98.1 CHFI RADIO STATION Thursday, January 30, 2014 QUOTE OF THE DAY One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together ~Unknkown GTA WEATHER Turning cloudy and windy - up to -4 today with a windchill of -10. We could get 3cm of snow overnight - a low near -7. Saturday: Up to 15 cm of snow. It will be windy with highs near zero Sunday: Cloudy with snow tapering off to flurries. It will be windy and -4. HOT TOPICS 1. There’s a link between Canada’s most famous troublemakers. The lawyer for Rob Fords former limo driver Sandro Lisi also represents Justin Bieber, who, coincidentally is now charged with assault on a limo driver in Toronto last month. Hundreds greeted the pop star at 52 Division for his appearance last night. Hes due in court march 10th. 2. Premier Kathleen Wynne is set to announce an increase in the minimum wage today. Shell be speaking at 10 this morning - suggesting over 530-thousand people will get a raise to $11/hr - up from $10.25. 3. Since the weekend, 11 OPP cruisers have been involved in separate accidents and the OPP commissioner is fed up. Hes issued a statement warning motorists to drive more responsibly, especially in bad weather and to slow down when they see first responders. 4. A number of local plumbers and furnace workers, say theyre having trouble keeping up with the demand of this terrible winter. They say they haven’t seen a winter this bad in two decades. Direct Energy says its seen a 55% spike in calls from residents without heat or hot water, with more than 110-thousand calls coming in in the aftermath of the ice storm. NUT ALLERGIES Could soon be a thing of the past. A team of scientists from Cambridge University has developed an immunotherapy formula that lets children who were allergic to peanuts - eat them without getting sick.The researchers followed 96 kids with varying degrees of peanut allergy, and gave them increasingly high doses of peanut protein over a period of six months. After the treatment they found most of the participants could safely tolerate the equivalent of about five peanuts. They say this could prevent illness or death from anaphylactic shock among allergic children who may be unknowingly exposed to peanut and nut products. The study is in todays edition of The Lancet.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:13:22 +0000
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