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This is the world this weekend Hello I’m Stephanie skanderis ceremonies to Mark the third national day of Truth and Reconciliation have taken place across the country the unmarked Graves of the children woke this country up governor general Mary Simon among those who spoke at the event in Ottawa and in the audience survivors and their

Families who shared their stories my dad went to residential school so for me it’s important to be here with them also coming up a warning from Global Public Health experts about malaria we’ve reached the perfect storm if we do not act now all the gains we’ve made over

The last 20 years will be eroded that’s later but first in Ottawa more than a thousand people gathered on Parliament Hill today for the national day of Truth and Reconciliation the federal holiday now in its third year recognizes the Legacy and irreparable harms the country’s residential school system caused to

Indigenous peoples and honors the indigenous children who did not make it back home Rafi Buchi Canyon was at the ceremony foreign Was tongue-tied about what he endured at residential school now his music does the talking for the crowds gathered on Parliament Hill I call it residential school song for indigenous people the legacy of residential schools goes hand in hand with Canada’s history itself but it’s only the third year the country is

Officially marking national day for Truth and Reconciliation yeah it’s about time because uh and takes time because we do that the Sundancer for three four years now Fred kestebish is a Survivor and myself I went to two residential therapy house in Auto Repair what happened to myself his

Daughter javette is here too she says the schooling system attempted to erase all of her father’s identity the were not able to allow to speak their language they even tried to change his name but not every survivor’s daughter here had the chance to bring their parents to the event I was raised

Catholic I didn’t believe that there was actually anything happening and Sam is my brother by the time Rocky Ward learned the truth she hesitated to bring it up with her dad who has since passed away because he also went to the Army so he had a lot of PTSD that it was I

Wasn’t a therapist I didn’t want to open up things that I couldn’t help him close safely and for all those who cannot speak about the past a moment volunteers carrying a long red banner stretching across much of the lawn on Parliament Hill the names of children who did not survive residential school

Etched on its fabric the national Center For Truth and Reconciliation has identified four thousand who never came back Canada as a country is beginning to listen to those stories among the speakers today Canada’s governor general Mary Simon the first indigenous person appointed to the role forced to attend Day School herself for

Part of her childhood where she was not allowed to speak her native certainly our National History needs to reflect the challenges trauma Joys experiences knowledge and culture of indigenous peoples and lives that message targeting Canadians too but others here are for indigenous people like this from Angela karar who went to

A school herself behind her away and let love rule your day we are never victims we are survivors prime minister Justin Trudeau marked the day in lack larage in Northern Saskatchewan he took part in What was called an awareness march with members of the local indigenous community and

Says today isn’t just for indigenous people reconciliation is the action and the responsibility of every single person who lives today on Turtle Island every single one of us have to understand not just what happened in the past but the impacts that that past has in very real things today

Lac launch is the site of two residential schools that burned down in the early 1900s the Prime Minister stopped at a monument to the children who attended both facilities he then visited a cemetery just meters away where a search with ground penetrating radar uncovered a number of unmarked graves in late 2021.

While the painful process of reconciliation is front and center in Manitoba’s provincial election for months there have been calls for police to search a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of two indigenous women believed to be the victims of an alleged serial killer Premier Heaven step Heather Stephenson refused citing the high cost

And the potential danger now her Progressive conservative party is making their opposition to the search a key pillar of their re-election campaign Karen Pauls reports protests outside a progressive conservative political announcement and at leader Heather Stephenson’s campaign office so we’re here to fight today to uh fight against her Jordan Myron’s 26

Year old sister Mercedes is one of the indigenous women police believe was killed then dumped in a landfill we need to bring them home to get them a proper burial stefenson has been clear for months she won’t search the landfill pointing to Asbestos and other toxic chemicals as concerns since leaders have

To make tough decisions this is one of those tough decisions I had to make I cannot in good conscience put Workers Health at risk doing that when there is no guarantee of finding the individuals that they’re talking about the bodies that message echoed in campaign Billboards and a full-page newspaper ad

Which said stand firm for health and safety reasons the answer on the landfill dig just has to be no for a certain parties to make it an issue that’s not right the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is among those denouncing the PCS for making this a political issue Grand Chief Kathy

Merrick says this is the opposite of reconciliation very disheartened as to what’s transpiring in this province when it comes to first nation people Kelly Saunders is a political science professor at Brandon University she says the PCS are trying to shore up their base at a time when public opinion polls

Suggest the NDP have a commanding lead making it an election issue and usually when parties do that it’s it’s because they really think they can get some ground on it in terms of getting votes the NDP say they’ll work with the families and try to find the remains in

The landfill the Liberals say they’ll use half the estimated 184 million dollar budget to search the PCS are defending their position and we have put money towards making sure that it never happens again Kevin Klein was the minister of climate and environment before the election was called he’s

Running for re-election I think the question really is is where is the federal government on this position we’ve made our position fairly clear that the federal government now has the opportunity to do the right thing and make a decision and make it public another blockade at Winnipeg’s main landfill indigenous Elder Jerry shingus

Had this message for Heather Stefan said focus should be on the families only at this time not the election not the politics and she shouldn’t be bringing harm to the families meanwhile NDP leader Bob canoe says there’s another way to send a message you have in your hands a tool

That is more powerful than any blockade and more powerful than any protest and that is your ballot manitobans go to the polls on Tuesday just days after the national day for Truth and Reconciliation a day the PCS have repeatedly refused to recognize as a provincial holiday Karen Paul’s CBC News Winnipeg

In Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is threatening to invoke the notwithstanding Clause over a controversial School pronoun policy Moe’s government wants schools to get parents permission to change the names or pronouns of students under age 16. the notwithstanding Clause gives parliaments the power to override parts of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

For five years when passing legislation to find out why it’s being brought up now I spoke to cbc’s Jason Warwick he joined us from Saskatoon so Jason invoking the notwithstanding Clause is rare can you take us through why Premier Mo plans to use it now sure Stephanie earlier this week Saskatchewan judge

Placed an injunction on the controversial School pronoun policy of the Saskatchewan government and that essentially placed the policy on hold and the judge said there was absolutely no evidence that the government did any meaningful consultation with parents teachers or kids and no evidence that they did any research on the issue that

Was part of the reason that the injunction was placed in a sense waiting until the government could prove its case in court later this fall but hours later Premier Scott Moe said he’d be invoking the notwithstanding Clause to override that Court decision and it would go in place well before this other

Full court matter mole plans to recall the legislature October 10th to invoke this notwithstanding Clause Stephanie this whole issue reminds us of New Brunswick right where a similar policy led to Discord within Premier Blaine higgs’s party what kind of support does premier Mo have is his party and his

Cabinet behind him on this right well perhaps a similar policy between the two provinces but appearing to be a completely different political calculus here in Saskatchewan here Premier Moe’s cabinet and his party on almost every issue as with this one appear totally unified publicly at the same time the

NDP opposition is totally United in its opposition to this policy so a real Chasm a wide wide gap between the two as it is on on many policies and uh as expected it’s difficult to gauge public opinion when this is all so fresh but a

Range of opinions on this uh to be sure well speaking of public opinion I mean beyond the political sphere how big a conversation is this in Saskatchewan in general uh it was big when it came up and it’s growing uh but the nature of it seems to be changing so in the early

Days when this was first introduced when other provinces were discussing this it was mostly about this policy about whether it’s a good idea to have mandatory parental notification Nation on identity changes but now after Premier Mo has pledged to use this notwithstanding clause and the day is

Coming in a week or two the debate is actually shifting now to to the legality of of his actions and his government’s actions and uh one side is saying he’s sticking up for provincial interests uh the other is saying he’s making a mockery of the Canadian Constitution

Stephanie and if he does invoke this notwithstanding clause and it sounds like he will what happens next is the matter settled then is this over well in a word no it is not over uh legal experts we spoke with they say that the opponents of the government policy uh

Should the notwithstanding Clause go into place as expected they could actually apply for another injunction and to uh to ask the judge to put it on pause again for constitutional reasons or for errors in law and now if another judge decides to grant that the government can appeal that injunction

And so on and so on and so on so this could go on for very long time however Canadian courts as they Note have been extremely reluctant to intervene when it comes to the notwithstanding clause and when a government actually invokes this a court has never Struck it down

Stephanie okay Jason thanks so much for this take care that was cbc’s Jason Warwick in Saskatoon in the U.S the House of Representatives has passed a stop-gap funding bill just hours before a government shutdown is set to take place the package would fund government services for the next 45 days

Until November 17th a similar Bill introduced last night was defeated partially by members of house Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s own party the new bill dropped multiple spending cuts the Republicans pushed for in order to get full support from Democrats the temporary funding package now goes to the U.S Senate for approval then to the

White House if the deal is not in place by midnight millions of federal workers will not be paid and many programs and services will face disruptions or stop entirely nearly the entire population of nagorno-karabakh has fled into Armenia The Enclave is formally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but the majority of

Its population was made up of ethnic Armenians until a recent surge in violence the mass Exodus was triggered by azerbaijan’s military reclaiming control over the Breakaway region Armenia is now calling on the European Union for temporary shelters and medical supplies to help it manage the tens of thousands of refugees the cbc’s Briar

Stewart was in armenia’s capital where she visited a center collecting donations for refugees people have been dropping off food and diapers and toiletries toys these are all volunteers from individuals and companies and it’s an effort that’s organized by a local actress her name is Annette sargarian

And they people all coming here and all is hungry babe crying they haven’t home you haven’t and settles and they have anything and it’s little what we can do for them now and we know that Armenia said that they can only host about 40 000 uh refugees and many more than that have

Come in so it’s really a lot of um average residents uh local citizens that are helping out and they’re they’re hosting uh some of these Refugee families so you have cars that are parked here and they pick up donations um as they’re ready to send them out Breyer Stewart reporting from Yerevan

Armenia while the conflict in nagorno-karabakh and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were two of the key issues facing world leaders at the UN General Assembly but on the sidelines there was another issue that got far fewer headlines eradicating malaria the killer disease was at one point on the path to

Extinction now global Health Advocates are warning of a looming malaria emergency Chris Reyes explains what’s causing the dangerous backslide we’re calling on the whole world in terms of calling attention to the crisis that we have the Lumen emergency the looming threats around around malaria Dr Michael adekunle Charles is the CEO of RBM

Partnership to end malaria he says that warning is more urgent than ever as climate change brings hotter temperatures and stronger storms creating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes that transmit the disease add to that mosquitoes are growing more resistant to insecticides while anti-malarial drugs are also becoming less effective all while funding for

Interventions has plateaued in recent years we’ve reached the perfect storm if we do not act now all the gains we’ve made over the last 20 years will be eroded that’s echoed by global Health Advocates and African leaders the continent most affected by malaria Dr Muhammad Ali Pate is Nigeria’s Health

Minister he recently visited a facility in his country that reflects the urgency of treating the disease 60 70 percent of kids who are in that facility had malaria those who have preventable cases around 600 000 people die from malaria each year and 247 million people are infected that according to the most

Recent numbers from the World Health Organization earlier this year the U.S recorded its first locally acquired malaria cases in 20 years Dr patay’s message don’t let malaria burden Health Care Systems that are already maxed out if the public health measures are deployed in an effective manner I think

It saves money it saves lives it also serves the entire Health Care System Olivia engu is the executive director of impact Sante afrique a public health NGO based in Cameroon she says malaria is a public health emergency waiting to happen but it doesn’t have to be that

Way it’s a disease we can prevent and we can treat we have the tools for it so we don’t understand why we will lose anyone to those to this disease we need about more than one million over the next three years to cover the Gap in the malaria fight

The biggest challenge in fundraising says Dr Charles fighting for attention malaria a disease that slipped into the background as newer more intense crises have emerged in recent years the longer we wait you know the longer the crisis the longer the more you know susceptible the mosquito is the resistance and all

That and the Gap will continue to widen malaria Advocates are holding out hope that the disease can still be eradicated by 2030 if that funding Gap is filled now Chris Reyes CBC News New York here in Canada infectious diseases experts warn drug resistant bacteria are an increasing danger around the world more

Than one million people each year die from antibiotic resistant infections and a recent report found Canada is lacking in the latest drugs needed to fight these bugs Amina Zafar now with the story of one man who is still recovering from infections he contracted while undergoing routine surgery

Out of the truck and started to projectile vomit Glenn Barr can’t forget that day on his driveway incredible amount of blood right here yeah right here bar sought out medical advice and found he needed a new liver doctors would open up my charts and if it was a

New doctor he you know you’d hear the oh my on top of barra’s new liver the Ottawa resident caught a slew of serious infections E coli hepatitis including one right in the surgical cut from his transplant there was an infection with the incision and uh and that turned out

To be something that required them to cut it open and take the incision out and then treat the internal area for months doctors gave bar IV antibiotics to treat one of his bacterial infections so it wouldn’t spread in his body we can get really difficult to manage bacterial infections

And so that’s an important priority Elon Schwartz is a Canadian infectious diseases specialist now working at at Duke University in North Carolina antibiotics like penicillin are meant to kill off bacteria but the bacteria can evolve a resistance to the drugs which makes infections really hard to treat now that’s the the future that

Infectious disease doctors really worry about Schwartz worries even worse infections or superbugs are not just threatening the immunocompromised but could infect more patients including Canadians going to the hospital for routine surgeries like hip replacements in this arms race against the bacteria we inevitably lose Jerry Wright invents

New antibiotics at his lab at McMaster University but we’re always going to have these outbreaks and epidemics of things that we never even considered to be an issue right worries more outbreaks will happen he says the covid pandemic is an example of how unprepared our Health Care system can be you know we

Had an enormous lesson given to us spanking by Major for now Hospital Cleaners work to keep the superbugs out and vulnerable patients like Glenn Barr safe can I get you some water for your pills please four years later Barr is still recovering from the infections he picked up after his liver transplant Amina

Zephyr CBC News Toronto in the new movie solo an up-and-coming drag queen commands the stage at Montreal bars while also struggling with an abusive lover and an absent mother it’s a Showcase of Montreal’s drag scene and as the cbc’s Tegan beaudette reports the filmmakers say it’s coming out at a critical time

Quebecois director Sophie Dupuis was a fan of drag culture for years before making solo I get to listen to them talking about their lives their family where they’re coming from I thought that there there may be like something to say about that the Buzzy new French language film follows a young

Drag queen named Simone he gets involved with someone new and at first things seem great but the relationship ultimately alienates everyone in Simone’s life Dupuis says she wanted to tell a story about lgbtq characters for whom queerness is never an issue and the first step auditioning hundreds of lgbtq

Actors I thought it was a good idea to have mostly queer people to work with it was very um like emotional because people were telling how important that kind of film would be for the culture and even for them that was maybe a kind of film that

They will need when they were young dupui wrote the lead role for teodor pelara he’s a quebecois actor who had to learn to walk in heels and he says value his own femininity the character you know is completely liberated in that matter and values himself through that extravagance and that um that femininity

And so I had to develop that and also learn to love it the film’s release comes at a time when drag performances are drawing angry protests across North America and hate crimes targeting lgbtq people are rising dramatically that’s according to data from statistics Canada still montreal-based drag queen Gisele

Lullaby says there is much to celebrate in Canada’s drag scene she says the film is a touching window into the Montreal drag world and I think it’s important to see a movie like that to understand what what is going on inside not just judging people like and she says while audiences

Shouldn’t expect RuPaul’s Drag Race level budgets for the costumes in the movie Dupuis got a lot right about Montreal’s local drag queens solo won the best Canadian film award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival it opens in Toronto this weekend and across Canada on October 6th taking modet CBC News Toronto You’re listening to the world this weekend on CBC Radio I’m Stephanie skanderis as Canada marks the national day for Truth and Reconciliation Australia is grappling with its own Colonial history and treatment of indigenous peoples in two weeks time it’ll hold a national referendum voters will decide whether or

Not indigenous people will have a guaranteed voice in Australia’s Parliament Sasha petrasek reports outside of school north of Sydney kids dance and sing an indigenous tune it’s in darawal a fading language now being taught to Aboriginal and non-aboriginal youngsters thousands of children may eventually take these classes says Rey ingray the

Head of the foundation behind the program we can’t continue to sanitize what our old people went through and once that’s acknowledged by everybody we can then move forward together it’s part of Australia’s attempt to kick-start a dialogue on Aboriginal rights one that went into high gear this week with the

Announcement of a national referendum by prime minister Anthony albanesi a wife for all of us to recognize indigenous Australians and their history in our constitution Aboriginal people’s makeup just over three percent of Australia’s population marginalized and socially disadvantaged and have no treaties proposed changes would create a so-called voice to

Parliament an indigenous committee to advise lawmakers campaigning for the yes forces started right away with placard waving groups from Darwin to Sydney I think indigenous people absolutely have the right to be written within the Constitution they need to be able to come together and and make some decisions for their people and

Their communities but Paul suggests Australians aren’t convinced it has caused nothing but harm and Division and even some indigenous leaders like independent Senator Lydia Thorpe reject the referendum as just window dressing they won’t be change until this Society changes until this society’s thinking values attitudes and systems have been revolutionized nigan

Sinclair from the University of Winnipeg says Canada could use a similar National dialogue now since support for indigenous rights has dropped some people are calling it reconciliation fatigue that’s setting throughout the country because people are feeling the crunch of money and whenever there’s a crunch of money indigenous rights are always

Pushed aside things may not change in Australia this time either partly because of attitudes partly because of referendum rules to pass it needs majority support in Most states as well as nationally Sasha petrasek CBC News Toronto To end our show tonight we want to take you back to the ceremony and bring you more of one deeply moving moment a tribute to the children known to have died at residential schools here’s Stephanie Scott the executive director of the national Center For Truth and Reconciliation or nctr and herself a 60s

Scoop Survivor the residential school system was intended to destroy First Nations Inuit and metis cultures and our languages but they did not succeed [Applause] for those that never made it home their Spirits call out to us to be remembered and to be honored those children’s names

More than 4 000 of them written onto a long red banner and carried to the stage where tiny shoes were placed in honor of the children whose names aren’t yet known we still don’t have all the records the nctr continues to work with churches governments and others so we can finally

Access the 23 million records that were not released to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada we know more children will be found and their names will be added the founding director of the nctr is metis artist Rye Moran who played his song feel you here during the banner procession Here we’ll leave you with some more of Rye Moran this has been the world this weekend I’m Stephanie skanderis thank you for being with us I feel you

Commemorations to mark the third National Day of Truth and Reconciliation took place across the country on Saturday. And, global health advocates are warning of a looming malaria emergency.

These are just some of the top stories on the September 30, 2023 edition of The World This Weekend.

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