Weekly check-in with Warren Kinsella. This week: Donald Trump’s strange lies & Jagmeet Singh

Guest: Warren Kinsella - Toronto based lawyer, consultant, and author

The glowing ribbon of purple — and sometimes green — light that runs east-west in the night sky has been observed and photographed by aurora borealis chasers for years. While there are many scientific ways to describe the beautiful lights, a photographer in Calgary named it Steve...and that name has stuck.

Yesterday, we spoke about the dog who died on a United Airlines flight after the owner was instructed to put the 10 month old French Bulldog, and it’s carrier, in the overhead bin. Well it looks like United has messed up again, after mistakenly sending a family dog bound to Kansas City...TO JAPAN

It’s a first in B.C.: Port Coquitlam smokers will no longer be able to light up in many outdoor areas across the city. City council passed a bylaw on Wednesday enforcing a ban on smoking – including cannabis and vaping – in Port Coquitlam parks, trails and playgrounds.

Previewing the WestBlock. Coming up this week:
Minister Scott Brison on election security for the 2019 vote
Russian aggression and how the West should react to Putin’s long game
A journalism panel

Guest: David Akin - Global News Chief Political Correspondent & Guest Host of The West Block

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party could form a majority government after the upcoming election based on polling data in the suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area, the CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs says. In a poll conducted for Global News days after Doug Ford was elected leader of the Ontario PC Party by its members, it found not much has changed for the Tories as it relates to party support.

Guest: Sean Simpson - Vice President, Ipsos

A program announced by the Federal Liberals as a plan to rid the government of excess spending has not only not found anywhere to cut...but has instead identified more areas of spending. As our government plans for an $18.1 billion deficit, how is this helping any sort of return to balance?

Guest: Pierre Poilievre - Member of Parliament, Carleton

Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in response to a nerve agent attack on a Russian former double agent in southern England, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday, adding it was the biggest single expulsion in over 30 years.

As students across the United States marched today in protest of recent gun violence, and school shootings, students in a California classroom were injured after a teacher accidentally fired his weapon in class.

A dog died on a United Airlines plane this week, after a flight attendant ordered its owner to put the animal in the plane’s overhead bin.