Ukraine fighting back, Chess in schools, Triple-Demic, & grocery competition

INNA SOVSUN, an elected member of Parliament in Ukraine

Ukraine has been pushing back against Russian captured territory in recent weeks, and then yesterday Russia alleged that Ukraine was preparing a "provocation" by launching an attack on its own citizens and then blaming it on Russia, a charge that has been dismissed as a ‘false flag’ attempt by Russia. In other words, an attempt to make it look like a hostile act was perpetrated by someone other than those really responsible.

MICHAEL HICKSON, an avid chess player and associate professor of philosophy at Trent University

The game of chess has been gaining in popularity ever since the TV series The Queens Gambit became a hit. And here in Montreal, we have a world champion, Shawn Rodrigue Lemieux- in our midst. Advocates are seizing the moment for chess’ surge in popularity, and calling for it to be taught in schools as a learning tool…

EARL RUBIN, director of the infectious diseases departmebt at the Montreal Children's Hospital -

‘Tripledemic’, that’s the term now being used to describe what winter may bring as Covid, the flu, and now RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) beginning to affect young children. “We are experiencing in the pediatric hospitals what the adult hospitals were experiencing during the peak of COVID.”

MIKE VON MASSOW, an associate professor in the food, agricultural and resource economics department at the University of Guelph -

Canada’s Competition Bureau will be launching an investigation into the grocery industry, after record profits were reported by all ofcanada’to investigate various issues in the industry, and they hope that in the end they will be able to present the government with measures to improve the competitive sector.