Norbert Ruebsaat teaches communications and media studies at SFU and Columbia College. He writes for Geist Magazine, CBC Ideas, and other literary and news periodicals. Kit Fortune is an author, historian and a Vancouver school counsellor. He holds a doctorate in the history of psychoanalysis. Guest Stuart Zukerman, a family lawyer and mediator, engages these and other topics with participant and moderator Kit Fortune.
Kit is a single father who has spent much of the last year in court in a custody dispute.
Colourful markets, architectural treasures and exotic local residents offer the tourist the ideal escape, the experience of paradise, and the possibility of personal transformation. Critics talk of the disruption of local rituals and traditions, increased political repression and displacement of area resources to ensure the tourists have a good time. Guest Mark Goertz is a librarian at Vancouver Community College and an occasional tourist. We live in a culture in which danger, suspicion, physical safety and security are increasingly everyday concerns.