Your hosts this week Levon, Terry Haig, and Marc (Don’t forget to catch us on Facebook, FB Live on Fridays at about 13:15 Eastern Time)
The full interviews of the excerpts broadcast here can be found in the Highlights section
Highly Enriched Uranium waste (HEU) is to be transported from a Canadian reactor at Chalk River Ontario, to South Carolina in the USA.
It’s part of a 2010 agreement allowing the US to repatriate the radioactive material. In a plan that will cost Canadians about $60 million dollars. About 150 truckloads of the waste will escorted by armed guards along the 1,700 kilometre route
But many don’t think the plan is safe.
Among them is the Iroquois Caucus aboriginal group. Carmel spoke to Gordon Edwards to hear why this group won’t allow the trucks to cross their land.
*
It’s been happening fairly quietly around the world. More and more jobs are being eliminated as robots take over. Literally millions of jobs.
These have usually been labour intensive and repetitive jobs, and blue collar jobs.
People working in white collar jobs have thought their careers safe. But experts are now saying, that’s not so, Many white collar jobs aren’t being replaced by robots, but by computer programmes.
They are all pretty much in agreement that there’s a huge change coming and it will be soon, anywhere from 10 to 20 years only.
Sunil Johal is policy director of the public policy think tank the Mowat Centre.
Marc spoke to him at his office at the University of Toronto
*
This week music from Canada’s K.D. Lang. She’s on tour this summer and fall, first in Australia, then several dates all across Canada.
It’s the 25th anniversary of her great album Ingenue…and its called the Ingenue redux tour.. Today we feature a song from that album “Miss Chatelaine”.
*
In geological terms they’re “young” rocks, after all they’re only 60 billion years old.
But these rocks found in the Arctic may hold some interesting new information that could rewrite the early history of the Earth.
But not only our planet, but the moon as well.
Levon spoke to Hanika Rizo. She is a professor of Geology at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
For reasons beyond our control, and for an undetermined period of time, our comment section is now closed. However, our social networks remain open to your contributions.