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The street use of opioid drugs has reached a crisis proportion in Canada, especially on the west coast.
Dr. Anita Srivastava, an addictions specialist and professor at the University of Toronto says, “We’ve had a health care system that has allowed us to prescribe high doses of opiates for conditions for which there’s really very little evidence of long-term benefit.
Now with a powerful new synthetic “fentanyl” and even more powerful alternate, “carfentanyl”, addicts have been dying. Much of these drugs seem to come from China. Even a tiny amount the size of a grain of salt can be deadly.
These new super powerful drugs are also apparently being mixed in with other street drugs. In British Columbia alone there have been 622 overdose deaths since January.
Lynn spoke with Dr. Srivastava
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The seal hunt in Canada has been a target of animal rights activists for decades. Wrongly, according to Canada’s Inuit who have depended on them for eons.
While the Inuit have been relatively silent about the issue in the past, now an Inuk flimmaker, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, is speaking out.
She’s doing it in a film called “Angry Inuk” and says it’s targetting the well-funded and organized anti-sealing movement.
The film shows how the anti-sealing movement has harmed the Inuit, and raises some uncomfortable questions for opponents of sealing.
Levon spoke to her, at length and presents and excerpt for this show.
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Canadian music selection
Regina Saskatchewan group “Rah Rah” from the album Vessels with the song “Good Winter”
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One of the most iconic aircraft of the Second World War was the Lancaster bomber. Along with its other vast and critical contributions to the Allied war effort, Canada also built several hundred of these bombers. One of them, KB-882, flew missions over Europe in the war, survived, was flown back to Canada. It later became a Cold War reconnaissance plane, a role it fulfilled for over a decade.
In 1964 it was decommissioned and flown to the town of Edmundston New Brunswick as a war memorial. And there it sat for decades exposed to the elements
Now after many failed efforts to save it, KB 992 has been handed over to capable hands.
Marc spoke to Chris Colton of the National Air Force Museum in Trenton Ontario which will undertake restoration.
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