In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at work being done to track plastic waste that ends up in rivers and oceans and a video game that explores the troubled history of water in cities.
Day: December 4, 2020
The developers of Canada’s COVID Alert app fixed a glitch last week that left some users without exposure notifications for much of November. It’s unclear how many people were affected, but those who haven’t updated the app may still be in the dark.
Fred Ko, died in Richmond Hospital on Saturday from COVID-19. At 104 years old, he is one of the oldest Canadian victims of the pandemic.
Over the last decade, French women’s basketball leagues have served as Canadian pipelines due to their intense competition, smart coaching and high-IQ players, guaranteed contracts and French language and culture.
It’s been a month since Joe Biden was voted in as the next president of the United States. But a lot has happened since then. There are the final weeks of Donald Trump’s chaotic tenure, the importance of Georgia’s runoff Senate race and the tensions that are dividing the Democrats even as they prepare to take power. Today, former CBC Washington correspondent Keith Boag joins us to get us up to speed.