Unknown Speaker 0:01 Welcome to the RSJ Radio Podcast, created from content produced by students enrolled in radio courses at the Ryerson School of Journalism. Unknown Speaker 0:12 In current affairs, the Ryerson Art Society holds an event to showcase comedic and poetic talents. The sports world is going crazy over Toronto's very own Raptors. A new paper released by NASA shows that Antarctica is not contributing to rising sea levels and self driving cars are the hottest thing in business. But first two Arts in the world of arts and entertainment, the controversial director Quentin Tarantino is burning bridges with the police. Adele has hit record sales, and the Supliers Theater has announced their lineup for 2016. Here's caught Catherine Machado with these stories, and more. Unknown Speaker 0:51 This week the Ryerson Art Society is hosting events in hopes of bringing attention to the schools arts community. They've kicked off the week with the Ryerson showcase last night. Here's Adelia Lha with the details. Unknown Speaker 1:01 A pass runs at the Eaton Lecture Theatre at the Rogers Communication Centre last night with the first ever Ryerson comedy and poetry showcase. The Ryerson Arts Society and the Social Work Students Union co hosted the event with a few other organizations as contest and sponsor. Poets and comedians included the Ergo poetry collective, the Rach Dolls and award winning comedian and feminist Ashley Moffat, performed on stage and brought up some social issues with their work. The event organizer Michael Freidman says the event is trying to raise awareness. Unknown Speaker 1:34 So I think the theme of this event tonight was a social issues that are prominent in our Canadian society, because of its being run by social work students union, you know, you want to incorporate some sort of social topics like racism, sexism, and so on and so forth. Unknown Speaker 1:48 Ryerson has not been hot for arts activities in the past. Michael believes the heat among the audience last night proves that driving interest in arts among Ryerson students. Unknown Speaker 1:57 People are willing to come out on a Monday night when assignments and midterms or due. You know that they're willing to put that aside for a night to go and have fun and engage with material that they don't engage with in this way so often, so I think it's like really high energy and lots of people are willing to participate in our forums. Unknown Speaker 2:17 Actually, about that, who plays around with heavy issues like sexual orientation, single parenthood and feminism in a hilarious way? Won a lot of praise last night. Here's an example. Unknown Speaker 2:27 The main message I was trying to convey was that I am super talented period. Unknown Speaker 2:33 The showcase is part of the referendum activities of the art society which are going on to November 5, and there's definitely an arts vibe going on in Ryerson. This is Delia Lhaw for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 2:45 Pull out your calendars! The Soul Pepper theatre announcer lineup this morning for 2016. The lineup features the play Father Comes Home from the Wars by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The plays a new spin on the classic poem, The Odyssey, and a set during the American Civil War. Soul Pepper's artistic director Albert Schultz told the Globe that he thinks the season is going in the right direction with four female writers, three directors of color and two writers of color. Theater fans also have a chance to watch returning shows such as 12 Angry Men The Odd Couple and Jitters. Police groups have called to boycott the film director Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. This comes after he made comments against police brutality during a rally in Brooklyn last month. He said he believes there is murder going on and that he is on the side of the murdered. The National Association of Police Organizations asked officers to stop providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of the director's projects. The boycott has put pressure on one of December's most anticipated releases. Tarantino has yet to respond publicly to the backlash, and Adele is added again. Unknown Speaker 3:52 [Music: Adele - Hello] Unknown Speaker 3:52 Her new song Hello has become the first song to sell 1 million tracks in a week. This is the singers fourth number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart following Rolling in the Deep , Someone like you and Set Fire to the Rain. Hello is the first single from Adele's third album 25. The album is set to be released November 20. Good luck not getting this one stuck in your head. I'm Catherine Machado for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 4:15 Next up in Health and Science, climate change could cause malnutrition by 2080. A new device to prevent bacteria spreading in hospitals and Antarctica has been accumulating more ice. Here's Pascal Diverlus with more. Unknown Speaker 4:29 A UN expert has predicted the negative impacts of climate change could subject 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080. They've warned extreme weather, floods, droughts and rising sea levels will threaten people's access to food. They're recommending a shift from large scale industrial agriculture to supporting local food movements and small scale farmers. It's bad news for skiing enthusiasts. Unknown Speaker 4:55 Sweden will experience less snow by the end of the century. Experts say global warmin is the reason behind the shrinkage. The length of the snowy season will be reduced 40 to 80 days. Despite worries about climate change, Antarctica has been gaining more ice reporter Mitchell Bowmille has more. Unknown Speaker 5:15 Ice Ice Baby. A recent paper published by NASA has revealed that Antarctica is actually gaining more ice than it's losing. This contradicts previous studies released in which Antarctica's loss of ice was contributing to rising sea levels. Director of the Center for Global Change science at University of Toronto Richard Peltier believes that Greenland is much more of a contributing factor. Unknown Speaker 5:38 The dominant source or a very significant and much more significant than Antarctica, Antarctica source of global sea level rise is the mass loss from Greenland, okay. There's also very significant mass occurring from the ice catchments over over Alaska and the Yukon territories. Unknown Speaker 5:59 The data from the paper was all discovered using satellites. Unknown Speaker 6:03 The rate at which Antarctica is losing mass is basically constrained by the Grace satellites, which have been in space now since about 2002. And these satellites measure the time dependence of the gravitational field. Unknown Speaker 6:22 Lead author of the paper and NASA glaciologist JS Wally said that the trend could reverse in a couple decades and Antarctica could contribute to the rise in sea levels. NASA will continue to measure Antarctic ice. The US space agency is in the process of developing a new satellite that will be able to measure long term changes in Antarctic's ice sheets better. The new satellite is planned to be launched in 2018. For Are you listening, I'm Mitch Bowmile. Unknown Speaker 6:50 A new device has been invented to stop germy smartphones from infecting hospital patients. Clean Slate works by putting a phone under a UV light and 30 seconds later your phone is germ free. Clean Slate is meant to target c-difficile, MRSA, VRE and other dangerous bugs that are hospital borne. I'm Pascale Diverlus for Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 7:10 This week in sports the Jays keep Bautista, Encarnacion and Dickey on the team. The players will be earning 10 and $14 million each next season. Plus the Raptors start off the season on top, the Leafs finally end their losing streak and well we'll explore a wearable technology that is changing the game of sports. Olivia Cirillo has more. Unknown Speaker 7:32 The Raptors are back and they're getting buckets. The team started off the season three and oh for the first time since the 2008 2009 season. They won their first game against the Indiana Pacers followed by a win against the Boston Celtics. The third victory was against the Milwaukee Bucks. This game marked the 157th win for Dwayne Casey as coach for the Toronto Raptors. This pushes Casey past former coach Sam Mitchell on the franchise's all time wins list and raises his winning percentage to the best mark in franchise history. The Raptors will be playing their fourth game at 8:30pm tonight against the Dallas Mavericks. Leaf fans finally get to celebrate after the team's four one win against the Dallas Stars last night. This was only their second win of the season after a six game losing streak. The Leafs play a home game tomorrow at 7pm against the Winnipeg Jets. From the rink to the court sports players need to know how they perform if they want to be winning. Wearable entertainment and sports Toronto is a conference willing to tackle this question. The conference hosted a range of tech startups, all looking at ways to improve a player's training. Michael Solarchick brings you the story. Unknown Speaker 8:55 People hit back to see how fast it can throw a punch. A nearby computer shows off the speed each punch is thrown at. It's a brand new technology by hico a startup looking to improve a boxers throw their group involved in wearable entertainment and sports Toronto. It is a conference all about how wearable technology is improving the athletic world. Patrick Chandler is a data scientist for Hexo. Unknown Speaker 9:20 Showtime showed interest in us and the product to be able to put it live on matches so we can have up to 56 more statistics about boxing matches, whereas now it's like people only talk about four or five and it's KOs win loss number punches per round and things like that where we can get speed, impact strength, all these things you can you could be in the match and feel the punches which is something that's that's unprecedented in the industry. Unknown Speaker 9:42 Another group called All In fit, looked at a different angle in training. They strap little devices on athletes in order to record their form when working out. Ivadad Bambray engineered the devices in his last year of university. Unknown Speaker 9:56 We feel technology can really play a great role in helping provide the same knowledge to the people that a real person can. So we're trying to emulate the whole experience through technology at the same time making it more affordable and accessible. Unknown Speaker 10:11 The mastermind behind the entire conference is Tom Emrich. He says wearable technology is the future of sports. Unknown Speaker 10:17 Wearable technology is not quite new for athletes, coaches or scientists. And that's mainly because as an athlete, you see your body as a machine. So you're used to using tools that give you insight as to how your machine is doing. How your respiratory is doing, your heart rate, your activity, monitoring things like your performance as well as mitigating risks of injury. You need to have your your machine well oiled and ready for game time. Unknown Speaker 10:45 Emerich star of the conference in Toronto believing it to be a sports centric city. Now in its second year, the event continues to attract curious eyes from all over the sports world. Michael Solarchick, Are you listening. Unknown Speaker 10:58 The Kansas City Royals won the World Series championship on Sunday after a seven two victory over the New York Mets. The city will be throwing a huge party today to celebrate the team's first World Series championship in 30 years. City officials say they expect a parade of over 200,000 people in downtown Kansas City. The players, coaches and team officials of the Kansas City Royals will all be in attendance for one of the biggest parties in the city's history. That's all for sports. I'm Olivia Ciarello for Are you listening. Unknown Speaker 11:34 In business today self driving cars, the hotest christmas toys and Sears has appointed a new president. We're going over to Bailey Vickers with more. Unknown Speaker 11:45 Nissan is looking to increase the safety of driving by introducing self driving cars to the road. The Associated Press took a pre programmed half hour test drive in the prototype vehicle. There was one human intervention when the car didn't recognize an unclear line but other than that it showed potential. Nissan is preparing for the self driving car options to go on sale in 2020. Until the technology is finely tuned, Nissan will offer individual features and other models such as keeping a safe distance from the car in front, Sears has hired retail veteran Carrie Kirkman as the new president and chief merchant. Kirkman has worked with Nine West shoes as well as Jones Apparel, giving her extensive background in retail. She aims to focus on women ages 35 to 50. Because the percent of shoppers in this range is at a low 18%. She will place clothing lines such as Jessica Simpson more prominently to attract younger shoppers. Speaking of retail the Canadian Toy Association presented Hot Toys for the holidays in Toronto this morning. Trevor Hewitt was there. Unknown Speaker 12:49 Well it was a sight for board eyes at the Ontario Science Center this morning as a barrage of wheels and mechanized legs whizzed across the floor. The event paired up children of all ages with this season's hottest new gadgets, games and gizmos. Unknown Speaker 13:05 Mechanoid. Unknown Speaker 13:06 On the game floor seven year old Mary has found a new metal chum and meccanoid a toy robot. What do you think your favorite toy that you've seen so far? Unknown Speaker 13:15 I definitely have to go with the Mechanoid. He's so cool like a robot as a toy. Unknown Speaker 13:21 Board Chair Steve Morris says that the event is an effort to promote a return to traditional toys based on connection and teamwork. Unknown Speaker 13:28 One of the things that's interesting about toys today, and I learned I was at a seminar a few years ago and and it's just three years ago and the person speaking says we have a crisis in our industry. When four year old children are playing with iPads. Unknown Speaker 13:50 Morris says that in 2015, it's the parents and manufacturers responsibility to make sure that kids are playing with age appropriate technology that encourages positive growth. Unknown Speaker 14:00 Makes it more important for us as toy manufacturers and toy retailers as well to ensure that parents are telling their kids that there's more to play than just electronics. Unknown Speaker 14:18 According to Morris that means adequate research into what kids like and what works. Unknown Speaker 14:24 Millions and millions of dollars in. in research and development manufacturing is put into making these toys come to life and to teach kids how to play and how to play with other kids. Unknown Speaker 14:42 In addition to showcasing new toys there's a charitable aspect to the event, as thousands of toys will be sent to needy children in northern communities and distributed by the RCMP. Unknown Speaker 14:52 They get put on a one of those big military cargo planes and they will fly. I believe they go to Goose Bay and Thunder Bay and Inuvik, I think are the three places and then they're distributed by the RCMP to needy kids. Unknown Speaker 15:10 Well, the toys here might not be the same old Woody and Buzz we all know they sure are going infinity and beyond for a good cause. For Are you Listening, I'm Trevor Hewitt. Unknown Speaker 15:19 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is faced with a billion dollar decision earlier on in his mandate, the Quebec government has invested $1 billion in helping Bombardier complete its commercial jet program and is asking for two does help. The struggling airplane and train manufacturing company employs thousands of residents in Troodos home province. A decision will be made later this week. That's all for business. I'm Bailey Vickers. Are you listening? Unknown Speaker 15:47 That's all for current affairs. Thanks for tuning in to Are you Listening. I'm Amanda Gilmore, Unknown Speaker 15:53 and I'm Tagwa Moyo have a tremendous Tuesday.