Ontario Morning Podcast - Monday February 1, 2021
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Feb 01, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:47:10
The federal government is trying to promote diversity in the public service. We discuss how a public policy fellowship for Black Canadian youth could be model for the government's initiative. Anisa Abdulle, a 1834 Fellow in policy development is our guest; Erica Johnson of CBC's Go Public has a cautionary tale on how e-transfers through banks and credit unions can be hacked; Sabina Vohra-Millera a clinical pharmacologist and co-founder of the the South Asian Health Network explains the reasons for vaccine hesitancy among some members of communities that feel marginalized; Heather Deveau of Dorset tells us she came to form Cats of Paint Lake which is dedicated to rescuing feral cats in and around her home of Dorset; Dr. Andrew Morris, an infectious disease specialist at Sinai Health and the University Health Network in Toronto offers his opinion on the effectiveness of the new travel restrictions and testing of airline passengers; Andrew McArthur of McMaster Unversity offers us a quick primer on the coronavirus variants that have emerged; Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, meaning all eyes will be on Ontario's famous prognosticator, Wiarton Wille. Mayor Janice Jackson tell us the 65th annual festival will be very different because of the pandemic.

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