TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Refugee Camp in the City + the History of Elijah Muhammad
CJSR FM-88 www.cjsr.com 6 pm Mountain Time When 2007 bega n, 26 million human beings were on the run or in cam ps inside their own countries, and that’s just from conflict. Add in disasters, you get another 25 million. Top it off with the 16 million people forced to flee their own countries, and you get a staggering 67 million people . Médecins sans frontiers is the international humanitarian medical relief organisation known to Anglophones as Doctors Without Borders . In Old Strathcona’s McIntyre (Gazebo) P ark, MSF will be running the Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City , an outdoor, 3-D, full-sensory simulation of life in a refugee camp. I spoke with Asha Gervan o n Monday morning by telephone. She’s a 30-year-old Kingston native who’s MSF project coordinator on the camp. The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City will be in McIntyre (Gazebo) Park, 104th Street + 83rd Avenue in Edmonton. It runs Thursday, September 18 to Sunday, September 21. It’s free. Last week on the nin...