Facebook Inc vs. Australian law, Reopening restaurants in Ontario & The Perseverance rover's mission to Mars

Hamilton Today with Scott Thompson

English - February 18, 2021 23:22 - 32 minutes
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Facebook Inc. will block news content from being read and shared in its news feed in Australia, in response to a proposed Australian law that would require Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay the country’s news publishers for use of their content. Who stands to win or lose?

Guest: Ian Lee, Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business

Restaurants are reopening in some areas of Ontario.

Guest: James Rillet, Vice President of the Central Canada division of Restaurants Canada

Scott talked with Paul Delaney to find out about all the excitement surrounding NASA's most advanced robotic explorer yet, the Perseverance rover, and its mission to Mars.

Guest: Paul Delaney, Space Exploration Expert, Professor of Astronomy and Physics at York University