“Post-Truth”

Donald Trump and Brexit are being credited for The Oxford Dictionary's 2016 international word of the year

Guest: Katherine Connor Martin, the Head of U.S. Dictionaries at Oxford University Press

Researchers are concerned orca population will perish with recent female deaths. Experts say population won’t recover if we don’t have enough reproductive females. Recent trend of females dying late in pregnancy or right after giving birth needs to stop. Toxins and lack of food supply deemed main reasons for deaths.

Guest: Dr.Debrah Giles, Research Director at the Center for Whale

He lacks extensive foreign policy experience, but a senior Trump aide says former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the favourite to serve as secretary of state in President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration. Giuliani was a fierce Trump campaign supporter. Meanwhile, civil rights groups are critical of Trump's choice of Steven Bannon as his senior adviser. The appointment of the former Breitbart News executive is being celebrated by white nationalists.

Guest: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Munk School of Global Affairs

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The president of the teacher's union in BC says he expects more teachers in classrooms as early as January after a Supreme Court of Canada decision that affects class sizes.

The Supreme Court agreed last week with the B.C. Teacher's Federation and overturned legislation from 2002 that prevented the union from negotiating certain provisions in its collective agreement, such as class sizes and the number of students with special needs in a classroom.

A new trend has been sweeping social media. The Mannequin Challenge is when a group of people stand frozen in place while a video is recorded. The challenge has gone viral with people like Hillary Clinton, Garth Brooks and the Cleveland Cavaliers taking part.

Guest: India White, content strategist at Affinio, which is a marketing intelligence firm.

The Supreme Court of Canada victory for the B.C. Teachers’ Federation in its 14-year long legal battle with the province over class size and composition could have rippling ramifications for provinces across Canada.  The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth is here with his take on the day's headlines.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says at least two people were killed in the powerful earthquake that struck the country, but did not provide any further details at a news conference Monday morning in Wellington. A national emergency has not been declared as authorities say the affected regions are coping well. The magnitude-7.8 quake struck early Monday morning local time about 214 kilometres south of Wellington, where it collapsed a ferry loading ramp, broke windows and caused items to fall from shelves.