your hosts Lynn, Marc, Carmel
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It’s been hot in central Canada this summer, It was hot in June in the final days of the school year, and it was hot all summer. In fact there’ve been many heat records broken in Ontario. Now that summer’s over, and school has started once again, it’s still been hot.
For older schools without air conditioning, it’s been a particularly tough time as school starts up. In some schools in southern Ontario, classroom temperatures were already at 29 and 30 degrees as morning classes started and only got hotter as the day progressed
Carmel spoke to Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario.
Many times over the past several years, scientists and researchers have indicated some very worrisome trends about species loss around the world through human activities.
This has included over-fishing, over hunting, habitat loss, insecticide use, and of course climate change
A new report from an international coalition has released another study showing serious declines in the many species of land birds in North America which has seen a drop of about a billion birds over the past 40 years
Marc spoke to Judith Kennedy of the Canadian Wildlife Service. The CWS is a member of the coalition called Partners in Flight. Ms Kennedy is a co-author of the study which also lays out a conservation plan.
Canadian song- Hellbound Hepcats– “new 45”
We mentioned overfishing above as a concern for loss of species around the globe. Overfishing was the reason behind the collapse and near extirpation of cod in the Atlantic off Canada’s east coast.
New techonolgy may help reduce overfishing by tracking large fishing trawlers and factory ships.
The technology can track ships all around the world.
Lynn spoke ot Josh Laughren, executive director of Oceana Canada.
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