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Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge
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Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge episodes
- The case against a ban on flavoured vaping products; "Fleeced: Canadians Versus Their Banks"; How to reform the CBC; Can video games improve your cognitive performance?; How Canadian farmers are getting squeezed
Today's guests:
Sam Tam - President of Canada Vaping Association
Andrew Spence - Author of "Fleeced: Canadians Versus Their Banks"
David Clinton - Publisher of The Audit (www.theaudit.ca) and a contributing writer to the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Dr. Adrian Owen - Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Western University
Keldon Bester – Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project
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58 min - Nazem Kadri, "Dreamer: My Life on the Edge”; Denise Hearn, "The Big Fix”; B.C.'s uncertain election results; Canada slides on International Tax Competitive Index rankings
Today's guests:
Nazem Kadri - NHL player for the Calgary Flames / first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup/ Author - "Dreamer: My Life on the Edge”
Denise Hearn - Co-author of The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians"
Keith Baldrey - Global BC’s Legislature Bureau Chief
Jake Fuss - Director of Fiscal Studies for the Fraser Institute
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53 min - "You Don't Have To Quit"; Why family physicians are leaving the province; Calls for Bank of Canada to cut its rate further; How to fix auto insurance in Alberta
Today's guests:
Maureen Palmer - Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker / Author - "You Don't Have To Quit: 20 Science-Backed Strategies to Help Your Loved One Drink Less"
Dr. Shelley Duggan - President of the Alberta Medical Association
William Robson - President and CEO of C.D. Howe Institute
Jack Mintz - President’s Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
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51 min - Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is dead; Explaining security clearance & parliamentary privilege; More Canadians feel immigration levels are too high
Today's guest:
Jonathan Conricus - Senior Fellow - Foundation for the Defense of Democracies / Lt. Col (Ret.) - IDF
Philippe Lagassé - Associate professor and the Barton Chair at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Jack Jedwab - President and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute
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39 min - Canada's response to India's foreign interference; Call to cut Alberta small business tax; How a GST change could help with housing affordability; Why the Supreme Court needs to respect precedence
Today's guests:
Vincent Rigby - The Slater Family Professor of Practice at McGill University / former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister (2020 - 2021)
Deborah Yedlin - President & CEO at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce
Mike Moffatt - Senior director of the Smart Prosperity Institute and co-host of the podcast The Missing Middle
Mark Mancini - Senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law
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39 min - How Indian government agents in Canada targeted Modi’s opponents; Alberta launches campaign against federal emissions cap; NASA launching a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa
Today's guests:
Stewart Bell - National Online and Investigative Journalist for Global News
Stephanie Carvin - Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Andrew Leach - Energy and environmental economist with the University of Alberta’s Faculties of Arts and Law
Dr. John Moores - Associate Professor at York University, Director of the Graduate Program in Earth and Space Science / A Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) / Author - "Daydreaming in the Solar System"
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47 min - Lawsuit on behalf of Canadian victims of Oct. 7; Why Ottawa should reconsider its approach to regulating safer nicotine products; New revelations from foreign interference inquiry; The frustrations of Canada’s over-credentialed working class
Today's guests:
Lauren Rakowski - Partner - Gardiner Roberts LLP
Maria Papaioannoy-Duic - Spokesperson for Rights4Vapers
Sam Cooper - Investigative Journalist and founder of the Bureau publication
Renze Nauta - Program Director for Work and Economics at Cardus
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48 min - Concern over disturbing anti-Israel protest in Vancouver; ATB's latest outlook for Alberta; Guarding against bank failures; The role "middle housing" can play
Today's guests:
Ezra Shanken - CEO of the Jewish Federation of Vancouver
Mark Parsons - Vice-president and chief economist at ATB
Mark Zelmer - C.D. Howe Institute Senior Fellow
Alkarim Devani - Co-Founder of Mddl Housing
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44 min - Defeat for extremists would be good for Muslims in Middle East; Nuclear power plant for Alberta?; Why boosting old age security would be a costly mistake; Latest report card on Alberta’s high schools
Today's guests:
Mohammad Rizwan – Member of the Council of Muslims Against Antisemitism
Duane Bratt - MRU Political Science Professor
Trevor Trombe - Professor of Economics and the Director of Fiscal and Economic Policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy
Peter Cowley – Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute
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51 min - One year later, Hamas is still holding hostages; Cost of Ottawa's war on Big Tech; Calgary's "The Shooting Edge" shuts down; Alasdair Roberts, “The Adaptable Country”; Supreme Court sides with airline passengers
Today's guests:
Iris Weinstein Haggai - Daughter of Judi Weinstein Haggai (Israeli-Canadian) and Gadi Haggai, two of the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack
Michael Geist - Law Professor at the University of Ottawa
JR Cox – Owner - The Shooting Edge
Alasdair Roberts - Author of “The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century”/ Professor of public policy at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gabor Lukacs – President and founder of Air Passenger Rights
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About Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge
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Join host, Rob Breakenridge, as he offers his unique perspective on the most talked-about stories of the day every weekday afternoon.
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