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Full Show: Modifying apples for future sustainability, It's World Mosquito Day! & Why does milk cost more in BC?

Full Show: Modifying apples for future sustainability, It's World Mosquito Day! & Why does milk cost more in BC?

Mornings with Simi

August 20, 20241h 1m

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Show Notes

Seg 1: Should we be genetically modifying fruit to survive rising temperatures ?

Guest: Awais Khan, Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University.

Seg 2: View From Victoria:

We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer.

Seg 3: What makes the moon a blue supermoon?

Guest: Paul Delaney, Director of the York University Observatory

Seg 4: Celebrating ‘World Mosquito Day’...but why?

Guest: Gabriel Sylvestre, Operations Leader at World Mosquito Program - Brazil

Seg 5: The why and how BC quietly pushed up the cost of milk.

Guest: Andrew Macleod, Legislative Bureau Chief, The Tyee

Seg 6: What is the impact of heat and wildfire smoke on Okanagan apples?

Guest: Tom Davison, Owner, Davison Orchards in Vernon

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