We spoke with Ramsey Zeid, manager of Winnipeg grocery store Food Fare - they're fighting a provincial law which mandates that certain retailers must remain closed on holidays

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Growing concern about foreign meddling in Canada’s upcoming election

Guest: Stephanie Carvin, Assistant Professor of International Relations - Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Carleton University)

A pragmatic environmentalist’s case for LNG

Guest: Blair King - BC-based Environmental Scientist with an interest in energy policy

As Calgary prepares to roll out an e-scooter sharing program, other cities are having second thoughts

Guest: Jeremy Elrod, Nashville city council member

Boeing to pay out $100-million to families of those killed in two crashes of its 737 Max 8 planes

Guest: Marc Moller - Partner in the law firm of Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, New York / aviation litigation expert

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“Why Young Men” – what leads young men down a dangerous and violent path and how to stop it

Guest: Jamil Jivani, author - "Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity"
Visiting professor - Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School
Founder - Citizen Empowerment Project

Ticketmaster faces $4.5-million in penalties after Competition Bureau investigation

Guest: Josephine Palumbo - Deputy Commissioner for the Competition Bureau’s Deceptive Marketing Practices Directorate

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China has banned all Canadian meat imports. Should Canada be fighting back?

Guest: Matt Gurney – National Post columnist

List of banned terrorist organizations now includes two neo-Nazi groups

Guest: Leah West - former counsel with the Dept. of Justice, National Security Litigation & Advisory Group; soon-to-be part of the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University faculty as a lecturer of National Security and Intelligence

No charges to be laid against Lethbridge police officer who repeatedly ran over injured deer

Guest: Ari Goldkind – criminal defence lawyer and legal commentator

The case for diet soda: an in-depth look at the science around artificial sweeteners

Guest: Tamar Haspel – food and science journalist / Washington Post “Unearthed” columnist

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IOC decision on 2026 Winter Olympics shows that it’s business-as-usual

Guest: Christopher Dempsey - Founder and former co-chair - No Boston Olympics / Co-Author - "No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch"

Following controversy, Canadian military plans to rededicate Afghan War memorial

Guest: David Pugliese - Ottawa Citizen reporter,  covering the Canadian military

Why “taxing the rich” rarely works out the way it’s supposed to

Guest: Finn Poschmann - Resident Scholar at the Fraser Institute

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