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Ontario Morning Podcast - Wednesday October 13, 2021
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Oct 13, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:53:04
So actor William Shatner who portrayed Capt.James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek will ride with Blue Origin to the edge of space. So is this just a fad or the beginning of a new era in space flight? We ask astrophysicist Jesse Rogerson; Is Brexit to blame for the economic woes people in the U.K. are enduring? Alys Denby, an editor with CAPX, the British politics and economics website offers her perspecive; CBC reporters Stu Mills and Haydn Watters investigated why two neighbouring regions in Ontario have such different rates of vaccine uptake; Paul Grogan, a professor of ecology at Queen’s University in Kingston explains what causes the leaves on the trees to change colour in the fall, and why many of the trees through the southernmost parts of the province are still green; The Canadian Federation of Independent Business is asking the Ford government to "level the playing field" and to increase capacity at small businesses to 100 percent. Julie Kwiecinski, the group's Director of Provincial Affairs for Ontario explains their members' frustration with the province's current policy; Tanya Lee, founder of A Room of Your Own Book Club for girls tells us how a donation from Chapman's Ice Cream helped to keep the club going. She recommends some books that members of the club have enjoyed; Most healthcare workers are vaccinated. But those that refuse could face consequences under provincial mandates, including termination. Barry Pakes, program director for Public Health and Preventive Medicine at University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health outlines the situation for us; Hallie Cotnam of CBC Ottawa shares the stories of two new farmers, Samuel Bovenlander and Chadwick Lewis who both got their start with help from the Start Up Farm Program.

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