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The best of the city's best morning show in a small package. This is the Andrew Carter podcast. Ever suffered from anxiety and wonder, is this normal or do I have some sort of anxiety disorder? Maybe you're someone who feels anxiety in a regular basis wonders if it is a disorder. So how do you know to tell the difference? What are the signs? Linda Pagani is a clinical psychologist. She's a professor of psychoeducation at the University of Montreal, and she is on the line right now. Good morning, Linda.

Good morning. I've been listening to your program forever. Oh, that's that's wonderful. And isn't it convenient that just when we're asking this question, we have a clinical psychologist and an expert on the line. When we talk about anxiety, we hear some people with anxiety disorder like it really seems to be paralyzing them. So how do we know what's the spectrum here? The psychologist anxiety is what we call a negative emotion. We seem to have our brains are biased toward negative emotion.

It seems to have had something to do with the evolution of humans, because we're always looking for danger in the room, something to hurt us, something to threaten us. So we have a natural bias toward negative emotion. And anxiety as an emotion is fear. And what we need to do is stop using terms like, oh, I'm stressed, and put it, name it, to tame it. So if you're feeling fear, call it fear. And then that's the step where

you can actually start to see, okay, what am I afraid of? And then from there, you work gradually toward whatever it is you're afraid of. Now, when that fear interferes with your social and occupational functioning, what we psychologists call functional impairment, that's where it crosses the line and it becomes a disorder.

You know, it's so interesting because I think it was some great thinker like Marcus Aurelius or somebody like that who talked about, I'm paraphrasing now, that most of the things that we fear never come true. Yeah. And he also said that most of the things that we think about and most of the things that we say are necessary. Right. You know, Marcus Aurelius is really cool because I'm really into him. I'm a pragmatic stoicist myself.

I think that what, you know, what he reminds us to do all the time to stay grounded in whatever situation, in his situations, it was battle and also running a empire, is remember you're going to die one day, so your time is limited, tease the day, in other words. And the other is love your fate, whatever it is, because your fate will teach you something. So what he's trying to say is that there are lessons to be learned in everything.

and try to adopt a growth perspective every time you fall or every time that there's a big situation so that you can get through this with a positive and productive approach because if you approach it where no way I'm not going to grow, he's going to grow or she's going to grow or they're going to grow. You're not going anywhere. You're just creating more and more obstacles.

I'll end up again. He's a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychoeducation at the University of Montreal. So how do we know when it's just normal anxiety that's going to pass in a few, we can talk ourselves out of it and when we need a little more help, whether it's medication or talk therapy or whatever it is? Well, usually when you start to cross the threshold to functional impairment, you start getting comments at work where you're not functioning, your productivity is low,

There's some kind of performance indicator that's telling you that you're not, that there's been a change in your functioning. In your social and personal relationships, there's a lot of conflict. There's a lot of people saying that, you know, you're unrealistic when you kind of added all together the personal and the occupational functioning. That's a good time. But when you find yourself trembling and not sleeping,

When you find yourself constantly all day long and all night long thinking about the same obstacle and I'm going to call it an obstacle. I'm not going to call it stress. I'm not going to call it one of these big names. Then that's the point where you're finding yourself trembling and you're thinking about this all the time and that it's impairing your ability to have a productive and happy life. That's where it becomes a disorder.

Is there more of this now than there was a generation ago? We did. We just not talk about it and people just suffered in silence. Well, among young people, school aged six to age 30. I'm going to stretch it out because adolescence has been stretched out. I'm not not because of me. That's for sure. The lessons have been stretched out a bit. What you're seeing is that the rates that we saw in 1990 have pretty much tripled.

in both anxiety and negative feelings like depression and also inattention and other social difficulties. The fragile state of our youth today has a lot to do with the effortless lifestyle that we've created for them. They were born generation-wise started to experience it because us generation acts the people born between 1964 and 1980

were much more educated than their predecessors. And as a result, they wanted more for their children. They wanted their children to go to university. They wanted their children to achieve more than they did when already Generation X had achieved a lot. And so living with all this pressure, these parents, parented in such a way where they took away all obstacles. How many times did I go to presentations for my kids when they were little?

at a school and this kid shows up with a fantastic project at the fair where you go to yourself, he's nine years old, there's no way he could do this. That's exactly the kind of helicopter parenting I'm talking about, protective enabling parenting that I personally call VIP parenting, very important person. It transmits sentiments to a growing person that they are VIPs.

And that effort is good. There's other people are going to make the effort because they don't want you to have the pain of the effort. I am so guilty of that. And I know some of my friends too feel that way. I am too. Of being that to my kids. It's the biggest disservice we could ever have done. You know, when you look back, much like Delta Force, when you go into Delta Force to learn to be a Marine, the reason you go in one way and you come out the other is because your brain has a place in it.

where effort becomes, it's like an elastic, it's like a muscle. You learn to deal with effort, mental efforts, negative adversity, you learn to deal with all these things all at once. And we have not done a good job at training our children to do that. And our post-war parents of Generation X born between 1964 and 1980, those people

were well brought up because they were brought up by war parents or parents who had financial difficulty. We were able to deal with all kinds of stress, but today what we've done is we've given them the indication that they're VIP as a result when they have decisions to make or they have big challenges in front of them. Hey, I just got a medal just for participating. What's going on now? You know how many times I'm teaching at university, I get these kids,

i get these kids coming to me i got a ninety seven where do i lose the three months and i know i know isn't that amazing you know where i don't know where you've been uh... all our lives a doctor began but we have to speak again i really do appreciate your perspective here thank you thank you

That is a Dr. Linda Bugatti, who is a professor of psychoeducation at the University of Montreal and a clinical psychologist. Starting with a first look and ending with a second breakfast. It's all the news and conversation you need. Mornings with Andrew Carter, CJAD 800. All righty. All righty. All righty. So Trudy Mason is off, as you probably know. She is filling in again today for Aaron Rand, but we have a suitable replacement here for her.

And that is Tom Whalen. Well, thank you. And let's start off with the Globe and Mail. Gary Mason asking the question, could Donald Trump be Trudeau's savior? Well, here's what Mr. Mason is saying. He says, you know, with everything that Trump is promising to do, that people in Canada could be looking across the border with trepidation as to what's going to happen.

And with the liberals painting Mr. Paul Yabra in the same light as Mr. Trump, they're saying perhaps that Mr. Trudeau may gain from that.

you know, be better off because of it, because Canadians don't want to go down that road. But in his he also says, this is probably a long shot. And that it's not going to be the case in that Canadians may see Polyabra as being better to deal with with the Trump administration than Mr. Trudeau.

Meanwhile, over in the National Post, Chris Selly says Trump's return unlikely to help Trudeau. Exactly for the same reason. And Chris Selly puts out the argument that Paul Yevra government would be better to deal with a Trump administration in the US than Justin Trudeau would be.

I don't think it matters. Exactly. I don't think it's just keeping a lot of colonists working on it. Allison Haynes and the Montreal Gazette son take Quebec this big umbrella organization that the camp government brought in is not the answer.

No, many would suggest more family doctors would be better off as far as Miss Haynes is concerned, but some would surely say that operating time for surgeons so they can get hip replacements without having to hobble around an agony for months or even years would be better off.

But Alaska Quebecers are getting saunte kebak and health minister Christian Jubei. Can he have a sigh of relief says Miss Haynes that he will no longer be in the hot seat over urgent matters and now that the saunte kebak is in it's going to be the head of saunte kebak who's going to have to deal with those problems.

Okay, so, a M&A, Quebec Solidair M&A, continues to make Harumba Ruizi, continues to make ripples after a speech that he made, talking about racism every day in the National Assembly.

And then he had to apologize, but he hasn't actually taken it back necessarily. So with the ripple effect here, as Jose Lago. Jose Lago is really going after Boise and is going after basically the rest of Canada, Anglo Quebecers and the Anglo media.

She says that she says we all are guilty of pointing the figure at Quebec when it comes to blaming them of being blaming Quebecers of being racist. She says Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

was always quick to attribute the darkest intention. He's not an angle. I know. He wasn't an angle. I understand. But she just points out all these people were all out to get Quebec and paint them with a brush of racism. And now the whole blue Aussie thing that came up is far worse because he was pointing his finger at Parliament as a whole.

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Bring show with Andrew Carter, CJAD 800. Okay. Dating can be hard, apparently, especially when you're older for seniors. And it's quite a shock to understand that that when the, you know, when you're a kid, they used to say seniors. Those are old people, but we're talking about 60 plus here. One woman in Avondale, Newfoundland.

is looking for, uh, to help those in her community. Jenny Temple runs a Dharma connections where she teaches yoga and fitness classes and about healthy aging. Now she's running a speed dating program, but you have to be 60 years and older and Jenny's online. Good morning, Jenny. How are you? Good morning. How are you getting there? I'm not so bad.

Honestly, I, you know, I didn't spend much time in Avondale, but my family's from St. John's and I did spend summers in the conception base out in manuals. So that's not so far. It's not so far from you. It's not so far from you. Is it like Avondale's what? No, it's only about from CVS, probably 20 minutes. Okay. So there you go. Yep. So, so, so what's what's wrong? Are you over 60 or no? You just feel sorry for us.

No. I'm 49, but I'm thinking about myself down the road. So there you go. OK, so tell me about this. How's it worked so far? And what's your plan here? Well, I guess right now, I'd like to just say like the reason why I got into it is, as you mentioned, I do like movement classes. And I heard all the stories from people that come to my classes and

You know, I saw how they were lonely and, you know, people were getting depressed. And here, new for my end, as you know, you've been here, there are a lot of rural communities, and so there may not be a lot of social activities for them. And if somebody's new to a community, of course, they may also feel isolated. So, where I teach my classes, I thought, well, I have this physical wellness piece, but we, I realize that there's a deeper need for connection.

And you're probably heard the story because you see, you're probably read it in the articles. But the reason why this got started is all to do with my mom. Tell me about your mom. Yeah. So she has been single off and on in her adult life. And she tried the online dating, but it just wasn't a good fit for her. You know, it was just real and personal. You just go online, you see photos, you meet them for copies, not to you thought they were going to be that type of thing. So that was her experience.

And of course, here in Newfoundland, where my mom lives, she's in a small town and she knows everybody. And either that or she's related to them. So that didn't offer her many options either, right? What town where does she live?

Now she lives in a small community called Thornley. Okay. Very, very tiny community. So like I said, she knows everybody in the air type of thing. So, you know, it's just not going to work out for her. So she did actually meet somebody. It was actually her high school. We were so happy, but they were only together for a few months. And then unfortunately, he passed away. So.

Yes, so when that happened, you know, that just reminded me of how precious and important love and companionship is, no matter what your age. And I was just thinking of my mom and spending the rest of her life alone, even though she was like, I don't know, 74, I think at the time, I just thought, nope, I can't handle this. So then it just clicked to me, you know, how do people like my mom meet somebody?

The, you know, the birds earn an option for most and online dating doesn't work for everyone. So I thought, you know, there's got to be a better way. So in the meantime, we're having a cup of tea one morning. And I just looked at her and I told her, I said, I'm going to find you a man. And she just laughed. And of course, everyone else did, but I was serious. So basically what I did, I just started doing some research because I had no idea about like speed dating.

And I came across a beautiful documentary. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it by Stephen Lawrence, called The Age of Love. And it really opened my eyes. I knew that, you know, I was onto something, and this was a way maybe I could help seniors here in Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador, and that's how the media connections got started, all because of my mom. Yeah, and have they been successful so far?

So we've only, I've only had one so far and I actually had it in Avenue, quite a small crowd, but I still feel it was, I even asked the group, like, do you still want to go ahead? Cause I wanted to have 25 men and 25 men and women each and it didn't work out. And they're like, no, absolutely. We want to go ahead. And just from watching them at the event, I just witnessed, you know, it's not just about

them find a partner. They actually walked away with new friendships. Yeah. Isn't that nice? So how often are you going to do this now, Jenny? So well, the next one is going to be in February. And I would like to start offering them monthly. So my plan is just to go into St. John's, try to get some momentum going. And then I want to come back out around the bay and going into smaller communities and often in there. Yeah. Well, I think it's a fantastic idea. And you're never too old for love, that's for sure.

Never, never. You're right. Pleasure meeting you, Jenny. You take care, okay? You too. Thank you. Thank you. A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore, weekday mornings at 720. From the bedrooms to the bus stop, the kitchen table to the car. Thanks for starting your day with us, the Andrew Carter Morning Show.

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I'm deeply concerned. So you raised the issue of me wearing a pin in the House of Commons. I have to tell you that I stand here proudly wearing the pin that stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. But people within this place are wearing pins for a various number of reasons. One of my colleagues is proudly wearing the mousseide pin to show his support for the causes that are important. You know, people wear poppies within this house. I have many times worn

Okay, so that's where she went a little bit too far there, Tom. Anti-Israel member of Jagmeet St. Caucus compares her pro-Palestine and pinned to wearing a Remembrance Day poppy. Who is this person? Heather McPherson? Yes, she's a member of Parliament from the Edmonton area, and she is part of what I would call the anti-Israel fringe that now

clearly and openly exists within the NDP caucus. It's not something that Jack late nor I would have ever tolerated. We always worked hard to take a very balanced approach to

the complex issues of the Middle East, but not so under Mr. Singh. So Heather McPherson, who's been his two spokesperson on this stuff, she's said any number of outland just things since the beginning of this conflict that followed the horrific terrorist attack on Israeli citizens on October 7th of last year. And this is where we are in the House of Commons right now.

I'm also told by people that I still stay in touch with in the NDP that she's thinking of leadership because nobody thinks that Mr. Singh's going to be around for very long after the next election. And there are two other people who are thinking of taking a run at the leadership, both of whom are as extremely anti-Israel, if not more so than she is. So it's a real turn of events to have somebody

There, compared what she was wearing, she correctly described as a pro-Palestinian pin and didn't shy away from it, but yes, she went ahead and decided that that was comparable to wearing the Remembrance Day Poppy. And when somebody says that, you just know that you're into a whole different category.

Mm-hmm. Frostall to go came out yesterday and was talking about how concerned he is about the Canada-US border, the Quebec-US border. He's concerned about influx of immigrants, migrants, and he's asked the SQ provincial police to carry out a surveillance operation. What would something like that even look like? The border's so vast. I mean, we have cameras, right? It would look like nothing. And it's pure virtue signaling by the go.

And it becomes another, oh, woe is me point the next time he discusses budgets with the Fed saying, not only do I have to take in higher than my percentage of people looking for asylum, but now I have to use my police force because yours isn't doing the job of supervising the border. And yes, even if you just take the Quebec section, it goes from, well, right on the Ontario, obviously, border and moves all the way east, all the way down to New Brunswick.

It's a massive border. I mean, you know, the top of Maine pokes all the way up almost to the St. Lawrence. And so, yeah, it's a game that he's playing. He's just trying to say, see, I'm stuck with this now, like everything else. Oh, what was me?

So, a couple of interesting Donald Trump appointments. He announced to you today. Dr. Oz. Now, Dr. Oz is a real, Mehmed Oz is a real doctor. Yes, he is. But he's also a real flake. He's also a cuckoo bird. And the McMahon, one of the founders of WWE, the wrestling outfit. Of course. Education Secretary.

But she had a position in the previous Trump government. She's not a flake. I mean, I'm a little bit worried. And yes, we make that. Hi, I'm Naomi Kyle, host of This Week in Gaming Podcast. Big thanks to our partner's CTV news shopping trends and Amazon Canada for making this show possible. Starting November 21st, Amazon's Black Friday deals are here.

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the reference to the wrestling, and that's where she got her start. She's actually a very serious high caliber, high quality, high level business person, and she's a very serious person for that job. What I'm a little bit worried about from the American perspective is that Donald Trump keeps saying that he's going to turn education over to the states, which means that national standards, national goals, making sure that American kids are actually learning something,

other than what Donald Trump wants them to learn. I'm saying that facetiously, but it's actually quite a concern because some states, for example, are saying that they want Christian religious beliefs taught in public schools. Of course, that goes completely against the US Constitution, but Trump believes that he's got his own Supreme Court that's going to rule whatever he wants from now on. His basic thesis that there's been overreach by the federal government, that's part of what Elon Musk is being sent into fix.

Because the feds in the states behave very much like the feds hear every time they see an issue that becomes important for the public. They try to have a role in it. And education is first and foremost a state's rights issue. It's a state responsibility. But the federal government has always said, well, we want to have our kids coming out of school at least at a level equal to European nations, for example. And right now American kids are way below that.

uh... kebex sold their m&a harun of the wazii yesterday apologize for the jabs he made it some kak ministers but not sorry for his comments on uh... the racism that he sees every day at the national assembly what what what's the latest on this so when he gave his initial speech to this foundation he used the word racism several times but when he made the

the generalized statement about the National Assembly. He talked more about the construction of them, meaning people who are different from mainstream, you know, from old stock filmmakers. And so he was talking about people of color, people of different religions. He specifically named Muslims, or he talked about indigenous people. So he was saying that

This was a prejudice that he sensed, but he didn't use the word racism there. It's a distinction in the nuance that's worth making. You're right. To two specific people who were Leonel Kahn-Maw and Castellan Jubei, he apologized, which he should have done last week. Now, it's caused no end of grief within their caucus. And frankly, Andrew, when somebody goes off on their own, it's not their spokesperson area.

There he's not one of the two official spokesperson's and it ruined the weekend of ruba gazale as she came in. So this guy really messed things up for his own party and he seems to be digging in because a lot of the members of the party agree with him. But when this sort of thing happens, usually one of the options for party leaders is to boot the person out of caucus, but hold on.

Kebexo Dider has exactly 12 M&As and how many M&As do you have to have to be an official party? You need 12. And what comes with official party status? Tons of money and staff. You get big budgets from the National Assembly. You get tons of staff doing your research for you and you really get to bring up your game.

So this is one of the conundrums that they're in right now. And so some of the members were speaking into the microphones yesterday, just M&A Lebrie, she's from Sherbrooke, just saying, look, I totally disagree with this guy's take on things.

Now, part of this is Quebec reflex in the sense that everybody thinks the same thing. I was doing a French panel show yesterday, and I started trying to bring some nuance to the analysis of this thing. Hold on. We've got a guy who's now in cabinet who made very racist statements during the campaign. I said, I'm very much ill at ease when I hear a senior government minister saying it's terrible because he hears too much English in the streets. And I said, Bill 21 is discriminatory against Muslim women.

Well, there was an attempt to shut me down. Well, you're a Quebec passenger. Well, everybody's supposed to think the same thing. Everybody's supposed to have the same opinion. So there are some parts of his critique about the behavior of the cat that are absolutely valid. But the minute you say that, you're already in trouble because you're just supposed to be piling on. I don't know. Piling on is still a penalty in Canadian football, eh? Don't miss the two-minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 7.50.

Hello, Dr. Mitch. Good morning to you, sir. Pistachios! Should I start, go start, uh, go to Costco and get a big giant thing of pistachios, start gorging on them? Well, I wouldn't say gorg, but sure. Look, basically, as we get older, there's a disease that we're predisposed towards, called macular degeneration. What basically happens, mainly genetic, although people who smoke or overweight in not in good shape, not good health, are more depredisposed towards it, but there's a huge genetic component. And what basically happens is at the back of your eyes, your retina,

that basically picks up light, sends the message to your brain, and voila, you see. The most focused part is called the macula, and that's where the lens actually focuses the most of the light, it's to the center of your vision, and it's the area where the most cones are, the things that see color. For reasons that we don't completely understand, it starts deteriorating as some people get older. And so what happens is you don't go blind, but you have this loss of vision in the center where you can imagine how much, how difficult that is,

You look straight ahead at something and there's nothing there. You don't see that circle. You have a hole there or you have wavy lines or blurred vision and all of that. So this is one of the reasons why as you get older it's really important that you get checked out by a doctor or an optometrist on a regular basis to see if you have early signs of this. Why? And this is where the pistachios come in. It turns out that if you're in an intermediate stage of age related macular degeneration, if you have a diet

that has lutein and zeaxanthine in it. And these are the dyes that make yellow and green vegetables and fruit yellow and green. So you'll find them in leafy green vegetables, you'll find them in eggs, you'll find them in corn and wheat, you'll find them in avocados, you'll find them in blueberries, and you'll find them in pistachio and other things like that. And a diet high in that and or a very specific combination of zinc

and other things called the AREDS2 of multi-vitamin, multi-supplement. Those things have been shown to help people who have developed age-related macular degeneration slow down the process and that's the key point. It may not be able to prevent it, but if you're seeing your optometrist or your eye doctor and they tell you, oh my God, you have this, then they can put you on the special multi-vitamin or you can already just start to supplement to your diet.

And so pistachios would be one source of it. You just have to be careful. There's a lot of fat in it, but any of the green and leafy, any of the yellow or green fruits and or vegetables will supply you with both lutein and zanthine, which are those micronutrients that you need. Okay. Did that not overwhelm you? No, I saw how much, like, should I, the question is, I mean, I don't, I don't think I have a fit. Any of these risk factors for. Once you're into your fifties,

You should be seeing an eye specialist, an optometrist, or an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist is an MD with a surgical background. The optometrist has a training in managing and taking care of your eye. Both are vitally important. But once you're starting in your 50s, you should be seen on a regular basis because the changes that will destroy your vision, glaucoma, macular degeneration, will be pretty far advanced before you're going to pick them up. And that's why it's important that you get seen on a regular basis

to make sure that these things aren't developing and if they are catch them early enough that you can make a difference well thanks for reminding me actually cuz i i just remember now that my doctor said i was supposed to get i'd uh... supposed to uh... get an appointment with them uh... is it what an opto optomologist is an eye doctor their surgeons basically yeah an optometrist has a training in uh... dealing with eye diseases and all of that and they can do they can do almost all of the stuff that needs to be done to make a diagnosis

Okay, perfect. I see. I see. I said I see. I'll appropriate. My grandfather used to say I see. I see said the blind man. The deaf daughter in the middle of the snowstorm. We both don't know. No, no, no. This is a different one. I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw. Sorry, the blind carpenter. I see said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw. Goodbye.

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Mark Perez is part of the group planning legal action against the City of Montreal over the way it's been building bike paths. The Director of Coalition for Democracy Montreal. Good morning, Mark. Good morning, Andrew. Thank you for having me this morning. So tell me what are the issues that you're having with the way bike paths are built? So the main issue that we're having is that the citizens are very

Interested in helping the city implement these bypass and stuff like that. And they bring up a lot of great recommendations and suggestions on how they could accommodate the needs of everyone.

The problem that we're having is that the city is choosing not to take these things into consideration. And a lot of the accidents and issues that are are curing are things that we've predicted and warned the city about. And they just don't want our input. They just want to implement bike paths the way they want and how they want. And it's it's infuriating citizens and it's infuriating commerce.

So when you're talking about accommodating the needs of everyone, what would that look like? So let's say we take the street in Park Extension on Curbs Street. So it's a densely populated area where many of the residents need their cars for various reasons. There's the old age, there's the families with the many children.

There's the nurses that work late nights and that are circling the block for about an hour to find a parking spot. So what they did is that they removed one side of parking, completely parking, to accommodate the two bike lanes that they've installed in that area. Now,

The configuration that was recommended by the citizens were that the bike path should have been on the outside of the cars and not closer to the sidewalk. If they would have followed that, there would have been enough space for the parking and there would have been space for the bike paths. So tell me something. This legal action is at a class action and what's the goal of it? What do you hope to gain from this?

So it's not a class action, it's basically our organization representing people that have been deeply impacted by these forced bike paths. And what we're seeking is to get the city to listen to the citizens and work with the citizens to implement an equitable solution to these bike paths.

And, you know, here in my own borough, the Cote Nation D.G. on Terre Bunch Street, they completely converted the street to Tulane Bike Path and removed much-needed parking in both areas to the point where the St. Monica Church has been having a financial crisis and, you know, they're having a fundraising campaign on

on uh... on november twenty-eight to to try to compensate the money that they've been losing because of uh... the lack of uh... weddings and uh... funerals that's a mark that i've been caused by the fact that yeah mark my understanding is that the the city's not interested in uh... further consultation

Well, is that the case? Actually, the case actually, as we've been moving forward with our lawsuit and preparations, you're we're starting to notice that they're no longer using the word consultation. It's basically an information session. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that's exactly what it is. It's an information session. When we go, when I went to a lot of these things, you know, and that was, you know, and that's what's

When you go to these information sessions and you hear the people who give these recommendations, you're like, OK, well, they make sense. And the worst part is that some of the recommendations that the citizens are giving have been applied to other neighborhoods that have very similar configurations. And we don't understand why the city is choosing not to implement these recommendations that we know they've done somewhere else.

Who's coming up with these ideas? Is there like a bike path czar or something who just decides we're going to put a bike path here and then that's it? Who decides this? Well, so far as far as I'm concerned, we can see that it comes from the C40. We can see that there's an organization called Villa Quebec. We can see that there's many outside organizations that have not been elected. They're not elected officials.

that are doing all these recommendations. I think there's a company, exp, I don't know what they stand for, but I've seen their name a couple of places. And it's all these people. And let's not forget that Valerie Plant is the vice president of a certain organization that are related to green initiatives. Okay, Mark, well, good luck with this. Okay. Appreciate your time. If I may, you know, we need the support

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Tell me to you, nice guy. Dr. Dan Riskin. Good morning, Dan. Good morning. Top of the day, Tia. How are you? I'm fantastic and very excited because last week I served you up a treat talking about bats on treadmills. And this week, you did. You're serving me up a treat. Bad timing for our first encounter with Uranus.

Yes, it's the gift that keeps giving the planet Uranus. I did like the first sentence here. As much of what we know about Uranus comes from a five-hour flyby in 1986. Exactly. What a year that was, really. That's really...

Before that, it was just this enigma, but we had our first encounter in 1986. We've never forgotten it. We learned so much, and yet we know so little about Uranus. Yeah, about Uranus. Yeah. So there's a spaceship called Voyager 2, and it did a flyby of a bunch of different planets. And one of them was Uranus, and it went by and it recorded a bunch of data. And we haven't been back since. It's been 30 years and so.

Well, you know, there's everything we know is from either a good look with the telescope or that flyby. And during that flyby, there were some weird recordings. Not only did we see that it was a gas giant full of methane as Uranus should be, but we also that the magnetic field was weird. It was too strong and it didn't have enough plasma in it and it just didn't look right. It looked wrong compared to all the other magnetic fields of all the other planets, including Earth.

And so people have been trying to figure out what the deal is and there's this new paper that came up that suggests that maybe we had just especially good timing with Uranus that we passed just at a moment when a solar flare was hitting the planet and compressing its magnetosphere and pushing all the.

All the plasma out of its so this is a thing that would happen every once in a while, but only like 4% of the time. But if it were happening, we would see the kinds of weirdness that we saw. And so that's the hypothesis is that we that we happen to catch it at a funny moment. And so the good news is we're going back. NASA does have

plans to go back to Uranus to launch spacecraft around 2032. That would put a spacecraft not just a fly by this time, but actually go into orbit around it and get some long term data more than just a few hours. And the best part is it would include a probe so that they could probe Uranus because I think we all know that that's something we all want to have happiness.

Man, right, you know, they can read they can rename monkeypox, you know what? Yeah There are some who will say actually it's urine. Yes, I know both are both are allowed and it's named after not a Greek god, but a Greek Titan Urenos and so it's the Titan Uranus is what it's named after okay is Has artificial intelligence progress load?

Thank you.

This is an interesting story. And it's developing right now. So chat GPT came out two years ago this month. And so it's sort of an anniversary of sorts. And when it first came out, we were all like, whoa, look at this thing. Look what it can do. It could respond to sentences. It could write poems. It could do all these things. But what made it sort of terrifying and really exciting was that it was getting better really fast. And the way they were making it better with each successive version is just feeding it more data. And the way these large language models work is you just give it a whole bunch of stuff to read.

and it eats it, and then it becomes smart. And the more it eats, the smarter it is. And we are seeing a trend right now, two years in, where they're not getting smart at the same rate they were before. There's some argument about this. Some people say, yes, they're still getting smart at the same rate. Some people say, no, they're clearly not. But nonetheless, it does feel like something's changing. And I think what we're bumping into is that they've seen all the really easy to get to data. They've read Wikipedia. They've read most of the internet. They've read Reddit.

And there's just not a lot of encyclopedia Britannica's hiding in corners that haven't been fed to these models yet. And so the issue they're running into is as they try to keep these things improving, they can't just go and get a giant other data set of human text. They can make artificial intelligence generated text really easily, but that doesn't work as food. If you feed AI generated text to an AI model, it doesn't really learn very much. It kind of comes out kind of wonky. And so you need to give it real data from real people and we're running out.

uh... and small dogs have the biggest brains yeah this is uh... this is well i know you're a boston terrier guy so you're gonna like this one and i will say boston i also had a boston for a while uh... i will say a boston terrier is an exceptional dog but uh... this is an interesting paper because it flies in the face of sort of everything we know everybody knows that the smart dogs are like the retrievers and the border collies and the kind of bigger dogs but this new analysis suggests that if you

Look at how big the brain is versus the body size, the dogs that winter, the chihuahuas, the really small dogs have a giant brains for their size. And the inference from the studies that they must be smarter, but I will tell you from experience that they're not. And so this is, I think, a really good example where anatomists are like, oh, we've come to a conclusion and we can infer this. And then the people that actually look at the dogs and their behavior and have tested their ability to solve puzzles and their trainability and all these other things that are.

actual measurements of intelligence say the opposite. And so I think this is a study where they've got a result from their anatomy study, and it's not fitting with reality, and they're still pushing it and saying, no, no, we have to be right because the brain size says so, and I don't think they are. All right. Yeah, thanks very much. Very interesting. Yeah, thank you. And thank you for the planetary stuff, too. Like, oh, it's my pleasure. It's my anytime I can take a little time to talk about Uranus, I will always say that. Of course you will. That's Dr. Dan Riskin.

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