Episode 10: Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition on the Police Budget; Stephanie Taylor, GottaGo!; André Desrochers, Mass Extinction
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Today on the show,
We have an interview with Leila, of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. The Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition has organized a series of protests this week, in regards to the Ottawa Police Services budget increase, this year, it would total fourteen million dollars.
We also have an interview with Stephanie Taylor, Stephanie is from the GottaGo! campaign, they're a local group that advocates for accessible public toilets. Whether downtown, or at a transit stop, the urge to go to the bathroom can hit anyone, at any time. There is certainly a need for accessible public washrooms and that need has only grown since the beginning of the pandemic.
And Emma Williams is in conversation with André Desrochers, Dr. Desroches has been studying the first mass extinction and new findings challenge what we thought we knew about the end of the Ordovician period, when most of the earths creatures lived under sea, nearly 445 million years ago.
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