Link hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Marc Montgomery, Levon Sevunts

Link hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Marc Montgomery, Levon Sevunts
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The LINK Online Sun. Dec. 4, 2016

Your hosts this week Lynn, Levon, and Marc

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A woman enters Maple High School in Vaughan, Ont., to cast her vote in the Canadian federal election on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015.
A woman enters Maple High School in Vaughan, Ont., to cast her vote in the Canadian federal election on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. © PC/Peter Power

Canada’s voting system is called “first past the post”.

That means the person who gets the most votes wins regardless of the percentage of voters that voted for or against that person.  For example if person A gets 1000 votes, and person B gets 900 and person C gets 800. Person A wins even though more than 1000 people in the riding did not vote for person A.

Many people over the years have criticised this system and current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to change it.

But a survey of Canadian voters found some interesting attitudes toward the current system and potential alternatives.

Levon spoke to Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute polling firm.

: At a news conference, General Jonathan Vance expressed consternation over ongoing sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces. © PC/Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press

Canda’s military has had problems within its ranks. It concerns sexual abuse and misconduct.

Canada’a Cheif of Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance upon taking the position ad issued orders that this kind of activity had to stop.

As more stories about misconduct  and harrassment came to light, he recently gave a news conference with statistics on incidents in the Forces.

He was also visibly angry that in spite of his orders, there were still incidents occurring which were tarnishing the reputation of the Forces and perhaps keeping potential recruits away.

He re-iterated that abuse must stop.  Lynn prepared a report

This week’s Canadian music selection feature’s Nickelback, a rock band from Alberta.

The band Nickleback has been immensely successful but for some inexplicable reason also the target of spiteful jokes.

Police in Prince Edward Island said this week that if they arrest any drunk driver over Christmas, they’ll force them to listen to Nickelback a ridiculously maligned butt of snide jokes.

The joke is on the police and the detractors because Nickelback is one of the best-selling bands in the world.  Today’s song, When we stand together.

After losing in the Federal Court of Appeal, the hamlet of Clyde River, Nunavut was given leave in March g to take its case against seismic testing off its coast to the Supreme Court of Canada. That case begins tomorrow, Nov 30.
After losing in the Federal Court of Appeal, the hamlet of Clyde River, Nunavut was given leave in March to take its case against seismic testing off its coast to the Supreme Court of Canada. © submitted by Nick Ilauq

After years of legal wrangling at which the Inuit communities along Baffin Island have lost their case, the issue of seismic testing for oil off the coastline has reached the Supreme Court of Canada.

The seismic testing sends extremely loud sounds through the ocean and seabed in the search for oil. The Inuit say the sounds will harm and scare away the fish and marine mammals they depend upon for food.

The National Energy Board granted an international consortium the approval to proceed, but the Inuit say the Board and the federal government did not meet their legal obligation to properly consult with the Inuit in the area before giving the approval.

The Supreme Court will now decide who is right.

Marc spoke with Jerry Natanine, former mayor of the hamlet of Clyde River who has been leading the fight against the seismic tests.

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