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can be done. It has been done before, but a

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lot of factors come into play. But

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at this point, it's this animal's best

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chance. The tale of a whale, herculean

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efforts on the BC coast to return

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a baby orca to its pod. It's

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been orphaned and trapped in a lagoon

0:54

for several weeks. Welcome to

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your world tonight. It's just before 6 Eastern

0:58

Time on Friday, April 12th. I'm

1:01

Tom Harrington, also on the podcast. We

1:04

are devoted to the defense of

1:06

Israel. We will support Israel. We

1:08

will help defend Israel, and

1:10

Iran will not succeed. Joe Biden's

1:12

warning to Tehran as the prospect grows,

1:15

Iran is set to retaliate for the

1:17

apparent Israeli strike that killed some top

1:19

generals. US military bases are

1:21

on high alert. Travel warnings have been

1:23

issued, and diplomatic channels are busy. We're

1:26

following other stories too, including a

1:28

new study that debunks a medical myth

1:30

about the COVID vaccine. We

1:41

begin in a tiny lagoon in a remote

1:43

coastal community in British Columbia, where it's all

1:45

systems go. After weeks of

1:47

planning, the complex operation to rescue

1:50

an orphaned baby orca is now

1:52

underway. Crews, a crane, and

1:54

a giant sling swung into action early

1:56

today. The CBC's Tanya Fletcher is on

1:58

the story. Tanya, what can you tell? Tell us

2:00

about how the operation is unfolding. Well,

2:02

Tom, we know the rescue began early this

2:04

morning. The Ahadasat First Nation first alerted the

2:07

media. They said the team assembled around 5

2:09

a.m. And it's the First

2:11

Nation and the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans

2:13

that are taking the lead on this. The

2:16

DFO says the rescue team needs their focus

2:18

to pull this off. So that's why they

2:20

put in road closures. They're blocking access to

2:22

the public and the media in this whole

2:25

area while it happens. And there

2:27

is a team in the dozens that's

2:29

been working on this elaborate rescue tent,

2:31

the Vancouver Aquarium, the Greater Vancouver

2:33

Zoo, a handful of private companies. They've all

2:36

been lending their expertise and their equipment to

2:38

this effort. Man, this is a complicated operation.

2:40

How do they plan to get the young whale

2:42

out? Well, over the past

2:44

20 days, they've been considering a number

2:47

of scenarios, including at one point possibly

2:49

airlifting the young orca by helicopter. That

2:52

idea has since been nixed. So now

2:54

all hopes are hinging on a massive

2:57

sling. This is the latest

2:59

plan they've been rehearsing up until late yesterday.

3:01

We saw we've had visuals from the scene

3:03

of them using this kind of excavator to

3:05

practice these dry runs. The idea is to

3:07

corral the young orca into this big sling.

3:09

The sling will then be lifted by crane

3:11

onto the shore. That's where

3:14

an industrial-sized kind of flatbed truck has

3:16

been waiting. It's got rails. It's

3:18

unclear where the orca will be taken from

3:20

there. But there was consideration of then moving

3:22

her by boat into open water, where then

3:25

she'll hopefully reunite with the rest of her

3:27

pod. Sounds like so many challenges. Just

3:29

up to that point, what other challenges are there? Yeah,

3:31

there are so many logistical hurdles at play

3:33

here, Tom. That's why the timeline has been

3:35

so uncertain. So many variables

3:38

need to be locked into place at the

3:40

same time, like the weather and the tides,

3:42

for example. And consider the location alone. This

3:44

is a remote community off the west coast

3:47

of northern Vancouver Island. So even getting the

3:49

resources to site is a challenge in and

3:51

of itself. Rescue teams tried to

3:53

coax the CAF out on its own, but

3:55

those attempts were unsuccessful. We spoke

3:57

with Thomas Daniel Velcroz with the DFO. He's

4:00

not on site himself, but a member of

4:02

his team is. And he says the current

4:04

plan certainly wasn't the preferred path, but more

4:06

of a last resort. It can be

4:08

done. It has been done before, but a lot

4:11

of factors come into play. The

4:13

terrain, like the local topography of the place,

4:15

the behavior of the animal. It's something that

4:18

we wish we didn't have to do because

4:20

it's obviously very stressful for the animal and

4:22

it can be dangerous. But

4:25

at this point, it's this animal's best chance. It's

4:27

still a very hazardous operation. And that's

4:29

only the first part of this. There's a whole part

4:31

to another layer to this is when, if

4:33

and when the whale gets out into open water,

4:35

will it find its pod and reunite with his

4:37

family? So many questions afterwards. Up

4:40

until now, helicopters have actually been used

4:42

to track the whale's pod out in

4:44

the ocean. They have been spotted nearby,

4:46

so their hopeful reunion

4:49

is imminent if it does get to that

4:51

point. Tanya, thanks for this. You bet. The

4:54

CBC's Tanya Fletcher in Vancouver. After

4:57

weeks of announcements, the Liberal government

4:59

unveiled its plan to solve the

5:01

nation's housing crisis. The multi-billion dollar

5:03

collection of programs and incentives is

5:06

targeted and making both renting and

5:08

purchasing homes easier, particularly for millennial

5:10

and Gen Z Canadians. Evan Dyer

5:12

has the details. Today, we

5:15

are releasing the most comprehensive

5:18

and ambitious housing plan

5:21

ever seen in Canada. Prime Minister

5:23

Justin Trudeau has been rolling out parts

5:25

of the budget for a couple of

5:28

weeks now. Today's was a big one.

5:30

It's a plan to build housing, including

5:32

for renters on a scale not seen

5:34

in generations. We're talking about almost 3.9

5:36

million homes by 2031. That

5:41

is a huge amount of new housing

5:44

to promise that the Canada Mortgage and

5:46

Housing Corporation says about that much is

5:48

needed to restore affordability. The plan involves

5:50

the federal government opening up its

5:52

own land to builders. Housing Minister

5:54

Sean Fraser. We're also going to

5:56

be launching new measures that help

5:58

unlock federal land. and a way

6:01

that we have never pursued before, including

6:03

with a new strategy that will allow us to

6:05

maintain ownership of the land and enter into long-term

6:07

leases so we can reduce the cost, not just

6:09

of construction, but the cost of living for

6:11

the people who are living the homes built on those lands. For

6:14

people who have been around this space for a very long

6:16

time, it's sort of hard to get excited because you hear

6:18

an announcement, you think, well, I heard this 10 years

6:20

ago. But developer Jennifer Keesmaat, former chief

6:22

city planner for Toronto, says

6:25

this announcement is different. We're

6:27

seeing language and

6:29

a scale of an initiative that I've

6:32

never seen before. In the past, the government

6:34

would usually sell its lands for development. That

6:36

means homebuyers have to pay the full cost

6:38

of the land their home sits on. Now

6:41

the federal government is proposing to lease the land for

6:43

a period like 99 years. It's

6:45

the way many houses are sold in Britain, and

6:48

it's also common in B.C. There

6:50

are also new incentives to make projects that

6:52

currently don't add up more profitable. And

6:54

there's lots of those. Developments that

6:56

are already, they have their municipal approvals,

6:59

but the developer is not proceeding to

7:01

construction because the cost of borrowing

7:04

makes it prohibitive. The budget will

7:06

increase what's called the capital cost allowance, which

7:09

allows a builder to deduct from their

7:11

taxes the losses they take as assets

7:13

to appreciate assets such as rental buildings,

7:16

appliances, and furniture. The government

7:18

proposes to more than double the rate at which

7:20

builders can claim those losses back. Economist

7:22

Mike Moffat. I think this

7:24

is a policy that works back in

7:26

the 1960s, and I think it will

7:29

work again today. Even with the new

7:31

incentives to build, there aren't enough construction

7:33

workers to do the building. And

7:35

the budget proposes to train more through

7:37

new apprenticeship programs and faster approval of

7:40

foreign trade credentials. Experts say

7:42

the measures have the potential to spur a

7:44

significant amount of new building. They're

7:46

going to have to if they're to close a

7:48

housing gap that, till now, has continued to get

7:50

wider. Evan Dyer, CBC News,

7:53

Ottawa. Now

8:00

that's got Jagmeet Singh in the

8:02

crossfire. The federal NDP leader is

8:04

seeing some of his supporters swayed

8:06

by the constant axe attack sloganeering.

8:09

And that's prompted Singh to suggest he'll

8:11

start pushing the Liberals to reduce the

8:13

impact on consumers. Marina von Sakelberg

8:16

has more from Ottawa. We want to

8:18

lay out our vision, a new Democrat

8:20

vision for how we tackle the climate crisis.

8:22

That vision for NDP leader Jagmeet

8:24

Singh is not so clear. He

8:27

was asked yesterday if he still

8:29

supports the increasingly unpopular carbon tax

8:32

on consumers. We don't have our full

8:34

plan laid out, but we have some elements, the principles of

8:36

our plan. And the principles I want

8:38

to lay out today were that I find it

8:40

problematic that the Liberals have

8:42

set up a divisive system where they're

8:45

dividing the country. Singh says

8:47

the NDP supports the carbon tax

8:49

on corporations and big polluters, but

8:51

says taxing people on gas and

8:53

electricity is not fair. It should

8:56

not be that a working class person has

8:58

to make that choice, that am I on

9:00

climate fighting side or am I on

9:03

affordability side? Singh's urge to

9:05

appeal to working class Canadians, traditionally the

9:07

bread and butter of NDP support, might

9:09

have something to do with this man.

9:11

Who's ready to axe the tax? Conservative

9:14

leader Pierre Poliet, a poll out this

9:17

week, shows that his Conservative Party has

9:19

its largest lead yet, some of it

9:21

at the expense of the NDP. It

9:24

comes as several new Democrat MPs have

9:26

announced they won't run in the next

9:28

election. Maybe seeing the writing

9:30

on the wall, says David Colletto, CEO

9:32

of Abacus Data. Those are writings that

9:34

I know the Conservatives are targeting and the kind

9:36

of voters that they're attracting are

9:38

the ones that live in those kind of

9:41

rural, sort of outside the big city kind

9:43

of writings in Northern Ontario, Interior BC and

9:45

so on. Abacus's latest poll shows

9:47

the NDP has slipped two percentage points

9:49

in the last two weeks, down to

9:52

17%. Colletto

9:54

says the deal between the new Democrats

9:56

and Liberals has led to policy wins,

9:58

like dental and pharmacology. care, but that

10:00

hasn't made them more popular with voters.

10:03

The new Democrats really are struggling

10:05

to differentiate themselves from the liberals. I

10:08

don't know. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shrugged

10:10

off things' change in tone. I

10:12

understand the political pressures on

10:15

the NDP leadership right now and

10:18

the challenges of holding an unpopular

10:20

position. But doing the right thing

10:23

should be something that progressive voters in

10:26

this country can count on. Some

10:28

of those progressive voters say the NDP

10:30

has lost its way in fighting climate

10:32

change by signing the deal to support

10:34

the Liberal minority government. I was

10:37

very disappointed. One of them is senior Ken

10:39

Johnson. They didn't maintain their ability to lobby

10:41

on climate or that climate wasn't part of

10:44

the deal. Finally, after so

10:46

many years, they got the balance of power

10:49

and then in my humble estimation they

10:51

sort of gave it away. After

10:53

Singh's comments yesterday, today the NDP released

10:55

a statement saying the party has not

10:57

changed its stance on the need for

10:59

a carbon tax. Marina von

11:02

Stackenberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Coming

11:11

right up on the podcast, speculation is

11:13

high that Iran is about to strike

11:16

in retaliation for an attack that killed

11:18

some of the country's top generals. Plus,

11:20

recall to compare what he recalls. The

11:23

head of Canada's spy agency returned to

11:25

testify on foreign interference. 24

11:28

hours after the prime minister's testimony about what

11:30

he was told and wasn't told by CECES

11:32

will also tell you about a new

11:34

study which debunks a popular conspiracy theory

11:37

about the mRNA vaccine used to fight

11:39

COVID. Travel

11:52

alerts. Military movements blunt

11:54

diplomatic language. All of

11:56

it suggesting Iran is about to strike back

11:58

for the alleged Israeli missile attack

12:00

that killed some top Iranian generals.

12:02

And if that happens, could

12:05

it lead to a wider war? Senior

12:07

international correspondent Margaret Evans has the latest.

12:11

In Gaza, the daily fight to

12:13

survive grinds on. The

12:15

fervent wish of so many Gazans

12:18

now facing starvation in addition to

12:20

months of bombardment and

12:22

of Israeli relatives of hostages

12:24

held by Hamas is

12:26

for a ceasefire. The

12:29

warnings from Washington of what it

12:31

calls a credible threat that Iran

12:33

is planning an imminent attack against

12:36

Israel have raised fears of escalation.

12:39

This was the US President Joe Biden

12:41

asked about that threat tonight.

12:43

I have expectations sooner or later.

12:45

Mr. President, what is your crisis to Iran in this

12:47

moment? Don't. Washington

12:50

has sent its top general to Israel

12:52

in a gesture of support, meeting

12:54

with Israel's defense minister. Our

12:58

enemies think they can pull Israel

13:00

and the United States apart, says

13:03

Yoav Galant. But the opposite is

13:05

true. They're bringing us together.

13:08

Israel is widely believed to

13:10

have been behind an attack

13:12

on the Iranian consulate in

13:15

Damascus earlier this month, but

13:17

reportedly didn't inform Washington ahead

13:19

of time. Even

13:21

people were killed, including two

13:23

top generals, prompting Tehran to

13:26

promise retaliation. But they

13:28

fear at the end of the day, any

13:30

direct clash with Israel

13:32

will bring in the United States

13:35

and the UK and other

13:37

Western powers. And that's the Iranian

13:39

leaders do not really want to

13:42

take risks, set easy risks, and

13:45

attack Israel directly. Some

13:47

analysts, including Fawaz Gergis, believe if

13:49

there is a retaliatory attack, it

13:52

could come from one of Iran's

13:54

many proxies in the region. The

13:57

most powerful Hezbollah in neighboring

13:59

Lebanon. Iran has been firing

14:01

rockets at Israel in support of

14:03

Hamas since October 7. There

14:06

were more tonight. By attacking

14:09

Iran's sovereignty and

14:11

Iran's consulate in

14:14

Damascus, Israel is

14:16

either directly or indirectly

14:18

expanding or trying to

14:21

expand the conflict which goes against the

14:23

overarching goal of the Biden

14:25

administration. Whether there is or isn't a

14:27

direct attack against Israel from Iran, the

14:30

potential for things to spin out

14:32

of control in the Middle East is

14:34

never very far from the surface. Countries

14:38

from Russia and Australia to France

14:40

and Canada are advising against

14:42

travel to the region. Margaret

14:45

Evans, CBC News, London. The head of

14:47

Canada's spy agency was back in the

14:49

hot seat today at the inquiry into

14:51

foreign interference. David Vignot had

14:54

already testified, but he was called back

14:56

after testimony from Justin Trudeau and members

14:58

of his cabinet and staff. They

15:01

all claimed key details of Sisas briefing

15:03

notes never made it to them. Tom

15:05

Perry has the story. A

15:09

brief appearance to talk about briefings.

15:12

Sisas director David Vignot back

15:14

before the inquiry into foreign

15:16

interference to explain a discrepancy

15:19

between briefing notes prepared for him when

15:21

he sat down with Prime Minister Justin

15:23

Trudeau and his staff and

15:26

what was actually discussed at those

15:28

meetings. The inquiry has seen notes

15:30

that include stark warnings about Chinese

15:33

meddling in Canada's elections, but during

15:35

their testimony this week, Trudeau and his

15:38

inner circle said those warnings didn't come

15:40

up when they met the Sisas director.

15:42

First of all, these are briefing

15:45

notes that I never saw. These

15:47

are briefing. Witness chair Vignot told

15:49

the inquiry there's nothing sinister or

15:52

even surprising about the fact briefing

15:54

notes and briefings don't always match.

15:56

It's not extraordinary to go to

15:58

a briefing having material and having

16:01

prepared yourself to discuss a topic and

16:03

it's something completely different. Vinyo

16:06

says briefing books typically contain

16:08

vast amounts of information. And

16:10

as for those warnings in his notes that China

16:12

had interfered in the 2019 and 2021 elections, that

16:14

Canada was slow to respond

16:18

and that Sisas had reason

16:20

to believe Beijing may have

16:22

orchestrated an online campaign against

16:25

conservative candidates in 2021, Vinyo

16:27

told the inquiry he's made all those

16:30

points, either in public or

16:32

in private meetings with government officials.

16:34

I would not have gone

16:36

to these notes because these

16:38

are statements that I had made

16:40

before. Vinyo says he stands by

16:42

those warnings, but also the central

16:44

conclusion that while Beijing did interfere

16:46

in the last two federal campaigns,

16:49

it did not affect their outcome.

16:51

But I'm Commissioner, would you allow

16:53

me to say one thing? Yes,

16:57

you can. The Sisas director made a

16:59

point of ending his appearance with a

17:02

defense of his agency after a week

17:04

in which government officials, including the Prime

17:06

Minister, questioned its work. There's been a

17:09

lot of comments made about the intelligence

17:11

in the media and in the commission

17:13

and so on. And I just would

17:16

like to say that as

17:18

a director of Sisas, I think it's important that

17:20

we understand that intelligence is

17:22

a little bit like a puzzle. Vinyo's

17:24

testimony wraps up this portion of the

17:26

inquiry. An interim report is due

17:29

early next month as Commissioner Matty

17:31

Jose Ugg pours through the evidence

17:33

and tries to piece together that

17:35

puzzle. Tom Perry, CBC

17:37

News, Ottawa. It's been a month

17:39

since Haiti's unpopular Prime Minister agreed

17:42

to step down. Today, a transitional

17:44

council was appointed to choose the

17:46

next leader, but the gang

17:48

leaders who toppled Arielle Henri have

17:50

a tight grip and have plunged

17:52

Haitians into deeper chaos, fear and

17:54

hunger. The widespread violence has

17:56

made it almost impossible for aid to

18:00

help the people there. Alis and Northcocks

18:02

spoke to some of those who haven't given up

18:04

trying. Father Nestor Fisemes says

18:06

life in the capital of Port-au-Prince

18:12

has become a daily series of traumas. He

18:15

left Haiti a few days ago, on his

18:17

way back to Montreal, where his parish is

18:19

based, he spoke to us from Florida.

18:21

It's very risky, he says. There

18:25

are daily clashes and stray bullets. When we take

18:27

the risk to go out, we don't know if

18:29

we'll come back. We're not going to go back to

18:31

the country. Gang violence has

18:34

gripped the country amid ongoing political

18:36

turmoil and a worsening humanitarian and

18:38

security crisis. The United Nations says

18:41

2,500 people were killed, kidnapped

18:43

or injured in the first two months of

18:45

the year alone. More than 300,000 have been

18:47

displaced. It's

18:50

getting harder and harder each day to

18:52

get those medications, get those medical supplies

18:54

to the patients. Dr. Rasha Levine from

18:56

Sherbrooke, Quebec, has been working in a

18:58

small hospital with Doctors Without Borders in

19:01

Port-au-Prince. Some days, she says she treats

19:03

up to a dozen gunshot wounds. She

19:06

recalls one patient who couldn't get the life-saving

19:08

care she needed because of the violence. Then

19:10

we decided to transfer to our

19:12

other hospital with a

19:15

hurting wound, but then because there were so much

19:18

battle outside of the hospital, we could

19:20

not move our ambulance,

19:22

so she died. Some

19:24

health facilities have stopped operating altogether.

19:26

Violence around them forcing them to

19:29

close says Carlotta Piani-Giana with the

19:31

Alliance for International Medical Action. Some

19:33

of the health facilities have

19:35

been attacked directly by the

19:37

armed group. Some

19:39

of them have been looted.

19:43

But there are also difficulties

19:45

in the facilities that are still

19:47

functioning because of lack of HR.

19:50

She says with access to most

19:52

airports and the main port blocked

19:54

off, life-saving supplies, including food, are

19:57

running low and getting increasingly costly.

20:00

Nobody in reality who is in charge

20:02

in Haiti right now. Montreal-based sociologist Frederic

20:04

Poirant says Haiti's Prime Minister

20:06

Ariel Henri agreed to resign

20:08

and hand over power to

20:10

a transitional presidential council, but

20:12

a month later, the gangs

20:14

still dominate. We are now

20:16

into a civil war because

20:18

they are fighting to take

20:21

over the government of Haiti.

20:23

They want to be in power. As

20:26

father Fis Aime returns to Montreal, he's

20:28

hoping a sense of security can be

20:30

restored in Haiti soon. But even

20:33

in the days since he's left, he

20:36

says things have only gotten worse. Alison

20:39

Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. A

20:42

French oblique priest accused of sexually

20:44

abusing children in Nunavut has died.

20:46

The accusations against Johannes Rivoir go

20:48

back decades to when he served

20:50

the Catholic Church in the territory.

20:52

Rivoir returned to France and declined

20:55

to return to Canada for trial.

20:57

The French government refused to extradite him

21:00

despite a request from Canada. The

21:02

oblates of Mary Immaculate say they regret

21:05

Rivoir will never face the charges laid

21:07

against him. Good

21:27

evening, I'm Robert MacNeil in New York. Canadian

21:30

journalist Robert MacNeil has died. He was

21:32

born in Montreal and raised in Halifax.

21:35

His career included stints with the CBC and

21:37

the BBC, but he truly made his mark

21:39

in the United States, where he joined Jim

21:41

Lehrer to host the MacNeil-Lehrer Report on PBS.

21:44

The primetime partnership started in the 70s and

21:47

lasted two decades. MacNeil

21:49

wrote books about his career in journalism

21:51

and novels. He spoke to the

21:53

CBC in 1992 about the appeal of writing

21:56

compared to hosting the news. The

21:58

trouble with television is that the minute it's over, everybody

22:00

forgets it instantly and it just vanishes into

22:02

the ether. And

22:05

when you write something and somebody prints it,

22:07

it remains there and people keep referring to

22:09

it. The first book I published in 1968,

22:13

and while it had a fairly small appeal

22:15

at the time, people come and

22:17

talk to me about it now. Nobody

22:20

does that about television programs. Robert

22:23

McNeil died in a New York hospital today. He was

22:25

93. A

22:27

new study is debunking a widespread myth

22:29

about COVID vaccines. It shows

22:31

there's no evidence mRNA shots cause

22:33

fatal heart issues in young people.

22:36

The research follows a string of

22:38

unfounded theories linking vaccines to

22:40

deadly cardiac arrest in athletes.

22:43

Health reporter Christine Birak breaks down the

22:45

data. And now another bill

22:47

flares down. When Buffalo Bill

22:49

safety DeMar Hamlin collapsed on the football

22:52

field last year, there

22:54

was speculation the 25-year-old

22:56

cardiac arrest was vaccine

22:58

related. The sports world grinding to a halt after

23:00

a set of cities. Hamlin has since recovered. Now

23:02

the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

23:04

and Prevention say there's no evidence

23:07

mRNA COVID vaccines cause deadly heart

23:09

problems in teens and young adults.

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There is no increased risk

23:15

of dying. Dr. Christopher Labos is

23:17

a cardiologist and epidemiologist in Montreal.

23:20

I think it is important to

23:22

have this type of definitive analysis

23:24

done. American researchers examined

23:26

nearly 1,300 death certificates

23:29

of Oregon residents aged 16 to

23:31

30. All

23:33

of whom died from a heart condition or

23:35

unknown reason over a year and a half

23:37

beginning in June 2021. Researchers

23:40

say nearly 1 million young people

23:42

in Oregon got a COVID vaccine

23:44

during that time. Three died within

23:47

100 days of being vaccinated. Two

23:49

of those deaths were attributed to

23:51

chronic underlying health conditions including type

23:53

2 diabetes and respiratory failure. The

23:56

third was recorded as undetermined

23:58

natural cause. a

24:00

large enough group of people, a

24:02

certain number of them are going

24:04

to die after they got a

24:07

vaccine from other causes or maybe

24:09

they would have had a cardiovascular

24:11

event regardless. The Oregon Review also found

24:13

30 young people died

24:15

from COVID-19 during that same

24:17

time, most of whom

24:19

were unvaccinated. The people we want

24:21

to reach with this evidence probably

24:23

won't even look at it. They'll

24:25

continue to believe that, well, there's

24:27

a downside to vaccines. Dr

24:29

Prabhak Jha is a professor of

24:32

global health at the University of

24:34

Toronto. He says groups promoting misinformation

24:36

continue to seize on seemingly unexplained

24:39

deaths to undermine vaccines, which is

24:41

why the American Review matters. I

24:43

think we need to do more of that in Canada as well.

24:46

Counter the direct claims made by

24:48

the anti-vaxxers with science

24:50

and do so in a non-judgmental

24:52

way saying you have your opinions,

24:55

but here are the data. Hopefully you'll change

24:57

your opinions. I'm still trying to

24:59

process all the emotions. DeMar Hamlin says his

25:02

dramatic collapse on the football field was

25:04

the result of a rare heart condition

25:06

triggered by a precise blow to his

25:08

chest. He's now trying to raise awareness

25:10

about the importance of CPR and heart

25:12

health. Christine Birak, CDC

25:15

News, Toronto. It

25:20

was a moment of delight and awe.

25:22

The eclipse that swept across North America

25:24

on Monday had millions gazing up to

25:27

the sky in wonder. It

25:29

was like a really amazing

25:31

thing to witness. Sean DeVry

25:33

of St. Thomas, Ontario relished that sense of

25:35

wonder too. Not only as a

25:37

stargazer, but as a retailer. Her

25:40

shop sold eclipse glasses before the event,

25:42

but once it was over, her sense

25:44

of wonder was more like, wonder what

25:46

happens to all those glasses. My

25:48

business, since its inception, has

25:51

tried our best to reduce, reuse, recycle, which

25:53

is kind of challenge in retail

25:55

in general. There's a lot of waste in retail, but

25:57

I just saw a need and decided to fill

25:59

it. Daveree contacted a

26:02

group called Astronomers Without Borders

26:04

that's collecting the funky-looking shades.

26:06

If they're still usable, it will distribute them

26:08

to people so they can watch future eclipses

26:11

anywhere in the world. She put

26:13

out a note telling her customers and anyone

26:15

else they can bring them to her shop.

26:17

The response eclipsed her

26:19

expectations. This blew up more than

26:21

I anticipated. I thought I was going to send

26:23

Little Box over to California and that would be kind

26:25

of the end of it for me. Little

26:28

Box will need to be a bit

26:30

bigger. Daveree's received more than a thousand

26:33

pairs after just two days collecting them.

26:35

She's not the only option to recycle your

26:38

eclipse glasses. Other businesses, even libraries,

26:40

will take them too. Or you could just

26:42

hang on to the ones you have. After

26:45

all, there are partial solar eclipses coming

26:47

up in Canada next year and the

26:49

year after that. You want to keep

26:51

your eyes out for that. This

26:53

has been Your World Tonight for Friday, April

26:55

12th. I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening

26:57

tonight. Stay safe and take care

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of each other.