Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, Marc Montgomery

The LINK Online Sat. Jan 31, 2015

Joining you today to present the show is the regular team of Wojtek, Lynn, and Marc

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Canada’s Defence Minister Rob Nicoholson (left) is flanked by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Chief of Defence Staff General Tom Lawson as they make their to appear at a joint meeting of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Defence committees on Thursday, January 29, 2015. © PC/Fred Chartrand/CP

On today’s show federal politicians were back at work in Ottawa this past week where a heated debate quickly began.

Canadian Forces personnel in Iraq are supposed to be in advisory roles only in the fight against ISIL militants.  However it has been revealed that Canadians have actually been involved in exchanging fire with ISIL.

Opposition politicians were very concerned that the advisory role was morphing into a combat role. The government responded that nothing had changed but that if Canadians are shot at they will return fire. Later the Defence Minister and the Prime Minister as well as the the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lawson, all testified before a joint meeting of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and Defence committees

Wojtek prepared a report.

Psychopaths don’t seem to interpret the world the same way other people do.

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Of the violent offenders in prison, those with psychopathic syndrome are harder to rehabilitate © CBC

 Now new research shows that in fact that a psychopath doesn’t relate or view punishment or the consequences of their acts the way others do.

Thus, they don’t respond to typical treatment for rehabilitation or methods pioneered in Canada for rehabilitation of violent offenders.

Lynn spoke to Sheilagh Hodgins, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal.

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An endangered orangutan checks out a camera that has taken its photo. This new research shows the rare apes spend more time travelling on the ground than was ever previously known. ©  Loken-sfu

A Canadian researcher has discovered an interesting but heretofor unknown behaviour in orangutans.

The doctoral candidate from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia was in Borneo orginially to study a rare leopard, but his mothing activated cameras captured many photos of orangutans walking on the ground to get from place to place.

In further research, he found that no other research had discovered this common behaviour, probably because primatologists had never bothered to look, presuming the docile apes spent almost all their time in the trees.

While his research showed the animals did travel on the ground, he also points out that trees are critical to orangutan survival, but palm oil plantations, logging and mining are resulting in rapid and major deforestation in Borneo.

Marc spoke with Brent Loken.

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