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CBC News: The World This Hour for 2021/12/08 at 11:00 EST

CBC News: World Report for 2021/12/08 at 10:00 EST

A crew of 5 Goldendoodles from Labrador West will be featured in a 2022 calendar. We tell you about the fundraiser they are a part of. Alison Preiss from Pet Valu joins us. Gilbert Linstead of the Fishermen's Union Shrimp Company gives us an update on how this year went for fish harvesters. We meet a 13-year-old living in Churchill Falls who is a m…

Can you coach your brain to better deal with the effects of sustained uncertainty? We talked to Sarah Kennell, National Director, Public Policy at the Canadian Mental Health Association.Replacing a stiff upper lip with a song in the heart. A new campaign seeks to shift our ideas about masculinity by using music to connect men to their emotions. We …

Kris Siddiqi, Alice Moran and Chris Sandiford get quizzed by Gavin Crawford in this round that was cut for time.

We hear why it could take as long as three years for a Halifax group to get a Venezuelan family seeking political asylum to safety in Nova Scotia.

(Starts at 1:09 mark) The daughter of a Botwood woman who died of COVID-19 thinks her mother's death might have been avoided if the pastor of a Bishop's Falls church had treated the virus more seriously, (10:23) NL's Official Opposition attacks the provincial Liberals for accepting emergency financial support from the federal CERB program, (18:35) …

CBC News: The World at Six for 2021/12/07 at 21:30 EST

The U.S. is planning a diplomatic boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing. We'll hear from former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques on whether Canada should follow suit; in our second half, Karen Tam Wu from the Pembina Institute addresses concerns around EV batteries.

On today's show: we speak with Calgary's transportation GM about raising the price of public transit and how to get more bums in seats while keeping transit users safe during another winter of the pandemic; why a Montreal playwright made a play about a World War One internment camp here in Alberta; how a daily drive to Foremost, Alberta led to Cana…

How have your travel plans changed with the emergence of another COVID-19 variant?

What's the least amount of effort you can put into the holidays and not be perceived as a Grinch?Host Jane Testar is going to find out.

Ethan Hawke discusses his role as the notorious American abolitionist John Brown in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird. Amy Millan of Stars talks about returning to the stage for the band's annual Christmas show. Award-winning pianist Lara Downes talks about her new label, Rising Sun Music, which showcases the work of overlooked or forgotten Black compo…

A lively debate inspired by 13 young Canadians, including 16-year-old Jacob Colatosti from Hamilton, who've launched a court challenge. Hear Jacob make his case along with Cheryl Milne, Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights at the University of Toronto.

US Video Call Firing, Aung San Suu Kyi Sentence, Orca Cries Audio, More Rapid Tests Needed, Berlin Techno UN Status and more.

Moira Brown, a senior scientist with the Canadian Whale Institute, brings us an update on Snowcone - a 16 year-old North Atlantic Right Whale - that has given birth to a calf. Josh McKinnon, a Black hockey player on PEI, talks about racism in the sport. On the phone-in: Holiday reading. And Chief Junior Gould talks about why his community is suppor…

Some people who run farmers markets are not happy with how much they have to pay for their Nova Scotia Power bills and it's gotten to the point that some are saying they'll have to shut their doors. Host Jeff Douglas spoke with Justin Cantafio, the executive director of the Farmers' Markets of Nova Scotia, to get some clarity on the situation.…

Shaun Mesheau is the mayor of Sackville.

A provincial rebate for tourism operators who close in the winter is hurting municipal coffers in Victoria County by as much as 140 thousand dollars. Leanne MacEachen is CAO for Victoria County. She says the Provincial policy that gives seasonal businesses a tax rebate, amounts to a disincentive, to extend the tourism season.…

J​ay Colpitts is the director of Covid response for ASD-West. He updates us on cases in schools, and how he works with Public Health to ​stay on top of COVID in the school system​.​

(Starts at 0:57 mark) A western Newfoundland couple struggle to find a new family doctor, amid departure of four physicians,(8:01) the Red Cross rolls out its ‘Friendly Calls’ program to reach out to people feeling isolated or lonely since the pandemic came, (15:15) Heart and Stroke Foundation is partnering with fish harvesters to put defibrillator…

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If you want your child to get vaccinated for COVID-19 at school -- you will have to be there too. The education minister says this vaccine is new, so it's treating it differently than other school vaccine programs. Host Stefani Langenegger talks with CBC Saskatchewan's provincial affairs reporter Adam Hunter and Leader Post columnist Murray Mandryk…

Toronto student glad her Rhodes Scholarship wasn't given "to the next person" after she missed 2am 'unknown number' call from Oxford University; Queen W. shops ask TTC to postpone construction until Jan.

Not sure which category to look in for the recording you are trying to find. Search this complete list of CBC Audio.Von Pastor Ken Brown

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Message from Ryan Haskins on December 5, 2021Von Community Bible Church

More cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant are showing up in Canada. Meanwhile, the federal government and the U.S. have implemented certain travel restrictions to reduce the spread.Our question this week: Is it time to rethink your family holiday plans? Is it safe to travel?Dr. Lynora Saxinger, infectious diseases expert and physician, shares what…

David Sedaris, bestselling American humorist, covers the joys and aggravations of travel, litter, hedgehogs, family heartache and more in his second collection of diary entries, A Carnival of Snackery.

Lynn Crawford and Lora Kirk on Hearth & Home, Lexxicon on The Food and Cooking of the Caribbean and Tareq Hadhad on Peace By Chocolate, and more.

Over the course of the month of December, CBC is looking into the high cost of food. A recent Dalhousie University study pegged food inflation at 5% and the group, Vibrant Calgary, found families are spending roughly $220/month more this year over last. Budgets are tight so to examine how some folks are coping, Russell Bowers reached out to 3 Alber…

On this week’s show: Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino details new border restrictions and Peel Region’s medical officer of health Dr. Lawrence Loh discusses concerns about the omicron variant. Plus — two journalists break down the fast-tracking of the government’s bill banning conversion therapy, and The House offers an in-depth look at the l…

This week, a look at the evolution of search engines - and whether alternatives to all-powerful Google may take hold, or at least force it to adapt to growing privacy concerns.

Every Friday, we play the Morning North Mystery Game, a quiz where one listener can win up to five prizes from the CBC prize vault. This week's contestant was Gordon from Sudbury. Play along and see how many prizes you could have won.

There are a lot of things about religion that don’t make much sense to the non-believer, like, potentially, dietary laws. Why would a supreme being care whether or not I eat … pork? And the believer would respond: It’s more meaningful than God inspecting what’s on your plate. Aymann Ismail on bringing your spirituality into the supermarket and tryi…

Robots made from living cells have learned how to replicate themselves; Exposure to deep red light could help improve age-related vision declines; Solar wind and space dust may explain the presence of much of Earth’s water; Probing the mind-body connection to learn how the brain controls immune responses; Deaf researchers are bringing their unique …

How climate-induced storms are affecting healthcare access in rural parts of Canada .

How inequitable access to antibiotics fuels super bugs; China cracks down on #MeToo beyond Peng Shuai; Cheez-It crackers are 100 years old; the Raptors' Dalano Banton is Rexdale's hometown hero; Indigenous creators get a boost from TikTok's new accelerator program; Matthew Heineman's new documentary The First Wave and more.…

The At Issue panel discusses why the inflation debate continues to dominate in Parliament and what it could mean for the government. Plus, the panellists look at why the Conservatives helped fast track the government's bill banning conversion therapy. Rosemary Barton hosts Chantal Hébert, Andrew Coyne, Althia Raj and Elamin Abdelmahmoud.…

From the Icebreakers Comedy Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, we shine our spotlight on comedian Rob Pue.

If you’re gathering for the holidays this year, will you be busting out the Monopoly board? Did your Animal Crossing island or playing Dungeons & Dragons on Zoom help you get through pandemic lockdowns? Even if you’re not an avid gamer, you probably have lots of memories attached to games. This episode we’re recommending podcasts about all kinds of…