Author: GRC

  • Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

    RESTORATION AND RECIPROCITY: HEALING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD

    Note: This lecture will be held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Thursday, September 26 at 6 pm. THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.Dal Grauer Memorial LectureDr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times…

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  • A man standing in front of a stadium.

    S01 E06 How We Win

    Can the Olympics be fixed?

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  • A person with their hand on another person's back, whose shirt reads 'I am Gustavo.'

    S01 E05 Sport Capital USA

    More mega events are coming to Los Angeles. What LA’s push to become an international sports destination means for the city’s unhoused communities.

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  • People protesting the Olympics in Paris with multi-coloured smoke and signs.

    France’s Olympic Gamble

    For the latest project of the Global Reporting Program (GRP), students travelled to Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Games to investigate some of the impacts of hosting the Olympics. The result of that work is a 25-minute documentary for Al Jazeera’s People & Power.

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  • A woman in a red shirt speaking into a microphone to a group of people who are protesting rent hikes.

    S01 E04 Fighting Back

    A South Central LA neighborhood fights back against Olympic-related development and displacement near the city’s iconic stadiums.

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  • An encampment along the water's edge with the downtown Vancouver skyline in the background.

    S01 E03 Torched Promises

    Vancouver pledged to do the games differently in 2010. On the site of a tent city that took hold during the games, the mayor promised to build social housing.

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  • A man in a white vest standing outside a pharmacy before dawn.

    State of Play, our “illuminating and alarming” podcast, is out now

    We’re proud to share our new podcast series, State of Play: Summer Games, which is being distributed by Pulitzer and Peabody Award-winning public media organization PRX.

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  • A man with a black jacket standing outside in Paris in front of an Olympic flag.

    S01 E02 Switching Teams

    Jules Boykoff, former Team USA soccer player, recalls his path to becoming a leading expert on the anti-Olympics movement.

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  • People protesting at SacrĂ©-CĹ“ur church in Paris, holding rings, flares, and pouring paint.

    S01 E01 Unwelcome in Paris

    Police raid a migrant squat 100 days before the 2024 Olympics begin. Efforts to bus unhoused people out of the city don’t unfold as planned.

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    How can journalism respond to generative AI?

    A report by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (with support from the GRC) on the promise and peril of using AI in journalism.

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