On Tuesday’s GFB:
12:30pm
GUEST – Pete Karageorgos, Manager, Consumer & Industry Relations, Insurance Bureau of Canada
TOPIC – Earth Month tips to prepare for severe weather
Posts Tagged ‘Goldhawk Fights Back’
Pete Karageorgos
Monday, April 9th, 2012Dave Woodford
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012On Tuesday’s GFB: OPP Sergeant Dave Woodford will discuss the spring seatbelt campaign that runs from April 12 – 22. 12:15pm
Moses Znaimer
Thursday, March 29th, 2012On Friday’s Goldhawk Fights Back:
12:15 – 1:00
GUEST – Moses Znaimer, Zoomer Media founder and guiding light
TOPIC – His Zoomer Philosophy in Zoomer Magazine.
INFO – CHAPTER 23 – A FINE BALANCE, FALLING: We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
“Whenever I hear or think about the word “Falling,” the associations that flash into my mind are not all bad. There is, as it happens, a positive, exciting version of “Falling” to counteract the more mundane negative one. I’m speaking about love, of course, and the mysterious human mechanism that renders Vertigo in that realm (“falling in love”) sufficiently intoxicating that we seek it out, no matter how reckless or illogical the situation. Listen to Leonard Cohen’s “Crazy to Love You”, a cut on his just-out late-life masterpiece album, Old Ideas, and you’ll see what I mean. “Had to go crazy to love you,” he sings. “Had to let everything fall.” The singer has no choice in the matter, and neither – fortunately, I’d argue – do we. In matters of the heart, I’m all for the risk and passion of Falling. In matters physical, on the other hand, I’m far more pragmatic; and my watchword is Balance.”
Read the entire article on zoomermag.com
11:30am
GUEST – Jennifer Tryon, 16×9 (sixteen by nine) Health Correspondent, on Global
TOPIC – Canada’s medical marijuana program.
INFO – Health Correspondent Jennifer Tryon has put together an exclusive, eye-opening investigation into the Canada’s medical marijuana program. Her piece exposes an underground market with doctors charging hundreds of dollars for filling out forms, and licensed growers selling their supply on the black market. In many cases, these holes have allowed abusers of the system to get rich on the backs of those patients who the medical marijuana system was initially intended for. This story also opens up an interesting debate on the system as a whole.
16×9 airs this Saturday at 7:00 PM on Global. Jennifer Tryon is based in Toronto.
Here are some additional details on Jennifer’s story:
- Over 13,000 people in Canada have a medical marijuana licence to legally smoke pot to alleviate pain and other symptoms. This is allowed under a program created by Health Canada over 10 years ago.
- This license is meant to be accessible and free, with forms easily accessible online from the Health Canada website. This includes a form that requires the signature of a physician. Without this, patients can’t get the license, and that’s where the problems begin, because most doctors are unwilling to sign.
- 16X9 has learned that consultants are charging patients upwards of $1,000 to direct them to a sympathetic doctor willing to sign their form. On top of this, some doctors are charging patients hundreds of dollars for their signature.
- One Ontario doctor, who charges patients $250 dollars, holds roving clinics across the province to provide his signature, and admits to signing off on no fewer than 3000 of these applications.
- Jennifer speaks with a doctor who points about that science is years away from anything but anecdotal proof that pot works, leaving many doctors believing that prescribing pot is too risky. This has created loopholes in the system.
- Jennifer speaks with patients who have had experienced these roving ‘medical marijuana’ mills, and expensive ‘consultant’ fees. She also speaks with a man who used a roving mill to get a license to legally create a marijuana grow op.
- The man is legally allowed to grow up to 73 plants and store seven kilos of marijuana. This man smokes what he needs medicinally, then – through loopholes – sells the rest.
- Jennifer also speaks with Colin Currie – Federal MP for Oshawa, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health – who is surprised to hear of these abuses, and addresses that a change must be made.
Kevin Harrigan
Friday, March 23rd, 2012On Friday’s GFB:
11:30AM
GUEST – Dr. Mark Lynas, GFB Dentist
TOPIC – Dental infections and overall health.
INFO – Our GFB dentist will also talk about the relationship of oral health and medical health in the elderly. Whether moving in with their children or in Long Term Care .
12:15PM
GUEST- Kevin Harrigan, PhD Research Associate Professor, Head: Gambling Research Lab, University of Waterloo,
TOPIC – Casinos in Toronto
INFO -”To meet their revenue needs, governments often turn to gambling as a desirable alternative to raising taxes. The process is well-scripted. First, announcements are made, often shrouded in business-speak, as if government were investing in a new manufacturing plant for the good of the economy. Then the corporate social responsibility messages kick in, telling us that new casinos will apply state-of-the-art approaches to ensure that patrons won’t be harmed. Finally, the casino is launched and information about its impact becomes buried in a cloud of fog. OLG decides to fold at three racetracks
McGuinty can’t afford misgivings about gaming OLG pushes for Toronto casino in expansion bid Unfortunately, the questions that should concern the public, ones that assess the real value and impact of the “investment,” are never answered.
Is gambling an efficient way to generate revenue? The short answer is no.
In Ontario, more than $6-billion is taken out of the economy and redistributed to gambling. After winnings have been paid out, Statistics Canada reports that gambling revenue in Ontario totals $4.8-billion annually. Of this, only $1.7-billion flows to government – a “turnover” rate of about 35 per cent. The 65-per-cent lion’s share goes to “beneficiaries” (the horse-racing industry and aboriginals, for example) and to operators, giving Ontario the lowest turnover rate in Canada. Were Ontario to achieve a turnover of 51 per cent, the national average, it would realize an additional $800-million a year in revenue. Moreover, gambling is among the lowest job-creation sectors, and the jobs that result are overwhelmingly low paid and without benefits.
Where does gambling revenue come from? Gambling is an extractive industry – it removes money from the economy and concentrates it in the pockets of beneficiaries, operators and
government. Every dollar spent is taken from other consumer purchases. This means that, if the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.’s projected revenue of $1.3-billion from a new casino and gambling formats represent “dollars in,” they’re offset by equal “dollars out” redirected from the economy.
Laurie Campbell
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012On Thursday’s Goldhawk Fights Back
11:30AM
GUEST – Laurie Campbell, CEO Credit Canada Debt Solutions
TOPIC – March is fraud prevention month. Online solicitation is becoming the new door knock.
INFO – Charities and foundations have increasingly been turning to the Internet for new ways to engage and identify potential donors. But as charities have moved online, so have charity fraudsters.
With March being Fraud Awareness Month, Capital One Canada and CanadaHelps.org partnered with Vision Critical research to commission a survey that determines what influences Canadians when it comes to donating and how aware they are of potential safety issues.
TIPS for online donations -
-Make sure the charity is registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)
-Ask to see a charity’s financial statements
-Understand the impact the charity has and what difference they make in the community
-Research the causes you want to support and how much of your budget you want to donate to charity
-Avoid any charity that pressures you into making a donation or isn’t open to sharing more information about their organization
12:15PM
GUEST – Mark Mattson, President & Waterkeeper Lake Ontario Waterkeeper
TOPIC – Proposed federal government rollbacks
Heather Stauble
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012On Wednesday’s Goldhawk Fights Back”
11:30AM
GUEST – Heather Stauble, Councillor Ward 16, City of Kawartha Lakes
TOPIC – Industrial wind turbines on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
INFO – “I commend STORM Coalition for speaking up on the issue of industrial wind turbines on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Currently there is no requirement for an environmental assessment for these projects unless they want to reduce the 120m setbacks to woodlands, wetlands or areas of natural/scientific interest. These projects take up an enormous amount of land; 75-100 acres per turbine. The Oak Ridges Moraine is an ecologically sensitive and important land formation and the source of water for 250,000 people. If it is important enough to protect in the first place, it is important enough to continue protecting. Wind proponents need to be held to the same standard here as individuals, municipalities or other types of development. Any other project of this scale would require an environmental assessment.
In a letter to the Premier, written by Professor Graham Whitelaw, of the School Environmental Studies and the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University, STORM Coalition has asked that the province make it a requirement that all major energy developers be required to conduct a full environmental assessment and that the Province of Ontario halt the awarding of Feed-in Tariff contracts and approval of wind energy infrastructure projects on the Moraine until full environmental assessments are made mandatory.” – Heather Stauble
12:15PM
GUEST – Dr. Zach, GFB House Dr.
TOPIC – Sugar.
INFO – A recent article in Nature was called “The Toxic Truth about Sugar.” Is sugar the new salt? Is it toxic? How much is too much?
Cathy Ferringo
Monday, March 19th, 2012On Tuesday’s Goldhawk Fights Back:
11:30-12:00
GUEST – Senator Bob Runciman
TOPIC – Wind turbines.
INFO – news conference with Nature Canada’s Ted Cheskey and PC MP Todd Smith about the protection from industrial wind turbines of the international migratory bird route at the east end of lake Ontario Tuesday MARCH 20.
12:15-12:45
GUEST – Cathy Ferringo, Licensed Travel Insurance Broker.
TOPIC – Travel health insurance coverage while out of country . 70% of CARP customers travel to the states.
INFO – As Zoomers travel the world, having the proper health insurance coverage is essential to avoid financial ills.
Save the Canadian Air and Space Museum
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
At the end of March, the Canadian Air and Space Museum will be evicted from its home at Downsview Park. You can help prevent this eviction by signing and sharing the petition on their website - casmuseum.org/help.html – as well as writing to your local MP.
For more information on The Canadian Air and Space Museum, be sure to listen to the March 4th edition of the Zoomer Week in Review and the on-going coverage on Goldhawk Fights Back, right here on the New AM 740 – Zoomer Radio.
Dr. Zach
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
GFB GUEST – THU MARCH 1 @ 12:15
GUEST – Dr. Zach, GFB House Doctor.
TOPIC – Urological issues
INFO – Urinary tract problems are common. They range from simple infections to cancer. Urinary incontinence occurs more commonly in women, while obstruction, or blockage, of urine outflow is more common in men, due to the prostate. Treatments of urinary problems are constantly evolving. Many urinary problems have effective treatments available. On the show we will discuss the common and serious urinary disorders, and what the best available treatments are right now.
Dave Woodford
Tuesday, February 28th, 201212:15PM
GUEST – OPP Sergeant Dave Woodford
TOPIC – WAS DISTRACTED DRIVING CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS OR FAILURE? OPP completes the final week of “Phone in One Hand, Ticket in the Other”
INFO – Here are the facts:
- Nearly 12 months ago the OPP added distracted driving to their list of top contributing factors in fatal collisions. “The big 4”.*
- Using the lessons learned from a study in the U.S. related to distraction enforcement, the OPP implemented a comprehensive awareness and enforcement campaign called “Phone in One Hand, Ticket in the Other”.
- Campaigns were launched last May, July, September of 2011 and finally, last week. Each campaign included a week of awareness information through the media followed by a week of focused enforcement.
- The number of distraction related offences initiated by OPP officers increased 110% compared to the year previous. The number of fatal collisions caused by an inattentive driver decreased by 25%.
* (the remaining three components of “the big four” are impaired driving, aggressive driving and non-compliance with occupant restraint laws)
OPP officers across the province charged 2454 drivers with distraction-related offences from February 13 to 19, 2012. That’s 350 violations each day. “We’d prefer the number of drivers charged each day was zero” says Deputy Commissioner Larry Beechey, Provincial Commander of Traffic Safety and Operational Support. “Although we have indeed had some success with our campaign, this is a clear indication that we have a great deal of work to do yet.”
In the first seven weeks of 2012, nine deaths on OPP patrolled roads are attributed to an inattentive driver. That’s more than alcohol and speed combined. Chief Superintendent Don Bell, Commander of the Highway Safety Division said, “Our efforts to reduce fatal collisions are not limited to specific campaign dates. Our strict enforcement of distraction laws are a priority every day. These deaths are completely preventable and we’ll continue to encourage voluntary compliance for the right reasons.”
Under the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario, using a cell phone or device capable of texting while driving can result in a fine of $155. Also, watching an entertainment device can result in a fine of $110. Other forms of distracted driving can result in a charge of Careless Driving with fines ranging from $400 to $2,000, a possible licence suspension of up to two years and/or a jail term of not more than six months.
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