The LINK Online, Sat. Sept. 05, 2015

Your hosts this week are Lynn, Carmel, and Marc

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It was a tragic photo that has made news around the world.

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Tima Kurdi, aunt of two boys who drowned five-year-old Galib, and three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, is grief-stricken as she speaks outside her home in Coquitlam, British.Columbia. Aylan, Galib and their mother Rehan died as they tried to reach Europe from Syria. Tima Kurdi says the world could be doing more to end the war in Syria. © PC/DARRYL DYCK- CP

It showed the lifeless body of a small boy washed up on a beach.

He, his brother, father and mother had been among the vast numbers of migraListennts fleeing Syria and elsewhere in the middle-East, hoping to make it to Germany or England.

The family was crossing in a small smuggler’s boat from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos. Once on Greek soil, they would be in the European Union, and could travel across European borders.

Unfortunately, as has been often the case, the dingy capsized and only the father survived.

An aunt in Canada was heartbroken when she made some comments to the media.

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Canadian students are graduating with big debts and few jobs to help pay them off. © CBC

The head of the Canadian Federation of Students says university grads are facing the highest levels of debt ever recorded in Canada.

Bilan Arte says students are “drowing” under the debt load, and many aren’t able to get good enought jobs to pay the student loans and associated debts.

She says last year 200,000 recent grads were unable to make a single payment on their student loans, and she wants the issue to become a topic in the federal election campaign.

Lynn spoke to Bilan Arte about the situation

World Sexual Health Day- September 4th..discussions on wide ranging issues from physical, to emotional, from educational, to human rights.
World Sexual Health Day- September 4th..discussions on wide ranging issues from physical, to emotional, from educational, to human rights. © University of Moncton- YouTube

The World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) is hoping the United Nations will join them and declare World Sexual Health Day, one of its official days.

The day was begun in 2010 and some 35 countries have joined with activities to mark the day.

This is the first year for Canada. Roanne Millman is the organizer of one the events held in Vancouver where several experts spoke on various aspects of sexualy health which includes physical, emotional, and human rights issues.

She is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia where Marc contacted her by phone

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