Your hosts this week, are Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts, and Marc Montgomery
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So-called Islamic groups spreading terrorism are extremely well-versed in internet propaganda and recruiting techniques.
Such techniques have created homegrown terorrists, and inspired others to travel abroad to fight with the terrorist groups.
A Canadian professor has now developed a toolkit to fight against radicalization.
He says it draws on 50 years of research experience and he calls it the ” Information Toolkit on Violent Extremism”
Levon speaks with Jocelyn Bélanger (PhD), who developed the toolkit. He is a professor at the Department of Psychology, at Université du Québec à Montréal
The world of sport, professional and amateur has been reeling from many years of findings of cheating by individuals and teams in sport. This includes professional cyclists, baseball players, and Olympic athletes. There have also been several cases of allegations of extortion and bribes in sport, from FIFA to the IAAF.
A special commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency to investigate doping in Olympic sport recently made some shocking revelations.
Headed by Canadian Dick Pound, the report singled out Russia and said there was a systemic plan by the Russian sports federation and testing labs to cheat by concealing cases of doping in Russian athletes.
It called for bans on certain athletes, and suggested Russia be excluded from holding international sports events. But it also shows WADA has no real authority.
Marc spoke with Paul Melia, head of Canada’s Centre for Ethics in Sport about whether there is just too much money and national prestige to ever stop doping.
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The world has been reeling with all kinds of stories of a flood of migrants and refugees, Many of them have been fleeing the internal conflict in Syria, and thousands have ended up in refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey and elsewhere
Canada has begun it’s own process after agreeing to accept 25,000. That will not relieve much of the pressure on the camps and in them.
But the issue of vulnerable children in many places around the world continues. UNICEF says much more is needed in donations and has developed a campaign of “virtual” with vulnerable children.
The hope is people will buy ‘survival gifts” of emergency blankets, water purification tablets, school essentials, vaccines, bed nets and nutritional products for refugee children abroad. Lyn spoke with Meg French, UNICEF Canada’s chief of international programs and public affairs.
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