Debbie Douglas says migrant workers need access to settlement services to help protect them from unscrupulous employers.

“It’s become one of the worst places to be a child in the world,” said David Morley, President and CEO of UNICEF Canada. “The conflict in Yemen has gone from bad to worse.”

Kyle Matthews says Canada needs to have a cyber strategy to counter ISIS online.

Professor Clemens Reichel talks about the news that Palmyra has been liberated from IS forces.

“I think it (the budget) give substance to those activities and allows us to play a substantive role as an interlocutor, as a party that is interested in fair-minded solutions and prepared to become involved with allies and with others in terms of facilitating those solutions,” said Michael Bell.

Biologist Boris Worm says it doesnt look like North American lobsters are invading Europe.

Linda Poole explains how her love of the Cherry Blossoms in spring led to the festival in Vancouver that is now an annual rite of spring.

“When you look at what money filters towards the north or identified as going towards the north, it is very much of more but of the same,” Exner-Pirot said. “The same programs that we had under the Conservatives, same priorities we had under the Conservatives and maybe a little more money in some of these areas, so nothing transformative, not particularly innovative.”

Prof. Darryl Robinson says Jean-Pierre Bemba’s conviction is a significant decision by the International Criminal Court.

Prof. Sonia Kang says “whitened” résumés got twice the calls for an interview.