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August 11, 2015  

Alex and Tyler Mifflin Press Tour Schedule  

Monday, January 19, 2015  

Beaches Living Interviewer: Beth Parker Format: Print    

Tuesday, February 10, 2015  

Canadian Geographic Interviewer: Carys Mills Format: Print    

Thursday, February 12, 2015  

Canadian Traveller Interviewer: Vickie Paget (via email) Format:    

Wednesday, March 18, 2015  

enRoute Magazine Interviewer: Amanda Dawson Format: Print Photo shoot at Ripley’s Aquarium Photographer: Riley Stewart    

Thursday, March 19, 2015  

Global Morning Show Interviewers: Kris Reyes, Rosey Edeh Format: Television    

Thursday, April 2, 2015  

680 News Interviewer: Rudy Blair Format: Radio  

  Roger’s Your World This Week Interviewer: Dewlyn D’Mellow Format: Television  

  The Green Majority Interviewer: Daryn Caister Format: Radio, Internet

Thursday, April 2, 2015 continued…  

Sirius XM – Ward and Al Interviewer: Ward Anderson, Allison Dore Format: Satellite Radio  

Tuesday, April 7, 2015  

Canada AM Interviewer: Marci Ien Format: Television  

Thursday, April 9, 2015  

Roger’s Daytime TV Toronto Interviewer: Val Cole Format: Television

  Verve Girl Interviewer: Amanda Bloye Format: Print

Tuesday, April 14, 2015  

TVOKids Interviewer: Kara Harun Format: Television  

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Weather Network Interviewer: Mark Robinson Format: Television  

                         

                                                                                           

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The Water Brothers Thu, Mar 19: Hosts of the TV series, “The Water Brothers,” join us in-studio to talk about the season 3 premiere on April 7.     Please find this video online: http://globalnews.ca/video/1891562/the-water-brothers-2

       

On Air April 17 – April 23, 2015                                                                     Please find this video online: https://vimeo.com/125462881

       

Small things lead to big changes: water conservation tips from The Water Brothers                                            Tyler & Alex Mifflin, The Water Brothers Published Tuesday, April 7, 2015 7:33AM EDT Small things lead to big changes! Here are some easy tricks, products, and apps that can help us make small changes that make a big difference

Skip the plastic water bottle • 65,000,000 water bottles end up in Toronto landfills each year • 60% of Canadians drink bottled water on a daily basis • Try using the Kleen Kanteen, a great product that also gives

back

• Use the Quench app to find free water bottle refill stations close by (Southern Ontario only)

BYO straw and stir sticks • Plastic straws cannot be recycled; they sit in landfills for

hundreds of years • Buy a reusable metal/acrylic straw and stir stick • Coffee stir sticks have a lifespan of 5 seconds in your coffee

but sit in landfills for hundreds of years • Ask for your barista to stir your coffee with their metal spoon

rather than using a disposable plastic or wooden stir stick Ask about where your fish comes from and how it was caught • Overfishing and unsustainable fishing habits are destroying

ecosystems, endangering species of fish we know and love, and waste much of what is caught

• Buy fish from lower on the marine food chain • Read labels and ask questions - Opt for seafood that was

caught using long lining or traps rather than bottom trolling • When eating out, look for the Ocean Wise logo. With over 585

Ocean Wise partners across Canada, Ocean Wise makes it easy for consumers to make sustainable seafood choices that ensure the health of our oceans for generations to come. (The Ocean Wise symbol next to a seafood item is the Vancouver Aquarium's assurance of an ocean-friendly seafood choice).

• Try different kinds of seafood, like Kelp. Sea greens are packed with nutrients. Some have more protein than red meat and more vitamin C than citrus fruit!

Visit The Water Brothers' website by clicking here.       Please find this video online: http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/small-things-lead-to-big-changes-water-conservation-tips-from-the-water-brothers-1.2315028  

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Please find this article online: http://www.beachesliving.ca/beacheslife/cover-story/the-water-brothers-from-neville-park-to-mount-kilimanjaro/  

                                                                                           

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HAILING FROM TORONTO, ALEX AND TYLER Mifflin are the creators and stars of the eco-adventure television series, The Water Brothers. In the show the brothers travel the world seek-

ing out the most important stories surrounding our most precious natural resource: water. With cameras and GoPros in hand, Alex and Tyler have captured some of the most visually stunning footage of our blue planet. Most recently the boys have won the prestigious BBC Earth Panda Award and created an app called ‘Quench’ that reduces dependence on bottled water in Ontario by directing users to water fill-up stations. The third season of their show premiers on April 7 at 7pm EST on TVO. It is soon to be broadcast in BC on The Knowledge Network and in Quebec on Radio-Canada. Here’s what the brothers had to tell Canadian Traveller about their insatiable lust to wander…

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IF YOU COULD GO WANDERING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TOMORROW, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? ALEX: One country we have always wanted to visit is Indo-nesia. We love to scuba dive and Indonesia is home to some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world, especially in the east-ern part of the country around places like Raja Ampat and Sulawesi. The rainforests—that are left—and surf breaks are exceptional as well.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CANADIAN DESTINATION IN SPRINGTIME? TYLER: It would have to be the Canadian Rockies to get some spring snowboarding and skiing in. It’s hard to beat riding down a mountain on one of those per-fect sunny spring days when you don’t have to layer up too much or wear a bulky jacket, but it’s still cold enough that the snow hasn’t fully started to melt yet.

Also, once you’re finished riding for the day, the patios are always open to enjoy the view and some cold drinks of ’water’.

YOUR FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL DESTINATION IN SPRINGTIME? ALEX: Throughout the spring around each full moon, giant schools of fish gather at Glad-den Spit in Belize to breed. The frenzy attracts all sorts of marine life, including whale sharks that feed on all the eggs in the water. Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the ocean, but they mostly eat plankton and are incredibly graceful swimmers. We always love to film them and they are the definition of gentle giants.

WHAT WAS YOUR EARLIEST TRAVEL MEMORY? TYLER: When we were very young—about four and six—we went on our first big family trip through five countries in Europe.

We started in London and then once we got to Paris we rented a van and drove through France, Germany, Austria and Italy, stop-ping at famous sites all along the way. We went to the top of the Eiffel Tower, walked through the Louvre, took Gondola trips through Venice and took a clas-sic family photo underneath the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was just my parents and their young kids in a van for a couple weeks; we barely fought at all and absolutely nothing went wrong, we swear!

WHAT’S THE BEST TRAVEL EXPERIENCE YOU’VE HAD? ALEX: We honestly don’t have a single best travel experience, but a couple places do stick out. For being underwater it would have to be Cocos Island, Costa Rica, because just about every big marine animal that you can find in the tropical Pacific gathers there. Sharks, tuna, sea turtles, whale sharks, dolphins… you

name it. Few things in life are as exhilarating as being surrounded by a school of hundreds of ham-merhead sharks at a time. TYLER: On land it would prob-ably be the Maha Kumbh Mela Festival in Allahabad, India. Every year on the Ganges River, mil-lions of people gather at bathing festivals, but the Maha Kumbh only happens every 12 years. It brings Hindus together from across India and you can see a wonderful microcosm of the incredible diversity of Indian cul-ture and spirituality. Of course, it isn’t exactly relaxing trying to get around with 30 million other peo-ple, but it certainly was a once in a lifetime type of experience!

WHAT’S THE FUNNIEST TRAVEL EXPERIENCE YOU’VE EVER HAD?ALEX: Our funniest travel experi-ence would have to be partici-pating in The Redneck Fishing Tournament in Bath, Illinois. Every first weekend in August thousands of people meet up with their boats on the Illinois River to catch as many silver carp as they can. Silver carp are an invasive species and a huge nuisance in the US because the sound and vibration of motor-boats causes the fish to jump out of the water and occasionally injure boaters. So at the tourna-ment you are only allowed to catch carp with nets in mid-air or if they land in your boat. Every-one dresses up in weird cos-tumes; it’s an absolute blast. The tournament has also become a great educational event to show the public how dangerous Asian carp are and it encourages action to prevent them from spreading north to the Great Lakes and beyond.

The new series will see the boys tag sharks in Costa Rica, travel to the Middle East to understand the conflicts surrounding access to River Jordan and delve into the search for water in our solar system.

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WHAT’S THE MOST SURPRISING TRAVEL EXPERIENCE YOU’VE HAD? TYLER: One of our most sur-prising travel experiences was back in 2012 during a visit to a Maasai village near Amboseli National Park in Kenya. We were filming an episode about access to clean water and sanitation in the region and on that particular day we were learning about the difficulties the Maasai face accessing clean water in remote areas. We knew they commonly drank fresh cow blood to celebrate special occasions or to survive when they can’t find water, but were very surprised when they asked us to join them during a ritual. If you’ve ever eaten a rare steak then you probably have a good idea what cows blood tastes like, but nothing prepares you for the weird feeling of the dry-ing blood as it coats the inside of your mouth and tongue!

HAVE YOU HAD ANY ENLIGHTENING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES?ALEX: During an expedition with a team of scientists we studies an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’, where swirling currents called ‘gyres’ congregate our floating trash. It was a life-chang-ing moment to be in the middle of the Pacific—over 1,500 kilo-metres from land in every direc-tion—and see our plastic waste littered everywhere. At the time it made the world seem very small and it was disheartening to see that even in one of the most remote areas on Earth, the nega-tive human impact on the planet was as pronounced as ever.

WHY DO YOU LOVE TO TRAVEL? TYLER: Travel can change your perspective on the world, introduce you to new friends, cultures and food—and most of all travelling is fun! Travel can be relaxing or exhilarating; it is whatever you want it to be. Travel highlights the differences between various cultures, but more importantly it shows us how similar we all are and how we all share the same desires for love, family, laughter, good food and good health—and clean water!ALEX: Travel is also very important for our jobs because only by travelling around the world can we fully appreciate the scale and scope of the immense chal-lenges facing our oceans and freshwater resources. Whether it is the lack of access to clean water and sanitation, the loss of biodiversity, overfishing or climate change, it is only pos-sible to tackle such massive issues by understanding them on a global scale. We feel very fortunate to get to travel the world to share these stories.

WHAT TRAVEL EXPERIENCES DO YOU STILL LUST FOR? ALEX: We have had a unique opportunity to travel quite a bit at a young age, but there are still so many places we would love to visit, like China, the Canadian Arctic, South Africa or anywhere in South America. I hope this is just the beginning of our travel journey, even if it means we have to keep sharing the same hotel room or tent for the rest of our lives…

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Please find this article online: http://www.beachmetro.com/2015/03/25/entertainment-beat-59/    

                                                                                     

Please find this article online: http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/05/tv-must-sees-for-the-week-of-april-5  

     

   

   From the shore of Lake Ontario, it's impossible to tell just how serious our plastic pollution problem has become. To comprehend the mess we've made, we'd have to drag a fine-mesh net across the water's surface and look closely at what it pulled up. That's exactly what a team of scientists led by Sherri Mason and the NGO 5 Gyres did in the summers of 2012 and 2013, and their discoveries are very disturbing. Travelling across all five Great Lakes, they found an average of 43,000 microplastic particles in every square kilometre of lake surface. Some of the lowest concentrations were understandably in Lake Superior and Lake Huron, far from major urban centres. But when they

sampled certain areas of Lake Ontario, the levels jumped to as high as 1.1 million particles per square km. Just like the infamous garbage patches of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, our own backyard has been turned into a plastic soup - only our lakes have even higher concentrations of plastics than the biggest ocean garbage patches. I had the opportunity to join 5 Gyres expeditions in 2012 and 2013 to both the Western Pacific Garbage Patch and Lake Ontario, and the most frustrating thing about the experience was realizing just how unnecessary the plastic polluting our water really is. So much of what enters the lakes - plastic bags, balloons, cigarette butts, excess packaging, drink bottles, coffee stir sticks - is used for mere seconds or minutes but remains in the environment for hundreds of years. Of all the different types of plastic we found, few are as gratuitous and dangerous to aquatic life as microbeads - the tiny balls of plastic commonly found in exfoliating body washes, facial scrubs, shampoos, hand sanitizers and toothpaste. Often made of polypropylene or polyethylene, microbeads are not biodegradable and range in size from 0.0004 to 1.24 mm. They are simply too small to be filtered out by most wastewater treatment plants and flow straight from your drain into local lakes and rivers. Some of these cleansers and body washes contain over 330,000 beads in a single tube. So it's no surprise that since the 1990s, when they first became popular, billions of them have ended up in the Great Lakes, where they will float for many more decades until they wash ashore on a local beach or are ingested by wildlife. Unlike other plastics that can take months or years to break down into small pieces, multicoloured microbeads are already exactly the same size and colour as many fish eggs and look just like food to a wide range of creatures from birds to invertebrates, mammals and fish.

When animals ingest plastic, it gives them a false sense of being full, clogs their stomachs and even chokes some of them to death. Worse, plastics act like a sponge, sucking up toxins and pollutants that have accumulated in the Great Lakes, including PCBs, pesticides, flame retardants and motor oil. As smaller creatures eat polluted microbeads, these contaminants work their way up the food chain, becoming more and more concentrated. At the top of the food chain are humans, who are indirectly eating our own garbage and pollution when we eat certain fish or marine life. Thankfully, both government and industry are beginning to become aware of this absurd situation and are taking steps to phase out microbeads across North America. Illinois recently became the first U.S. state to outright ban personal-care products that contain microbeads, and at least nine other states are considering similar laws. Ontario just put forward a proposal to ban microbeads across the province, and similar legislation is being put forward at the federal level. The goal is to have binding legislation in place by the end of 2015 in Ontario and federally by 2017. Companies such as L'Oréal, the Body Shop and Johnson & Johnson have also responded to public pressure and committed to phasing out plastic microbeads by the end of 2015. Procter & Gamble says it will do so by 2017. These are important steps, but there's still a lot more we can all be doing to help. Even if bans are passed, companies will be given a multi-year window to phase out these products, and plastic microbeads might not be completely off shelves until as late as 2019. In the meantime, consumers should consider not purchasing products containing plastic microbeads. Watch out for the label "microbeads" or the ingredients polypropylene and polyethylene on the back of products you aren't sure

about. The sooner we stop buying these, the sooner the companies will phase them out. If you swear by the exfoliating powers of microbeads, there are other great options available. Some brands already use natural alternatives like apricot seeds, jojoba beads, crushed walnut shells and cocoa powder. The cosmetics industry is looking into even cheaper options like sand. But just because a ban on microbeads is on its way doesn't mean the plastic pollution problem is solved. Microbeads are but one small part of a global marine plastic pollution problem that is bound to keep getting worse. Global production of plastic has been on the rise for more than 50 years and in 2013 reached an all-time high of 299 million tons of plastic produced. Every year 10 to 20 million tons of plastic will enter the oceans. The average European and North American now uses over 100 kilograms of disposable plastic per year, mostly in the form of packaging. The average in Asia is just 20 kilograms per person, but this figure is rapidly rising as economies expand. One big concern is that developing countries are adopting disposable plastic lifestyles with little capacity to properly dispose of plastic waste, let alone recycle. There have recently been some interesting attempts to build water vacuums and filters that can suck up floating pieces of plastic from our lakes and oceans, but these designs are very difficult to implement on a wide enough scale to permanently solve the problem. Unfortunately, because plastic breaks down into such small fragments, it's also proving impossible to scoop up plastic particles without killing tiny zooplankton, the creatures that help form the base of every aquatic food chain.

Clearly, the only effective solution to this problem is to stop the flow of plastic. Canadians are good recyclers from a global perspective. (About 27 per cent of our total solid waste is recycled.) Still, most of the plastic we consume eventually ends up in landfills or somewhere worse. We are all consumers of disposable plastic, and every time you use reusable water bottles, coffee thermoses, utensils, bags or food containers, you are making a difference. Plastics have been part of our daily lives for just 50 years, yet that was more than enough time to turn our lakes and oceans into a plastic soup. I don't want to imagine what our lakes and oceans will look like in another 50 years if we don't make significant changes. Alex Mifflin and his brother Tyler Mifflin are hosts and creators of the award-winning eco-adventure television series The Water Brothers on TVO.                                       Please find this article online: https://nowtoronto.com/news/lake-ontarios-plastic-soup/  

                                                                                           

                                                                                           

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14 Exposure Showcasing CanGeo’s photo club

16 In a snap Sharing CanGeo via Instagram

DISCOVERY 19 INTERVIEW The Water Brothers talk shop

20 WILDLIFE Canada’s “New Noah,” cougars in Alberta and more

22 HISTORY A 250-year-old map of Prince Edward Island and celebrating 85 years of Canadian Geographic

24 PLACE Theatre of The Rock

26 INFOGRAPHIC Discovering an ancient Arctic house

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29 Polar blogBear watch

30 On the map Exploring cartography

59 National Bird Project Atlantic puffin

YOUR SPACE 67 COMMENT Your feedback

67 COVER VOTEChoosing our cover

68 TRENDING The buzz from CanGeo’s social media sites

68 PULSE The geography poll

70 WHAT’S THIS? Recognize this mystery object?

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81 Next issue July/August 2015, Canadian Geographic explores Wood Buffalo National Park

82 Our countryLawrence Hill shares why he adores Woody Point, Newfoundland

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bow and arrows to kill them as they jump out of the water.

On why they chose to focus on waterTyler Mifflin: We try to make the viewer understand environmental issues by look-ing through the lens of water because it’s such a connecting element. We believe it’s easier for people to relate to.

On water use in CanadaAM: We have that myth of abundance, so we tend to turn a blind eye to water use in Canada. We think we can use as much as we want, which is why this country is one of the top water users per capita in the world. It’s also why we have serious water-quality issues, such as algal blooms. Also, a lot of big industries don’t really have to pay much, if anything, for the water they use, because traditionally the need to charge them has never been seen.

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AAlex and Tyler Mifflin grew up in Toronto, less than a minute’s walk from Lake Ontario, and remember being told they couldn’t swim in the lake because it was too polluted. Today, the Mifflins travel far from home to places such as the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic and the Ganges River to report on water issues as the hosts of TVOntario’s award-winning The Water Brothers documen-tary series, now in its third season.

On making educational TV entertainingAlex Mifflin: We try not to forget it’s a travel and adventure show. You’re taking people to places they’ve never been. Last season, we sailed to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to see the great Pacific garbage patch. We also try to do fun things in every show. For example, in the episode about Asian carp entering the Great Lakes, we showed all these amazing ways people have come up with to catch the fish, including using a

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On working togetherTM: We grew up in a big family, so we have lots of experience fighting and making up. We’re often just two people on the road, so we have to rely on each other and we can’t have little arguments get in the way.

On the trips that have most affected themAM: When we see there’s no access to clean water and sanitation, it’s always a big moment for us. You meet people who don’t have the luxury of just turning on their tap or who don’t have a toilet. We often forget that there are places in Canada like that, including a disproportionate number of First Nations communities. We face the same problems here that every other country on Earth faces. We just face them in a different way.

Alex (right) and Tyler Mifflin film a wave-power generator near Scotland’s Orkney Islands for an episode of The Water Brothers.

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WHAT KIND OF PACKERS ARE YOU?COMMENT FAITES-VOUS VOS BAGAGES ?Alex Mifflin: I’m a roller when I’m getting ready to go, but coming home, I’m very much a stuffer. After three weeks in hot coun-tries, things are not pretty.Tyler Mifflin: And we travel light. We bring one or two on-camera shirts, which we try to keep clean at all costs.� Alex Mifflin : Je roule tout avant de partir, mais au retour, je bourre ça n’importe comment. Après trois semaines dans des pays

chauds, ce n’est pas joli.Tyler Mifflin : Et on voyage léger. On apporte une ou deux chemises pour passer à l’écran qu’on essaie de garder propres à tout prix.

WHAT’S IT LIKE WORKING WITH YOUR BROTHER ?C’EST COMMENT, TR AVAILLER AVEC SON FRÈRE ?TM: As brothers, we have a lot of experience fighting, but we also have a lot of experience making up.AM: That trust, in any rela-tionship, whether it’s work or personal, is always huge.

� TM : En tant que frères, on a l’habitude de se disputer, mais on sait aussi comment se réconcilier.AM : La confiance, dans toute relation, personnelle ou professionnelle, c’est capital.

WHERE DID YOUR LOVE OF TR AVEL C OME FROM?D’OÙ VIENT VOTRE AMOUR DU VOYAGE ?TM: We are really fortunate to have parents who wanted to bring us along on their journeys, from ski trips across Canada to scuba diving in Australia – even with five kids in the family.

Definitely more fun for us than for our parents! � TM : Nous avons la chance d’avoir des parents qui, même avec cinq enfants, nous ont trimballés partout dans leurs aventures, entre voyages de ski au Canada et plongée libre en Australie. On en a retiré plus de plaisir qu’eux, c’est sûr !

WHAT IS YOUR CR A ZIES T TR AVEL S TORY?QUELLE EST VOTRE HISTOIRE DE VOYAGE L A PLUS MARQUANTE ?AM: While filming an epi-sode about a Hindu event

in India called the Maha Kumbh Mela, we took a dip in the Ganges River with 30 million people. It actu-ally set the record for the largest gathering of people on Earth – almost the popu-lation of Canada bathing in one sitting. � AM : Pendant le tournage d’un épisode sur la Maha Kumbh Mela, une fête hindoue en Inde, on s’est saucés dans le Gange avec 30 millions de personnes. C’est le record du plus grand rassemblement sur Terre : l’équivalent de presque toute la population du Canada se baignant au même endroit.

For siblings Alex and Tyler Mifflin, swimming with giant schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks 500 kilometres off mainland Costa Rica is all in a day’s work. Fusing their backgrounds in environmen-tal science and filmmaking, the pair has criss-crossed the globe shooting and directing stories about the Earth’s most precious resource: water. We caught up with them at Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada in Toronto as they were leaving to film an episode of their eco-adventure series in Brazil. � Pour Alex et Tyler Mifflin, nager avec d’énormes bancs de requins-marteaux hali-cornes à 500 km au large du Costa Rica continental, ça n’a rien d’inhabituel. Unissant leurs formations en science de l’environnement et en cinéma, les frères ont sillonné le globe, tournant et réalisant des reportages sur la ressource la plus précieuse de la planète : l’eau. Nous les avons rencontrés au Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, à Toronto, alors qu’ils se préparaient à aller filmer un épisode de leur série d’aventures écologiques au Brésil.

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IN THE BAG: TV SHOOT IN BRAZILD A N S L E U R V A L I S E : E N T O U R N A G E A U B R É S I L

B Y / P A R A M A N D A D A W S O N P H O T O S B Y / D E R I L E Y S T E W A R T

                                                                                           

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0 1 V I D E O CA M E R A U N E CA M É R A V I D É OTM: When we’re filming on the road, we have to protect our camera and hard drives. I rarely let them out of my sight. � TM : Quand on filme sur la route, on doit protéger notre caméra et nos disques durs. Je ne les laisse jamais seuls.

0 2 B E A R D T R I M M E R U N E TO N D E U S E À BA R B EAM: No matter how remote an area is, you don’t want a scraggly beard on camera. � AM : Même dans un endroit perdu, pas de barbe en bataille à l’écran.

0 3 WAT E R P R O O F S P E A K E R / U N H AU T-PA R L E U R I M P E R M É A B L E

AM: If it dropped off the boat, we might not get it back, but it would still work. � AM : S’il tombe à l’eau, on va peut-être le perdre, mais il fonctionnera encore.

0 4 T R AV E L U T E N S I L S U ST E N S I L ES D E VOYAG E TM: These are made from bamboo, which is a sustain-able wood source. � TM : Ces ustensiles sont fait de bambou, une source de bois durable.

0 5 L I F E S T R AW U N E PA I L L E L I F EST R AWTM: You suck water through the filters and end up with clean drinking water. It’s distributed in some develop-ing nations as an emergency

response tool. � TM : En aspirant, on fait passer l’eau à travers les filtres et on obtient de l’eau potable. Dans certains pays en développement, elle est distribuée en réponse à une situation d’urgence.

0 6 WAT E R P R O O F B AGU N SAC I M P E R M É A B L EAM: On our trip to the Pacific we were at sea for three weeks. Electronics and water don’t really mix. � AM : Dans le Pacifique, on était en mer trois semaines. L’électronique et l’eau, ça ne fait pas bon ménage.

07 K I N D L E U N E L I S E U S E K I N D L E AM: The Perfect Protein by Andy Sharpless is about sea-

food as a source of protein but also how overfishing harms the ocean and what we can do to change our eating habits. � AM : The Perfect Protein, d’Andy Sharpless, parle des fruits de mers comme source de protéines, mais aussi des effets de la surpêche, qui vide l’océan, et des façons de changer nos habitudes alimentaires. 0 8 P OW E R A DA P TO R U N A DA P TAT E U R U N I V E RS E LAM: We rely on this Skross travel adaptor to charge our camera batteries and computers wherever we are.� AM : Cet adaptateur Skross recharge nos piles de caméra et nos ordinateurs partout où nous allons.

0 9 H E A D L A M P U N E L A M P E F R O N TA L EAM: We often find ourselves in places without electricity. This came in handy climbing Kilimanjaro. � AM : On se retrouve souvent dans des endroits qui n’ont pas d’électri-cité. Très pratique pour monter le Kilimandjaro.

1 0 H A R M O N I CAU N H A R M O N I CATM: It’s lightweight and helps kill time. Our parents have al-ways loved music, particularly the blues.AM: And it’s a good icebreaker. � TM : C’est léger et très utile pour tuer le temps. Nos parents ont toujours aimé la musique, surtout le blues.AM : Ça casse aussi la glace.

WHAT’S IN T YLER’S AND ALE X’S CARRY-ONS? / QU’Y A-T-IL DANS LES BAGAGES À MAIN DE T YLER E T D’ALE X ?

Watch The Water Brothers featuring Tyler and Alex Mifflin on the Current Affairs channel on your inflight entertainment system.Voyez The Water Brothers avec Tyler et Alex Mifflin sur la chaîne Actualités de votre système de divertissements à bord.

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The show starts with some quick commentary about “online trolls” and whether or not there’s any point to engaging with them on environmental issues like climate change.

Our main feature this week is an interview with TVO’s The Water Brothers! Alex and Tyler Mifflin join us to talk about some of the most exciting parts of filming their eco-adventure show, some timely news items about water including the ongoing water crisis in California, and what to expect from season three. Check out the Water Brothers website here, and you can watch seasons 1+2 for FREE here. Lastly, our hosts wrap up the show with a quick roundtable about modern news media and climate change reporting. Some of the examples from the show: Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre Audubon Society Responds To Climate Denier Comments: “Friends Like These” article See ya’ll next week…                     Please find this interview online: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/446-water-brothers/

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   Posted on March 20, 2015 Written by Alex Mifflin      World Water Day is always an exciting time for my brother and me. We usually launch the new season of our TV series around this time, we speak with students at school assemblies, and the big media outlets will sometimes set aside a few moments to give a well-deserved—but all too brief—shout-out to that clear liquid that happens to support every living thing on Earth. World Water Day is the time to reflect on how fortunate we Canadians are to have clean water coming out of our taps and to give attention to the 800 million people around the world who still live without clean water and the more than 2.5 billion who live without access to an improved sanitation facility.    

In addition to thinking about water from a global perspective, World Water Day is also an important time for Canadians to come to terms with the fact that we often take water for granted. Our general indifference toward water and wastewater issues could cost us dearly in the long term and there is certainly a lost opportunity for improved cost efficiency in the short term. Climate change is already impacting the movement and availability of water across the country and our chronically underfunded water and wastewater infrastructure systems are in urgent need of billions of dollars in upgrades. Our waterways are filling up with plastics, chemicals, and algae blooms, and one-in-five First Nations communities still live without reliable access to clean water. Even our federal government seems to be abandoning legal protections and scientific oversight of freshwater resources in favour of fossil fuel and mining interests. Unfortunately, Canadians’ feelings toward water sometimes demonstrate apathy rather than pride in a resource we are privileged to have and constantly must strive to protect. For example, you would think there would be more awareness and action over the fact that more than a quarter of our treated water is lost before reaching our taps, costing taxpayers billions of dollars per year. Of course, there are several big hurdles to overcome in order to raise awareness and inspire change. The word “infrastructure” remains one of the least sexy words in the English language. Yet, water and wastewater infrastructure are essential to keeping every sector of our economy and society functioning well and efficiently. Many young Canadians are often being taught about Canada’s seemingly limitless supplies of freshwater, rather than the fact that Canadians rank among the world’s top water users and carbon emitters per capita. This idea of a limitless abundance of water is not only misguided, but is also partly responsible for the

widespread assumption that water should always be free and that it does not matter how much we use or what we flush down the toilet or dump down the drain. We believe that every teacher in Canada should be encouraged to teach their students about the importance of local watersheds and where water comes from. A possible school activity could involve students taking samples of both tap water and source water with local water quality inspectors. Water education programs like these do exist, but they need to become the norm rather than the exception.  

 Our greatest pride as filmmakers has been meeting and listening to concerned and informed students as young as 10 or 12 years old who are passionate about tackling issues that even some adults do not acknowledge as legitimate problems.

 Across the country, students are already some of our nation’s greatest water ambassadors, making tangible changes by raising money for clean water charities, pressuring their universities to divest from fossil fuels, and installing reusable bottle refill stations to embrace clean tap water, among other things. Students often share these ideas at home, and as a result, actions to reduce carbon emissions and cut down on water use and single-use disposable plastics have begun to spread. It’s always amusing when kids become the teachers to their parents—and we have seen firsthand just how effective this bottom-up approach to water education can be.

How about we consider making World Water Day a month-long awareness event to bring these issues to the forefront of our national discourse? Whatever we decide, the journey ultimately begins in the classroom. Alex Mifflin is the host, writer, and co-director of the The Water Brothers TV series. The third season premieres on TVO on April 7th at 7:00 p.m. and can be seen in the United States on Pivot.                                                                  Please find this post online: http://watercanada.net/2015/reflecting-on-canadas-water-on-world-water-day/

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Canada Lags Behind In Battle To Save Sharks and Protect the Ocean    

     

Almost everyone who has seen the gruesome videos of sharks having their fins cut off and their mutilated bodies dumped back into the ocean, barely alive but doomed to drown, is outraged by this barbaric practice.

Even more so upon learning that there is no nutritional value in shark fin soup or any shark fin products.  

Despite their fearsome (and largely undeserved) reputation as merciless killers, such brutal and unsustainable fishing tactics have garnered worldwide support for bans on the sale and trade of shark fins. Even survivors of shark attacks have joined together to put pressure on governments to end the slaughter. On a recent expedition my brother and I took to the remote Cocos Island, Costa Rica, we were elated to see first-hand the vital role sharks play in a healthy reef ecosystem. One might assume that the more sharks you have, the less overall fish will be present, but in fact the opposite is true. The most counter-intuitive thing about being surrounded by 200 hammerhead sharks is the sheer abundance of all the other species of fish. By picking off the oldest, slowest and weakest fish, sharks help maintain populations of marine species all the way down to the bottom of the food chain. Sharks have been around for over 450 million years, longer than trees, so it is no surprise that they help regulate entire marine ecosystems. Thankfully, the demand for shark fin soup in China has recently begun to decline. The governments of China, Hong Kong and Malaysia have banned shark fin soup at government banquets and 24 airlines, three shipping lines and five hotel chains that all operate in China have officially banned shark fins from their operations. PSA's featuring celebrities like Yao Ming, Jackie Chan and David Beckham have been instrumental in raising awareness in China about the serious threat the vast consumption of shark fin soup poses to both shark populations and marine ecosystems. As a result, local prices and sales of shark fin have fallen by 50-70 per cent. Global trade has also been reduced by over 25 per cent in the last decade. This is encouraging, but some scientists fear that the effort to sway public opinions about shark fin soup is not happening fast enough to ensure the survival of many shark species.

Global shark populations have already declined by over 90 per cent and at least 100 million sharks continue to be killed every year, with at least 73 million of them solely for their fins. As a result, one-third of the 1,200 shark species are now threatened with extinction. Many species of sharks have very few offspring and often don't reach sexual maturity until they are ten or 20 years old, so they take very long to recover from over-fishing. With China's middle-class population well over 350 million people, it could take decades before demand for shark fins is reduced to a remotely sustainable level. Protecting sharks requires a global response, well beyond simple bans on shark finning. We need to get much better at protecting and managing marine ecosystems as a whole and making it more difficult for destructive or illegal fishing to occur in the first place. So far, only three percent of the global ocean is officially protected, compared to over 15 per cent on land. We must ramp up the establishment of marine protected areas (or MPA's) to protect vital migratory routes and ensure that funding is available to enforce new fishing regulations. It's easy to point fingers at China for causing this problem, but Canadians must not forget that we are no strangers to wiping out entire fish populations. China protects only 1.6-per-cent of its ocean with marine parks, but they are still doing better than Canada at 1.3-per-cent. Meanwhile, both Australia and the US protect over 30 per cent of their ocean territory and the UK recently created the world's largest marine reserve. While the Chinese government banned shark fin soup from official banquets, one Canadian MP proudly ate a bowl of it at a news conference in 2012 to support restaurant owners here who

want to keep shark fins on menus. Although shark finning is illegal in Canada, it's strangely still legal to import shark fins. A bill proposing to ban these imports was defeated in Parliament in 2013. Although the future of sharks largely rests in the hands of China, Canadians can do more to protect sharks here at home. Our waters hold 28 shark species and studies suggest that domestic shark populations have drastically declined in the last 30 years. Although shark finning is not legal here, countless sharks are still killed as bycatch each year in tuna, swordfish and groundfish fisheries on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Conservation efforts have improved recently, but let's make Canada a global leader in marine conservation and in protecting sharks. What's good for sharks is good for the entire ocean. Alex Mifflin and brother Tyler Mifflin host the award-winning eco-adventure series, The Water Brothers, exploring the world's most important water stories. The third season airs Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. from April 7 to May 19 on TVO and at www.thewaterbrothers.ca. Learn more about shark conservation in "Last Home of the Giants," the next episode of The Water Brothers airing April 7.                 Please find this post online: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/alex-mifflin/end-shark-finning_b_7010990.html

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