This week Wojtek is taking a bit of a holiday and your hosts are Lynn Desjardins and Marc Montgomery
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Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party continues to fight the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper over its proposed Fair Elections Act, and in particular, its refusal to let a House of Commons committee travel across Canada to see what Canadians think of the proposed reforms.
On Tuesday, the Official Opposition’s Deputy Leader David Christopherson continued his filibuster in the Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) House of Commons Committee to make the government accept public hearings.
Wojtek has a report.
Marc wrote about Canadian scientists who made a surprising finding. They were performing computerized climate change simulations on Antarctic and the sea around it, and discovered that the climate change model they were experimenting with explained an already known phenomenon, but one which had not been understood to be connected with climate change as it had happened decades earlier.
Increased CO2 in the atmosphere means moire moisture in the already wet region of the southern ocean.. more fresh water in the ocean reduces the salinity of the surface water which acts like a lid blocking a deep water current from rising to the surface in winter. This means the deep current is not losing its heat to the Antarctic air and not taking surface oxygen back with it to the depths.
Marc speaks with Eric Galbraith, the McGill University professor in Montreal who is co-author of the study
Canada’s border control agency, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has many police-like powers,
The CBSA manages the people and goods going in and out of the country, and it has a mandate to detain and investigate non-citizens.
The suicide attempt of a Mexican woman while in CBSA custody, and her subsequent death in hospital has raised concerns about procedures in the CBSA, which unlike other police agencies in Canada, has no oversight of their activities or actions.
Lynn spoke with Mitchell Goldberg, president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers
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