Your hosts this week are Wojtek Gwiazda and Marc Montgomery.
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He was appointed by Canada’s ruling Conservative government to be the country’s first Veteran’s Ombudsman. During his tenure between 2007-2010, Pat Stogren was surprised and upset by the bureaucratic hurdles placed in front of physically and mentally damaged soldiers seeking help from the government they served in uniform.
Last week the Auditor-General criticized the lengthy wait times for veterans seeking mental health services and last week federal political opposition parties joined many previous veterans calls for the resignation of Veterans Affairs minister Julian Fantino
As a now private citizen the retired former Colonel, is hoping a public inquiry will raise enough concern to force government to smooth access to services for veterans by reducing impediments and enlarging eligebilty requirements
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda talked to Colonel (retired) Pat Stogran about some of these issues
Obesity has reached epidemic portions in many countries, especially in the western world.
In Canada one in four Canadian adults and one in ten children can be classed as being clinically obese.
Obesity is also known to be related to diabetes, and almost two and a half million Canadians have been diagnosed with the disease, and its suspected that many more simply have diabetes but haven’t been diagnosed.
Now, Canadian researchers have made what is considered a breakthrough in diabetes research.
Lynn Desjardins spoke with Dr Gregory Steinberg. one of the researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
We often hear about proposals to achieve the very important goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Many come from environmental groups but seldom are the costs and societal effects actually analyzed.
Researchers for a Montreal-based economic think-tank recently studied the proposals from two such Quebec-based groups. The study found the proposals would cost each household in the province over $1800.
While Quebeckers and all Canadians say climate change is important, very few are willing, or able, to afford that kind of burden In additional the proposals are unlikely to achieve the kinds of targets stated, and society would suffer a net loss of jobs.
Marc spoke with Germain Belzile an economics professor at HEC, associated with the University of Montreal, and who
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