An in-depth look at the Trade War.

Guest: Keith Head - UBC Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division

A $10.25-million lawsuit against Calgary Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman was tossed out of the Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday, and will now be sitting on the plate of the commissioner of the NHL.

A parking lot could end up a paradise for a group of LGBTQ students and allies in Merritt, after city council rejected their proposal for a rainbow crosswalk.
Students at Merritt Secondary School had planned the crosswalk for the intersection of Chapman Street and Coldwater Avenue, and would have installed it at no cost to the city.

Canadians will get their first peek at the new $10 bill featuring civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond at an event in Halifax next week.

We’re having a conversation on our show this week about Uber/ride sharing companies and the impact they can have on traffic congestion in cities they’re introduced to.

Guest: Bruce Schaller - Principal of Schaller Consulting

As the Kinder Morgan battle continues on the West Coast of Canada, the ruling NDP government is being called out for cozying up to anti-pipeline activists connected to “militant environmental activism and intrigue.”

Guest: Vaughn Palmer - Columnist, PostMedia

Checking in with Keith Baldrey. This week: Reaction to the Vaughn Palmer’s column on “militant environmental activism.” When their actions are actually influencing governmental policy and the economy, are “green warriors” taking it too far? Or are they justified in their concern over the Kinder Morgan Pipeline?

Guest: Keith Baldrey - Legislative Bureau Chief, Global BC

It’s one of the biggest news stories of the day and we’re going to get into it with Warren Kinsella right after the bottom of the hour news, but today, US President Trump may have finally started an all out global trade war with an announcement that leaves Canadian steel and aluminum producers in limbo.

And the other big news of today? Just Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing a new army of “invincible nuclear weapons.”

And today, New Zealand’s intelligence agency confirmed for the first time that a teenager tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to the southern city of Dunedin in 1981.

Are you a millennial looking for a great place to work in Canada? The City of Montreal may be the place for you. Montreal was just ranked the second best city for millenials, just behind Berlin when it comes to business, housing and lifestyle affordability, recreation and openness.

We’re looking globally for our next two stories first starting in the UK where a blast of Siberian cold air is colliding with an Atlantic storm to produce some of the heaviest snowfalls in decade over the UK and Ireland.

Over to Australia where tens of thousands of firearms - and a ROCKET LAUNCHER - were turned in as part of a drive in the country to curve the illegal firearms market.
The drive came in response to the 2014 Lindt Café hostage situation in which an armed gunman entered a café in Sydney and took hostages. Three people died in the event: two hostages and the gunman.