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/Thread #51: Ban on single-use plastics, pharmacare plan release, and Raps make history

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“The Raptors are all we got, they’re all the skin we have in the NBA game. This might be one of the only cases where you truly have a national team. So if anyone cares, this is where you locate that caring.”

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by /Thread panelists Shannon Proudfoot of Maclean’s and David Reevely of The Canadian Press. The trio discuss: the federal government’s announcement to ban single-use plastics by 2021, the details of the report by the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, led by Dr. Eric Hoskins, and the Toronto Raptors’ historic NBA finals win.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 18: Pipelines, with Sean Kheraj

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“Success and failure in any kind of large scale complex envirotechnical system – they’re not always opposite from one another. In some cases failure is a symptom of success.”

Sean Kheraj, associate professor of Canadian and Environmental History at York University, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain energy pipelines in Canada: what they do, why we have them, and how the conversation around them has changed in the last fifty years. Recorded live at Central Cafe in Toronto.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 16: Carbon Pricing, with Mark Cameron

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“There can be a carrot and a stick. The stick is you put a price on carbon use particularly in the ways you can get at it pretty easily, like burning fossil fuels, but if you raise money using that process you can then use that money to create carrots.”

Mark Cameron, executive director of Canadians for Clean Prosperity, joins host Aaron Reynolds to demystify carbon pricing, including the origins of carbon tax and cap-and-trade, how C02 emissions are measured, how these mechanisms are enforced, and where the money ends up.

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Explain like I’m Five Episode 11: Clean Tech, with Leah Lawrence

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“Clean tech 4.0 will be this ability and democratization to really understand more locally what bigger environmental challenges mean.”

Leah Lawrence, president and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain what clean technology looks like in 2018.
 

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