This week, Marc Montgomery presents the show as we look back on stories covered this week
We start out with an interview with the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
Speaking with Lynn Desjardins, James Turk says the association is concerned about collaborations between industry and universities.
He points out that these industries have ample resources to carry out their own research but want the university association in order to give legitimacy to the results.
The concern however is that the universities are giving up some of their independence in such agreements. The CAUT report is called “Open for Business- On What Terms?:An Analysis of 12 Collaborations Between Canadian Universities and Corporations, Donors, and Governments”
We then hear a report from Wojtek Gwiazda on the ongoing scandal in the nation’s politics..some would say the scandal that won’t go away.
Known as the “Senate spending scandal” it concerns allegations of misuse of senators expense accounts and improper claims to housing funds.
As allegations and accusations fly in the House of Commons as to whether the Prime Minister was directly involved in a coverup, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have placed an 80 page report with a judge.
Then, back in the early 2000’s geopolitical analyst and military specialist Gwynne Dyer heard rumours that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were planning scenarios to deal with global warming and climate change.
In investigating the rumour he found the similar planning was being carried out by all the organized military forces he spoke to.
All were concerned about defending territory and resources as climate change resulted in crop failures, flooding, fires and so on creating masses of desperate people, threatening internal governments, international conflicts over dwindling resources, especially water, and mass migrations.
His research led to his book “Climate Wars” in 2008.
Since then much more information on warming and climate change has come to light, So I caught up with him in Vancouver where he was giving a lecture to ask for an update and to what extent things have changed.
I hope you enjoy this week’s show. and as always please feel free to contribute your thoughts and comments.
cheers, Marc
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