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- Setsuko Thurlow describes working in a military office as a high school student at the time of the Hiroshima bombing. She talks about surviving and escaping and helping many refuges. She also explains how she came to Canada with her Canadian husband and has worked tirelessly to promote disarmament education. She says that she was ultimately awarded "The Order of Canada" for her persistent advocacy for non-nuclear peace in both Japan and Canada.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper hold a joint press conference in the South Court Auditorium within the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Obama talks about ties between the U.S. and Canada. He comments on the global economy, trade with Canada, border security issues, and the situation in Egypt. Harper responds first in French then translates his remarks into English. He says he and Obama are issuing a joint declaration about the shared border and the flow of trade and people across it. They take questions from the media on Egypt, energy, and how the joint declaration might affect Canadian sovereignty.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-02-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Joe Ohori, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, says that he was born in Vancouver and moved to Japan before the war. He describes experiencing the atomic bombing and his return to Canada after the war.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama announces that his administration is rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline which was to have carried heavy crude oil from Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump talks about the recently completed trade deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada which will replace the 1994 NAFTA trade agreement. Trump says that the deal that will benefit the U.S. and North America as a whole and introduces U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer who talks about the specifics of the agreement. President Trump also answers several questions from reporters and insults ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega. Held in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Canadian folk singer James Keelaghan sings his songs of Canadian workers and unions in a performance and lecture event titled, "Small rebellions: Canadian labour in song." Keelaghan introduces each song and provides relevant historical background. Joining him on electric bass is David Woodhead. Woodhead also sings on the song, "House of cards." Introduction by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations. Includes a question and answer session. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag Series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and the MSU Canadian Studies Center. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ronald Reagan speaks to the Canadian Parliament on his first foreign state visit. Broadcast on PBS.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-03-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takeo Yamashiro says he does not remember anything about the Hiroshima bombing, but does remember his classmates later dying from Leukemia. Yamashiro also talks about immigrating to Canada and his views on the current proliferation of nuclear arms.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sachiko Rummel says that she lost her father from radiation related disease after the Hiroshima blast and had a difficult childhood raising her sisters, brother and her sick mother. She explains that she came to Canada after her marriage and only recently started speaking about her experience.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Portion of President Barack Obama's news conference with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during his visit to Canada, the first international trip the President has made since his inauguration. The two leaders discuss trade, economic issues and the Afghanistan war. Following their talk, Obama and Harper answer questions from reporters, including troops to Afghanistan, the two countries' environmental strategies, NAFTA, and Canada's stimulus package. Obama says he hopes to strengthen U.S. relations with Canada.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection