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Financial literacy; Legislative gridlock; Piano Lesson # 2; Medical memoirs

A lament for the sad state of financial literacy among young people: Michael regrets his inability to understand the difference between words like "fiscal" and "monetary". Legislative gridlock may stop a President Trump or a President Clinton from doing anything: Washington is so polarized, presidents can't pass laws. Michael's guests are Clifford Orwin, professor of political science at U of T and Sarah Binder, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of "Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock." Jian Ghomeshi and the presumption of innocence: Listeners and NDP MP Charlie Angus respond to Michael's essay criticizing Mr. Angus's Facebook post, in which he wrote, "Nobody close to Jian even pretends he is innocent, and somehow this isn't an issue - the women are." Robert's Rules of the Piano - Lesson 2: In the second of Michael's on-air piano lessons, our man about music, Robert Harris, uses examples to explain how making music on the piano begins with the hands. Taking the temperature of "sick lit": Suzanne Koven is a medical doctor and writer-in-residence at a hospital who has studied the recent spate of medical memoirs. What is impelling patients and doctors to write in such intimate detail about illness, and why are medical memoirs so popular with readers?
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Sunday Edition1:42:27Financial literacy; Legislative gridlock; NDP MP Charlie Angus and Jian Ghomeshi; Piano Lesson # 2; Medical memoirs

A lament for the sad state of financial literacy among young people: 

Michael regrets his inability to understand the difference between words like "fiscal" and "monetary". Here's an excerpt: "I was taught nothing about money during a less than distinguished high school career. Nothing about mortgages, interest, pensions, profits, investments, insurance - nothing."

Legislative gridlock may stop a President Trump or a President Clinton from doing anything: Washington is so polarized, presidents can't pass laws. Michael's guests are Clifford Orwin, professor of political science at U of T and Sarah Binder, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock.

Jian Ghomeshi and the presumption of innocence: Listeners and NDP MP Charlie Angus respond to Michael's essay criticizing Mr. Angus's Facebook post, in which he wrote, "Nobody close to Jian even pretends he is innocent, and somehow this isn't an issue - the women are."

Robert's Rules of the Piano - Lesson 2: In the second of Michael's on-air piano lessons, our man about music, Robert Harris, uses examples to explain how making music on the piano begins with the hands. We'll hear Murray Perahia, Valentina Lesitsa, Lang Lang and Martha Argerich.

Taking the temperature of "sick lit": Suzanne Koven is a medical doctor and writer-in-residence at a hospital who has studied the recent spate of medical memoirs. What is impelling patients and doctors to write in such intimate detail about illness, and why are medical memoirs so popular with readers?
 

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