This week as we get ever closer to Christmas and the holiday season, the regular gang is together to present the show, Lynn, Marc, and Wojtek.
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We start off with an international story and one of continuing violence against women.
The United Nations says there has been a law in Afghanistan since 2009 to prevent violence against women.
The law is also supposed to criminalize other acts like child marriage, forced marriage, and giving away of women and girls to settle disputes.
However, the UN says the laws are simply not being properly enforced.
Lynn speaks to Canadian journalist, and author Sally Armstrong who has long campaigned to better the lives of Afghan women and girls.
Then, Canada’s national postal service Canada Post, made a major and surprising announcement this week.
They said that home delivery of mail would be discontinued, and instead a system of community mailboxes would be created.
The reason was to save costs which it said were increasing greatly, and would lead to a massive debt by 2020.
To justify the claims, the government released a number of figures, Wojtek looked into the figures and came up with somewhat different interpretation
On the environmental front, a biologist in New Brunswick says there are great concern for the future of bats in North America.
A fungus disease which is believed to have orig
inated in Europe has appeared suddenly and with deveastating consequences. It’s called “white nose” disease as the fungus coats skin surfaces like those around the muzzle of bats, giving them a whitish face and nose. However it also infects the wings and ears.
Graham Forbes says the bat populations in eastern North America have been reduced by 90% or more. He also points out that because bats eat so many mosquitoes and moths, their absence will upset the balance of nature with as yet unknown consequences.
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