Your host this week, Marc Montgomery. Wojtek Gwiazda and Lynn Desjardins are off, and Terry Haig and Carmel Kilkenny have been filling in.
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Starting off this week, an excerpt of an interview about two chemicals which are very common in a wide variety of consumer products.
Triclosan and Triclocarban are used as anti-bacterials or anti-microbials in a hand-cleansers, some cosmetics, some personal care products, plastic kitchen cutting boards, yoga mats and so on.
The concern is that they have been linked to a variety of problems, such as endocrine disruption in humans, contributing to the development of anti-bacterial resistant superbugs, and have been shown to be very toxic to fish and aquatic life.
Marc spoke with Kathleen Cooper of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA). That organization is calling on government to ban these chemicals in consumer products.
Bruce seems like such a nice friendly name… but there’s one Bruce that was not friendly at all.
This Bruce would have been one of the terrors of the ocean tens of millions of years ago. “Bruce” is the name they’ve given to their huge fossilized Mosasaur. It’s at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden Manitoba
It’s also the largest Mosasaur specimen in the world at over 13 metres
Carmel spoke to the CFDC executive director Peter Cantelon
After the excitement in the men’s World Cup football (soccer) tournament in Brazil, Canada is getting ready to host the women’s world cup.
Canada will host 24 teams from around the world in six venues starting in Edmonton in June of 2015. The final gold medal match is set for Vancouver in July.
Canada’s mens team didn’t qualify for the World Cup in Brazil, but the women’s team has the skill for a good showing, and possibly an outside chance at the final.
Peter Montopoli, the general secretary of the Canadian Soccer Association and CEO of the Women’s World Cup, is the man charged with making the tournment work.
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