0:10 Good afternoon and welcome to RSJ Radio. I'm Jasmine Balla. 0:15 And I'm Nick Da Cunha. In today's top stories, it's Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, and no one seems to be doing anything. 0:22 Tensions rise in the Bruce MacArthur case amid new revelations. 0:26 And finally, there's been a spike in donors and PEI after the Humboldt crash. 0:30 Today is April 12. But it sure doesn't feel like it. 0:35 It's like winter never ends. 0:36 Yeah, you know what they say? April freezing showers bring May flowers, but that one has a little twist. This weekend, we're expecting some wild weather. Toronto get set for a possible ice storm this weekend. This weekend, increasing northeasterly winds will draw colder air from the Arctic. This means the rain that we see today will turn to freezing rain by tomorrow night. The storm is predicted to be so bad that the repair work that was scheduled on the Don Valley Parkway this weekend has been canceled. 1:07 It might be cold outside but the Leafs are trying to bring the heat. The road to the Stanley Cup starts today for the Leafs. They kick off their first round playoff series against the Boston Bruins at 7pm. The Leafs will be looking to win their first playoff series since 2004. Leaf's fans have been dreaming of winning their first Stanley Cup since way back in 1967. 1:26 Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust memorial day. A day to commemorate Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. RSJ reporter Lydia Abraha heads over to the Hillel to ask them why they aren't running any programs today. 1:40 It seems that many young people could use some Holocaust education. A recent study found one fifth of American millennials have never heard of the Holocaust. Hillel Ryerson, the Jewish student group feels it is unnecessary to run campus wide programs honoring Yom HaShoah. Last November Hillel Ryerson ran programs during Holocaust Education Week. Jeffrey Handelman is the student president of Hillel Ryerson. He said that Holocaust Education Week was very successful and people from both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities participated. 2:16 Because Holocaust Education Week is something that's a little more Canada wide, it was a really good opportunity to include the university in that process as well. So it became more widespread whereas, you know, martial law, which is today is not as widely known to probably the non-Jewish population because it's more of a Jewish centric holiday. 2:33 Yom HaShoah is commemorated on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The uprising was the biggest Jewish revolt during World War Two. Or Weiss the Israeli Fellow of Hillel explains why Yom HaShoah is commemorated today. 2:48 It's important to remember it any day of the year, but you obviously they are what they are, we can chose to make sure that people will remember it at least one day. So let's go for the like for the idea of people try to resist. 3:01 The Warsaw Jews were able to hold off the Germans for a month. Handelman says it is okay to privately remember this occasion. 3:09 It falls into the Jewish calendar because specifically towards the Jews this is something we commemorate for ourselves where I'm sure a lot of other groups of individuals do the same. So it's definitely something that's more Jewish centric, which definitely should remain that way. 3:22 This is more than a day to remember the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. It is also a time to reflect on the strength and resistance of the Jewish people. This is Lydia Abraha for RSJ Radio. 3:35 Wear a jersey and show some support for the Humbodlt Broncos. Today, Canadians across the country are trading in their weekday outfits for sports jerseys. And in more tragic news out of Humbodlt 25 year old Dana Lebronze. The team's athletic therapist died yesterday from injury sustained in Friday's crash. Her passing brings a death total to 16. Tyler Bieber, the broadcaster for the Broncos will be the first of the 16 to be buried. His funeral was held today at 10am local time at the Elgar Peterson Arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Where the Broncos played their home games. 4:07 Sign the paper and save some lives. This is what some PEI residents have been doing following the Humboldt Broncos crash. Humboldt Broncos defenseman Logan Boulais was one of the 16 killed in the crash. His organs were donated to six people in need. After his donation PEI saw spike in donors. The province says they have close to 400 new people who have registered to be donors. But PEI isn't the only province to see a spike in donors. Many other provinces across Canada have also seen an increase since the crash. 4:42 In local news, a 17 year old boy was shot in Scarborough's Malvern neighborhood last night. Police say they got the report of the shooting at 10pm on Neilson and Tapscott roads. So far investigators say the shooting occurred outside of a building. The boy was rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital in serious condition. 4:59 Toronto Police and the LGBTQ plus community have been butting heads over the case of alleged serial killer Bruce MacArthur. After more details emerged in the case questions regarding the police's handling of the situation continue to rise. Reporter Peter Ash has the story. 5:20 Tension between the LGBTQ plus community and the Toronto Police has increased as the investigation into alleged serial killer Bruce MacArthur has unfolded. Just yesterday, McArthur was charged with a seventh count of murder, which has made activists and members become more vocal. Andrew Houston is an LGBTQ plus activist and instructor of queer media at Ryerson University. She has been reporting on the murder investigation for the last few years. Houston was particularly passionate about how the police handled the issue. 5:48 This has been a real nightmare for the community for many years and the last especially the last few months, as this investigation has unfolded. And, you know, the police have have done pretty much everything wrong in their outreach and communication with the queer and trans communities of Toronto. And it's been it's made the situation so much more traumatizing, and it didn't have to be. 6:09 Activists such as Houston are so adamant that the police didn't do enough during the initial investigation. Tammy Lando, an ally of the community, and a department chair of Criminology at Ryerson so that she stands for the community. 6:21 It was very very distressing to realize that men were going missing. There was no explanation. There wasn't really much police attention being paid to it and I was very alarmed for my friends in that community. 6:34 Toronto Police will not be attending the Pride Parade this year. Houston says that she understands why. 6:39 We have to listen to the most marginalized. We have to it's the street involved queer and trans people drug using queer and trans people, certainly sex working communities. And if they're not safe, then I'm sorry police are not welcome in the parade. 6:52 At this point, the only thing that the community can do is spread positivity and look ahead. For RSJ radio I'm Peter rush. 7:01 The two Vancouver police officers have been released from jail in Cuba. A third officer has been sent to investigate. The two law enforcement officers were detained and their passports were seized following sexual assault allegations. An Ontario teen reported that she was assaulted by one of the officers near Varadero in mid March. 7:20 A few years ago Globe and Mail reporter Robin Doolittle gained recognition for her coverage of ex-Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Her investigative piece highlighted Ford's personal and political life and gave the world a look into his use of drugs. Now a thriller about the investigative work is in the process of being made. But the reporter in it is male. We go now to RSJ report Zena Salem. 7:44 It's interesting how this entire story unfolded. Robyn Doolittle was surprised when she heard a male actor is playing a reporter character in a thriller that highlights the investigation behind the Rob Ford drug use and personal and political life and others were to. On Twitter people called out that is unfair to the female reporter who originally worked tirelessly to get the story. They saw it as her not being given credit for her work. But what's interesting here is that later on, Ben Platt, the actor assigned the role of the male reporter released his statement. He clarified that the film is actually focused on three fictional characters trying to make their way through the political and journalism industries. In his character the reporter fails to expose Ford's scandals. I was one of many who also thought it was ridiculous to credit a man for a woman success. But maybe it's not the whole story. Then again, this reinforces the idea of challenging news. So maybe waiting for further information before fully developing an opinion would be a better choice. 8:48 I'm Zena Salem for RSJ radio. Back to you in the studio. 8:52 Thanks, Dana. People are up in arms over a Cabbagetown daycare proposal. Owners of the 130 year old heritage building will no longer be able to turn it into a daycare. City officials refused the proposal because of safety concerns due to a lack of parking space and traffic. The plan for the daycare was to provide care for 82 children and 18 staff. There was an overwhelming amount of support for the daycare, and many parents have been left disappointed. 9:22 Canada has the second worst stock market in the developed world, but some believe it will get better. Fee Era Capital Corporation has 129 billion dollars in assets under management. The company says the Toronto Stock market will bounce back. For example, just this afternoon Second Cup stocks have jumped over 18% after signing in agreement with National Access Cannabis. This rise in stock comes after second cup release plans on converting locations into recreational pot stores. Stores will open across western Canada in partnership with a marijuana clinic operator. However in Ontario, marijuana will only be sold by liquor license commission similar to the LCBO. Some Ontarians are not in favor of the idea. Ryerson Business Management student BC Waldie Michael is one of these people. 10:16 I feel like if I wanted to, like buy that type of product, I wouldn't go to second cup. I would just go to an actual dispensary like, like that just sells out one product and I would go to second cup just for a drink. 10:28 Private operators will be able to sell marijuana in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 10:35 Speaking of pot Ontarians do not have to wait much longer to buy their's. The location of the first four provincial run cannabis stores have been released. The stores will be in gwelf Kingston, Toronto and Thunder Bay. 40 stores are expected to open by the end of the year. The province plans to open around 150 retailers by 2020. 10:57 Living in condos in Toronto is only getting more and more expensive. New research has found that it's already risen 11% since last year, here's Nick Wapachee with more. 11:09 Urban Nation is a research organization that looks at Toronto condo market data. They found the condo rent is higher and the reason is that condo buyers need at least $100,000 income. That number jumped from only 77,000 last year. Pauline Lieberman, Director of Market Research weighs in. 11:29 At the moment, I think they're going to be renting more and that has a lot to do with the fact that the new OSPI rules were put in place. So you're now having to qualify at a fixed rate. Leiberman says the average monthly rental cost increased by $214 over the year for a unit size of 740 square feet. 11:47 So this impact is really kind of cut into the purchasing power. We looked at the income level that you needed to buy and I remember 10 years ago, you could make 55 k six to 10 years ago and buy us an entry level condo. 12:02 The housing bubble has been growing, making it increasingly difficult for hopeful Toronto homeowners to find an affordable condo to live. 12:12 And I'm hoping that it'll actually you know, create a situation where we do see some rent slow down in terms of its double digit growth is not sustainable in a market at all. It really really is I don't want to use the B word and I'm not going to use the B word nobody likes to use. But it's it's a tough situation and it's not sustainable relative to incomes and the demand so. 12:31 I'm Nick Wapachee for RSJ Radio. 12:34 The protest continues in Montreal against the deportation of an undocumented mother. Lucy Granadose has been living in Montreal for nine years. Granadose fled from Guatemala out of fear for her own safety. If the motion for Granadose's permanent residency is denied, she will be put back on a plane to Guatemala tomorrow. The protest called Mother Sit in is led by human rights defender Rihanna Hashmi. Hashmi says she won't allow the Canadian Border Services to determine the lives of undocumented women in her community. 13:08 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under fire for his latest international trip. Critics of Trudeau are disappointed that he's leaving the country during the discussion over the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Conservative MP Peter Kent said Trudeau should, and I quote, deal with this Kinder Morgan crisis and demonstrate a little leadership. The clock continues to tick down towards the May 31 deadline set by Kinder Morgan to cancel the multibillion dollar project. 13:34 President Donald Trump is stirring up drama on Twitter yet again. Trump tweeted today that he never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all. This comes after debate yesterday between the US and Russia at the UN Security Council. This was after the Trump administration considered military action against Syria. 13:58 This morning another rumor about Trump has surfaced. A major tabloid paid big bucks to save Trump's image during the presidential campaign. The National Enquirer had paid a former Trump Tower doormen $30,000 to keep quiet on Trump's alleged love child. The Enquirer has previously tipped off a former Playboy Playmate $150,000 to hide her affair with the president during his campaign. The Door man's story has since turned out to be false. 14:26 Bad Blood on the diamond yesterday, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox had a bench clearing clearing brawl in their game last night. The brawl broke out after the Yankees designated hitter Tyler Austin was hit by a pitch. This was in response to a dangerous slide by Austin at second base earlier in the game. Three players and one coach were ejected following the brawl. 14:50 Two male students, student athletes are being honored for their work in the community outside of athletics. The DH Craighead Award was won by two Rams athletes for community service. The two may have may play different sports, but they have a lot in common. Michael Masai has the story. 15:08 A sports award is usually given to an athlete's accomplishments while playing. This award was given for all their work while not playing and was given to two athletes. The first is men's hockey forward Aaron Armstrong, who's in his third season with the Rams. 15:23 Just feel very fortunate all around for my entire kind of journey here at Ryerson. Just real thankful for Ryerson and all that they helped achieve all the student athletes goals kind of inside and outside the classroom. 15:37 The other is men's soccer Captain Kyle Stewart, who's in his fifth and final year. 15:41 I was a co-winner with Aaron Armstrong. For athletics to me and him on the same level, it was a very good level of respect towards both of us. I was just humbled and I felt so proud of both myself and Aaron for all the things he's done. 15:55 The DH Craighead Award is given to a Ram for their community service while maintaining a leadership role on their team. It's one of numerous awards given during the annual athletic awards celebration held around this time of year. Though they play different sports, they share a lot in common. Both players have a passion for giving back to the community and for doing it humbly. They both work for programs like Rams Care, and Jays Care big sports day. 16:19 The enthusiasm and excitement that my teammates and my friends and whatnot have shown it's just so cool when you get to kind of do those things together as as a team. It just really inspired I think, by the people around me. I feel very blessed. It may seem challenging to balance being student athlete and doing community work, but both have found a way. 16:29 I think if you love what you do, it doesn't feel like you're you're too busy. I mean, obviously you have to manage your time well. You know, managing your time and being passionate about what you're doing. 16:49 It's finding those little pockets and increments of time and being disciplined enough to commit to it. 16:56 As they graduate from Ryerson, both hope their community work inspires other Rams to do the same. For RSJ Radio, I'm Michael Masai. 17:04 Android phones have always been slow to get updates. But the problems with Android software updates go deeper. Today, we learned that Android phone users are being left vulnerable to hacks. The research firm called Security Research Lab says many Android devices have what they call a patch gap. This is when a phone says its software is up to date, but it's actually missing up to a dozen security patches. 17:30 Netflix confirms they won't be participating in Cannes Film Festival after the creation of new regulations. Netflix refuses to have their films screened in a theater, which is what would happen at the festival. So festival organizers banned films from the streaming platform. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandose says it's pointless to be part of the 12 Day event. 17:52 Timber, look out below. Indian officials say wind's blowing at 130 kilometers per hour cost pillars at the Taj Mahal entrance to collapse. Authority say work has begun to restore the damaged pillars. No one was injured by the incident. The Taj Mahal has also suffered damage due to pollution and construction activity in recent years. 18:15 Mariah Carey is opening up about her longtime struggle with bipolar disorder. She's one of the handful of big name celebrities who have opened up about dealing with mental health in recent years. How can celebrity sharing their stories impacts society's views on mental illness? Our arts reporter Zahraa Hmood has a story. 18:39 Mariah Carey is known for her five octave range, multiple number one hits and diva attitude. Now she's opening up about her struggles with mental health. The pop superstar shared that she has bipolar disorder for an interview with People Magazine. The singers career skyrocketed back in the 1990s. She said she was diagnosed with bipolar two disorder in 2001. Carey says she suffered a mental and physical breakdown 17 years ago. Carey is part of a handful of big name celebrities opening up about their mental health difficulties. Earlier this month. Actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson shared in an interview that he's battled depression throughout his career. When celebrities open up about their troubles, it can make a significant impact. That's what Charlie Grizar a third year Ryerson University student says he thinks. 19:27 I think it's important for the celebrities to open up about it now for the people who are diagnosed with certain whatever mental illnesses before the people who aren't. They are more aware of what a day to day life is with people who are diagnosed with whatever bipolar or schizophrenia and all that. 19:43 Grizar has depression and post traumatic stress disorder. A few years ago, he says he was borderline suicidal and stayed at Sunnybrook Hospital for a month. One in five people in Canada will experience a mental health illness according to the Canadian Mental Health Association. Grizar says he wants people to understand that mental illness is an issue that can impact just about anyone. 20:06 That it's more common than you think it is. That although you aren't diagnosed with something you very well could be. 20:15 Grizar says he's doing better, taking medication and going to therapy. Carey also says that she's in a good place. She said she hopes that the stigma around mental illness can be lifted and that people will feel less alone. For RSJ Radio, I'm Sara Mahmood. 20:34 I'm Zahraa Hmood. 20:37 By nature activists live their lives for other people. But often the journey they took to get where they are is the most fascinating part about them. RSJ reporter Atara Shields speaks with a student activist about continuing to embrace her religion through her activism and advocacy. 21:02 It is hard to stand up for what you believe in at the best of times. But what about when the way you are raised and the schools you are brought up in make you feel like you're the only one in the whole world who thinks like you do. Student activist Rahal Landow dealt with these feelings and talks about how she found people like her and refound love for her community. 21:23 Hello, my name is Raha Lando. I'm a third year student at University of Toronto Scarborough studying Public Policy and International Development Studies. I think high school was probably one of my biggest transitional phases because I grew up with a pretty religious background. I went from really being in my own community, and not being aware of any outside issues to kind of developing my own thoughts and opinions around outside issues and other causes that I wasn't even aware of. It was actually challenging for me because because at times, I was like, Oh my gosh, maybe I'm wrong. You know, maybe maybe me defending this is really not not good. Maybe, maybe everyone else is right, because at the time, I felt like my opinion was a minority. And it was really important for me to defend the rights of the people that needed it the most. But it was challenging for me when when I was framed, as you know, being the ignorant one. By the end of high school, I had really, you know, started forming opinions and advocating, albeit quietly, for the rights of some of those less privileged. 22:36 As she left the sheltered bubble of her community schools, a new world awaited her in university. Suddenly, people so different from the types of people she grew up around thought the same way as she did. 22:47 There were a lot of friends I made at university and I think a lot of those friendships were actually started because we had similar causes. 22:56 Rahal met up with one of these friends on campus. 23:06 Hi, I'm Raymond Dang and I am a student at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. I know Rahal. I know her because I met her in first year university in an economics class where we, we started to talk about a whole bunch of things, and then it got to it got to activism. 23:27 Like it was super sketchy. Too ethical like, like then this situation got thrown into the abyss. 23:35 For me personally, I go through cycles of different topics that I wanted to talk about, but usually topics such as anti-semitism on our campus, religion in general, environmental friendliness, her veganism, you know, all that sort of stuff is really fun. It's really fun. 23:57 Raymond really taught me a lot about how to be vocal about my opinions. You know, and how to how to be active how to take my thoughts and turn it into activism. 24:14 For Rahal, that activism Raymond helped her articulate takes on many forms, that's a her even the smallest things are important. 24:22 Speaking, even like one sentence you can say that critiques negative comments someone maybe makes about the LGBT community, that's activism. You can do that and, you know, make those small changes at the local level that will hopefully have a larger impact. 24:38 And that community, Rahal thought she had left behind when she left high school? Well, she never really left it behind at all. It turns out, she could be even more strongly connected to it through her new outlook on life. 24:51 One of the places that I like feel most comfortable most at home is like when I find people that are from the same background as me, but like kind of evolved in a similar way to have similar critiques. So I'd say social media was actually probably really great for me to find like minded people. You know, there were all these kinds of groups that I found online that were dedicated to people from my background, that had similar views. Whether they were groups dedicated to a specific issue or groups where we can just freely discuss it showed me that there's other like minded people and definitely gave me courage in spirit strength to be more vocal about my advocacy. Actually, recently, a couple of my friends started a group that I'm a part of for like LGBT rights in the religious community we grew up in you know, advocating for that. There's all these kinds of communities now that I think that may be more controversial, but you know, our free spaces to discuss the critiques that we have of the narratives we grew up in.At the beginning, it was definitely like so eye opening for me because I I really at times thought that I was one of very few people and to see large groups of people that really do have similar views is like so supportive and so heartwarming. If your religious identity is important for you then absolutely stick with it. There's ways to make it work within your religious identity. Type in the social media search bar, your cause and and your religion and you might find something. Even if you find just that one person who has similar viewpoints to you, then maybe they can lead you into other communities, whether there are virtual communities or or real communities and that can be so eye opening. Definitely like you don't have to sacrifice your religion for other political ideologies or or causes that may not that that you may initially think contradict each other. 26:46 Rahal's story reminds us that no matter how isolated you feel on your journey, there are other people on parallel paths. Stay true to yourself, and you'll find them. For RSJ Radio, this is Atara Shields. 27:07 Don't let the cute face fool you. A raccoon was seen opening a supposedly raccoon proof green bin in the Beaches area. The furry creature learned how to twist the rounded handle to unlock the lid. The locking mechanism was meant to stop animals from digging through compost, but I guess they need to come up with something else. 27:25 Wow, these raccoons can get into anything. 27:28 Yeah, next thing you know, they'll be getting into our Facebook accounts. 27:31 I mean, it can't be that hard. 27:36 That joke was so cheesy. We had to put in the laugh track. 27:39 And that's all we have for today, folks. Thanks so much for tuning in all year. I'm Jasmine Bala. 27:45 And I'm Nick Di Cunha. For RSJ Radio as a winter storm approaches just thing. We'll be going on summer vacation soon. Stay warm, Toronto