Last updated: January 1, 2011 12:00 am.
Episode 53 — U.S. primaries, UBC football and transit woes
WATERLOO (CUP) — On the 53rd edition of the Canadian University Press Podcast, we speak with Ishmael Daro at the University of Saskatchewan's Sheaf about a column he wrote on the U.S. primaries currently underway and what Canadians can pay attention to — and perhaps learn from — in the circus of coverage and drawn-out political action of these events.
Next, we speak to Drake Fenton at the University of British Columbia's Ubyssey about the UBC Thunderbirds football team having their season record stripped after a player was reported to have been ineligible at the end of the season — perhaps the biggest story that wasn't really a story, according to Fenton.
Finally, we speak with Brock University professor Jennifer Good about a piece she wrote that appeared in The Brock Press and subsequently on the CUP wire about the supposed "war on cars" and rhetoric as applied to Toronto's transit woes.
The Canadian University Press Podcast is hosted and produced by Mike Lakusiak in Waterloo, Ont. at the offices of Wilfrid Laurier University's student newspaper, The Cord. Comments or questions can be sent to cupcast@cup.ca or via Twitter by following @cupcast.
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