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Tonight, the Montreal Holocaust Museum is giving you a rare opportunity to hear firsthand testimony from a survivor of Auschwitz. Sarah Fogg is the head of marketing communications and public relations with the Montreal Holocaust Museum. Good morning, Sarah. Good morning. So tell me about this gentleman. Yes, so the survivor that's going to be speaking this evening is named George Reines, and he's really a remarkable individual.

He was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz at the age of 12. And normally this would have meant that he would be killed upon arrival sent to the gas chambers immediately. But another prisoner told him to lie and say that he was 16. And so this saved his life at the first selection. And he really has a heroic story of rescue and survival and that can't be credits a lot to his father. And he came to Canada rebuilt his life and is just a remarkable pillar of Holocaust education and support to our museum and interestingly to the wrestling community as well.

a world-class wrestler who gave back tremendously to the sport. So he gets to Auschwitz. He's 12 years old. His mother and her sister and his sister were killed immediately. And because he's tall, he can convince people he's 16 years old. Exactly. It's as simple as that. And I think it shows you how arbitrary these infamous elections really were at this camp.

I imagine that you've been through Holocaust Memorial days, Remembrance days before, how emotional is it at the museum? It's an emotional day, of course, for the community and for survivors and yesterday it was also emotional because we had so many visitors in the museum and it was really touching to see just how many people are still interested in this history and it's lessened 80 years after.

So how old is he like a hundred years old? No, I'm not going to math. I don't want to be problem spot, but he's 92 years old. Oh, he's 92 years old. Okay. So, so what, what, uh, he'll be speaking, like giving a speech or will he be interviewed or how is this going to take place? Yes, he's going to be interviewed actually by, by no other than Peter Mansbridge. So we're really looking forward to a huge turnout this evening. Okay. So how can, where is this going to be exactly? And how can people take advantage of this? It's going to take place at the museum. So we invite everyone to visit our website.

It's new day holocaust.ca, and they can book tickets online, but I do suggest that they move quickly. There's only about 50 or so left. Okay. So again, where to get the tickets? On our website at new day and USEE holocaust h-o-l-o-c-a-u-s-t-e dot c-a. Okay. And will there be a webcast of this or some sort of a thing that people can.

We're going to be recording it and we'll put it online afterwards so people can watch it. I didn't get the chance to attend for sure. Okay. So it says here that he immigrated to Canada in 1948 as part of the Canadian Jewish War or Finn's project. Where did he go from there? From there he stayed in Montreal and he built this remarkable career in the furniture industry and he created a business that he sold, but it still exists today. It's called JMR furniture.

And really, quite touchingly, he named it for his parents. So Jacob and Martha, the name J. Mar. And he built his family here. He has several great grandchildren, and he's contributed to wrestling by founding several wrestling centers that once still exists at the Sylvan Adams Y today. And so there's a few members of the wrestling community that will be in attendance as well tonight.

it's uh... amazing story so uh... i'm glad that uh... that you're able to bring it to us and that he's around to uh... to tell us there

getting up with you weekday mornings 20 years and counting Andrew Carter on the voice of Montreal CJAD 800 it is 640 and time for Trudy's takeaways let's start off the Montreal Gazette actually Mike Cohen dot CA Mike Cohen has an editorial on a language issue

Yeah, he says it's the first time in the 19 years he has served as a city counselor for District 2 and Coates in the first time that he, you know, it's received a language complaint like this one.

And he's talking about what happened when a quite a senior woman had to be taken to hospital. And someone asked an Ershan Sante ambulance attendant to clarify something that had been said about which hospital. And asked her to, you know, to repeat it in English. And the ambulance attendant refused. Madame Newsom, Ochebik.

And so the woman ended up recording the rest of the conversation. And Mike is just asking, you know, as did the relatives of this woman, where is the humanity? Where is the professionalism in this when you've got a senior who has to be taken away because of a health emergency?

Um, let's see. Rishar Martin on the journal, the more he else says he wasn't going to write about little rabbits except. Yeah, except he saw an interview with a very famous famous restaurateur here in Montreal. Not a lot. That pretty easy. I will recognize him probably because he's been around a long, long time. And, uh, talkier is quite famous as a restaurant.

And he was talking about how he's having trouble managing his restaurant because the staff doesn't want to work late. And by late, that means closing the restaurant at 10.30. Really? Yeah. So that's late to them. So now the restaurant closes at 9.30 and he says that loses

8 to 10 clients every night, multiply that by $200 a head and what that represents in a month and a year. You can see how a restaurant might have trouble. So Rishar Martna was going off on these young people.

And kind of making fun of them for any insistence that they should have a life in the evenings. He says, if you want a life in the evenings, don't work in restaurants. Yeah, no kidding. Because you're not in. He says, I don't want to say, back in my day, we worked hard and we didn't count our hours, but back in my day, we worked hard and we didn't count our hours.

So he's, you know, Raylin, he's making her rump, her rump noises about young workers not being willing to kind of pay their dues and put the time in, in that industry. No kidding, eh? Wow. He says industries are being held hostage by Petit Lepa.

Lowick Tassie on what Trump proposes to do in Gaza is genocide. Yeah, he says that he wants to remind Donald Trump. Maybe he should go look up the United Nations definition of genocide because any forced movement of a people to a place that they don't want to go amounts to genocide. And that is what Donald Trump is proposing because, you know, yeah, Donald Trump over the weekend was talking about a clean out of Gaza.

and moving Palestinians to other countries. So, Lyric Tase says, this is a wake-up call. And also, why are you assuming that Egypt and Jordan would want to take in 2.4 million Palestinians? Hmm. Let's see. Madeleine Pilate-Cote on the thought of not visiting the U.S. due to Trump.

Yeah, and she's saying that she loves going to the US. She says she feels more alive walking the streets of New York that she can't or going to Las Vegas. If you want it, she says if you want to feel like you're in a movie, go to Las Vegas. But she says that even though she loves the US so much, she thinks that it would be uncomfortable.

to go there and to encourage the U.S. economy at a time when Donald Trump is threatening Canada with a trade war. And she says, the older I get, and I believe she's in her

mid to late 20s. She's often kind of, you know, seen as the youth columnist in the Shurna of the Marial. She says, the older I get, the more I want to live in line with my convictions.

And Yasmin Abdul-Fidel asks, who are we supposed to believe the Christian Freeland of 2024 or this year's Christian Freeland? Yeah, she's saying Christian Freeland is basically debating herself because you had Christian Freeland just mere months ago thinking that the capital gains tax increase

and the carbon tax at all fine and dandy there she was alongside the prime minister smiling and you know strongly endorsing these and now you have Christian Freeland version 2025 taking the opposite positions. So

You know, we, she's, she also says, we lauded Christian Freeland for standing up to the prime minister and quitting cabinet rather than doing what he asked and accepting a demotion in cabinet. But she says, let's be serious if Christian Freeland was really courageous. All that create courageous. She should have quit a thousand times over.

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And cyber attacks. School boards across Canada discovered a major data breach connected to power school. It's an outside provider that schools use to manage student information. The investigation continues some boards saying that student data dating back decades may be impacted. What can you do as a parent to protect your kids and identity online? Carmi Levy is CTV's tech analyst and he joins me now. Good morning, Carmi.

Good morning and to be with you. So what kind of information would I mean I can't imagine that anything about me in school would make any difference to anybody's life. Oh you'd be surprised if you think about what schools know about your child pretty much everything you know when they were born they know where they live. They have all sorts of information on their academic performance they have information on mom and dad in some cases

uh... you know uh... you know that financial information that also goes back years they may even have data on mom and that if they went to that same school or school board uh... in some cases the data that we're talking about with the power school breach goes back to nineteen sixty five so multiple generations of people and uh... we don't tend to take this year so we don't think the data really matters but if you think about it in the hands of a of a criminal of a of a of a hacker they can take that information uh... it gets

Uh, saved onto the dark web. It gets sold, bought and sold to multiple other cyber criminals. And then they put it together with Gator that's been... Introducing... Brian Adams Radio. On I-Heart Radio. Have a first real 16. Has it by Brian Adams himself. Join me for an insider look on a wild ride to 40 years of global rock and roll. Brian Adams Radio. I'm red! Now available on the free I-Heart Radio app.

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They want you to click on so it seems innocuous, but it is and it makes future cyber attacks much more dangerous

Okay, so how on earth would you know how to protect yourself against this and where this is even coming from? I'll use the example of, okay, the first time I had to write down a password, I had a little pad, notepad, and I wrote it down there. And then eventually, you know, another password, another password, a different thing. Every dumb subscription you ever make, you know, requires some sort of a password. And now you have 20 pages of passwords. So like that, so you could get an attack coming from any one of these things.

You absolutely can. And one of the things that we do in order to overcome that sort of password craziness is to use the same password across multiple different systems and then never bother changing them. And of course, make them really easy to guess because you'll remember your pet's name or your significant other's name, but you won't remember all the other specialized stuff. So what we can do is if the notepad isn't doing it for you, we use password management apps like OnePassword or Dashlane.

And so then you enter all your information once. And then the app manages the passwords for you, creates difficult to guess passwords, changes them regularly, make sure that they're unique persistence. So we have to become a little bit more in charge of our own destiny when it comes to cybersecurity. It certainly starts with passwords, but it also means when messages hit our inbox,

We have to be, by default, cynical. Don't assume that just because it looks like a king from your bank, that it is in fact from your bank, resists the urge to always reply to every message. Instead, bail out of the message, go to the website or contact that institution and ask them if they reached out to you. It sounds a little less convenient. It sure is.

But I promise you, it's a lot less inconvenient than if you are compromised in the first place. Because it's not always our fault. Like you say, in the case of the power school thing, you didn't even know this existed probably. Yeah, absolutely. And that's really the problem here is that you and I, as regular end users, and I say that as a parent, my kids, as children who've gone to some of these schools that were affected,

We can't do anything to stop a shared services provider that the school board signed up for. They sign up for this service. It's one of the software platforms that they use to run their day-to-day operations. It's very efficient. The 60 million students around the world are covered by this app. It's the biggest app in that space. Companies worth $5.6 billion. So you and I aren't going to stop this from happening, but what we can do is

Once it's out there recognizing that we are now at increased risk, we can change our behaviors a little bit so that we reduce the risk of ourselves being directly targeted in future.

Special, really? Interesting. Tom Green is back. Well, he's been off the radar for a good long time, but he's doing publicity now for this show. And one of the reasons he was off the radar was he battled cancer in 2001.

And he said he had to take time off. I mean, it was a really tough battle at the time. But now he's happy, engaged, living in Canada again after some two decades in Los Angeles. And he's coming out with three videos as part of this new show. But it's interesting because I'm going to be interviewing him this week. And he's a tough interview because he's kind of crazy. Or he likes pretending to be crazy. I remember one day we had an interview with him on the phone live on the air. And he was at the CBC. And he said, you know what? I'm going to go find Peter Mann's

So the rest of the interview was him wandering around the CBC building saying, good morning. Oh, hi. Can you tell me where to find Peter? And ultimately he found Peter Mansbridge, so it was worth it, I guess. Who says Ryan Reynolds was mean to him?

an actor named TJ Miller and he appeared in two of the Deadpool films. This is probably part of this incredible ridiculousness between Justin Baldoni and Ryan Reynolds wife Blake Lively because Ryan Reynolds has this reputation as being possibly the nicest guy in show business. So I just, I have to wonder where this is coming from. Okay. I've seen TJ Miller. He's been a lot of stuff. Yeah. Kind of a weird looking guy. Yeah.

Yeah. Mel Gibson. Yes. What new movie is he in that tops the box office? There is a movie called Flight Risk. Mark Wahlberg plays a pilot and he's flying an air marshal in Alaska. The air marshals played by Topher Gray, so it's a pretty good cast. Mel directed it. And here's the thing. It has a 21% rating on rotten tomatoes, which is, you know, 100% rating is a good rating. 21% is a really large rating. Wow.

critics hated this movie but it was number one at the box office even though the box office was a little anemic this weekend but he's still number one with twelve million bucks okay and uh... princess diana's ancestral home will not pass to harry or william

right there's no doubt an abbey which i admitted to you last week i'm watching again and i have to say uh... word of caution to anybody who's never seen it or wants to revisit it season three sucks but anyway uh... this is very down abbey because diana obviously being a woman was never going to win in her at the title or the house it's actually going to her nephew who's the son of her late brother and uh... that's the vikont althorp and he's thirty years old the vikont althorp

Indeed. His name is Al Thorpe. Al Thorpe, yes. That's first name? No, that's the family name. Okay. We're right. Sylvester of the cat would never be able to handle that. I got Al Thorpe. Oh, speaking of that, I forward these to my dad, some Bugs Bunny came over my Facebook feed. There were two ones. It was the one where he pretends to be the king.

I doubly circumference, sirloin of beef. Well, you know, he's the best in the guy in the head. So, the best of the cat is actually based on an executive at Warner Brothers, who would, they'd have to screen each of the cartoons for him. And he didn't, he didn't take any of that stuff seriously. He thought it was unworthy of him. And he would sit in this throne-like chair and yell, roll the garbage.

So they created Sylvester the cat just to make fun of him and he never got it I like the and there was also that guy the one came across the the hillbillies Grab of those holes hold it tied wack your partner with all your might I always thought the bugs was so so hot in the dress. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Yeah Isn't that something for your therapist? Yes, you have a great day

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Tom Mulcaris brought to you by guaranteed industries for an excellent combination guaranteed industries and can air for all your heating and air conditioning needs called guaranteed industries at five one four three four two thirty four hundred. So, uh, so, uh, Christopher, you'll answer to them on parlour, sware, El Parla, Evo De Monde, the, uh, the, uh, Deza Gray, Mavic, uh, the Deza Cora, the premier minister Trudeau, huh? Yes. Yes.

I think that she's also trying to tell a different story because of course she spent 10 years with Trudeau, because Trudeau kindly reminded everybody the day she quit. I couldn't have asked for a better partner. She was there with me for 10 years, but she's trying to walk away from that. That's only fair ball. She'll try to tell a different story.

What was interesting is she did, I think, overall quite well, Antoine Monapal. One of the other things that I would point out is that she does appear to be running against Donald Trump and not against Mark Carney, whom she tries to dismiss as, quote, her function out. Now, she did this on LCN TVI, one of the French channel where I work in her first interview. And instead of talking about the substance of her interview, we all talked about the cheap shot of her calling the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the former governor of the Bank of England.

And one of the most respected people at the highest level of the United Nations in terms of climate change and the leader of several large businesses, a civil servant. Come on, a function is the person who renews your driver's license if you're lucky enough to find somebody behind the counter at the SAQ. It's not the person. So I thought she was going to walk away from that one, but she seems to find it too tempting just to take that little shot against Carney saying,

I am a former elected official. I was a politician. This guy's a bureaucrat. I'm not sure that that's working for her, because if you look at the number of people who have come over to his camp, including Afnazwafidip Shampang over the weekend, he's got many times more

cabinet ministers and MPs backing him so she can continue to take that shot i'm not sure it's working out well for but overall think she did well but she's going to have to start putting other stuff in the window other than the fact that she's the best person to fight trump well he's certainly not talking like a function air because he's talking like a politician is over the weekend he said that uh... it was uh... decline in the profits of the back so he said he's saying all the things that he thinks he needs to say

Yes, and he gave them that by the way, that was that was an interview. It was his first one. It was with El San Tivia. They showed up at an event that he was having in Verdun.

and just started peppering him with questions and he just stood there and you could see by the body language, he was very comfortable with it and his French was pretty darn good. Hers is very good also, by the way, she's got a heavy accent, but there's nothing to do with it. She should be right at home on the West. She really would, actually. I wanted to ask you about, so who is this other gentleman who was told that he cannot

run to be the leader of the liberal party and why is he being told that? So two separate questions. I'll start with the first one. His name is Chandra Arya. He is the first person to have declared for the liberal leadership. And he apparently put in his 50 grand, which is what you had to have in by the end of next last week. And then you have to come up with another 300 grand and you have to have certain number of signatures. Apparently that was not the problem.

Somebody from the party over the weekend. The only place I'd find a reference to this was in the Globe and Mail this morning because I was looking for it. They gave a section of their rules talking about somebody who had manifest unfitness to run for the liberal leadership. Now, Chandra area, well, that's the whole point.

Right, right at the beginning. The only thing that stands out for anybody who looks at, you know, what he's been saying since the beginning, he basically shrugged his shoulders and said, no, I don't learn. I've never learned French and it doesn't really matter. And people in Quebec don't care if you learn French. So he's all entitled to his opinion. I think that that's quite off the mark. Thank you.

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much, but that's why you have a leadership race and you get to put your ideas out there. If it comes to pass that the manifest on fitness is related to an opinion like that, I think that the liberal party has given themselves a black eye. Now, I'm speculating here, I have no indication that this is the case, but tomorrow we're going to get the final report.

for Madam Justice Hogue on foreign interference in elections. If it were the case, and I'm not saying it is, but I'm just saying if it were the case that there's something in there that talks about or could include him, then you've got perhaps a case of manifest unfitness. But for now, given the liberal parties lack of information, you just left scratching your head and saying, are they really going to turf this guy? Because they don't like his position on official languages. That's why you have leadership races.

So that ideas can be debated and eventually rejected because the Liberal Party would reject his idea and he'd finish last, but you don't throw the guy out and borrow him from being a candidate. That would be unseemly. Have you heard any news of who Justin Trudeau might point to the Senate? He's got a big, and apparently a 10 Senate empty positions there that he has to young people. I hear your names. I hear your names on the shortlist. I hear you got the inside track because there are two appointments from Quebec that have to be made.

an overall 10. But what's important to know is that true. Don't get my hopes up. Trudeau has named ninety nine zero of the senators who are there. I mean, Mr Harper, because he was upset with the way things were going, refused to make his final appointments. And that just gave the liberals an unbelievable floodgate of appointments that they've been able to make.

This, if it came to pass that the Conservatives did win the next election, this would be a fraught time. Now there's a long-standing agreement that you don't vote down a party's main policies that they got elected on. There is that rule that exists for the unelected House of Lords in Great Britain, and we tend to apply it here. Then it gets really tricky around money bills because the government is supposed to be the one to determine how money gets spent. What does the Senate have to do about that?

You would be looking at years of turmoil if it came to pass up the Conservatives came in and you had all these people. Now the Liberals will argue, no, no, no, these are not all Liberals. The way it used to be, you know, we've had this committee and we've named a bunch of people. Yeah, but if you go down the list, there are a lot of Liberal bag men and former Liberal MPs and former Liberal candidates in there. Come on.

Stop trying to pull the wall over. It's the same old, same old. When you're appointing people to make laws, you're in trouble because it's not democratic and that's why the Senate has always been a problem and maybe just maybe one day it'll either become elected or we'll get rid of the thing altogether. But for now,

Trudeau has these last 10 appointments to make, and he has every intention of making every single last one of them to a deserving Canadian. So let's talk about what kind of people they look for. Is it all just friends of the Prime Minister or friends of the party? When you're naming a former MP who was defeated like Roger Kuzner, then it's obviously a partisan appointment.

But I do know some of them, you know, there are people who would work for a long time in non-government organizations who had a real track record of helping other Canadians. So there are really deserving people who have been named, and I will give Trudeau credit for this. His system, as imperfect as it is, is certainly better than what was there before, because then it was like, there was no filtering. There was no

attempt to try to make sure that the people were anything other than party faithful. So I think that Trudeau does deserve credit for that. It's less bad that it used to be, but it's still a mess when you have people making laws for you, Andrew, who've never been elected.

Well, you know, it's, it's, he did a point Charles Adler, the radio host to, to, to the, to the Senate. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just make sure you're not. How much would something like, how much would something like that pay? What's, what's it pay the Senate? It's true. But I think it's a, I think it's about a 175 grand, but I'd have to double check. I'm going from my memory. You get a car allowance?

No, but you get other spending loot. Would you take that if offered? Is that something that interests you at all, or is it you way past that at this point? In way past, it's just like, in no way, shaver form. Listening to a bell and coming in and saying, Mr. DePresy. No, not likely. Okay. You have a good day. Don't miss the two minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 7.50.

I get your Medicare car out. It's time for Dr. Mitch. Hello, Mitch. How are you? I am fine. Thank you. I didn't realize. So that's that how the money has been rolling. Well, you're not you're not going to like where we swipe it though. That's what I'm telling you. Tell me tell me about this mental health and kids and school programs. So this is a really intriguing program that it's not tough to do.

but requires trained facilitators and there's only 10 sessions. It's called strong supporting transition resilience of newcomer groups. And what they basically wanted to show was that they could create a program based on programs that have been created in the past for kids who are going through trauma and post traumatic stress disorder, but a program that isn't based on trauma that could help newcomers, wherever they came from, feel more comfortable, more integrated, more part of the school community.

And the beauty of using the schools are you may not have access to healthcare, you may not trust doctors, you may not trust clinics or hospitals or any of those things or have the money to follow through with some of the treatments that they suggest. But schools are an entry point for almost anyone into our communities and especially for obviously for their children. And so here was a resource that exists within our communities, the schools. Let's see what we can do about training some facilitators, see how they felt about the program,

And it's 10 sessions, group sessions, where kids from very different backgrounds basically sit together and exploring their own cultures, realize that their resources within their own cultures, to help them, resources within themselves, to help them support them, and how to deal with stress, how to deal with things like this. And they now did one of the very first randomized trials to see if it really made a difference, because there are a lot of things you do, okay, but did it really help. And they found in the group of children who were

Taking this course, taking this 10 session support group, they basically found that there was a dramatic difference in the amount of depression, anxiety, and behavioral problems in these kids. Now, you're going to say, okay, this was an immigrant-based program for grades 3 to 12, what uses it to the rest of us. The truth is, if you look at our kids, our kids in school right now are, by and large, suffering from a lot more anxiety, a lot more depression,

and they're having a lot more difficulty coping, and I think they're lacking in resilience, and I don't know how much better to put it than that. But the knocks and shakeups that happen through life, unfortunately, but are always a part of life, it seems to be tougher for this generation of kids, for these kids as they're coming up to deal with it. And so it is possible that this program, which has also been used in some schools in Ontario, might not just be able to help newcomers

but might also be able to help our own kids deal with the stresses and anxiety and depression and things that happen day to day life by giving them more resilience and more resources to back onto. And I think it also emphasizes the importance of our schools as an entry point and as a way of helping our children cope and deal with things and the importance of teachers and how at the end of the day, maybe we are doing enough to support our teachers

We already know the difficulties with the numbers of teachers. Notice that we haven't heard a word about it, even though we know the problem hasn't been resolved. And it seems to flare into the news and then disappear. And I think we as parents really need to make an effort to do whatever we can to support the teachers and to make their life as easy as possible so they can do what they do best, which is help them support our kids. Dr. Mitch, thank you. A pleasure. You have a great morning. You too. That's it, Dr. Mitch Hillman.

This is the Andrew Carter podcast. Like what you hear, catch the show live Monday to Friday 5.30 tonight. Have you ever been on Tinder? You ever been on Hinge, Zeus, plenty of fish? Apparently, popularity of dating apps is maybe going down. Dr. Laurie Batito. Hi. CJ 8800's relationship expert. How are you doing, Dr. Laurie?

I'm doing great. How are you? So bad. So I hear stories. I mean, hinge, cringe, more like it. You know, it's amazing match or whatever it is. Tinder. I know somebody who met their husband on timber that Tinder, they got married and they moved down to Cape Cod and very happy apparently and you hear about success. So it's either this was great for me. This worked or this was the worst idea ever.

Look, it does work. The majority of people are meeting on apps. That's the reality. However, when you talk about Tinder fatigue, which really refers to just like burnout that results from using any of the apps, when you use it for an extended period of time and you're not seeing meaningful connections, you're not getting outcomes, you're swiping through so many profiles, you're having repetitive conversations over and over again, you start to get emotionally drained from all of this.

So it is such a thing. And I'm seeing a lot of it, actually. I hear from a lot of single people who take a lot of breaks because they just get set up. And it's also, when there's a lot of shallow interactions, people kind of get disillusioned and they feel these lack of genuine connections and they get tired of the superficial. So people are looking for meaning.

You're, they're just not finding it too much on these apps. Okay. So where do you find it? Where's one to find this at Fairview? Go to winners, go to home sense. It's not, it's not the case for everybody. Some people do establish meaningful connections. So like many people are using these apps and many people are finding matches.

on these apps. The only problem is when they've been on it for a long time, or been spending so much time doing this, that this is what the burnout feeling is, or the exhaustion of using these things. Obviously, there are other options. The old-fashioned way, Andrew, the old-fashioned way. Go to a bar and get drunk.

single and looking, so through mutual friends, getting involved in community volunteering, going to church events or community organizations, getting out there. The problem is we don't get out there very much. So getting back to some of maybe those basics matter. And also the way that you're dating on the apps, you can change that a little bit.

Instead of spending hours and hours swiping and then getting over well, maybe set aside like specific amounts of time each day or week or whatever just for chatting.

or swiping. So because for some people, it can feel like a bloody full time job, right? Yeah, no kidding. And yeah, you can, you must be, it's also overwhelming the amount of advice that people are trying to give you on different social media. And it's always like they suck you in with something and then they want you to pay for advice, right? You must see this all the time. Yeah, that's true too. But the other, the other problem too, is all the expectations and pressure that a lot of these platforms

can produce, right? It can feel very inauthentic. You start to question, is that really what they look like? Are they lying? Like there's so many, you know, questions that people have because they've been burned. So that ends up also affecting how you feel about all of these apps and affecting, you know, the dating

apt fatigue, so to speak. Height seems to be one that people like to lie about a lot. And wait. Yeah. Oh, wait. Age. Age is a big one. Is it really? Because I've heard from women who have met up with the guy and like he comes up to their chest, you know? I get height for guys. Wait for women and age also for both. Really? If they're not finding matches in their age category, they change their age and then they change the, you know, their parameters and such.

Uh, unfortunately, it's not everybody. This is just, it's just that people, some people's experiences have been such and then those are the people that develop this, uh, this fatigue. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, and they just need to take a break. You know, every once in a while, take a break. And not just that. There's, think about all the, the, the lack of follow through that a lot of people experience and the ghost thing. It's so much easier, right? Like you start conversations and then

because you're having multiple conversations at a possibly at a time and somebody just just ignores you for after that. And so you feel ghosted, you feel rejected. It can affect your enthusiasm, believe me. Tell me something. Are you still doing your podcast? I am passionate with Dr. Laurie and John Paul. Yes. We are still doing our podcast. Say hi to John Paul.

I will. I will. You take care of it. You have a great day. Your full service morning show with Andrew Carter, CJAD 800. I don't know much about elderberries. Do you? All I remember about elderberries, the quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. That's all I know.

So apparently, should we be? Olivia Coron is a registered dietician nutritionist. You can visit her online at nutrition by Olivia.com and on Instagram. Good morning, Olivia. Good morning. What are elderberries? They're berries that are typically taken in supplement form, so such as in a syrup.

And they're claimed to help reduce the length of a cold and reduce inflammation, improve circulation. So some people will take them when they have particular symptoms already, like they have a cold coming on. And so maybe they'll take the elderberry syrup. Where do you get elderberry syrup?

I believe you can get them at a pharmacy. I might be wrong, but I never seen it at a pharmacy. Yeah, okay. In that case, it could just be at a health source. Okay. Yeah. But you can't get them at the grocery store. Is there any proof that this works? Yeah, there really aren't many conclusive studies to prove it's a sex. There are a few small ones. And so with that research that we do have, it seems like it could reduce the duration of a cold.

But again, it's a small, they're small studies. And then with the other claims, there's some studies that show that it works, and then there's some studies that show that it doesn't. So it definitely takes those claims with a grain of salt. But it's something that I hear a lot from my clients and some friends and family that they want to try the elderberry syrup. So definitely with a grain of salt. Okay. Now, have you ever seen an elderberry?

I don't think I have. I mean, I've searched it up when clients have told me about their supplements that I haven't seen. They sort of look like small, small, dark grapes. Yeah, I guess so. But you can't, again, like if you eat them like that, they're toxic. Oh, that's good to know. Yeah, I wouldn't want to

I wouldn't want to eat toxic elderberries. Anything other than elderberries that can help prevent you from getting sick sick or help with your health control? Yeah, for sure. Nutrition plays a big role in strengthening your immune system. So having a balanced, varied diet should do the trick. But specifically in terms of nutrients, there's vitamin C that I feel like a lot of people have heard about.

It's an antioxidant that could act as a barrier to disease. So that's found in fruits and vegetables, generally. So if you're getting your fruits and vegetables, most days with most meals, you should be good on that. And then there's vitamin D, which helps reduce inflammation. And in the winter, you really can't get enough through the sun or from food. So you have to take it from the supplement.

And then there's zinc, which is involved in the immune response as well. So that's found in protein foods, like meat, chicken, peas, lentils, nuts. So again, if you're having a very diet, typically that should do enough nutrition-wise. Of course, there's lots of other factors, like an impact to getting a cold, like if you have a kid that goes to take care all the time, or if you're very stressed, for example. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday 5.30 to 9.