Your hosts today, Lynn, Carmel, and Marc..AND A CONTEST ! (Click on the link at the bottom of the page).
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It seems it’s just not easy being a child these days.
Every time a new toy or activity is created, it seems it won’t be long before someone points out how dangerous it is.
The latest culprit is the backyard trampoline.
Some doctors are claiming they are just too dangerous and children should not be playing on them.
Lynn spoke with Dr. Raj Bhardwaj, a family and urgent care physician in the western city of Calgary.
Don’t eat wheat! Stay away from gluten: bread, cookies, cereal, pasta and other wheat-based foods! That was the call made by an American doctor just a few years ago creating a craze of anti-wheat, anti gluten campaigns.
The doctor alleges that the wheat used today is nothing like the wheat of our grandfathers, and this “changed” wheat is causing all kinds of health problems.. He called it “franken-wheat” and said it should be avoided at all costs.
Canadian researchers explored this claim by growing 37 varieties of wheat using seeds from every decade going back to 1860.
They found the only change was that modern wheat matured faster, but that there was virtually no change at all in the composition of the grain, and that the US doctors claims were without basis.
Marc spoke with Ravi Chibbar professor and Canada Research Chair in molecular biology for crop quality in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan.
Starting this past Wednesday and for the next two Wednesdays, the bells in Anglican churches and cathedrals in Canada will toll 1,222 times.
It’s to signal the 1,222 missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada.
It’s also in response to the summary report of the Truth and Reconciliation commission (TRC) which was hearing the many stories of abuse, sexual, physical, and psychological, of aboriginal children in the so-called “residential schools”
Carmel spoke the the Reverend Paul Kennington of Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral about the Anglican Church’s response to the TRC report and the growing number of calls for an enquiry into the missing and murdered aboriginal women.
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