Friday March 22nd – 9am

Posted Mar 22, 2013 09:29:50 AM.

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9:00am- Guest: Susan Elliott, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo.

Today is World Water Day and the theme is International Year of Water Cooperation. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

http://www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/home/en/

9:30am- Guest: Gareth Neilson, Communications Director with Fair Pensions For All.

How does Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s latest austerity budget stack up? The Harper government has promised to eliminate the current 26-billion dollar federal deficit by 2015 but stalled economic growth is making that difficult.

http://fairpensionsforall.net/

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