It’s been one heck of a run, this is our season finale. We’re at the end, it’s been an amazing journey. Right now, we do not know what the future holds. Our outgoing Editor-in-Chief, Charley Dutil is the one who thought of this podcast first, and so he should some credit for the idea. He also thought of adding a science section to the paper, and Emma Williams did a damn good job with that. As of now, we don’t know what next year looks like, but we are happy to say that The Fulcrum Radio Show, is getting a spin-off! The Fulcrum Science Show with Emma Williams is gonna debut soon, We are all very excited about that. This has been a really fun ride for me, that lead me to meet so many amazing people. It was important to me, we take the last show to shed some light on a subject we haven’t covered enough on. We live in a world, where hate and misinformation is spreading fast. Hate is alive and well, as we’ve seen first hand in Ottawa in recent times, during the illegal truck occupation that took place in downtown. There were many bad flags being waved. We saw nazi flags, confederate flags, those weird yellow don’t tread on me’s and of course, rather oddly or maybe rather fittingly. The American flag and flags that said Trump 2024. A complex, but comparable reflection of the January 6th insurrection which took place in the United States. This is why, we believe it is important to pay attention to things that are happening in other places. Presently, in Texas - long standing laws put in place after the Roe v Wade case, which ruled that criminalizing abortion was a violation of a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, and infringed on their liberty’s have been struck down. Forcing many women to go underground, or for the ones who can afford it, fly to other states for the procedures. Now, another worrying hate movement, this one in Florida. The Parental rights and education act. Or as it’s more widely known, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Supporters of the bill say, it would give parents greater control over their child’s education. Legal experts say the bill is shrouded with hate, vilifying LGBT people and opening the door for teachers to get sued just by talking about them. And that brings us to our feature interview. Today on the show, we have an interview with Christopher Lambert. Chris is a LGBT children’s author, based out of Orlando. His book series, The Blue Balloon draws inspiration from his own life and he says this bill is trying to cover up LGBT children, cutting them off access and the support that they need. And Emma Williams, is finally (and-well-deservingly) getting her own show! She is here in conversation with Sarah Dolson, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Ottawa who has been studying rove beetles. Emma dives deep into the research that lead Sarah Dolson onto Costa Rican volcanos in her efforts to track the bugs. Today reading headlines is Mariana Gomez and Sophie long. Jasmine McKnight with sports.
Today on the show, Councillor Catherine McKenney opens the show from this week’s council meeting, questioning Mayor Jim Watson over his ousting of Councillors Diane Deans, Rawlson King, Carol Anne Meehan and Sandy Smallwood from the Ottawa police services board. This week Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly resigned and the councillors were ousted over the selection of a new interim police chief, the police services board wanted to hire Matthew Torigian, a former police chief from Waterloo, who was also a former deputy solicitor general in Ontario. Torigian is also a distinguished fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. The Mayor and his council supporters argue that Torigian was an outsider and didn't know the city of Ottawa, his critics say, that was the point. Our feature interview today is with Terry Chilibeck, a retired helicopter pilot and former heli-pad inspector with the Ministry of Transportation. Terry is trying to shed light on the design process for the new civic hospital’s heli-pad. He makes the case, that as our city and it’s developers continue to develop the area around Carling and Bronson with high-rises, continuously changing wind patterns will disrupt any medical-evac-chopper’s flight route. And Emma Williams is in conversation with Dr. Matthew Pamenter, a researcher from the University of Ottawa who has been studying the hypoxic environments of naked mole-rats. Dr. Pamenter work showcases how the species uses thermogenesis to regulate its body temperature. Reading headlines today is Gabrielle Muzychka and Shailee Shah. Jasmine McKnight with Sports.
Today on the show, Councillor Shawn Menard questions Joanne Read, The Ottawa Hospital's Executive Vice President and Chief of Planning and Development Officer. The proposed model, originally set with a $2.8 billion dollar price tag back in 2016, is currently expected to cost a lot more with rising construction costs. Which leads us to our feature interview, with Dr. Barry Bruce. Dr. Bruce is an Ottawa-based physician who first established his family care centre in 1973. He has also served as the Chief of Staff at the Queensway Carleton Hospital, his writing frequently appears in the Ottawa Citizen and he is here today to tell us why bigger hospitals aren't always better. And Emma Williams, our Science Editor is in conversation with Zoe Landry, a PhD Student from the University of Ottawa who has been researching ancient wolves and comparing their data to wolves from our modern era in an effort to try and better understand the species. Wolves have been around for many a millenia and her ground-breaking research sheds new light on how a species from as far back as the pleistocene era was able to survive extinction and continue to evolve. Reading headlines today is Gabrielle Muzychka and Shailee Shah. Jasmine McKnight with Sports.
Today on the show, We have an interview with Toon Dreessen. He's an architect here in Ottawa, whose writing frequently appears in the Ottawa Citizen, where he provides valuable insight and explanations about issues that arise in our growing city. Toon is a hybrid of advocate and educator, advocating for strong and accessible design, while taking big concepts and re-packing them into understandable ideas. He's here to tell us why architecture matters. And Emma Williams is in conversation with Dr. Jordan Mallon, a Palaeontologist from the Canadian Museum of Nature and they're talking all things dinosaurs! Dr. Mallon explains why we can find dinosaur remains in Alberta, the best ways to get fossils out of the ground and how they determine whether a dinosaur had skin, or feathers. Reading headlines today is Gabrielle Muzychka and Shailee Shah. Jasmine McKnight with Sports.
Today on the show, We have an interview with Jerry Fiori of the Ottawa Disability Coalition. The Ottawa Disability Coalition is a network of organizations that have come together to advocate for a more equitable community that would ensure people with disabilities have the same opportunities in the City of Ottawa as every other citizen. He's on the show to talk to us about some of the issues facing people with disabilities right now. Particularly in relation to new details that have come to light about the proposed civic hospital, the closest transit stop would be more than 500m away. And Emma Williams is in conversation with Greg Rand, a bird enthusiast and the Assistant Collections Manager at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Right now, there is a big owl exhibit at the museum. Emma and Greg dive deep into owls and answer some of the questions asked by you, from the poll we posted on the Fulcrum's instagram. Reading headlines today is Shailee Shah and Gabrielle Muzychka.