Thursday, March 29, 2007

CBC's Two Front War in Afghanistan

The CBC is providing people interested in Canada's involvement in Afghanistan with two different approaches to the conflict this week.

The first is, of course, Crazy Eights, is a one hour documentary appearing on CBC Television tonight at 8:00 PM and repeating on CBC Newsworld at 10:00 PM on Saturday. Crazy Eights follows the soldiers of Eight Platoon, C Company, Royal Canadian Regiment for a month as they serve in southern Afghanistan. Eight Platoon, incidentally, has the unfortunate distinction of having suffered the highest casualties of any platoon assigned to Afghanistan.

The second is Afghanada, the half hour draw that airs on CBC Radio One. In previous weeks I would have been hard pressed to decide which program to tune in, but Afghanada is now only heard at 11:30 Friday mornings, so I don't have to choose.

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