Today, 18 countries - including Canada and the US - announced they would be expelling diplomats in response to the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK. Out of roughly 100 Russian diplomats and officers stationed in Canada, four will be expelled. In a statement shared by the Russian embassy in Ottawa on its Twitter account, officials there called the expulsions “deplorable and outrageous” and vowed to reciprocate.

What could the backlash look like from Russia, and what does this mean for global security?

Guest: Lisa Sundstrom - UBC Political Science Associate Professor

Check-in with Ryan Jespersen. This week: A new Ipsos poll has found support for the Federal Liberals is dwindling, even among their target demographic as the middle class, women and millennials say they are looking elsewhere for leadership.

Overall, 56 per cent of the 1,003 Canadians surveyed for the poll said the Liberals have fallen short of expectations, with 60 per cent saying it’s time for them to make way for another federal party.

Guest: Ryan Jespersen - Host, CHED

A lawyer representing adult film star Stormy Daniels says there is more evidence to come of her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006. But after his client told her story in a highly anticipated interview last night on "60 Minutes,'' Michael Avenatti says he and Daniels are withholding certain details, including the contents of a C-D or D-V-D he tweeted a picture of last week. While President Donald Trump hasn’t commented on yesterday’s interview, the White House says Trump doesn’t believe anything Daniels has to say.

Guest: Laura Babcock - TV/Radio Commentator and President of Powergroup Communications

A Toronto ice cream shop hoping to expand into the States is facing some backlash...over their name. An online petition to change the name of “Sweet Jesus” ice cream shop calls the branding both “blasphemous” and “offensive to Christians.”

A waiter from Vancouver is taking his former employer to the BC Human Rights Tribunal. His restaurant says he was fired for being too aggressive...but the waiter says he’s not aggressive...just “too French!”

“The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok.”

Guest: Jason Manning - Author, The Rise of Victimhood Culture - Microaggressions, Safe Spaces and the New Culture Wars

The demonstrations calling for tougher gun laws in Washington DC may have been the biggest in history. But many question whether congress will ever pass the legislation necessary to curb the shooting epidemic in the US.

In the wake of the Facebook/Analytica scandal, Facebook took out newspaper ads today, promising to “do better” but failing to mention the Cambridge Analytica scandal specifically.

A report from RBC has found that while HALF of Canadian jobs will be impacted by automation in the next decade...being human could be the very thing that helps Canadians stay employed.