Hep C, BC teacher job action and protesting Bill 22 

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I will and will move to as you may have heard on cbc news a large number of baby boomers may have contracted hepatitis c in the nineteen sixties and they still don't know about it according to recent reports in the us one in thirty three baby boomers has the virus and more people now die from diseases linked to have seed and they do from hiv in the united states our next guest says canadian boomers face similar risks mark swain is a liver specialist at the university of calgary 's department of medicine good afternoon doctor swain so why are we seeing such high rates of hepatitis c infection and baby boomers do think well i are individuals that just because of the lifestyle of that they were growing up and being a braver teenagers and what eric 's post to linda and the lifestyle that were then they think these chance of acquiring hepatitis c and because it requires that the body for decades with people unaware that is where they'd had no idea that even potentially damaging with the drug one time when they were seventeen years of age in high school could possibly lead to something that would be impacting on our life now but after about twenty or thirty years of these about the fires missile in their bodies about twenty percent of the people will love will have cirrhosis of the liver actually even if they've never touched touched a drop about life system is the only way to contact see it through introduced intravenously well and it is that is the main risk factors as they could be through injection drug exposure through any type of exposure layer close to blood products sold at that before nineteen ninety one of the blood supply could not was not tested or could not be done really for hepatitis c infection was only really identified in nineteen eighty nine and so the people who received any kind of blood product will before nineteen ninety one were really tough at increased risk of of of getting hepatitis c through the true about it that way as well as you can because it's actually been invited to get in it is not really a readily transmitted disease sexually us so let's just see what we do we know the presence seen canada right now the other so overall and among all canadians is roughly eight percent of the population so about two hundred and fifty thousand canadians so maybe bit more have hepatitis c setting is always good to you can treat you see now than previously and if you do find you have it what should you be doing about all i think this is this is one of our wonderful it read assist it's great to have pathologist at an advantage because when i first heard that i propose a number of years ago there was really limited things we could do and they were of limited effectiveness but now actually for treating hepatitis c we have significant the less significant improved drugs and in fact the most common type of hepatitis c is in north america or in canada we can cure up up upwards of seventy five percent of individuals with these newer medications that have just been approved through health canada so it decisions i presented tells me that maybe all have season of the same and are not the same folks that this is actually divided into two groups are called genotypes which is a fancy name just four for slight differences in the virus but genotype one of the most common income in canada about the two thirds seventy five percent subject about range of people would have genotype one infection and tradition of the hardest one to treat so people the treatments work work almost a year in length and they had significant side effects and so i think i'll admit a lot of people you did not want to take them or they could live they they couldn't take the time off work early because of the potential side effects or because of the cost they couldn't afford and so i think that with these newer therapies that are more effective and the duration of treatment is actually about half of what used to be many more people will be able to avail themselves of this treatment to get rid of the virus still important is its treaties and mean it is many of these boomers and living with it for twenty thirty years and didn't know they had it what would you say to them if it is about to it being tested and finding out and getting treatment well credibility is doing this but thought i what i would say certainly gotten if there's any type of behavior at any time in their life even ones that would placement restoration tested for shorts three percent of baby boomers roughly will be infected with hepatitis c and and because of the our ability to treat this disease that i think about that they should do potentially available about but also if they have cirrhosis of the liver about twenty percent of them after twenty or thirty years of infection will develop cirrhosis that i said without even drinking any alcohol they those people are actually at increased risk of developing liver failure and and so the fact that she now constitutes the biggest indication for liver transportation in canada and they also have a three percent chance for your developing liver cancers which of course are quite certain scriptures cancer and so it's it's really important to identify these individuals special ones of advanced on the serious liver disease and they will not have symptoms in general from the disease would won't suspect that they've got this and they won't even suspect they have several suspects so what's it is no symptoms and maybe your memory the sixties is not that sharp will have to thought what she did doing it easy to be tested for this if a blood test with your family doctor could okc could simply go in and say that's still it were having this conversation i'm just wondering why is it we seem not to be aware of hepatitis c in canada as we might be other diseases or i think this is stigma if ever there was a there was back in that when the fevered mission was looking at the entire blood applied it was a good lot of discussion really around hiv and that she was quite apparent during that time that pepsi was even a bigger problem with regards to the number of people that were actually infected and that and then i think this is if you have lost it's it it it it appeal robbie the media because it was it the acting is a stigma attached to having about the that the concept though it was a no these people you know how to have done something bad and in the past and were continuing to do it so you know it's a disease that is going to affect me but it is they don't realize that we all go through that we all go through periods of life when we might just be more likely to expose results of that sort of thing i'm certain the sixties with the classic example and now and now these individuals are of the la lawyer in downtown victoria and us and it is that is a lot up at the height of their out thereof of their profession and and the house and they have cirrhosis of the liver is catching up to use the states is so much as a specific and did we talk about this because many of his sage is not aware thanks for this module thank you for buying.

Outside in our studio light rain and seven degrees at the airport light rain and six but that hasn't stopped her next guess from cycling down here as we see teachers prepare like other classrooms for three days provincial politicians have their work cut out for them the legislatures considering the education improvement act or build twenty two as it's becoming known a wooden job action in the teacher 's contract dispute in the debate between mla 's is expected to be drawn out if not dramatic swing is the legislative columnist for the times colonist newspaper and is a thirty second in scoring how lesson sucking hila and so what you been hearing today at the legislature about this prolonged debate over bill twenty two it's a very cagey tenant situation nobody's tipping their hand it's good to be a week of uncertainty and chaos and i think it's clear worse before it gets better that the only safe bet you can make on this thing schools be out monday through wednesday guaranteed provincewide no picket lines demonstrations teaches a be demonstrating near the schools but not picketing in the schools will be open but the nobody's to keen on encouraging people to drop the kids off there so it's kind of a last-ditch place to put them if there is no other means to look after them and i think most parents probably to scrambling around receiving only the other arrangements still well we started to see the demonstrations the protests already we should have some report of the one that was dumb of the legislature coming up little later in this hour of it it getting any sense of whether this is having an effect on the government to remain it is the unpopular but are they surprised not yet know us all laugh kind of flame nine hundred by end of the swing introduced legislation like this the demonstration this afternoon was a pretty modest thing couple dozen kids how to be one to stay which would be much bigger this is the bc federation of labour supporting the bc teachers federation and mounting a very concerted trouble for so tuesday at noon the be a few thousand people down there am just making their feelings known about back to work legislation as it is shaping up inside and out on the floor of the legislature and the ndp planning to draw them to think we have for myself but to an extent that there gets really connect kgo talk to have a cat and mouse game mvp opposes this bill answer sworn duty to oppose the government they are then they go to the max on every single and and sentence in the bill to the point where i think the liberals be waiting for to blame them for prolonging the work stoppage is actually that's the tricky part is i think so we have three days schools out next week and then after that when this bill comes in if you don't does take spring break out of a permanent of it but that's another week exactly that it'll run at least that week and you get to a point in the weeks after where it but every delay in this bill is going to cost the students another would one day a week off under the terms of the rule set dump of the labor relations board took three weeks off in first week in one week one day off in any subsequent week before twenty two was fully proclaimed so it's good to get to a point in probably before the end of spring break were either exhaustion or order strategy okay ken and this thing will come to a conclusion but it's been a be hours and hours of the debate before that as well in the leader of the bc conservative party today john says he wants the members to work through the weekend pass the legislation nothing he says he had get to it how seriously could that if well that's what gets complicated because of the whole back story to this thing that the liberals kind of slammed the teachers around ten years ago teachers went to court and long involve court battle on the day at the end last year the supreme court ruled that local governments first legislation was illegal in the year to fix it and that the year is actually the coming to an end fairly soon yes one of the criticisms in the court decision of that legislation was a lack of consultation if you do this university teachers of the kind of holds the liberals a little bit in terms of slamming this through and getting it done i think in any other circumstance that may well have been done this been cases in the past with a sunset round-the-clock through the weekend and impose back to work love this one to get a court order saying you have to be careful when you're doing this you go to all the eyes cross all with these and make an honest attempt at following due process so that's kind of holding the liberals back a bit big and have to let this run for a while so that's very interested and want to delete this the pre- comes out that christy clark today says teachers should go on strike me why would she did the evidence that you notice this is the last ditch i guess pro forma request to the obvious but that the battle lines are drawn that you know the games on now there's no hope of that happening and no i do thesis discounted for stating the obvious in a last-ditch hope for the best but is simply not good enough state it her tone seems to be different on this once a enemy watch more carefully than i do but it seems to me that the leader of the opposition and george avenue we've had here in the short the both of them hereunder shall have while her certain separate sides of this they tried to find distaste evokes to strike me that the premier cannot kind of challenged adrian dix for not talking but a one-day event date comes and says what the teachers could decide not to walk out of the classroom once getting him mixed up in this and she could currently the teacher to another looking for rope light in the best case scenario and its hunter very good when even notes the best in the circumstance of this will turn into a wedge issue people get sick of this whole thing and start blaming the ndp for holding this thing up and keeping the schools closed even one day a week that's the best that the premier can hope for some turn into a kind of the traditional rate lefts labor-management site and people might end up siding with the government as she tried to bring it on sort of backup that is legislature notes just it just didn't work it was way of a line and it didn't work politically either but maybe that's behind the sort of last-minute requests i just said yesterday so as you say gets tricky edges of the timing do you think that the opposition in this case will try and figure out when the time has come to sort of fold the tent and let it cook go through the i'm and they also probably don't want everyone mad at the other big time just than the dynamics after hours and hours of repetitive and tedious argument about the same points over again that dynamics of any chains and this thing will come to an end i guess so but beware the ides of march as it happened in a couple weeks but we don't know when i think eventually in order to get back to normal but it's been a be a couple was strange and very awkward wheelies that this can be a lot of inconvenience for people but at the end of the day the government you know has the power though bring this down get it down and the teachers will work under an extended contract amendments the mediator come in and try to patch the thing out there we judge that may be a misstep by the pre- midair on getting involved we see today that the then minister of it was given a bunch of letters by grade one students how did that go for with the those who read the legislature suit but what's the word that the system cost blunder by it one great one teacher i guess she had an idea and then it didn't dawn on it until much too late that it's kind of gross politicization of a bunch of six-year-old surrenders here's the america the great letters since the education minister urging him to stop bullying teachers and fix with anti- bullying day and wait until twenty two everybody shaking their heads on the evidence the wayside and i and the ctf also something wasn't sanctioned dance where it could get even more sort of interesting and strange brick before it's over in the meantime must think so much of the again thank you that i has you been hearing in the news elections canada has confirmed it is investigating more than dirty one thousand complaints of robo calls made during the last federal election the first official statement from the agency earlier today in drum liberal leader bob rae said the magnitude of these complaints or something conservatives can't ignore the news this morning that there are thirty one thousand complaints to elections canada elections canada is is going to be taking on these cases with the additional resources that they require that the of the electoral chief electoral officer has the ability to command is i think whites are quite simply remarkable who were not aware of what the nature of all these complaints or where they come from but they do show i think a significant level of satisfaction with what took place in the last election it's an unprecedented number of complaints on our check in the last three elections there were somewhere between three hundred five words etc. complaints after election this is literally unprecedented number of complaints is no longer a mean less unless the prime minister and his associates want to say that their thirty one thousand canadians and more who are participating a smear campaign based would have a hard time but think of is simply dismissing these concerns about what happened in the last last election that is in turn the liberal leader paul ray and of course cbc radio one cbc has lots of information on this dream will continue as if on all.

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