Your hosts this week are Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, and Marc Montgomery
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Starting us off this week, Lynn looks at the issue of world hunger.
It seems one in eight people on earth don’t have enough good food to eat.
Oxfam Canada has released its global food index this week. Surprisingly Canada is not near the top of the list
In fact Oxfam puts the country in 25th spot.
Lynn speaks to Robert Fox, the executive director of Oxfam Canada who says not enough is being done to prepare for what he calls “climate chaos”
We then hear of an awareness campaign and public event staged by some university professors and other concerned about prvacy issues.
The event underscores the rapid proliferation of video surveillance cameras in public places, but almost none comply with Canadian privacy laws which state the public must be made aware they are being watched, and who to contact for more information about what is being done with the video collected.
This is usually in the form of a sign placed in an open location, or should be.
We hear from Andrew Clement, a professor and co-founder of the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute at the University of Toronto.
As the population ages, more people are finding themselves in long-term health facilities. This means also that there’s a need for medical attention,
In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, the minimum standard for such facilities is to have one registered nurse (RN) on hand, regardless of whether the facility has 50 or 150 patients.
Nurses say this is not nearly enough, as it puts too much pressure on the nurse, and doesn’t allow for adequate care for the elderly.
Wojtek speaks to Beverly Mathers, who is the Labour Relations Manager for the Ontario Nurses Association
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