Wednesday January 21st, 2015 – 10am
Posted Jan 21, 2015 12:28:39 PM.
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10:00 – Highway Signs
Steven Del Duca, Ontario Transportation Minister
Michael Harris, Kitchener Conestoga MPP & Progressive Conservative Transportation Critic
The Liberal government will is replacing existing digital highway signs with full colour, bilingual, energy-efficient signs around the province. Each sign costs a whopping $650,000 to make and install, but officials say the new signs will only be added as needed to replace existing signage. Experts say the signs will help improve road safety with information on road and weather conditions, how traffic is moving, and road safety tips like “No texting or dialing.”
10:30 – Boko Haram
Simon Palamar, Research Assistant, CIGI
With everything that’s been happening in the world lately, in Ottawa back in October, and recently in France a few weeks ago, terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda are getting more attention than ever. But one relatively new group that did make headlines last April, is seen as a rising threat. Boko Haram garnered attention last year after kidnapping nearly 300 girls from a secondary school in Nigeria. But while the attacks were happening in France earlier this month, Boko Haram was conducting even bloodier attacks in Northern Nigeria…killing nearly 2,000 people. Experts say they’re seeing similarities between the trio of terrorist groups. For example, the militant group is attempting to implement Shariah Law across all of Nigeria, creating an Islamic Caliphate.
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