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	Podcast:		As It Happens from CBC Radio
	Episode:		Decades after Jonestown, the massacre site opens to tourists
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:46:46
	Publish Date:		2025-07-03 23:40:00
	Description:		Guyana is confronting the legacy of a deadly 1978 cult tragedy, where more than 900 people died. A private tour company has recently started taking visitors to see the site. A guide tells us he's proud of the work -- even if survivors are giving it mixed reviews. The legal director for the National Council of Canadian Muslims talks about opening her email to see a video of an attack on a Muslim woman at a pizza parlour in Oshawa, Ontario. A horrifying incident she tells us is, disturbingly, not rare. An inquiry finds British colonizers in Australia committed genocide against Indigenous people. A witness at the commission says reckoning with that past is the first step in moving forward. In response to a growing rat problem, Toronto considers taking a page out of New York City’s book -- and appointing a “rat czar" to get the vermin under control. Scientists catalogue the traits that give me -- I mean, someone -- the indefinable yet indisputable quality of “coolness.” And the results are surprisingly conclusive.
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