Media Mornings: Tue, Jan 14–Elizabeth Sheehy on ‘Defending Battered Women on Trial’–Neil Young’s oil sands speech

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Elizabeth Sheehy is a law professor at University of Ottawa. Photo: Jean Levac/Ottawa Citizen

• 04:00 — Today’s top news headlines from local to global current affairs — radio news roundup you won’t hear anywhere else.

• 16:45 — Interview with Elizabeth Sheehy (professor, University of Ottawa) on her new book, “Defending Battered Women on Trial” when they kill in self-defence. Interviewed by Meghan Murphy (FeministCurrent.com).

• 50:00 — Neil Young’s press conference in which he attacked Canada’s oil sands as “atrocities” and the Harper government’s “greed” and “hypocrisy,” that will have aboriginal “blood” on its hands.

• Music: Neil Young (“Pocahontas” live in Toronto; “Life After the Gold Rush”; “”), Danielle Duval (“Control”).