Monday May 5, 2014 – 12pm
Posted May 5, 2014 02:25:08 PM.
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12:00- Is your family prepared? What’s in your emergency kit? Do you even have one?
It’s Emergency Preparedness Week. This Canada-wide initiative helps to increase awareness of individual and family preparedness. This year’s focus will be to expand emergency preparedness beyond the individual to reach out to neighbours, family and friends who may be vulnerable or incapable of supporting themselves during an emergency. The provincial EP Week theme is “I am ready. We are ready.”
12:30- Did the Raptors get hosed? On the Sterling issue, will racism ever die?
Neil Adams, 570 News Talk Show Producer
The Toronto Raptors’ ended their Cinderella season with a heart-breaking 104-103 loss to the Brooklyn Nets in Game 7. Kyle Lowry was blocked on a potential game-winning shot at the buzzer, but finished with 28 points. Brooklyn will face Miami in the second round.
Meanwhile, we’ve seen an 80-year-old basketball franchise owner fall under the weight of racist comments, and a 73-year-old Nevada rancher imploded after saying blacks would be better off picking cotton. So, once these octogenarian white men from another time die off, will we finally be free of empirical racism in America?
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