Israel. The show had been reserved for representatives of the Israel Lobby organization B'nai Brith but they did not reply or show up (see invitation here).

As a backup, Rancourt aired a May 25, 2011, press conference interview series about the USA Bradley Manning violations of human rights. This remarkable series featured speakers Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Raddack, Ann Wright, Christina McKenna, and Julian Assange.

The show ended with this new high-profile music video about justice for Palestine:

Criminal malfeasance web at the University of Ottawa

[Photo: President Allan Rock, University of Ottawa]

On April 7, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Denis Rancourt (although rather talkative here!) interviewed Dr. Waleed AlGhaithy (MD, neurosurgeon) about the incredible web of malfeasance in the Faculty of Medicine and in the Allan Rock administration regarding the terminations of three medical residents for attempting to make human rights complaints.

Related Background:
The latest U of O Senate meeting discussed in the interview
Allan Rock blocks human rights speakers at Senate
Overview of the case and appeal to the university community
Student senator Joseph Hickey's blog about Senate
The article about medical stress discussed in the interview
The Youtube with Maria Aragon

Labour union support for democracy in the Philippines

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On October 28, 2010, The Train interviewed Carleton University graduate student and TA union organizer Precillia Lefebvre and Ottawa activist and Staff Representative for CUPE 4600 (TAs and Contract Instructors at Carleton) Stuart Ryan about their activisms, their union battles, their solidarity trips to the Philippines, and the brutal situation in the Philippines.


We started with the campus-wide labour battle at Carleton University where four unions are poised to strike... and we moved into labour and human rights in the Philippines.

The Philippines is clearly a police state and a brutal regime in the corporate fascism project of the US and Canada.

The killing, torturing, raping, and disappearing of civil and labour organizers is widespread and systemic; to support corporate exploitation interests, not the least of which are the foreign labour mill and Canadian mining interests.

Philippine resistance is diverse and resourceful. It has lessons for Canadian social justice activists and has deeply and personally inspired Precillia and Stuart.