Your hosts this week are Wojtek Gwiazda, Lynn Desjardins, and Marc Montgomery
We start out this week with world that Canada is going to send some troops to Iraq.
Federal government officials say the military personnel will be acting in an advisory role only. The Ministers of Defence and Foreign Affairs spoke to a House of Commons committee, but were not able to provide committe members questioning them with much more information about the mission.
They did stress the importance of Canadian participation.
Wojtek prepared a report.
The humanitarian aid agency Oxfam has released a new report saying the international community has failed Syria’s millions of refugees, both those who have fled to other countries, and those internally displaced by the civil war.
The report is called “A Fairer Deal for Syrians”.
Oxfam says the Syrian refugees constitute the most serious humanitarian crisis on earth at the present time.
Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada and Lynn spoke to him about the situation.
For the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), this was an unusual step. The CAUT has called on certain institutions of higher learning in Canada, mostly universities, to cut their association with a Chinese government funded operation.
The Confucius Institutes began a little over a decade ago as a way for China to promote its language and culture.
China now has Confucius Insitutes set up in many countries around the world..
Security agencies have expressed their own concern about what these Chinese state-funded Institutes are or might be doing. but the CAUT says for them it’s a matter of Canada’s freedom of speech on campus, which they these Institutes repress among the students.
Marc spoke to David Robinson, executive director of the CAUT
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