This week your hosts are Wojtek Gwiazda and Marc Montgomery
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There have been several confrontations between Canada’s First Nations peoples and various business operations and governments in this country in the past few years.
While those confrontations have been bitter, with some property damage in isolated cases, for the greater part, violence has been limited.
Various demonstrations occasionally have caused merely inconvenience for the greater public, while aboriginal groups remain bitterly frustrated at the lack of action, and or negotiation on issue they are concerned with.
Wojtek Gwiazda brings us a report about a group of former top politicians and aboriginal leaders who have come together in a “new partnership” to try to reduce the divide between the public and government on one side, and Canada’s First Nations on the other
Remember when you had to recite your arithmetic times tables?
So-called “rote” learning has fallen into great disfavour in the past few decades.
Many scholars, psychologists and other experts have developed any number of theories and new “improved” programmes for teaching children in schools.
And as education is a provincial jurisdiction in Canada, curriculae and methods differ somewhat from province to province.
Now however, new evidence suggests there really is a place for the old-fashioned rote learning style.
Lynn speaks with Michael Zwaagstra, research fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and a high school teacher in the province of Manitoba.
Speaking of children, a couple of physicians in Ontario with long experience say that the number of children suffering concussions while playing in organized sport has reached epidemic proportion.
They say that scholls and the various organizing bodies that govern each sport aren’t doing enough to protect children for the short and long term neurological damage of concussions.
In the paper published in his week in Neurosurgeon, an online publication of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, they say its time that governmental public health agencies became involved with actual laws to regulate sports.
Marc spoke to co-author Dr Paul Echlin of the Elliot Sports Clinic in Burlington Ontario
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