[Show script][to hear the program, click the title above] [sci-fi – but all too true clip from trailer for new game] Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called “Frontlines,  …

This is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org. The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don’t really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians – and  …