Best of The simi sara show - Mon Nov 5th 2018

Chapter 1

Hot question of the day

Canada could soon become the first country in the world to require cigarette manufacturers to include warnings about the dangers of tobacco on individual cigarettes. The federal government has launched a consultation process looking at regulations around warnings on tobacco products.

Canada is considering labelling individual cigarettes with health warnings. Do you think this will make people think twice about smoking?

Yes

No

 

Chapter 2

Canada’s Most Dangerous Places

Maclean’s Magazine recently put together a list of the most dangerous places in Canada based on the Crime Severity Index. Some of the findings on this list may be surprising to you. Like West Vancouver charting higher on the list than Surrey.

Guest: Claire Brownell

Associate Editor of Reports & Rankings at Maclean’s (Author of Article)

 

Chapter 3

What are the safest cities in Canada?

We just heard from Claire Brownell about Maclean’s magazine’s ranking of most dangerous cities in Canada. Seeing a list like this may have some people wondering: is anywhere safe anymore? Do the small towns where you can leave your doors unlocked still exist?

 

Chapter 4

Video installation works to show how it is difficult to ‘just walk away’ from domestic abuse

Battered Women's Support Services set up a jarring installation at a bus shelter in North Vancouver to help people understand what it can be like for women experiencing domestic abuse.At the bus shelter at Lonsdale Ave and 27th Street, a white door with a peephole was installed where a billboard usually would be. When someone looks through the peephole, a video plays of an abusive male outside of an apartment door.

A message then appears on the screen stating, “You can just walk away. Some women can’t.” The Battered Women’s Support Services is hoping that this campaign will work to educate the public when it comes to leaving a violent relationship, it is not as simple as just walking away.

Angela Marie MacDougall is the Executive Director of Battered Women’s Support Services, and she joins us to discuss the interactive campaign, why the North Vancouver location was chosen, and how many requests for services the BWSS responds to every year.

Guest: Angela Marie MacDougall

Executive director of Battered Women's Support Services

 

Chapter 5

Curtis Joseph recounts how being neglected as a child led to him being driven to succeed in the NHL

Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play eighteen seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames; be ranked among the all-time greats in several key categories; and win an Olympic gold medal while representing Canada. Joseph is a legend in Toronto and Edmonton, where his fandom rivals that of other beloved NHL greats, and he’s widely thought of as one of the best goalies of all time.

Guest: Curtis Joseph

Former NHL goaltender

Author of the new memoir, Cujo — The Untold Story Of My Life On And Off The Ice

 

Chapter 6

Return of the Wolf

Wolves were once common throughout North America and Eurasia. But by the early twentieth century, bounties and organized hunts had drastically reduced their numbers. Today, the wolf is returning to its ancestral territories, and the "coywolf"--a smaller, bolder wolf-coyote hybrid--is becoming more common. In Return of the Wolf, author Paula Wild gathers first-hand accounts of encounters with wolves and consults with wildlife experts for suggestions on how minimize conflict, respond to aggressive wolves and coexist with the apex predator.Wild explores the latest theories on how wolves became dogs, the evolving strategies to prevent livestock predation, and why Eurasian wolves seem more aggressive toward humans than their North American cousins. She also addresses the many misconceptions about wolves: for example, that they howl when hungry, kill for pleasure and always live in packs. What is true is that a wolf possesses a howl as unique as a human fingerprint and can trot eight kilometres per hour for most of the day or night in search of prey while using earth's magnetic field to find its way. Some scientists consider wolves' complex social structures and family bonds closer to humans' than those of primates.

Guest: Paula Wild

Author of Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence

 

Chapter 7

Cancer warning on every cigarette? Canada's considering it

Canada could soon become the first country in the world to require cigarette manufacturers to include warnings about the dangers of tobacco on individual cigarettes. The federal government has launched a consultation process looking at regulations around warnings on tobacco products.Guest: Rob Cunningham

Senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society

 

Chapter 8

What does big tobacco think about the individual cigarette warning proposal?

Guest: Eric Gagnon

Head of corporate and regulatory affairs for Imperial Tobacco

Chapter 1

Hot question of the day

Canada could soon become the first country in the world to require cigarette manufacturers to include warnings about the dangers of tobacco on individual cigarettes. The federal government has launched a consultation process looking at regulations around warnings on tobacco products.

Canada is considering labelling individual cigarettes with health warnings. Do you think this will make people think twice about smoking?

Yes
No

 

Chapter 2

Canada’s Most Dangerous Places

Maclean’s Magazine recently put together a list of the most dangerous places in Canada based on the Crime Severity Index. Some of the findings on this list may be surprising to you. Like West Vancouver charting higher on the list than Surrey.

Guest: Claire Brownell

Associate Editor of Reports & Rankings at Maclean’s (Author of Article)

 

Chapter 3

What are the safest cities in Canada?

We just heard from Claire Brownell about Maclean’s magazine’s ranking of most dangerous cities in Canada. Seeing a list like this may have some people wondering: is anywhere safe anymore? Do the small towns where you can leave your doors unlocked still exist?

 

Chapter 4

Video installation works to show how it is difficult to ‘just walk away’ from domestic abuse

Battered Women's Support Services set up a jarring installation at a bus shelter in North Vancouver to help people understand what it can be like for women experiencing domestic abuse.

At the bus shelter at Lonsdale Ave and 27th Street, a white door with a peephole was installed where a billboard usually would be. When someone looks through the peephole, a video plays of an abusive male outside of an apartment door.

A message then appears on the screen stating, “You can just walk away. Some women can’t.” The Battered Women’s Support Services is hoping that this campaign will work to educate the public when it comes to leaving a violent relationship, it is not as simple as just walking away.

Angela Marie MacDougall is the Executive Director of Battered Women’s Support Services, and she joins us to discuss the interactive campaign, why the North Vancouver location was chosen, and how many requests for services the BWSS responds to every year.

Guest: Angela Marie MacDougall

Executive director of Battered Women's Support Services

 

Chapter 5

Curtis Joseph recounts how being neglected as a child led to him being driven to succeed in the NHL

Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play eighteen seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames; be ranked among the all-time greats in several key categories; and win an Olympic gold medal while representing Canada. Joseph is a legend in Toronto and Edmonton, where his fandom rivals that of other beloved NHL greats, and he’s widely thought of as one of the best goalies of all time.

Guest: Curtis Joseph

Former NHL goaltender

Author of the new memoir, Cujo — The Untold Story Of My Life On And Off The Ice

 

Chapter 6

Return of the Wolf

Wolves were once common throughout North America and Eurasia. But by the early twentieth century, bounties and organized hunts had drastically reduced their numbers. Today, the wolf is returning to its ancestral territories, and the "coywolf"--a smaller, bolder wolf-coyote hybrid--is becoming more common. In Return of the Wolf, author Paula Wild gathers first-hand accounts of encounters with wolves and consults with wildlife experts for suggestions on how minimize conflict, respond to aggressive wolves and coexist with the apex predator.

Wild explores the latest theories on how wolves became dogs, the evolving strategies to prevent livestock predation, and why Eurasian wolves seem more aggressive toward humans than their North American cousins. She also addresses the many misconceptions about wolves: for example, that they howl when hungry, kill for pleasure and always live in packs. What is true is that a wolf possesses a howl as unique as a human fingerprint and can trot eight kilometres per hour for most of the day or night in search of prey while using earth's magnetic field to find its way. Some scientists consider wolves' complex social structures and family bonds closer to humans' than those of primates.

Guest: Paula Wild

Author of Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence

 

Chapter 7

Cancer warning on every cigarette? Canada's considering it

Canada could soon become the first country in the world to require cigarette manufacturers to include warnings about the dangers of tobacco on individual cigarettes. The federal government has launched a consultation process looking at regulations around warnings on tobacco products.

Guest: Rob Cunningham

Senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society

 

Chapter 8

What does big tobacco think about the individual cigarette warning proposal?

Guest: Eric Gagnon

Head of corporate and regulatory affairs for Imperial Tobacco