The Andrew Carter Morning Show (Monday November 25, 2024)

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If you ever take Highway 40 and you head off towards the beautiful Elitor bridge, right next to where they're building the new bridge, you pass by the Teniquip building. It's a big building off to your right if you're headed west. A company that was famously started out of a garage in Doraval by a guy named Ken Reed, who sadly has passed, but he did mandate that a certain percentage of profits for this company would go to charity.

And since the Teniquit Foundation was founded in 2006, it's given away $41 million to various such charities, mostly in Canada, but some international as well. Now, here's a note I got from Mike Fitzgerald, the executive director of the Teniquit Foundation.

I have three and a half million dollars worth of checks to mail out to 150 charitable organizations. These include money, organizations that need money for food insecurity, homeless mental health, Christmas food baskets, et cetera. And the Canada Post strike is holding back these much needed funds. It's very frustrating. And Mike Fitzgerald, executive director of the 10 Equipped Foundations on the line. Good morning, Mike.

Good morning, Andrew, how are you? I'm okay, so what are you going to do? Are you waiting to help that it ends? What's your what are your options? Right now we've got the 150 checks waiting with the letters to go, and we're kind of watching the news to see what's going to happen with Canada Post. It doesn't look good, so we have looked into going with cheerleader or something like that, but we're looking at a boat.

You know probably over $4,000 to get all these checks sent out which also will do because we have to get the funds to people but obviously something we'd rather not do. Well no kidding because you have $4,000 less that you'll be able to give out to charities I guess, right? Yeah. Yeah. Now so have you spoken any other, you know, foundations giving out money? This must be multiplied dozens of times across the country.

Well, that's fine thinking as well. You know, we're one small foundation in the east side of Canada. So going across all of Canada, there's got to be 200, 300 charities like us or foundations like us. So if you start adding it up, you know, maybe a billion dollars of funds that maybe go to charities that are going to get it or get it delayed or

I think it was going to find a way to get the money to people, but it does cause a bit of a problem, that's for sure. Is this going to change the way that you distribute the money in future? Can you do this electronically or not really? The problem with electronically is the banks limit the amounts of the checks we can send out. Some checks are 50,000, 100,000.

uh... which you know you can't do it in each transfer but i guess we could be doing it a different way if you go to the bank to kind of set it all up uh... but i don't know if the other people set up for that as well so that it it's something that you know i i guess Canada Post is going to get back to work and we're going to have the next year uh... but maybe you're right maybe who knows maybe we have to do something like that yeah that's that's uh... so in the meantime uh... when's the cut-off date for you that you'll finally bite the bullet and like use perilator something

Yeah, I think it's going to be December 1st. Yeah. We waited, what, there's two weeks now. Like a lot of these funds, for instance, I know that the Salvation Army, $80,000 goes to them and that covers Christmas baskets for the needy. So that's got to get out before Christmas. A lot of the food banks are in desperate need. You know, homelessness goes up in the wintertime because people need more shelter.

so all these checks kind of have to get out there uh... to keep these organizations running uh... you know the kind of count on it they rely on it we said our checks every year at this time and you know it's like somebody needing a paycheck it has to get to them and these guys this is kind of their paycheck keep them running so tell me a little bit about uh... who you who you guys support and how you decide to who you're going to be a there's so many uh... you know there's so many needy organizations you know and that's a difficult thing so

Of course, we probably get about 200 requests every year for funding. We support over 200 organizations every year. So with those 200 new requests every year, we have a donations committee, we sit down, we look at all the requests that come in, we kind of evaluate them, you know, where do they sit? Do they fit into our sort of pattern of who we give to? We try and add maybe, I know it's not many, maybe 10 or 15 every year,

We can't go past that. So we give, you know, a lot to food banks, food insecurity. We probably give about three quarters a million across Canada, food insecurity. Homelessness is another big cause. Across Canada, we support homelessness. And mental health probably is one of our larger ones now, right, that we're supporting. You know, we do some, a bit of international, the Tennis Foundation is built with school in Madagascar.

I think we've had 500 students. We feed them. But a lot of it is in Canada, eastern Canada, a lot. Just head of this here. Now we're expanding a bit up to the west to Calgary and BC. It's hard to decide because there are so many good causes and you just can't support them all.

So each foundation that sort of looks at a different direction and our direction seems to have gone a lot to homelessness, food insecurity, mental health, and research. You mentioned Ken Reed earlier. He passed away from ALS 16, 2006. It was a tough battle for him. So a lot of our funny does go to ALS research and other medical research as well.

well uh... mike thanks for getting up early talking to us i do appreciate that and uh... keep up the good work thank you thank you very much and i'm going to pay up and do because the fact that it's just starting to come up now so i think i can watch that

giving you the information you need, getting you to work on time. Mornings with Andrew Carter on CJAD 800. All righty. And Tom Whalen is in for Trudy Mason, who I believe is on vacation. Good for her. She deserves it, doesn't she, Tom? Yep. Getting up in the middle of the night all the time. Tell me about it. Let's start off with as you're now the Morial, Yasmin Abdul Fadal. What does she say about Trudeau?

Well, very tongue-in-cheek. She's going on about the whole GST announcement and the $250 checks. She's very, very sarcastically calling it a revolutionary announcement.

She says a 5% discount will certainly transform the end of the month for over indebted households. She asks the question, who can believe that absurdity? She answers it herself by saying nobody except perhaps those who invented the absurdity. Once again, talking about the Trudeau government.

She goes on to say that the whole exercise is for the proof that nothing is going well in Ottawa while services are at their lowest both in terms of accessibility and quality. Civil servants are well paid and the machine is giving us a 5% savings on cheese droppings.

She says basically what's going on in Ottawa is that they're not governing. They're making it up as they go along and they're playing a life-size monopoly game. Andrew Cohen in the Montreal Gazette protesters should learn more about NATO. Yes, she's an interesting thesis. If you're going to

break windows and burn cars, you're going to get a certain amount of attention. You're going to invite police and tear gas and things like that. But he said what was really going on inside the Palais de Congore at the NATO meeting is something that he thinks that most of those protesters don't quite understand.

He said there were demands that Canada get out of NATO. There were some protesters waving Communist Party of Canada flags who seems to think NATO is dangerous. And he said that's far from the case that NATO, of course, coming into being mainly because of the work of a former

Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B. Pearson, and he won the Nobel Prize for his work around NATO. And it was one of his big source of pride for him in his tenure. Anyhow, he says that NATO was very important and continues to be important in the war in Ukraine.

and keeping people safe, and that he mentions a bunch of other things. He said, just ask people from West Germany when the whole Cold War was going on, how important NATO was. He said that the protesters should see the benefits of NATO before protesting against it.

A common sense idea for tax. La Press. La Press. Stephanie Gramon. Yes. Dear Canadians, Stephanie says, rejoice. This Christmas, that $3,800 bottle of Chateau de Petru is on sale for just about 5% less, thanks to Justin Trudeau.

So, again, another tongue-in-cheek look at the whole GST holiday and the 200, she said, as a bonus, you'll get a $250 gift certificate in the spring. She goes on to say, in concrete terms, raising the GST by 1% to 6% would generate $10 billion in revenue, which would reduce our tax rates to the lowest income bracket.

So basically she's going on just to say that the whole thing is just a silly endeavor to be assured and that there would be better ways to spend the money and end up reducing taxes in the province and in the country as a whole.

Whenever news breaks, you'll get it here first. The Andrew Carter Morning Show, CJAD 800. Well, I'm not sure how agglomeration voted to stop adding fluoride to tap water in six demurged West Island cities. By next year, a decision that has caused a backlash from local mayors and health experts. Dr. Joe Schwartz, host of the Dr. Joe Show Office for Science and Society, is that McGill is here to talk about fluoride.

Good morning, Dr. Joe. Hey, Andrew. So what is fluoride? If I was to walk through the forest and I saw a fluoride, what would that look like? You wouldn't see it. Okay. Fluoride is an element. It's one of the many elements that make up our world. And the nature occurs in the form of minerals, but the fluoride ion can be extracted from minerals and it can be added to water.

Now, the question is why, and that takes us back to 1901, and Frederick McKay, who was a dentist in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and he noticed that some of his patients had stained teeth. But he also noticed that those patients didn't have cavities. Well, that's when it turned out that they were drinking a lot of water, and the water there naturally contained some fluoride having dissolved from minerals.

So this launched research into seeing what is going on, and it turns out that when you ingest fluoride, it gets incorporated into the tooth enamel, and it forms something called floral appetite, and that is resistant to cavities. So communities started to add fluoride that concentration one part per million to water, and they saw the benefits.

But interestingly enough, there were almost immediately anti-fluoride activists, because any time some new technologies introduced, whether it's microwave open cell phones or AI, there is immediate opposition, which then eventually disappears when use becomes common and no problems are found. Anyway, one very interesting story about the introduction of fluoride was that a town called Newberg in

New York State was the first one that announced it was going to put fluoride in the water and they announced the date when this would happen.

And the date came, and immediately the phone started to ring off the hook at the water treatment facility from people complaining that their thoughts were turning dark, that they were getting headaches and all of this. And of course, you get the bottom line. It turned out that the equipment hadn't arrived, and they hadn't added the fluoride to the water. So it was all psychological.

So, Dr. Joe, what's the science of this? Is it bad for us? Is it good for us overall? And what are your thoughts? Overall, it is good for us because cavities are not just unsightly. People who have poor dental hygiene also have increased concentration of bacteria in their mouth and therefore in their bloodstream and that can trigger all kinds of disease. So dental health is tied to overall health.

And there's no question that fluoride reduces cavities. We have a classic example, comparison of Calgary and Edmonton. Edmonton has always had a fluoridation. In Calgary, it was removed, I think, about 15 years ago. And recently, dentists surveyed both cities. And it turns out that after the removal of fluoride from Calgary's water, the incidence of cavities in children increased.

Now, the reason that there is some controversy is that today people are using Florida toothpaste, the drinking Florida water, they're eating processed foods that were made with Florida water. And the question is, are they then getting more fluoride than they should? Well, this might be in rare cases, a possibility, but it's so far, it's only been a theoretical discussion.

But it is true that in affluent areas where good dental care is available, where kids are using Florida toothpaste or going to the dentist for fluoride treatment, that that is as good as getting it in the water. But the real concern is communities where that is not the case, where there is not adequate dental care, where they don't use toothpaste with fluoride all the time. And there they are getting the cavity.

So it seems to be, you know, to me, some pretty good insurance that at 0.7 parts per million of Florida in the water, there's absolutely no harm. And while affluent communities may not need it, other communities do. And... So for most of us, it's enough just to brush with Florida and Earth, so it's not like someone who had to add to our water.

Right, you don't have to. You don't have to. If you have good dental care, and as children, you get fluoride treatment that you're dentists, and you continue to use fluoride in toothpaste, then yes, that is adequate enough to protect your enamel. However, studies also show that very significant proportions of the population do not have the chance to use fluoride toothpaste. They do not have good dental care.

and they are suffering from cavities. So that's why decisions are generally made to put this small amount of Florida in the water so that it covers the whole population. Dr. Joe, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Well, thanks very much, Andrew. A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore, weekday mornings at 720.

I tell you Chuck Willery for me, he signified he was emblematic of game show hosts. He passed over the weekend. He was 83 years old. That's from Love Connection, John. That was one of your favorites, wasn't it?

Oh, absolutely. I love connection. He also hosted Scrabble and Wheel of Fortune at one point. And yeah, I can't. I'm not that heavily invested in game show hosts, but I always think that they are a unique genre, right? And so, you know, you have a small, a parcel of people who have become sensational personalities and, you know, Bob Barker amongst them or trying to remember the guy who dissed me when I was on Jeopardy.

Alex Trebek. Absolutely. And Chuck Walry is one of the legendary. He became a little bit of a right-wing crank later in life, but still, yeah, he was podcasting and stuff. So, Taylor Swift, did you line up along the Don Valley Parkway and wait? Goodbye to her.

Did you? I did not. It didn't. But it was it was quite extraordinary. The motorcade that she enjoyed getting to her venue six times. She said goodbye on Saturday night and wiped away tears saying you have no idea how much it means to me and to my band to the audience. And of course, everybody knows that the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, was at Taylor Swift on Friday night, apparently completely ignoring Montreal. Is it burned to the ground?

yeah uh... you know that's uh... it's interesting though that uh... some people have noted that but uh... you're allowed to go to a concert with your daughter i would think i know yeah i mean what was he supposed to do you know fly back to auto on go to some war room and watch people smashing windows at the convention center uh... but you know if you only judge the world by what you get on twitter then you would think that uh... you know just intruder was completely negligent should be resigning today well he was uh...

if he were if he should resign, it's probably because of the awful dancing he was doing. Well, well, Taylor Swift was sick, embarrassing, like it was cringeworthy. Good. Yeah, it was cringeworthy. I actually had Justin Trudeau on the show on Friday. Oh, and I'm not sure it went according to plan. Why?

We didn't argue, I never argue, but I'm not a guy who's just sort of what would you like to say today. So we definitely had some back and forth. And that coming on the heels of me sleeping outside in downtown Toronto and not getting any sleep. I mean, I can fast up front. I was cranky.

So did it get to 50 cups? Did you give him a flurry to the solar plexus? He wasn't in person. It was on Zoom. So he could have hung up if he wanted to. See, if he was in person, you would not have been able to resist his charms. You would have stared into his eyes and you would have just you would have melted because he's just he's so handsome. I don't find Justin Trudeau all that dream. He's charismatic and handsome. He's amazing. He does have charisma, but I just it's he's not my type.

Wicked and gladiator to brought in cash today. Yeah, wicked. Pulling in $114 million gladiator to pulling in 55.5 million dollars. So a good weekend for Hollywood. Definitely. Are people wondering if Jay Leno really fell down? Do you think it was staged? What happened? What is this story?

Well, just a lot of people found it very questionable, but actually internet sleuths have been looking at all kinds of, you know, footage from the area, not at the time that he fell down, but just to get a feel for where he was. And basically it was a switchback. And so he could take the long road and do the sort of boomerang route, or he could go down a hill. And it makes perfect sense that there's actually a dirt path on the hill, except that he fell down and tumbled some 56 feet.

Good story. Well, I mean, you know, it's sort of like Jesse Smollett. It's like when I heard. Oh, you think that he's trying to get our sympathy? Like Shayla? Well, who knows? I mean, anything could have happened, but I, I, Occam's razor, you know, um, it makes perfect sense that he tried to take a shortcut and he fell down a hill. It's just, you know, it's kind of an ask nine thing to have done. Did, did Justin Trudeau ask about me?

He did not. Oh, didn't ask about me either. That's disappointing. You have a great day, John. Love you. Take care. John Moore, CJAD Entertainment. Catch Tom Mulcair live Monday to Friday at 7.35 a.m. and 5.05 p.m. Tom Mulcair is brought to you by guaranteed, guaranteed industries for high efficiency Lennox furnaces and heat pumps called guaranteed industries at 514 34 to 3400 guaranteed industries since 1957.

But at the end, we have a group that organized, it wasn't there for the cars, was there just to destroy the windows, the cars, and really they were there to kill some criminal actors.

That's a fatty dagger, the police chief of Montreal. Tom, three arrested, pro-Palestinian and tornado protest downtown Montreal on the Friday night windows broken. It was a mess. And of course, it made a good political hay for Tudor's opponents to show him dancing with his daughter at the Taylor Swift concert. So your thoughts.

That's a brilliant 30-second summary, Andrew Carter. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. So we had the umpteenth march by people protesting the situation in the Middle East.

And that was infiltrated as the chief of police just said by groups. He's identified them in the past, like the black block, another one that calls itself the clack. I won't even try to give you the full French version, but these are just troublemakers. So they got in there. They started smashing up all of the windows. It was a real mess at the convention center. Why? Because that was a meeting of NATO parliamentarians.

And yes, the last time I checked, Mr. Trudeau is a member of Parliament. Is he allowed to go to a Taylor Swift concert with his daughter? Of course he is. But the timing was that people were watching this. It was the second day in a row on Thursday at Concordia. There had been it.

massive anti-Semitic march. I mean, no, no sense in calling it anything else. People will say, oh, no, no, it was protest in the situation in the Middle East. But when you have people giving the Nazi slew and talking about the final solution, you're talking about an anti-Semitic protest and march. So this is where we are in Montreal right now. The police had done nothing, whether it was at Shar HaShamai and synagogue in Westmount. If you look at the pictures from Thursday, you have police officers facing the small handful of people with Israeli and Canadian flags.

But not doing heck of a lot about people giving the Nancy salute. Now I do have some news because he just gave an interview on French radio and I can report that fatty dagger says that the person giving that salute who lost her for she, her family had the two second cup franchises at the Jewish general hospital, which were immediately removed by the company over the weekend. Turns out, according to dagger, she is under investigation and will probably be facing charges. So that has been news because it shows that they're finally starting to climb on things.

Yes, I mean it's it's been an embarrassment and I get talking around I'm not going after the individual cops that there is clearly Not enough understanding at the top of the MUSC police that these are hate crimes and that they there are laws against that and that's been the problem It's not that we need new laws is that we need to enforce the ones that are there

I still can't get my head around the fact that a franchisee who has franchises in the Jewish General Hospital would be taking part and doing those things. It makes no sense. This person, I don't understand. It defies words or logic. What happened was,

So that person, because there were a bunch of pictures available online, including a tape, you know, a video with sound of her saying, threatening and explaining, you know what it is, the final solution, you're going to get a final solution. And so does that make any sense? No, but she was wearing a headscarf, the, you know, the one that you see often at these protests called the Caffeia, and she was wearing large sunglasses.

and a surgical mask. So you weren't supposed to be able to identify her. But unfortunately, before she got all that stuff on, people had taken pictures of her. And so it was clear who it was. So yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Why would they do that? Who knows? But it's a good thing that there's a good thing that people see that there can be consequences to this. And there may be more in other words, that was an immediate business consequence. But there will, of course, perhaps be consequences under the criminal law.

Okay, now let's talk about the political angle of this and Pierre Pauliev or his people and or his people were all over the pictures of Johnson Trudeau with his daughter at the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto. Well, Montreal burns while well Trudeau dances was basically the headline. Your thoughts on that he's allowed to take his daughter to a concert. Is he not? You bet.

And absolutely no problem with that. And this is completely over the top from what you have. And some of the other stuff that they're going to sounds like a soft, more term paper, you know, talking about Trudeau's identity politics. Yeah, sure, exactly the type of thing the average Canadian voter gets into. But the problem with Trudeau repeatedly is not that he's not allowed to do stuff on his own. Everybody's allowed down time, including the Prime Minister.

You remember when he created the national day of truth and reconciliation and then promptly scooted off because he hopped on his plane and went surfing in Tofino and everybody said, hold it, you were lecturing us about the importance of this day and you took off. So it's not that he was at a concert for Taylor Swift, that can be just good politics, good PR and being a good dad, but it's

Canada's got the worst record in NATO, where the laggards were the last in the class. This is a meeting of NATO parliamentarians. Trudeau, it turns out, has decided to be there this morning at 9.30 to give a speech, who knew that it was important for him to be at that NATO meeting.

On Friday, it was an absolute opportunistic move by the conservatives. They went over the top. You say, you know, the people around him, and Claudia, I think they're one and the same. Claudia tends to drive his own social media, and it's not, you know, just so happy this or that day. It's really this type of bizarre stuff where he can't help himself. And that's very telling about Pierre Poitier and how he would do politics if ever he did get the top job. It's worrisome, actually, when you see that sort of stuff.

Okay. Uh, what's the, uh, Canadian future party? Is this, uh, is this going to get anywhere you think? No, this is my old buddy, Dominic Cardi. And I'm very serious when I say my old buddy, because he was the head of the NDP. Don't you know, when I was the head provincially in New Brunswick, when I was the head of the NDP federally. And then one day, it was sort of like a political coming out. He says, well, actually I'm a conservative. And I said, well, that's interesting news. So he went and ran for the conservatives and became a cabinet minister.

But then when Blaine Higgs came out with his anti-LGBTQ positions, he quit cabinet and a whole bunch of other, well, actually his was over more complicated stuff involving official languages, but it started to all fall apart for Blaine Higgs and his government in New Brunswick. After that, I think something like 10 or 11 members of his caucus wound up leaving. So he is the type of guy who himself has always had trouble identifying where he wants to be politically.

and the result of that is he's decided we need a new party that's the middle of the road party yeah but of course uh... they ran in the the by election in the salam art and all that and uh... didn't do very well because they don't have any money and they don't really have any policies they don't really have any candidates they just have an idea so i don't think it's going to go anywhere but politically will wish my friend i'm at it well

Yeah, but politically, wouldn't you say that most Canadians would describe themselves as middle of the road in terms of their. That's why we have two middle of the road parties that are always there. We've got the liberals who are middle. It ticked left and you got the NDP that's a bit more left. You always had the progressive conservatives. What a funny name when you think of it, but they were middle. It's right. But then they became the conservatives, you know, and this was more hard bitten. This was

the Stephen Harper version, and this is the one that Pierre Poitier holds still right. But to your point, and I think it is a good one, is it an indication that Canadians really don't like hard politics of the right or hard politics at the left? I think it is. And I think that if Poitier, going back to our previous discussion, continues to put out stuff that is so weird, so out of sync with the average Canadian, I think he might be in for a bit of a surprise. I don't think it's going to go as well for him as the polls are indicating, especially if the Liberals are even a bit of it.

Don't miss the two-minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 750. Good morning to you. I hope you're staying warm this morning. Yeah, I'm inside. Thank you. And so far we still have been paying our bills, so I guess. It's a good night. The heat's on. Yeah, good night.

uh... i'm pretty excited that dan hill is going to be at that to get that to christmas concert that uh... i didn't i didn't realize that that the anti-kim christmas concert we're giving a ticket still that'll be very member him member him sometimes when we touch you want to think about it uh... uh... okay so let's talk about kids children's books uh... peter rabbit uh... when in the willows uh... whatever it is so cool to the journal of experimental child psychology these guys have been doing this type of research for a while

And they tried to figure out why is it that if you think about it, there are all these books which have animals in them. And there are books to teach the kids both directly and indirectly about proper behavior and I'll call it in quotation marks, morals and ethics and things like that. Well, it turns out what they did was they gave these kids 20 little stories and they looked at kids all the way from the ages of five to 10. And they basically, these were stories where there was a person

giving the what called the moral or ethical example or an animal. And it turned out as you got older, closer towards the age of 10, you really related more to real people and learned the lesson better from real people. But if you were a kid and you were exposed to the animal, the frog or the rabbit or whatever it was, you did just as well as the older kid did with a person. It turned out that little kids

are especially able to take these principles from animals. And they call this anthropomorph, anthropomorphization can destroy it. It's the ability to project human emotions and feelings onto an animal or an inanimate object. And kids are uniquely at a very young age able to do this. And they specifically respond much more effectively to the morals and to the lessons that are taught to them by an animal in a story.

So don't freak out if you're reading a little storybooks to your kids as they're growing up. And a lot of these stories have animals or inanimate objects, you know, like Thomas the Tank or or the frog in the wind in the willows and things like that, or Pooh Bear, right? When you do philosopher King. Well, yes. He's a great philosopher when he's a phenomenal philosopher, but the kids relate very well to that. And there's even more depth to this.

They also did work with children with developmental problems, on the spectrum of autism. And they also found a similar thing, that the kids with autism were better able to learn these, we'll call them moral or ethical issues, if it was an animal in the story, rather than a person. So there may be something here to help kids at all levels, and with all degrees of background, to help them to develop as you would want them to develop normally. So just a fascinating study.

and just shows you that you know maybe there's a reason why they're all the you know all these kids stories with animals with rabbits and frogs and other animals in them i was always worried that mister mcgregor was gonna get uh... peter rabbit he never did

I'm sure you feel a lot better about it now. You know, in the words of Winnie the Pooh, a hug is always the right size. That was one thing that Winnie did. That's a very good comment. No, he's... No, Winnie... I'm telling you, Winnie the Pooh was... You look up some Winnie the Pooh quotes. Yeah, it's unbelievable. The thing. I know I know it was a mill and it wasn't Winnie the Pooh actually saying these things, but very clever. But you were able to pick them up and look how long you retained at them.

as a result of them being told to you by a bear you're right as a matter of fact you have a great you have a great day that is a doctor mitch shulman getting up with you weekday mornings twenty years and counting andrew carter on the voice of montreal c j a d eight hundred feeling tired enough on a monday morning is a wise it necessary to remind me that i getting up in the middle of the night for thirty years actually

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On Friday, this mission sent six people to space for the 28th flight of the new Shepard program. Henry Wolfund was, you may know him as Hank Wolfund. He's the president of CEO of Bayshore Capital in Toronto. He was the only Canadian on board. And he's on the line right now. Good morning. How are you? How are you doing? So this must have been exciting for you as I understand that you're, how was it? You're kind of like an air, you're an airplane enthusiast, an airplane nerd almost. Yeah, pretty, pretty much.

I've been flying for almost 50 years, so it's something a passion I've perceived since childhood. OK, so describe to me this flight. What does the vehicle look like and how long are you up there for? It's a very short flight. It's a rocket that launches out of the desert in West Texas. It goes straight up to an altitude above 100 kilometers, above the surface of the Earth, 350,000 feet.

you're in beyond the call of gravity in the blackness of space for around four minutes and then you fall back to earth and parachute open and uh... you land in the desert so what do you see it did you can you see out the window during that there are huge windows and it's almost indescribable uh... the blackness of space is something you it's a color that

doesn't exist on Earth. When you look at the night sky through the atmosphere, it's a different color. Out there, it's like a translucent black. It looks like liquid almost. And you see the Earth, the thin blue layer, our environment, our atmosphere that protects us all. It's awe-inspiring. You don't see topography. The surface of the Earth flattens.

It's breathtaking. It's emotional. It's even at that altitude, which is suborbital. The Earth starts to look small. You can see I've arrived in 1200 kilometers away. I'm still processing the experience. And I know it sounds again. Are you floating at this point? You are floating in space. You are out of gravity's reach. I looked out the window, hang upside down.

And it's an odd perspective. You look down, you see blackness, and you look up, and you see this bright surface of the Earth. It's just, wow, it's, Andy, and you actually, do you want to do your seatbelt? Did that be fine? And you're floating around? I can do your seatbelt. You float around. And as I said, it's a breathtaking experience. And for me, it was an opportunity

You know, I read in Carl Sagan's book, in Chris Hadfield's book, where you don't see boundaries and lines and divisions and politics and hatred. And that's something that's for decades been an important cause in mind, fighting anti-Semitism, fighting hate. And I think we're in a situation where anti-Semitism is an epidemic in this country.

And I've never seen it so dire. And I don't even know in the darkest days of World War II with the Nazis that Canada has ever been this bad. It is so interesting that you make that note about just how the earth, you know, you feel like everybody should be of one mind almost, you know, and friends and get along when you look at it from the fullness of space. Because Mark Guarnos said that in his book as well.

and i haven't i i'll have to read mark but also but uh... and and uh... it's i find it uh... it interesting that you that you're it's that a profound experience when you're up there for four minutes and you're not really like fully into space like they say you know like up at the right or whatever but that's another thing that when i was sort of saying is it really going to space to chris hatfield he said yes absolutely i mean it it is

a profound experience and it's so interesting to hear you and I'm sure you've had a lot of great experiences in your life to be so moved by this.

Most of my adult life has been a volunteer in the community, both in the Jewish community and healthcare and other things. And I wanted to kind of combine those passions and those priorities together with this mission. And as a Jewish person, seeing what's going on in the streets where terrorist killers who

openly declaring intention for another to a genocide of being celebrated memorialized compared to Nelson Mandela by the mayor of Mississauga. You look at what went on in your city, what happened in Montreal on Friday. The Canadians want a country where terrorist supporters riot, attack police, smash buildings and burn cars. I think we're in a crisis. We make up

as Jews 1%, less than 1% of the population, and yet 25% of all hate crimes in Canada were committed against Jews. And that was before October 7, 2023. And that's spike since we're seeing anti-Semitism take them to a new level, vandalism, harassment, violence against Jews, walking down the street, Jewish students, facing protests and into innovation data itself.

This is a message I want to bring to Canadians. I want to encourage allies to join us. As one person in the population, we're facing a tsunami of hate, and we need friends and allies to stand with us, people like General Rick Delier, Ambassador Deborah Lyons, Chief Claire Sue of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and thousands of others who see this taking root

and recognize that this is not something that can be tolerated in society. Well said. Henry, thanks very much for your time. It's nice to meet you. Just the Head Start Your Day Needs, the Andrew Carter Morning Show, CJAD 800. Okay, now we're going to talk about the importance of protein. Protein is an essential nutrient in our bodies. It helps protect our bones. It even helps you with suppressing hunger, if you want to lose weight, I'm told.

How do you know how much protein to eat? What's the best sources out there? Olivia Coron is a registered dietitian nutritionist. You can visit Olivia online at nutrition by Olivia.com. Hello, Olivia. Hello. Okay. So is protein really that important? It's quite important. Yeah. It has tons of different roles in the body. It makes enzymes, hormones, compounds,

I came a little bit, for example, to transport oxygen throughout the body, digest events on to make our digestive system work properly. And yeah, I mean, for sure, it's important for muscle mass, like maintaining it or improving it. And one of the functions that I talk about most with my clients is that it helps keep you fuller for longer. Like you're saying in terms of appetite, if you're someone who gets hungry an hour or two after eating your meal, it might be lacking protein.

Okay, so on average, you think we get enough of it every day? Yeah, we do get enough. I think that social media makes it seem like we need tons and tons of protein, but most people do get enough for the basic function, like for those enzymes, hormones, et cetera. But if you're someone who wants to improve in your sports, to improve recovery times, gain muscle mass, then you would need more.

To give you an idea, someone who doesn't necessarily play sports or doesn't really need to improve, you would need about 1 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. If you're doing some sports, you want to improve, it would be more like 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. And then if you want to gain muscle mass, it would be more like

on that higher range. So around 1.6. Okay. Okay. This is what I've always I've been talking to people like you for years. And this is where I have a hard time getting my head wrapping my head around this. So somebody who's an average man or an average woman who you pick. How do you like quantified? What does that look like? Is it the size of, is it like the size of an apple? Is it, you know, like, is it five pieces of meat? What is it?

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, an average man or woman, it's about a quarter of your plate. So three times a day, a quarter of your plate. That could be if it's, if it's meat, it's about the size of the palm of your hand. But if it's something, if it's a vegetarian protein, then typically you do need more than that. So about a cup could be, could be good. So that's like the size of your, your fifth. Okay. That makes it, that makes sense.

Yeah. What about protein powders? What's your take on the, should we bother with those or just try to go for the meat? Yeah, I think typically I do suggest getting your protein from food first just because there's a lot of other nutrients in the food compared to the protein powder. But again, like if you're, if you're trying to gain muscle and it's quite hard for you to get it all through food, then it could be a good supplement for sure.

It's just not the number one priority. Okay, now you sort of made references if you're vegetarian or vegan, how do you consume enough protein? Yeah, you just have to get it from the different vegetarian proteins at each of your meals and probably in your snacks as well. So it can be either through legumes like lentils, beans and chickpeas, or it could be from soy foods,

like tempeh, tofu, and edamame. So if you have, oh, and also nuts and seeds and peanut butter, so go ahead and have those in each of your meals and snacks, then it's definitely possible. And there are vegan protein powders as well if you are try to gain muscle.

Hey, thanks very much, Olivia. We'll look you up, OK? And we'll do the math ourselves. Nutrition by Olivia.com. That's Olivia Coron, who's a registered dietician nutritionist. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday, 5 30 to 9.