Rick Zamperin discusses the top 10 Best ‘Star Wars’ Characters of All Time according to Rolling Stone. 

GUEST: Shawn Burke, Sr. Director of Personnel & Co-Manager of Football Operations

Collecting Toronto Raptors rookie cards wasn’t a top priority growing up in a single-parent family for Jayevan Foster, now a Canadian Football League agent based in Hamilton. But he wants to be ahead of the game with the rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are being used to sell player video clips as collectibles.

NFTs have stormed the market, with the value of 38 NFTs tracked by CoinMarketCap mushrooming more than eightfold to US$22.5 billion during the first quarter of 2021. The combined market cap of the companies behind them are growing at 1,785 per cent, according to Forbes.

But Foster’s take on the long-term viability of NFTs could be ambitious if critics are correct in their belief that the market’s inflationary hype is a passing fad and that a drop in the value of NFTs is inevitable.

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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Ontario might shorten the length of time between COVID-19 vaccine doses. It’s also looking into mixing and matching doses as it prepares to receive increased shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

The province expects to receive weekly shipments of more than 785,000 doses from Pfizer-BioNTech in May, and more than 938,000 doses per week next month.

Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday that the added supply might allow the province to shorten the current four-month interval between the first and second shots.

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GUEST: Dr. Brian D. Lichty, Associate Professor in Pathology and Molecular Medicine with the McMaster Immunology Research Centre

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The Canadian government is talking to international partners about the development of COVID-19 vaccination certificate systems that might one day help facilitate travel across international borders but bureaucrats in Ottawa, as well as some politicians, wonder if such a system is the best way to proceed.

“We are working on it on a scientific basis and we will have more to announce when we have it to announce,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. “Right now we’re focussed on getting through this pandemic and being prepared to come roaring back once we’re through it.”

The lack of enthusiasm in federal government circles to develop vaccination certificates is matched by the World Health Organization which argued that “national authorities and conveyance operators should not introduce requirements of proof of COVID-19 vaccination for international travel as a condition for departure or entry, given that there are still critical unknowns regarding the efficacy of vaccination in reducing transmission.”

Are vaccine certificates the best way to govern post pandemic travel?

GUEST: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent for Global News

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Despite the medications and treatments available for those suffering from a mental health condition, the crisis in Canada persists, and it is now more important than ever to recognize the shortcomings of Canada’s mental health support and highlight the need of innovative treatments to help people heal and be well. Numinus is working to address this gap by using psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to approach mental health and help individuals fully overcome the challenges that are preventing their overall wellbeing.

GUEST: Dr. Evan Wood, Chief Medical Officer of Numinus Wellness