Adam Stirling: The Podcast

Adam was joined by Dr. Linc Kesler, former director of the University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning, for a conversation about the discovery of the 215 graves at the former Kamloops Residential School and why Canada needs to search all other former residential schools for unmarked graves.

Michael Mulligan, Barrister & Solicitor, Mulligan Defence Lawyers, joined Adam for their weekly segment on legal stories that are of interest to the CFAX audience.

Tricia Logan, head of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia, joined the program for a conversation about how Canada can admit the trauma and history of residential schools to begin healing.

A new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices warns that climate change will similarly worsen health inequities and significantly increase costs to Canada's health system and economy without targeted government action. Dylan Clark, Senior Research Associate with the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, joined Adam to discuss what climate choices Canada can make to reduce the number of severe weather events.

View Royal staff have proposed a bylaw that would charge people for rescue service if they were engaged in illegal or reckless behaviour. View Royal fire chief Paul Hurst, spoke with Adam about removing dangerous cliff diving from Thetis.

In this hour, a new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices warns that climate change will similarly worsen health inequities and significantly increase costs to Canada's health system and economy without targeted government action. Dylan Clark, Senior Research Associate with the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, joined Adam to discuss what climate choices Canada can make to reduce the number of severe weather events. Later, View Royal staff have proposed a bylaw that would charge people for rescue service if they were engaged in illegal or reckless behaviour. View Royal fire chief Paul Hurst, spoke with Adam about removing dangerous cliff diving from Thetis.

In this hour, Tricia Logan, head of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia, joined the program for a conversation about how Canada can admit the trauma and history of residential schools to begin healing. Later, Michael Mulligan, Barrister & Solicitor, Mulligan Defence Lawyers, joined Adam for their weekly segment on legal stories that are of interest to the CFAX audience.

In the first hour of today’s show, Adam discussed the last CRD board meeting and one director accusing other directors of being “undemocratic”.

In this hour, The BC Federation of Labour recently released a “Workers Deserve Better” report outlining the province’s broken compensation system for workers injured at work. Laird Cronk, president of the BC Federation of Labour, joined Adam to talk about what needs to be done to fix the compensation system for injured workers. Later, Anastasia French, Campaigns and Operations Organiser for Living Wage for Families Campaign, joined the program to talk about BC’s new minimum wage and why it isn’t enough for many people living in metropolitan areas.

The horrific discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was made possible by ground penetrating radar. Mike Cooper, VP of Business Development for ScanPlus Locating, has done work with this technology and joined Adam to explain how it works.