This week Lynn joins me in studio, and although Carmel Kilkenny was sitting in for Wojtek Gwiazda this week, sho couldn’t join us in studio but we do have one of her stories
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We start out this weeks 66th edition with a story from Carmel. She spoke to Maude Barlow, National Chairwoman of the citizen’s advocacy group, The Council of Canadians.
Ms Barlow has just completed the third book in her trilogy about the world’s water resources.
The first was “Blue Gold”, followed by “Blue Covenant”, and the third is “Blue Future, Protecting Water for People and the Planet forever”
Next we have story about something that may change hospital operating room procedures around the world.
A Toronto, Ontario surgeon has developed an idea similar to the so-called black boxes used in aircraft.
The idea is that everything done in the operating room by the surgeons and staff, and all data such as patient vital signs, will be filmed and noted.
This is not only to determine what went wrong if there is an incident, but also as a training tool to improve the OR surgeons and team performance. Currently in use at St Micheals in Toronto, a prototype is also to be tested this month in Copenhagen.
I speak to Dr Teodor Grantcharov.
And the issue of invasive species comes up once again, This time it’s about Asian carp, a fast growing, large fish that out-competes and /or eats domestic species forcing them out of an ecosystem.
They also have the habit of leaping high into the air when frightened, such as whenever a boat passes. In an infested river, one can easily be hit by one of these large fish which can easily weigh 10 kg or more, and up to 40kg.
Getting hit by one of these when driving your boat is a real possibilty, and if you do get hit, being injured is also a real possiblity.
Lynn speaks to the director of a documentary called Carpe Diem: a Fishy tale.
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