0:14 Good afternoon, Toronto. I'm Sydney Brazil. 0:16 And I'm Vanessa Rogers. Welcome to the 306. 0:19 On today's show we will be discussing the Super Tuesday, the coronavirus, the Wet'suwet'en pipeline conflict and more. 0:26 Also listen for a special on the pianos of Ryerson. Voting is underway in Super Tuesday states. 14 states American Samoa and Democrats abroad will be holding their contest today. They'll be awarding 13 to 57 delegates or 34% of the total available. The two main candidates are former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Other candidates in the race are Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 0:57 More on Super Tuesday, two Democratic candidates have dropped out of the US presidential race ahead of today. Both Pete Buddtigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race before today's primaries taking place in 14 different states. Both candidates endorsed Joe Biden as the Democratic nomination after dropping out. At a rally in Dallas. Klobuchar says quote, I cannot think of a better way to end my campaign than joining Biden's. 1:23 in local news. There have been five more confirmed cases of the coronavirus found in Toronto. That brings a total of infections across Canada to at least 20. Here is Chantelle Cruzat-Whervin with the story. 1:36 Ontario's Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Williams says the five new cases are travel related. Ryerson University has put out a statement saying that they are continuing to monitor the new coronavirus. Here's the receptionist at Ryerson's Health Clinic. 1:50 On the main page it wil say if there is school closures. They will say on their web page. 1:57 There has also been a conversation about the Asian community in Toronto facing xenophobia. The coronavirus originated in Wu Han China. Richard is a Filipino student at Ryerson, he's experienced racism. 2:11 When I'm out of breath. I usually like I kind of cough a bit because like I'm trying to catch my breath. And I remember like the woman who was like right beside me when I did that, like was looking at me for a bit and then she walked on like the other side of the train. 2:23 Public transit seems to be the most popular place for COVID-19 related xenophobia. For RSJ Radio, I'm Chantelle Cruzat-Whervin. 2:32 Thanks Chantelle! In sports, the Olympic Games in Tokyo are still set to start on time on July 24, despite a COVID-19 outbreak in Japan. But Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto says they could be rescheduled for later in the year. Hashimoto says that Tokyo's Olympic contract states that the games can be held at any point in 2020. 2:54 At home Canadian public health authorities have the alert level for Iran to level three. They are advising against all non-essential travel to Iran. This comes after a handful of travelers from Iran have contracted the new coronavirus. This alert level is the same as the one for Hubei, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Iran has 23 politicians who have been infected with the Coronavirus. 3:19 Government ministers and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs came to a tentative agreement yesterday. This comes after resistance to the coastal gaslink pipeline that will run through Wet'suwet'en territory. The agreement acknowledges Indigenous land rights, but not the pipeline. Manuela Vega has the story. 3:36 An RCMP invasion on Wet'suwet'en territory has prompted resistance across Canada. This land is unseeded, meaning it is not owned by the Canadian government. A land rights agreement between ministers and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs has not yet been released. chiefs are waiting to hear from the Wet'suwet'en people before giving approval. Michael Etherington is an Indigenous consultant. He says it's necessary for indigenous people to make decisions about their own land. 4:06 When they make reference to autonomy and self determination of Indigenous nations in their own decision making processes. So what's happened right now within the territory of itself, there still has to be ongoing dialogue to establish resolution or consensus on what's been ongoing. 4:25 Catherine Tate is a non indigenous organizer with Climate Justice Toronto. 4:29 The media hasn't been doing a good enough job of explaining the nation to nation relationship that exists in Wet'suwet'en law and that exists in Canadian law. So the RCMP invasion is actually breaking both Canadian and Wet'suwet'en law. 4:47 In addition to other human rights laws, coastal gaslink has resumed construction of the pipeline. For RSJ Radio I'm in Manuela Vega. 4:56 Thanks Manuela. At Ryerson, students are asked to cast two votes this week. One is for the Board of Governors election. The other is for students. As Abby Kelly these votes have confused students. 5:09 Send us emails and like, like they already do, but like maybe like take videos of like the candidates and like explain what they like why they want to win and what they would do with that. 5:18 That's Mia Carnivale, a first year Business Management student. She's giving her own ideas of how to get students engaged in voting. Posters around campus advertised platforms for those running for Board of Governors. Others advertise what a new political student union structure might look like. Matthew Wright is a fourth year Arts and Contemporary Studies student who is running for the Board of Governors. 5:39 So there is a bit of confusion of what the Board of Governors is it's disconnected from the RSU entirely. It's an independent body of students and faculty and staff that govern Roxanne's finances. So really, there's a split between the RSU and the Board of Governors that doesn't really connect so that it doesn't, thankfully, not so much. 5:57 The Board of Governors election takes place between March 2 and fifth voting is available online for staff, faculty and students on the My Ryerson website. There may be more confusion as to how the new proposed government may differ from the RSU. Leah Newman is the process manager for the student government process committee. 6:14 So some of the structures were sort of completely different than what's existed. A few of the structures are very similar to the RSU but are enhanced a little bit more focusing a bit more on equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as financial transparency. 6:33 The vote for the new student government structure happens tomorrow and Thursday through a link sent to Ryerson email addresses. Alternatively, there's in person voting in the RCC lobby and the second floor of the SLC. No one from the RSU was able to comment for legal reasons. For RSJ Radio, I'm Abby Kelly. 6:51 A powerful storm system produced at least two tornadoes that struck central Tennessee early this morning that left at least 19 people dead. Crews have spent hours pulling survivors and bodies from the wreckage near downtown Nashville. National Weather Service Nashville lead forecaster Sam shamburger posted a video of the tornado passing north of his building. 7:21 The storm reportedly stayed on the ground into Hermitage near downtown Nashville. And an entertainment, court room reality TV show Judge Judy is coming to an end after 25 seasons. Host Judy Scheindlin announced it on an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She says the show's upcoming season would be its last on CBS. But her fans are in luck. 7:42 I've had a 25 year long marriage with CBS and it's been successful. Next year will be our 25th season silver anniversary. And CBS I think sort of felt they wanted to optimally utilize the repeats of my program because now they have 25 years of reruns, but I'm not tired. So Jody Justice will be coming out. 8:03 In 2018. Forbes named Judge Judy the year's Highest Paid TV host after she sold the rights to her show's library to CBS for an estimated 100 million dollars. 8:21 [Animal sounds: Emperor penguins in Antartica] 8:22 Those are the sounds of penguins chirping in Antarctica. The United Nations commemorates World Wildlife day every year on March 3. 8:30 In business news, global stock prices continued to decline because of COVID-19. Analysts believe the Central Bank of Canada is planning to mirror the US Federal Reserve and is dropping the lending rate by 25 basis points. Harrison Faulkner has more. 8:45 The covid 19 outbreak continues to put pressure on global stock prices as last week, the Dow Jones fell 3600 points. Central banks have raised to correct the markets by announcing plans to cut lending rates. The announcement from the US Fed rallied markets on Monday, but the instability has returned today. Hermon Paputo is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ryerson University. He says rate cuts are a defensive move against market uncertainty. So so you should think of this approach maybe as a sort of a first step and then we'll take it from there. You know, so, in principle, this could lead to further reductions in interest rates and more active monetary and fiscal policy or not depending on how bad things turn out to be. Justin Kuhn is a third year entrepreneurship student at Ryerson University. He sees local industry continuing to operate as normal while fears continue to rise. 9:39 People are still going out day to day, they're still shopping, they're still going to the gyms, they're still going to schools. I think if it continues to become a bigger problem and people aren't going out grocery shopping every day or going to the gym, they can't go to school, I think, you know, obviously purchasing power is going to go down because nobody's going outside. 9:59 Currently the Dow Jones And is down 474 points. For RSJ Radio. I'm Harrison Wagner. 10:05 Ryerson community members might have grown up playing the piano, but they may not be able to play now because of their living situation. However, they should consider playing the pianos of Ryerson. Feature reporter Jonathan Bradley has the story. 10:22 Kerr Hall south at Ryerson University is near silent around 8pm. You might hear a few people talking. You might hear some footsteps and then you hear it. 10:40 The faint noise of a piano play. If you keep walking towards it, the volume increases. 10:56 Soon you will arrive at Kerr Hall South 239. KHS 239 is one of a few rooms at Ryerson with a piano in them. People are allowed to play these pianos after classes end. How these pianos came to Ryerson is unknown, but they were donated. The music section of the Department of Philosophy manages them. Touched by the hands of decades of Ryerson community community members, these pianos have been around for years. Second year architectural sciences students Matthew Martiri loves to practice the piano in KHS 239. 11:29 I was on medical leave because I got diagnosed with ADHD. So it just helps me de-stress and use my brain for something while I'm figuring out my medical situation. 11:44 Martiri plays minuet waltz by Chopin and gram cest brilliante by Chopin on the piano. 12:04 Martiri says that he cannot afford a piano. So this one enables him to practice while playing the panels at Ryerson are fun. martiri says some of them are poor quality. 12:14 To be honest, the pianos at Ryerson aren't the greatest quality, they always hide them, or they say they're open but they're not really. And they don't fix them. They don't repair them. So that is annoying, but at least I get a chance to practice. 12:33 The piano and KHS 239 has dampers but make a bizarre vibrating noise. One of the pianos in KHS 251 is out of tune. 12:53 Another piano can be found in podium building 367 third year mechanical engineering student Nathan Yuimano learn to play the piano Apple one in pod 367 the first time when Ouimano played the piano. He remembers feeling happy. 13:09 Oh, it was interesting because it's not it wasn't often at that point that I've used, you know, pianos, especially since I didn't really start playing until like a few months ago. So it was it was an interesting, it was fun. It was definitely fun. You know? 13:27 Yuimano has a practice book that he uses to learn songs. Mechanical Engineering is a stressful program. So this panel allows him to take time away from it. 13:37 Well, it's definitely a moment of solitude I guess it's some time away from you know, the lectures and the classes and the projects and the math. So you know, it gets some that time alone kind of gives me like some sort of peace of mind. 13:52 University of Toronto music Professor Amy Clementes Cortez says that playing piano can improve student's mental health. 14:00 You know, learning a musical instrument helps develop the pathways in the brain. So it has implications for neuroplasticity. And certainly engaging in actively playing music can help increase mood it can help lower stress. 14:18 Students who are interested in playing the piano can head over to a one at Oakham house. However, this piano is not as accessible as the other ones. That is because the Oakham House choir uses a piano for their choir practices. Open House choir music director Matthew Yascovitch says this piano is unideal. 14:37 It could be a good piano but it's totally neglected. No one fixes it. No one can see it. And things are broken. Never fixed. 14:46 Yascovitch says the political piano has been broken for 15 years. All that was done was assigned was posted about the broken light. Yascovitch says it is disappointing that management has ignored fixing the piano. 15:00 That means that people just don't care about music here and then they don't give the students a chance. 15:08 Ryerson community members cannot find out when classrooms or pianos are unlocked and unoccupied. Regardless, Ryerson community members use these pianos when they can to practice and destress. 15:19 For RSJ Radio, I'm Jonathan Bradley. 15:24 In entertainment news, popstar Lil Uzi Vert just sampled the Backstreet Boys for his new single That Way off his upcoming record Eternal a Take. The lines have blurred more than ever in the internet age of music where younger listeners are open to artists who challenged the norms of hip hop. Will Lawsky has the story. 15:42 Gender norms have limited male artists out of fear of coming across as weak for decades. Drew York is a Toronto based podcaster he says Biggie Smalls was self conscious about his hit record Juicy before he saw the reaction to it in the studio. 15:56 He noticed that in the studio and all the girls that were there were loving the song. They because they were playing the sample and like the beat over and over again. And it just I don't know it's like the I've always been there's two schools of thought of like yeah, you can you can make hard records and rap but you know, some of like the most catchy are some of the most pop influenced stuff is gonna be the most commercially successful. 16:17 Although rap has become the biggest genre in the world, not all older experts enjoys new direction. Jason Dickinson is a former recording engineer for rock and country groups in the late 90s. He misses old school hip hop like NWA 16:30 It's still amazing like I put that record on now, Straight out of Compton it's like whoa that's authentic. What I find with the new stuff, it just gets lost all its authenticity and they're just I don't know it's music by numbers to me now. 16:46 As rap continues to evolve, so too will its listeners. Uzi's Eternal a Take is set to drop in two weeks. For RSJ Radio I'm Will Lawsky 16:56 Thanks Will. More in music Puerto Rican artists Bad Bunny has debuted his new album while wearing a shirt to show solidarity with transgender people. Isabella Lopez has the story. 17:15 Bad Bunny wore a shirt that called out news organizations for misgendering a murdered trans woman. The shirt reads in Spanish, they killed Alexa not a man and a skirt. This was in reference to the murder of 27 year old Alexa Negron Luciana, a homeless trans woman who was gunned down in front of a car in Puerto Rico. A video of her murder was posted to social media after she was publicly harassed. News organizations misgendered her and use her dead name when reporting the incident. RTA student and Bad Bunny fan Yuan Caputa thinks Bad Bunny is trying to bring on change. 17:47 He's kind of like bringing these issues like to the forefront. Not necessarily in his music which is pointing that out criticize him on but like more so in his visuals and like the way he presents himself. Which is cool because like he's like bringing messages that are important to to change. 18:03 Jennifer Martinez is a Ryerson theatre student. She says Bad Bunny has always gone against the norm of macho men and Latin music. 18:10 It's not common for latin culture. There are not a lot of people who are doing that kind of thing. It's just so against the norm. This man does his nails and that is so like It baffles people. 18:21 Bad Bunny often receives criticism for not conforming to the social norms and reggaeton music, but to some he is sparking change. For RSJ radio, I'm Isabella Lopez 18:32 Breaking news update, the City of Vaughan held its International Women's Day event today. This event celebrates and highlights the importance of women in the workplace and the rise of female entrepreneurship. Reporter Madeline Fiore attended the event. 18:48 Thank you. Taking place today at the City of Vaughan was their seventh annual International Women's Day celebration. This year's theme was each for equal which stands for equality and realizing woman's rights. There are roughly around 150 people in attendance and four guest speakers including myself, Mark Casalve who is the Italian Contemporary Film Festival director, Julie Mehsalana, who is the founder and CEO of Toara Blissing, Care Max, the co founder and CEO of BK studios. Overall, this event captured the importance of woman in the role in entrepreneurship and was a great way to raise awareness for International Women's Day coming up on March 8. A few other events coming up in celebration is the CBC International Women's Day celebration, which will be at the Canadian Broadcasting center on March 5, and International Women's Day celebration taking place at Toronto City Hall on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 6pm. You can get tickets and more information for both events on Eventbrite. Back to you. 19:48 Thanks Madeline. Now with a look at sports. Here's Aya Bharati. 19:56 Ryerson University together with Global Experiential Sport Lab and She's for Sports, will be hosting an event next Wednesday to celebrate International Women's Day. The event will focus on women in sports and tech and the issue of gender discrimination and minimal funding for women's sports. The event will give a voice to those making a difference in gender diversity in the sports industry. In other Ryerson news, Ontario University Athletics announced yesterday, the women's volleyball team has three major award winners and six total All Stars after another stellar season. Among the major award winners is Kailyn Wark, who was named the OUA East divisions Player of the Year. The Toronto Maple Leafs received good news yesterday as they look to extend their winning streak injured defenseman Morgan Riley and Cody Cece are expected back next week. The Leafs play the San Jose Sharks tonight at 1030. The Raptors are looking to end their three game losing streak tonight against the Phoenix Suns with Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol out due to injuries the team has struggled in its recent losses to Denver and Charlotte. That was your Sports Update for RSJ Radio, I'm Aya Bharati. 21:09 More on sports. Sportsnet we'll be celebrating International Women's Day on Sunday evening with an all female NHL broadcast. Leah Hextal and Cassie Campbell Pascall are set to call the game between the Vegas Golden Knights and Calgary Flames. There will also be women in the executive producer, game producer and director roles for the day. 21:30 And now for our final story of the afternoon. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that impact many people around the world. It's believed more than eight million people suffer from these illnesses globally. Here's Nikki Hashemian with the story. 21:57 Our society holds women to a beauty standard that is simply unattainable. Magazines and social media show how beautiful women should look using retouched images of extremely thin women. That has led people to develop unhealthy mindsets on how a person should look for decades. Three to 5% of women aged 18 to 45 will experience a serious eating disorder in their lifetime and the numbers are rising according to the Ontario government. At just 20 years old Stephanie Lynn Ross says she has struggled with an eating disorder for as long as she can remember. She tried to obtain a certain type of body that wasn't healthy and it led her down a dangerous path. 22:38 I can at least say for sure that like the first time I remember probably noticing signs of it would be when I was when I first started school, so probably when I was four years old. Which is kind of insane. when you really think about it, four year old having issues with her body image that's kind of insane. When you go into school, it's kind of your first time being surrounded by other children your age. Who are supposed to be the same height as you and the same weight as you. Everyone else is the same height and weight as each other, but I was taller and I was chubbier than every single kid there. It was clear to see that I was different. And it was clear for me to see and it was clear for the other kids to see. And it was easy for them to make small comments here and there that definitely would eventually get to my head. By the time I was in grade seven, I was eating an apple a day and a carton of chocolate milk and that was my diet for the whole week. Pretty much skin and bone at that point and my doctor said to my mom, if she she doesn't stop going down this road, like I don't know what we're gonna do, like we're gonna lose her. You have to make sure she's eating. But that was kind of a turning point was when I kind of started to gain weight back because I felt like I was actually skinny and I was like, okay, I can eat again, stuff like that. But the weight came back on and it came back on quickly. I eventually just developed what's called a binge disorder. I felt felt very powerless at that time in my life and I felt very disappointed in myself very guilty all the time. 24:04 Dr. Blake Woodside has been treating patients with eating disorders since 1986. He says that women with anorexia are actively discriminated against in our society, 24:15 They're told that they don't have a real illness, that it's just a lifestyle choice despite the 20% mortality rate. That they're just silly little girls who should just like smarten up and eat. Their families are told that they caused it. Which would be totally unacceptable if it was cancer, for example, nobody would say this one's mother cause cancer. It's silly notion that people's parents cause anorexia nervosa. If they get past those hurdles, they get to their family doctor who has had zero hours of training in eating disorders in medical school or in their family practice training and is unable to diagnose or identify the eating disorder. If they actually find somebody a family doctor who is able to diagnose the disorder, then they discovered that the nearest treatment center is three hours away and there's a six month waiting list to be assessed, let alone get into treatment. So These are multiple levels of discrimination that people with eating disorders experience. 25:04 Woodside says that there is an urgent need to develop new treatment for anorexia in Canada. 25:10 I've been to far too many funerals over the last 30 years of women ranging in age from 25 to 55, who died as a consequence of their eating disorder. These are very serious medical conditions. Anorexia nervosa is probably the most lethal psychiatric condition and it kills young women dead and I think it's a worthwhile endeavor to try and help people get better from such a serious medical condition. 25:29 The three main eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. For people who have an eating disorder, it's a constant battle to get the right treatment and support. There are very few facilities accessible to the public. The waiting list to enter are very long. Sheena's place is a charity located in Toronto that offers support for anyone with an eating disorder. It was one of the first resources for eating disorders in Canada. Debbie Berlin is the executive director. She has been a part of the community since the doors opened in 1997. 26:03 At Sheena's Place we are a completely non medical model so we don't call people patients. Our people, our service users or community members. All of our services are free. You do not need a diagnosis. You do not need a doctor's referral. You will get a call back within 48 hours of contacting Sheena's place. We have many groups that are open so that on an ongoing basis, people can come for support at any time. We have people attending our groups who are young adults, and then we have people here who are in their 50s and 60s. 26:34 In the late 1990s pro-anorexia websites surfaced encouraging girls to starve themselves. The websites consist of tips on dieting, quizzes, music and poetry on anorexia, competitions on dieting and photos of thin models known as thinspiration. Debbie says that she in his place works with other organizations to educate young girls on these dangerous websites. 26:59 I don't think it's the cause, I think it's a huge media and social media influence. I think that there are just like bullying, that's exactly what it's a form of, and it's filled with misinformation. People who are perpetuating really bad information and myths and destructive messaging around how to hurt yourself. And so we do a lot of education and outreach here at Sheena's place about the risks with people, young women especially visiting those sites. 27:29 Even though there are obstacles to recovering, Debbie says it's possible even when there are misconceptions surrounding the disease. 27:36 No one asks for an eating disorder. It is not a diet gone bad. It is not an exercise in vanity. It usually is a developed coping mechanism or strategy to manage difficult emotions like depression and anxiety. At Sheena's place when I'm talking to people, I talk about how an eating disorder can go into remission. Risks of relapse are high during periods of stress and significant transition, but I've worked with many people who no longer exhibit symptoms and haven't for many years. 28:11 It's clear that there isn't an easy answer to know how people get eating disorders. Studies suggest it's from psychological issues, perfectionist personality traits, learned behavior, and some could have a biochemical imbalance. But recovery is possible. Stephanie never thought she would not struggle with her eating, but it took time and healthy coping mechanisms. 28:33 Now here I am at 20 years old, not really struggling with all the issues that I had in the past when it came to my eating. Eat a solid three meals a day, never pass out from not eating. Don't really pay attention to calories at all. Which is honestly something I never ever thought that I was going to be able to say because I had been struggling with it for over a decade. It just seemed like it was going to be something that was permanent. It wasn't ever going to go away. I felt like I was chasing after something that I would never be able to catch. I would never have the body I wanted. I would never be able to eat freely. But here I am. Throughout the entire time that I was struggling with these eating disorders. There was one thing that I always fall back on which was my running. It just felt like when everything was crowding in on me and I felt suffocated and like I couldn't breathe, I just burst out of it all and just go for a run. Anytime I'm facing any old issues from my eating disorder, I can go for a run, and it won't solve all my problems. But in that moment, everything will be okay and I'm just free. 29:41 It's clear we live in a culture where people are encouraged to base their self worth on how they look. People can see themselves as a less valuable person if they don't fit cultural norms. It's important to remember that it's impossible to reach perfection. So celebrate who you are. For RSJ Radio, I'm Nikki Hashemian. 30:10 That wraps up today's edition of The 306. 30:13 For RSJ Radio, I'm Vanessa Rogers. 30:16 And I'm Sydney, Brazil. Have a good rest of your week.