Episode 177: Ottawa's Non-Partisan Moment, Norland Nannies Coddle the Elite, Cost of Privacy and more
Flaherty's Death Brings Unity
"Every once in awhile something breaks through which is about the human condition. And it is more important than partisanship, it is more important than who won the last Question Period engage. It is more important than where we stand in the polls... but it doesn't only happen with tragedy."
-Conservative Senator Hugh Segal
"I hope from time to time when these kinds of extraordinary -- in this case, tragic -- events happen, I wish we could learn something that would sustain some level of peace and goodwill and raise the bar somewhat in terms of our conduct."
-Liberal MP for Kings-Hants Scott Brison
Norland Nannies Rise to the Top
"These are the Mary Poppins for the 21st century. That's the whole point. They're fun like Mary Poppins, but they're thoroughly modern young women. So they're at the forefront of what we think of in child psychology and learning and development, with 120-odd years of history behind them."
-Louise Heren, journalist, mother and the co-author of Nanny in a Book: The Common-Sense Guide to Childcare
The Price of Privacy
"The beauty and Achilles heel of the Internet is that it's this decentralized network. It makes it incredibly robust. But what it also means is that each one of us has to defend our own little entrance to the Internet as if we were guarding a castle."
-Julia Angwin, nvestigative journalist, and the author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
Modi Prepares for Power
"I do think that if Modi becomes Prime Minister we will have more things like religious riots, there might be more books banned, I also think there will be severe curtailments of free speech - we've already seen that in India. We've seen editors and journalists not being able to report stories that are critical of Modi or Hindu nationalism. I've experienced this myself."
-Zahir Janmohamed is a freelance journalist based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Telling Stories on the West Bank
"The relationship between a informant and a handler is fascinating. It's much more complex than you think. You think it's about money and threats and violence ... but all the secret service guys we talked to said it's not like that. [They said] you have to find something in the informant that he needs emotionally and you fulfill it. It's much more like you're they're shrink."
- Yuval Adler, Director and co-writer of the feature film Bethlehem
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