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Calgary this week played host to visiting officials from the government of Ecuador. Yesterday the delegation made its sales pitch, to sell off land - all of it pristine Amazon rainforest. And at least one activist managed to make it into the meeting. Here is Michelle Thrush, a Gemini Award-winning Canadian actress and aboriginal activist.

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They are cute, adorable, blab animatedly -- and they're inanimate.

Filmmaker Brent Hoff and roboticist / artist Alex Reben are using small robots called Blabdroids to interview people. They hope what the droids unearth will shed more light on how people emotionally engage with artificial intelligence. They hope that they will be the first robots to ever make a documentary.

Listen as guest host Helen Mann speaks with Brent Hoff and is grilled by a Blabdroid.

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In Boston, the rush to help survivors has turned into a search for answers. Everyone in the city is asking how and why their marathon was attacked -- none more so than the survivors. Nicholas Yanni and his wife, Lee Ann, were watching a friend finish the race when the bombs went off. They were standing only ten feet away. Dr. David Mooney was one of those on the front lines at Boston Children's Hospital. He's the director of the trauma program. And Jack Cloonan is a security consultant and former FBI terrorism investigator. 

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Bill Bezuk runs a hotel. For chickens. He offers turndown and valet services. We reached the gentleman innkeeper in Eugene, Oregon.

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Every year, the Boston Marathon is the scene of joy, disappointment, and pride. But this year, it was a scene of horror, confusion, and disbelief, when yesterday, two explosions went off near the finish line. Bruce Mendelsohn, a communications expert in Boston, was at work when the explosions happened. Patrick Gable of Kelowna, B.C. competed in the race. He was near the finish line area when the blasts hit.

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Part One:

*Boston Marathon Explosions. Twin blasts at the crowded finish line injure many and put America on edge.
*Trudeau Leadership. Bob Rae signs off as interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Part Two:

*Gitmo Hunger Strikers. Lawyers say inmates are at serious risk because the Obama administration's refusal to negotiate.
*France Kidnapping. An Ontario man on vacation finds a young girl, bound, gagged and struggling to make her way to safety.

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*LSE North Korea. The London School of Economics is furious with the BBC -- after a journalist pretended to be a professor from the school, in order to get footage from inside North Korea.
*Goldman Environment Award. Azzam Alwash went home to Iraq -- and now, for his work restoring his native country's marshlands, he's getting a prestigious environmental award.

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