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Ontario Morning Podcast - Wednesday August 5, 2020
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Aug 05, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:55:57
Marilyn Burns, the Vice-President of Communications & Enrollment at Trent University tells us about a special tour now being offered on its Peterborough campus. It's to help explain how the university will operate since health restrictions will still be in place when the new school year begins; U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to ban the video sharing app TikTok unless an American company runs it from the United States. Phillip Mai, a director of the Ryerson Social Media Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto, explains the controversy for us; Fay Faraday is a labour and human rights lawyer. Jenn Pfenning is a farmer from the Kitchener area who is also the chair of the National Farmers Union migrant worker subcommittee. They comment on the criticism leveled against some farmers that they are placing onerous and unreasonable restrictions on migrant workers because of the threat from COVID-19; Baby boom or bust? Nora Spinks of the Vanier Institute of the Family discusses how the uncertainty and insecurity many are facing because of the pandemic could lead to a further decline in the birth rate here in Canada;.Lyndsay Bowen from the Kawartha Lakes Public Library recommends some audio books for your road trip; Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at University of Ottawa outlines how the COVID Alert smartphone app works and discusses it's usefulness in controlling the coronavirs; Special effects artist Rhonda Causton is used to making creations for movies. She tells us how when that work dried up because the pandemic, she started selling her creatures on line.

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