6pm Hour – extinction of life

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Posted Sep 13, 2011 02:13:17 PM.

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A St. FX University professor may have found the missing link to the world’s largest extinction of life. Dr. Alvaro Montenegro joins us. Cecil our sometimes rowdy sports fan joins us. SMU history professor Peter Twohig takes a look back at this day in history. Jack MacDougall has stepped down as the leader of the NB Green Party – he joins us to tell us why.

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