Canada rolling out Individual cigarette warnings, Details on Ontario’s back-to-basics bill & Canada eliminated from Women’s World Cup!
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The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:
A fresh set of Health Canada regulations that require warning labels on individual cigarettes is set to come into effect Tuesday.
The move, announced earlier this year, makes Canada the first country in the world to take that step in the ongoing effort to help smokers kick the habit and deter potential puffers from picking it up.
GUEST: Dr. Robert Schwartz, Executive Director of the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit and Professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto
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School boards will soon be expected to do a lot more sharing — from exactly what teachers are learning on professional development days, to the number of students attending classes at least 90 per cent of the time.
As part of Bill 98, the Better Schools and Students Outcomes Act, which passed before the summer break — and amid tense negotiations that continue with all of the province’s teacher unions — the government is mandating that boards post details of educators’ PD activities to the ministry as well as parents, starting this fall.
GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
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Canada leaves the FIFA Women's World Cup early and shell-shocked. And, in some cases, in tears.
The Olympic champion Canadians were put to the sword Monday in a shocking, lopsided 4-0 loss to Australia.
GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport
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