Some Media Coverage about CANSEC 2010

(Canada's largest war-industry trade show)

Most of this media coverage included quotes or interviews about the antiCANSEC campaign of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)

Thursday, June 3, 2010

CBC Radio, "The Current"

Ashley Burke got quotes from people inside and outside CANSEC. 

Insiders include two anonymous weapons nerds and Ottawa Councillor Rick Chiarelli (pro-CANSEC).

Outsiders: Jess Menard and Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator)

(Interview) by host Hanna Gartner: Interview (debate) with Ottawa Councillors Alex Cullen (anti-CANSEC) and Eli El-Chantiry (pro-CANSEC)

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Karina Roman (quoting from colleague Kathleen Hunt),

"The lingo at CANSEC arms show in Ottawa,"

Inside Politics Blog, CBC online

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

(Article) by Danna Zabrovsky, "Protesters take aim at arms show"

The Ottawa Citizen (Quotes from Councillor Cullen, Raging Grannies and VOW)

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Four photos linked to the above article:

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

(Article) by Justin Sadler, "Protesters to rally against arms show."
Ottawa Sun. (Quotes from Richard Sanders - COAT)

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

(TV) "Armement: Un salon dans le parc"

Radio Canada (Mentions protest against CANSEC)

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
CFRA 580 AM "CANSEC Trade Show Meets Opposition"
(Interview) by host Josh Pringle. (Interview with Alex Cullen)
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

(Interview) by host Qais Ghanem with Councillor Alex Cullen
“Dialogue with Diversity" (12:15 pm)
CHIN 97.9 FM

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

(Article) by Amanda Wilson, "Ottawa activists protest CANSEC, Canada's largest arms bazaar"

The Media Coop (A project of The Dominion News Cooperative)  (Promotes COAT rally)
Includes 10 photos

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Raging Grannies CANSEC Weapons Show Protest Songs

"CANSEC, No!  CANSEX, Yes!"

Pacific Free Press (Promotes the COAT rally)

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
(Article) by Andrew Duffy, "Defence trade show paid almost $113,000 to rent Lansdowne"

The Ottawa Citizen (Interview with Richard Sanders - COAT coordinator)

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Monday, May 31, 2010

CHUO 89.1 FM (University of Ottawa radio) "Monday Night Scribes"
(Announcements and dialogue) by host John Akpata with Sandra Stephenson, Poets Against War

Saturday, May 29, 2010

(Article) by David Pugliese, "Up in the air."

The Ottawa Citizen (No mention of opposition to CANSEC)

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

(Article) by Matt Jones, "Spoken words and explosive goods"

Montreal Mirror (weekly newspaper)

Quotes from Susan Stephenson and Hugh Hazelton (Poets Against the War), and Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator)

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

"Unbought and Unbossed," (Canadian Political News and Views Show)

Radio Malaspina, Nanaimo, BC CHLY 101.7 FM

(Interview) by host Raymond Geisler with Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator)

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

(Interview) by host Qais Ghanem with Jo Wood (NOWAR/Paix) and Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator)
"Rally for Peace against CANSEC Weapons Bazaar"
“Dialogue with Diversity" (12 - 1pm)
CHIN 97.9 FM

(Listen to Part 1) (Listen to Part 2)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

CKCU 93.1 FM (Carleton University Community Radio)
"Special Blend: Monday Morning Rise Up" (9:40am - 9:55am)

(Interview) by host Jeff Monaghan with David Gill (Promotes COAT rally)
 

Monday, May 24, 2010
(Blog, and Comments) by David Pugliese, "A War of Words Over the CANSEC 'Defence' 'War' 'Arms' 'Military' Trade Show in Ottawa"

Ottawa Citizen, "Defence Watch" (Quotes from Richard Sanders - COAT coordinator)

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Monday, May 24, 2010

CHUO 89.1 FM (University of Ottawa radio) "Monday Night Scribes"
(Announcements and dialogue) by host John Akpata with Sandra Stephenson, Poets Against War

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

CIUT 89.5 FM (Toronto) "Take 5" (8:48 - 9:00 am)

(Interview) with hosts David Peterson and Crystal Luxmore with Richard Sanders - COAT coordinator

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Monday, May 17, 2010

(Letter) by Richard Sanders, "War profiteering"

(In response to David Pugliese's article, May 12, 2010)

Ottawa Citizen

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Wednesday, May 12
(article) by David Pugliese, "DND lets staff take trade-show freebies: Chief of defence staff, top bureaucrat suspend rules for Ottawa defence show."
Ottawa Citizen

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

CHUO 89.1 FM (University of Ottawa radio) "Five O'Clock Train," one hour (5-6 pm)

(Interview) by host Denis Rancourt, with Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator)

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May issue, 2010

(Article) "June 2nd Rally for Peace to Oppose the CANSEC Bazaar"

Sojourner (Newsletter, Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church of Canada)

(View Source) (see page 3) (Reprints COAT material, without mentioning COAT)

May issue, 2010

(Letter) by Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator), "Weapons trade show returns to Lansdowne."

Glebe Report (Glebe Community Association)

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May-June issue, 2010

(Article) by Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator),  "Opposition Planned to Weapons Bazaar in Ottawa"

Peace and Environment News (Ottawa Peace & Environment Resource Centre)

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Monday, April 26, 2010

CHUO 89.1 FM (University of Ottawa radio) "Monday Night Scribes," 2:15 hours (10 pm -12:15 am)
(Interview) by host John Akpata. Interview with Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator).

March 15, 2010

(Article) by Ryan Katz-Rosene, "Military Industrial Trade Show Plans Return to Community"
The Leveller (Carleton University and Ottawa community monthly)

(Quotes from Richard Sanders - COAT coordinator; and supportive Ottawa Councillor Clive Doucet)

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March 1, 2010

(Article) by Richard Sanders (COAT coordinator), "Fuelling War, Supplying the Warmongers"

The CCPA Monitor (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
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January 6, 2010

(Letter) Leo Kurtenbach, "Canada plans to increase war budget more than 50 percent to $30 billion"

Prairie Messenger (Catholic weekly newspaper, Muenster, Saskatchewan)

(quotes from COAT magazine, "CANSEC: War is Business")

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