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I always just smile when I hear about the McGill baby lab, because I have a picture in my mind of a baby standing around in white coats doing experiments, but that's not what the baby lab is. And these days, they're looking into how infants, what they recognize in terms of familiar languages and not familiar languages. Linda Polka is McGill's baby lab director, and she is on the line. Good morning, Linda.
Good morning. So tell me about this study that you've been doing on how infants hear language. Well, we're interested in the very early steps that babies make in learning languages. And we know that as soon as they can hear, they start tuning into the language that they're exposed to. And that probably starts even before they're born.
And we wanted to learn more about the first couple of months of life and particularly in babies who are hearing more than one language. So the tricky thing about this research is that there aren't a lot of really good testing methods for babies under about three or four months. And we knew that most of the research that had been done in this very early stage had been conducted in hospitals usually with newborns.
and usually using a method based on sucking, but that kind of method is harder to use because a lot of hospitals don't want to introduce pacifiers. And so we decided to try a different approach and we are doing a study using crawling as a behavior. And this was something we decided to try because we know from recent work that we know from long-term
kind of studies that crawling is a very natural behavior for babies. And we know now that even newborns have the ability to crawl when you support their head and their upper body properly, and there's even a device that's been designed to provide that kind of support for newborns. And we also were aware of recent work confirming that babies engage in crawling as an intentional behavior.
It was for many years thought to be a reflex, but now we know that they can actually engage in crawling to try to approach a goal. How does crawling relate to the language? Well, it's just a method to use for babies to show us what they can do. So we wanted to use a behavioral method that relied on some behavior that babies can show us without a lot of difficulty.
And so this was an option that we were trying that we're trying in this study. Okay, so but so I'm not a scientist. So what did the now bringing the language part? How did you how did babies respond to different languages? Yeah, well, we were aware from previous research, which had mostly looked at babies learning just one language that
from birth babies can show us that they recognize the language in their environment, their native language. And so in our study, what we're doing is that the baby is on this little device that allows them to crawl and there's a loudspeaker and some distance away on a little platform. And we present them sounds of speech either from someone speaking English, French or Mandarin. So it's the same person speaking to them.
And then we can see if they try to crawl more when they hear a language that they're familiar with versus one that they're not familiar with. And what did you find? And well, we're still in the process. This study, we're in an early stage, or I'd say about a third of the way through collecting the data. We're testing babies that hear only English or French at home, as well as babies who are hearing both who want to compare those groups.
I said we're about a third way through this study, so we're really actively looking for participants.
It's surprising because the babies we're testing are one to two month old. Okay. So we have to catch them really quickly. Right. So I guess I'd be too old to be a participant in this. You're looking for babies. Yeah, probably. Once the babies are beyond a certain size, they're too big for the skateboard as well. Oh, really? Okay. So how would people, there's a, there's a website here, polka lab McGill, where you just, they can just Google baby and McGill baby lab and find this.
Okay. Now, there's a lot of, I'm just wondering, what have you learned over the years about households where, you know, one parent speaks French, one parent speaks English to the baby? Is that confusing for the baby? Or is that, does that, is it good? What happens? No, we haven't found anything to be concerned about. My lab has been doing a lot of work looking at, we did a big study where we were looking at
more precisely at what babies actually hear. So we've done a study where they wear a device that records everything that the child would hear over a day-long period. And we found some interesting things. We found that babies hear a lot of speech. They hear more speech spoken like in the background than they do have the speech that's directly directed to them. So they're like little sponges.
Yeah, yeah, and we were really surprised at how much they hear a lot of interaction directly with the baby, but there's even more going on around them. And we also found looking across a set of recordings from different families that there's a lot of variability. Some babies are hearing much more language than others. And I'd say many babies that are hearing two languages often hear
um... one language more than the other so that they're hearing english and french every day is one of those languages is usually uh... uh... more present than the other uh... linda thank you very much for your time and good luck with this to help you get some babies thank you linda polka getting you up and out the door the andrew carter morning show c j a d eight hundred six forty two trudy's takeaways to trudy let's start off with uh... left press
because we like this one. Alex Antprat on his growing discomfort about standing for the U.S. national anthem at hockey games. Yeah, and he's talking about this. This is a sports column in La Press, but he's talking about this because at the Canadians game last weekend at the Bell Center, some of the attendees booed the U.S. national anthem.
And it was, it was a significant number and it was all the way through. So it's been, there's been a lot of chatter about this ever since then. And he's talking about, he goes to great lengths in his column to say that he is a big fan of the US. He loves visiting there. He's been fascinated with the US. He's loved the US, the people, the experiences that, you know, the sites and
It's been many times and it's all wonderful. But this is a little bit different. And the headline on his column is, do you really have to sing the praises of your bully?
And so he's talking about what you can do if you find yourself in that situation. He says, as far as he's concerned, if the NHL isn't going to eliminate all lanthems, as is done, for example, in a lot of soccer leagues overseas, there are no lanthems, no national lanthems. But he says, if they're not gonna do that, what they might wanna do, at least while this crisis is afoot, is eliminate the visiting team's anthem.
So that there's no. It's not good. It's not good form to boost somebody's national anthem. But he does note, you know, what can you do? He says, this is a free country. You can, you can do what you want. Nothing is obliging you to stand up.
to sing and applaud the national anthem of the United States. You could get a sudden case of, you know, of, of cramp, uh, tendinitis. You can have a sudden case of, um, of laryngitis and not be able to sing. He says, uh, Americans deserve respect. Yes. But, uh, he thinks that humbly thinks that another group deserves respect to, and that's us.
Uh, match your buck. Oh, Tae in the journal tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. He's asking, is, is it possible to have a nuanced analysis of Trump policies? And he says that, you know, he's talking about the knee jerk reactions that everything that Donald Trump does is either great and fabulous or everything Donald Trump does as terrible and awful in a catastrophe. And he says that, for example,
He is rejoicing that Donald Trump is battling wokeism, you know, with his recognition of just two genders. He says he's pleased that Donald Trump is taking on the migratory
what he calls the submerging of his country. And he wishes Canada would do the same thing. He applauds Donald Trump's drive to reduce bureaucracy. But then Matthew Bakote goes on to say, okay, but here are the criticisms. He says this annexing delirium of Donald Trump towards Canada is crazy.
And in terms of his talk about taking over Greenland and stuff, it's a very profoundly imperialist worldview. So he's arguing for a policy by policy analysis. A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore, weekday mornings at 720. Yeah, and it's his first album in five years apparently. He's now 84 years old. Ringo Starr was on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
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brought in a drum and that's where it'll go. Hey, how's Harvey Weinstein these days? Not good, apparently. He's asking a judge to move up his trial. Actually, it's a retrial. He says he has cancer, he has heart issues, mobility issues. So he was supposed to go on trial April 15th, but he's hoping for a date in March.
okay uh... let's see uh... t m c abstains the phone messages in which just invalidity apologizes to blake lively why are we even talking about this john is it was at the though the amount of the lawsuits like you possibly because i don't think most people have heard of just invalidity and like lively doesn't have a big profile aside from being married to ryan Reynolds but i think it's just because there's a certain degree of uh... sexiness to the legal battle and the reputational battle she says he was uh...
bad to her on set. And in this phone call, which the message goes on for like seven minutes, he apologizes. He says, I want to apologize. I'm far, far from perfect. I'm a very flawed man as my wife will attest, but I will always apologize and then find my way back to center. And then he goes on and on and on and on. But you know, that's going to be used obviously by her lawyers to illustrate the fact that he did bad stuff and he knew it. Nat, did you hear Netflix is rebooting Little House on the Prairie?
No way. Yeah, way. Well, how would that be? That would be great. I love that. I guess so. I mean, the original show, I was never that big a fan. What? I think most people, fans of it, they were perfect. What? Michael Landon was the best. I wanted to be my dad. No offense. No offense, dad. My dad's listening, but Michael Landon. I did something in the last couple of days that I haven't done in the ages. I got two auditions, John.
No way. Way. What for? We have the same role. Well, no, no, one was a commercial. Okay. And the other one was a movie. And you know, it's amazing. You know what they cast me for in the movie? Why? They didn't cast me. The audition was for a lawyer, a lawyer, a lawyer. I've only ever played a reporter. And I was so excited that it was a lawyer, but I'm not. I don't know.
Yeah, but you know what, back in the day when I was in Montreal, I could audition for anything. I could play a dad, a lawyer, a doctor. I mean, I usually play jackasses. But ever since I got to Toronto, it's just reporter, reporter, news anchor, news anchor. Yeah. Yeah. Order, order. Oh, shut up. You have a great day. John Moore, CJ&E Entertainment. Catch Tom Mulcair live Monday to Friday at 7.35 AM and 5.05 PM.
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good morning and so it's a very interesting uh... that the news conference i would start off of the mayor of d c they went right to the secretary of transportation to ensure people that flying is safe basically yeah and i was a strong message and course putting at the name of the president in their saying we're not going to rest until we find out what happened and you are safe and then you heard from the chief of police that incredibly long list of the different forces and services involved in reacting to this because of course it's
It's going to involve the armed forces and therefore every single level of the US government to try to figure out exactly what happened, but first and foremost are just our thoughts and our minds turn to the families and the friends of those who have been lost in this terrible tragedy. When I saw the first news break, I had trouble believing it was, I remember years ago,
There was another plane that went down into the Potomac, and as they were describing, they got the same pretty darn close to the same winter weather as us. So you can imagine what those conditions were like for the brave people trying to see if they could rescue anybody. And it's very curious because one of the things that the experts say is that this is some of the most controlled airspace in the world. And then how these two craft, which apparently were aware of each other, managed to crash into each other, but I guess we'll find that out.
Exactly. Okay. So what is foremost on your mind as far as the world of politics this morning? Well, let's dig back into a file that you and I looked at yesterday. Kudos to Michel alone and to the Gazette.
you know for how they were able to describe this in great detail so you remember yesterday we had this crazy story of people wanting to have a room at a public library so that they could discuss books and maybe speak English because some of the books are going to be English well i think all the books are English accent English book yeah but actually they would sometimes go through the french version and the english version of the same book and compare them
And so there were people who would actually be talking about the French version as well. But that's a detail. The important thing is they were told by the city of Montreal that they couldn't have a meeting in a Montreal public library if they're going to be speaking English. And to quote Julius Gray, my old buddy who's worked on these language questions for decades, this is the type of ridiculous interpretation you get to when you instill a climate of fear
and intolerance and that's what bill 96 said interestingly enough the city of Montreal is still adhering to its ridiculous interpretation of bill 96 because as you and i pointed out yesterday and as julius confirms and as the minister responsible for bill 96 confirms this has absolutely nothing to do with a service to the public and bill 96 and bill 101 don't even apply
But the city of Montreal goes to a provision in Bill 96, this general statement is that the public administration, including municipalities, have to be exemplary in their use of French, and they're trying to hang their hat on that. As if that was an authorization for the city of Montreal to deny freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, in a public library. It is absolutely bonkers.
And if you wanted to have in one snapshot, what is wrong with our language politics, our language laws, and the way they're interpreted, enforced, and applied, this is just, this one is going to make the rounds. You know, this is already going across Canada, and you'll wind up with articles about this, you know, in the British papers or probably over the weekend in the US papers, because it is that deliciously past the gate. And I remind people of what past the gate was going back to Bill 101. It was a closet that said,
everything, you know, menus and stuff. You have to have them bilingual. But you can use words from another language. It's obviously you're serving the specialties of that country. But then that got to changed. And somebody added a little closet, said, but if it says easily accessible as other Quebec food products, then you're not allowed to have the other language. And that gave us past the gate. And that went around the world. So the best way to deal sometimes is you have to go to the courts and you have to take legal cases and you have to get stuff knocked down.
But the best way to deal with it is to show just how ridiculous it is and tip of the hat to two people today. Therefore, to Michelle alone of the Gazette and to Julius Gray for doing us all the service by summarizing it. Ridiculous. Don't miss the two minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 7.50. Good morning, Dr. Mitch. Good morning to you. I hope you're staying warm. It's cold.
I moderate exercise. What would you consider to be moderate exercise?
would rate it around a 5 or a 6. So in other words, enough to get you going, you can still carry on a bit of a con.
New you. New you. Explore it all. The brand new. And iHeartRadio.ca. And on the free iHeartRadio app. Conversation, but you're really making an effort and you feel that you're actually doing something, your heart rate's going up and you're working. And we've talked in the past about how 150 minutes of moderate exercise, moderate to vigorous exercise over the week is what we should kind of be aiming for. What this study in physiological reports talks about
is looking at obese guys because very few studies actually measure the effect on a specific population like obese guys. These are guys with a BMI body mass index of 35. So they're big. And what happened if you exercised on your appetite? Now, I don't know about you guys, but most people, when they exercise immediately after they exercise, absolutely no appetite. And it can last for about just an hour or even a bit longer.
They wanted to see does that effect happen in obese people, not lean or normal-weighted or just slightly overweight people? And how long does it last? And is there some sort of hormonal changes that happen at the same time? And lo and behold, in this study, they found not only did the obese guys react in the same way. So in other words, there was generalized a suppression of their diet for at least an hour after the exercise. They also found
that there was all these hormones that were fluctuating, which actually were the hormones responsible for reducing your appetite and all that. So there's an advantaged exercising, not just in the fact that you're exercising, you're being active, you're helping to lose weight, you're doing getting your body into better shape, and all the other things that go along with it, you actually may help you to lose weight in another way by reducing the drive to eat, or as we call it, the appetite.
Okay, so am I supposed to, what am I, just to be clear, I'm supposed to exercise when I'm hungry? No, you're supposed to exercise any time and we'll keep you from getting hungry. So let's say, let's say you're feeling a craving in the early afternoon, right? Our body metabolism normally goes down in the afternoon, we feel tired, we feel a lot of people reach for something sweet or fast to kind of keep them going. Instead, if you kind of got up and walked around your desk or walked over to someone else's cubicle,
or did something you know at the at the side of your death some squats or something like that is a wall sits or something like that you'll find that your appetite will be suppressed you'll generalize yourself you'll feel more awake but you have the benefit of doing physical activity rather than just adding more calories into the furnace have a great day doctor mitch thank you so much to have a good one and add more calories to the furnace
It's the ride you can rely on every morning. Andrew Carter, CJAD 800. It's a TD minus two, a tariff day minus two. It's a Saturday, the 25% tariffs kick in, according to the latest from President Donald Trump.
One industry leader says that Quebec and American business communities have an interest in talking to each other to find a way to resolve the tariff conflict that's emerging. Veronique Prue is president and CEO of the Quebec Manufacturers and Exporters Association. She was in Washington last week. Good morning, Veronique. Yes, good morning. I was with the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, but I've joined the Federation of Chambers of Commerce over the past few months now.
Okay, so you're with the Federation of Chambers of Commerce. Exactly. Okay. But your goal is the same, obviously, right? Well, absolutely. The relationships between Canada and the U.S. is a priority for our members. We represent both the Chambers of Commerce across Quebec, but we also have close to a thousand companies who are members, so they're large exporters, but also SMEs in every region. Okay. So, Veronique, tell me what's the tone of the conversation between Americans and Canadians at this point?
Well, you know, when we went to Washington, we were meeting with various groups, associations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and representatives, both from Congress and the Senate, Republicans, Democrats, American companies. And we were really going there to see how we could work together to make sure that the American companies speak up so we can hear their voice as they did through the first mandate, through the first Trump mandate. That's how they managed to influence President Trump.
Now to our surprise, when we went there, we realized that no one wants to speak up. So the companies don't want to speak up and they don't want their business associations to speak up either. So the strategy has really changed in the way they're trying to influence the president to avoid terrorists. So why don't they want to speak up? Are they fearful? Well, the president came in with a very strong mandate. And no one's against his economic agenda.
which is to reduce inflation, attract investment, and grow the economy. So when you're in the US, you really get that feeling of the America first. They all agree with that. Then, once again, the president surrounded himself with loyalists. So there's no one around him who can really influence or bring sort of more of that pragmatic approach to him. So there are a lot of concerns on how to do it, and companies are just a comfortable speaking up now.
They are speaking to their elects, either governors, congressmen, or Senate representatives. But will their voice be heard? Will it get to the president? That's really the big question for us. So, Veronique, what do you think is going to happen over the next week or so? Well, we're pretty sure we're going to be hit by tariffs. Now, will it be 25% on everything? That would be surprising, because once again, he won't put in place measures that will clearly hurt his economic agenda. So, for instance,
25% on Albertan oil exported to the S. That would be very surprising. But we are expecting tariffs on what products to what extent no one really knows. But companies are getting ready, as are the Quebec and Canadian government, to be able to respond. So what sectors of the economy of the Quebec economy would be hurt the most? When we look at our three top exporters from Quebec to US, we have aluminium, we have aerospace and critical minerals.
So these are three sectors, which actually the US is quite dependent on us because if we look at aluminum, they don't produce enough to answer their local demand. And in the conversations we had with them in Washington last week, we reminded them that the aluminum that is pretty simple back and shipped to the US goes in their beer cans and the auto sector in the defense sector. These are areas where they need us. When we look at critical minerals, it's the same thing. Canada can help secure the supply chain
their alternative is going to China. But once again, we're not, you know, we're very, when we speak to ourselves, between ourselves, we're really confident about the important importance of the trade relationship between our two countries. When you go to the US, you feel that there is, there is some disconnect, there is some difference. And we saw yesterday, there were comments that were made that if Canada stops, you know, secure as a border, secure as immigration, and make sure that no drugs are going through, they would reduce the tariffs.
So it's a very unpredictable situation. So on our side, this is why we've told the Quebec government, we have to be ready. You have to prepare some measures to help the companies should President Trump choose to go ahead with these tariffs. So there's 10 recommendations that we put forward to both the Quebec and the Canadian government. Which would include shoveling money their way? Well, the first thing is helping companies. If there are tariffs of 25%, there are some companies that will have to lay off some people.
They won't be able to check to the US anymore. So there will need to be some support in the short term to help with the employees and companies who won't have enough liquidities or cash. But then we really need to think longer term. So looking at our internal market, how can Canada reduce internal trade barriers? We've been talking about this forever. But we can see that the premier seem to be working together in that direction. So that's one thing. The second thing we can look at is public procurement.
If a Canadian company wants to sell to the US government or the French government, they need to invest in that country. They need to have a manufacturing footprint in that country. In Quebec and Canada, any company across the world can come, do business with their government, get a contract from the government,
and they don't need to have any any footprint so there are things that you know that what what president trump is doing is really bring us to to see the world differently to see how we're doing trade differently and the cap Quebec government and can eat canadian will have to be ambitious and showing that there is a local market that they will protect their market but we also need to look at diversifying our markets outside of the u.s. because we are so dependent on it very good luck with this
Thank you very much. Road reports and your weather forecast every 15 minutes and great company around the clock. The Andrew Carter Morning Show, CJAD 800. It's a 24-chat of the matters with Tony Chapman. Good morning, Tony. How are you? Good morning, Andrew. And I have my voice almost back. Your voice is almost back. That's all. It's been a week.
i know now did you have it was it just your voice or did you have that uh... that bad cold that everybody was mostly my i would say ninety percent my voice i've got over to american baking soda drank onion water i've done every old white you know tell that they'd thrown at me and it's actually it's actually really good and this happened i mean not perfect but i can get i i don't squeak really
You know, years ago, I think it was David Suzuki was speaking in Montreal and he had lost his voice and he went to the pharmacy to ask if they had anything for his throat. And, you know, the pharmacist against all reason said that this suppository is the best thing that works.
nobody ever suggested that to you they make some sort of a i don't know if it's no sense but apparently uh... that's the best way okay so let's talk about uh... were uh... tariff day a minus two
And I'm hearing from lobby groups and company organizations, chambers of commerce and so on, and some politicians that immediately they're jumping to, let's provide some sort of relief program for our businesses. But that's not necessarily the way you would like to go. We can't afford to. I mean, it's a great sound bite, but we can't afford to. I mean, we just don't have the money. Our balance sheet is so bad.
Here's what I would do, Andrew. Trump, the minute he got in with his mandate, has made some massive moves. I would appeal to Trump saying, look, we've got to get a mandate in Canada. Liberals have got to elect a leader. We've got to have an election. Can you not hold off for 12 weeks? Let us put our best team forward. And during those 12 weeks, let's work as a group, as a team, as North America. Let's listen generously to your problems.
listen generously to ours, and let's see if we can come out with a solution that's a win-win for both economies. And appeal to him as a deal maker and a business person. You can't do a deal if the person across the table isn't holding the cards. And I'm hoping that if we do that, what we won't have is what I'm fearing is panic sets in, Trudeau calls Parliament back, knowing he's got same support. We start throwing arrows over the border,
And at the same time, doling out cash we don't have. And I don't think there's a reason for it. I think Trump wants us to, are we serious about our border? Are we serious about what, you know, our energy? Are we serious allies in terms of our security? And I think if we, if we start buying some, some of that by sitting down with the committees, I think we have everything to win and little to lose. Who's your guest this week on channel that matters?
Rob Cribb, investigative journalist. You know, you're in journalism, I'm in journalism. The problem with investigative journalism that often takes months, 24-7, it's what really goes and uncovers what's hiding in the shadows. And the trouble is, all these investigative journalists are losing their jobs because newspapers and media can't afford them anymore. And my point of this podcast, if we lose investigative journalism, are we not losing one of the bedrock's of democracy?
So he was part of the team that produced the Panama Papers investigation. Yeah, I want to pull up some props for it. This guy's gone. He broke a child pornography ring out of Montreal. He pulled the Panama Papers. And you know, listen, you imagine doing this. Your life is in danger. What you publish is a good chance. It's going to be, you're going to be attacked by lawsuits, your relationships at home, because it's not a nine to five job. Three in the morning, you know, you're the whistle blower is calling you saying, I've got something else I want to share with you.
So it is a tough easy set. It's a high adrenaline, high risk job, but it's becoming extinct because these newspapers and media can't afford to say spend eight months going after that. And I think if we don't have people going after that, a lot of stuff gets stuffed in the shadows that we never learn about. Yes. And I think that's dangerous. Yeah. And I mean, any any investigative true, true investigative journalists have ever met there. They're different kind of an animal. But what's your takeaway from this?
Take away from this is that adrenaline overpowers your need to just take care of yourself and your need to really find balance relationships. That when you're so involved in something, you're so passionate about whether that's sports, entertainment, or investigative journalism, the danger is it becomes so blinding that that's all you're consumed by. And I think that's something we've got to be careful of.
It's just yet another addiction, but it presents itself as a career. So it's often overlooked. You have a good day. Take care. You too, my friend. And we'll keep going with those nuts. Yeah. Take care of your voice. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday, 5 30 to 9.