GUEST: Dr. Bill Evans, Cancer Assistance Program

HCCF is an independent charitable organization, registered with the Canada Revenue Agency. Since 2012 they have partnered with the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) to support their students and families in need. Schools identify the student or family in need, and apply to HCCF for assistance. Funding is used to purchase the need on behalf of the student or family. 

Halton Catholic Children’s Foundation (HCCF) has announced a new three-year strategic plan aimed at doubling the number of students in need of the Foundation supported by 2024.

GUEST: Marc Clare, Halton Catholic Children’s Foundation

In the United States, jurisdictions such as Colorado and Washington are proactive in disclosing detailed cannabis sales data, which has helped researchers to gain understanding of the impacts of legalization to inform regulatory improvements.

To ensure that Canada’s 2021 regulatory review is fair and evidence-based, provinces and territories must make publicly available the recreational cannabis sales data that they already collect and supply to Health Canada, as a minimum.

GUEST: Dr. Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research with the Goodman School of Business at Brock University

The Peaceable Kingdom is an excellent primer about terrorism activities in Canada reaching back to days of Confederation.  One does not think of terrorism actually happening on Canadian soil or to Canadian entities elsewhere.  After all Canada is known as the country where we say, “I’m sorry” a lot.  Yet in the past few decades, there have been incidents, some diffused and controlled by law enforcement/intelligence agencies, others where lives were lost.

Phil has written this book from a first person perspective, which puts a human face to the issue, having worked in the field of counter-terrorism for many years.  It is written in understandable terminology allowing the reader with little knowledge of the area to get a solid grasp of how terrorism from abroad has made its way onto Canadian shores and its impact.  Phil highlights key events and provides a good overview as to how Canadian intelligence agencies operate to mitigate and eliminate alleged threats, handle the aftermath of others as learning experiences. 

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President and CEO, Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting & Author