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Viewpoints

On today’s show:
In B.C., NDP Federal M. P. Taylor Bachrach, wants parliament, to move faster on a Red Dress Alert system. The University of Northern British Columbia is all smiles as it lands $17M in Research Funding. Alberta residents hit by flooding and forest fires will get $68M. And after a record-setting fire season, SOPFEU, Quebec’s provincial firefighting agency, is recruiting and getting ready for the next. The Toronto Transit Commission goes green with plans to have its fleet hit zero emissions by 2040. And Santa takes the helicopter over to a Nanaimo hospital, in transit to other destinations in B.C.
Special thanks to our journalists, Mick Sweetman, Caleb Nickerson, Ryan Hunt, Ian Gregg, Owen Thompson and Sabrina Spencer. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Our national editors are Maureen McEwan and Victoria Fenner. Viewpoints is presented by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.