Your hosts this week are Lynn, Carmel and Marc
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The crisis in the Middle-East and Europe with the mass migration of millions of refugees and migrants continues to make headlines.
Pressure within Canada from advocates for refugees, migrants, and immigrants has resulted in a modification of the Canadian governments position regarding acceptance of refugees.
The federal government had announced it would admit 10,000 Syrians over three years, but now says it will speed up the process.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says the government will simplify and speed up the process to enable them to come in by 2016.
Advocacy groups welcome the change but say it’s still not enough. Lynn spoke with Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for Refugees
Another story making world headlines involves one of the world’s best-known and respected automakers.
An environmental scandal involving Volkswagen has cost the CEO of the company his job, share prices have fallen, and other executives may also be quietly moved out.
The automaker apparently installed software on many of its VW and Audi models to disconnect pollution control systems while driving, and only activated when pollution testing equipment was plugged in.
Consumers who thought they were buying relatively “green” diesel models feel they’ve been lied to.
Environment Canada had started an investigation into the use of a “defeat device” to get around emissions testing rules to determine if there had been a violation of Canadian law.
Carmel spoke with George Iny, director of Canada’s Automobile Protection Agency.
For those who like to gaze at the stars there will be an astral phenomenon tomorrow, (Sunday 27th Sept 2015).
It’s a lunar eclipse and a so-called super-moon.
That’s when the moon comes closest to earth in its orbit, the perigee of its orbit.
This eclipse will be visible from North America. As the moon moves into the Earth’s shadow, it will in fact not become completely dark, but will bit lit by sunlight refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere giving it an orange glow.
Many shcools, universities and observatory’s in Canada will hold special events to view the moon, including that of York University in Toronto where Marc spoke to the director of the York observatory, professor Paul Delaney.
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