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It’s the end of summer vacation, and tens of thousands of students are returning to colleges and universities across the country.
It’s also a time of many parties before settling in to school work. However, that doesn’t also mean there won’t be any number of other excuses for students to hold parties during the year.
The concern is a trend of late for students to engage in “binge” drinking of alcohol, or drinking to excess.
There have been many cases where this has led to injury, and in rare cases, death, and parents cannot be blamed for their concerns about excess drinking of their children while away from home.
Lynn spoke to Catherine Paradis, a senior research and policy analyst with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
; As we put more and more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, the earth continues to warm.
As it warms, air and ocean current patterns change affecting climate. It is a known fact that the polar regions are warming faster than elsewhere on Earth, resulting in melting ice.
Scientists now project that within just a couple of decades, only a small percentage of summer ice will remain around some isolated islands and Greenland in the high Arctic.
They’re calling this “the Last Ice Area”. World Wildlife Fund-Canada and National Geographic have teamed up to document this area and bring more attention to a dramatic environmental and ecological situation
Marc spoke to David Miller, CEO of WWF-Canada
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The colourful Monarch butterfly used to be iconic in Canada is summer.
It’s numbers however have been dwindling rapidly due to such things as climate change, use of herbicides on genetically modified crops for the ethanol industry, and illegal logging in the small winter habitat in Mexico.
Now a woman in the eastern province of New Brunwick has begun her own effort to preserve the beautiful insects. What started as a food bank, has evolved into a community centre, local food garden, and now has an added function of raise and release of monarchs.
Carmel spoke to Greener Village Community Food Centre Executive Director, Elizabeth Crawford
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