The fitness of Canadian children is related to that of their parents, and the strength of the relationship varies according to different child-sex and parent-sex combinations. This is one of the main findings from a new study released today in Health Reports. It is the first to use a dataset from the Canadian Health Measures Survey—the child-parent dyad dataset—to examine the association in physical fitness among child-parent pairs.

GUEST: Rachel Colley, Senior Research Analyst – Health Analysis Division, Strategic Data Management, Methods and Analysis with Statistics Canada

GUEST: Greg Brady, Host of The Greg Brady Show on 640 Toronto, Saturdays from 6-9 a.m, Long time talk radio show host

US news, the day after Inauguration Day, now what?

GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University

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Hours after he was sworn into office, U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to revoke the permit that would allow the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project to continue.

The project which was previously approved by TC Energy would see the 1,930-kilometre pipeline transport up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to Nebraska.

The project was expected to cost US$8 billion.

The expansion was green-lit by former U.S. president Donald Trump in January of last year.

GUEST: Ian Lee. Sprott School of Business. Carleton University

Seven schools will return to in class learning on Monday, none of which in the GTHA. Students in Halton and Niagara regions WILL NOT return to in-class learning, the ministry of education announced yesterday, while Hamilton, Toronto, York, Peel and Windsor-Essex school boards were told they wouldn’t go back over a week ago.

ALSO: Teachers voice concerns over parents interfering during online classes

GUEST: Stuart Miller, Director of Education for the Halton District School Board

GUEST: Fred Eisenberger, Hamilton Mayor

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‘The most asymmetrical recession in Canadian history’: New analysis shows low-income workers were hammered by COVID-19 — while high earners flourished

Analyzing data from Statistics Canada, Tal found that more than half of the job losses last year were from people who had temporary work; 31 percent of unemployment is among people who are self-employed; and all job losses were among people who had lower than average wages.

GUEST: Peter Hall, Vice President and Chief Economist with Export Development Canada

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Rapid testing will help us turn the corner on COVID-19

Written by Dr. Isaac Bogoch and Goldy Hyder

We can't afford to rely on vaccines alone as the solution to the health emergency for the foreseeable future. We need other tools such as testing, including the widespread deployment of new, rapid, point-of-care tests. Doing so will allow more of us to get back to work and school safely and to begin rebuilding Canada’s economy.

GUEST: Goldy Hyder, president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of Canada