Northern communities want a say in NORAD modernization; Colombia grappling with Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos; and the power and importance of friendship
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Ottawa is expected to include talks around modernizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canada aerospace defence organization. There are calls for northern communities to be part of any redevelopment and see tangible benefits from any new infrastructure. Matt Galloway talks to Andrea Charron, director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg; and Clint Davis, CEO of Nunasi, an Inuit-owned development corporation with headquarters in Iqaluit.
Plus, the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into his compound in Colombia, but they escaped into the wild after he was killed. Their population has now ballooned to around 140, leaving authorities grappling with a very big invasive species. We hear more from Luke Taylor, a freelance journalist in Bogotá, Colombia; and Gina Paola Serna, a veterinarian who has been helping track and sterilize the animals.
And a new Nature Of Things documentary looks at the science of friendship — in both humans and animals — and the role it plays in our mental and physical health. We talk to filmmaker Judith Pyke; and Beverley Fehr, a social psychologist at the University of Winnipeg.