How has Canada faired trade-wise this year? With threats to NAFTA and the TPP looking for 2018, the Federal Conservatives are worried our economy, and global relationships might take a hit.

Guest: Dean Allison - Conservative Shadow Minister for International Trade

In Alabama voting places opened at 7 am this morning but are now closed. No results yet but an incredibly tight race. Ines de La Cuertara is in Alabama tonight and joins us now to talk about the feeling on the ground after this controversial election day.

Guest: Ines de La Cuetara - Washington Correspondent

The man flu is often joked about. Basically the fact that men become big useless babies when they get a cold. That they need to be tended to, take the day off work, and at the same time the women in their lives power through it and often end up caring for them when they themselves are sick. One doctor is saying according to his research men might actually not be overreacting to their flu… they might actually have more intense symptoms.

Guest: Kyle Sue - Clinical assistant professor in family medicine at the memorial university of Newfoundland/Rural Doctor in Nunavut

Alabama Republican Roy Moore's campaign manager says the candidate is not yet conceding the U.S. Senate race.

Confronted by a growing list of sexual assault allegations, Trump continues to dig his heels in. This morning he tweeted that the accusations came from “women who I don’t know and/or have never met.”

Frankie, an Alberta dog who had been missing for five months turned up in Langley last month, and is now hitching a ride home for the holidays with truck driver Scott Stevenson - who lives very close to Frankie’s owner.

In his recent Global Commentary piece, “Lawful gun owners pay the price for gang violence (and public ignorance)” Matt Gurney examines the public misconception about gun ownership. He himself is a gun owner and find is a fun way to meet great people. He actually feels like many people would enjoy it but don’t because of a public misconception about guns = gangs.

Guest: Matt Gurney - Radio Host 640 Toronto

The Centre for Policy Alternatives release its annual report on child-care costs today. Showing daycare fees continue to rise faster than inflation. Toronto has the most expensive daycare and Vancouver is in second place. What can be done about this and who is it hurting the most?

Guest: David MacDonald - Senior Economist with The Centre for Policy Alternatives

You have probably seen the video. If not, basically an emaciated polar bear is digging through garbage. It has been held up as evidence of climate change. But apparently if you ask the people Arctic biologists and the Inuit -people who actually know about polar bears - they see a different story. Tristin Hopper wrote an article telling that story, What everybody got wrong about that viral video of a starving polar bear, and joins us on the line to talk about it.

Guest: Tristin Hopper - Reporter National Post

Merriam-Webster has revealed "feminism" as its word of the year. This year lookups for feminism increased 70 percent from last year on Merriam-Webster.com.

Speaking of feminism, or at least equality, parents in New York will have an easier time changing their kids’ diapers when out of the house.

Princes William and Harry walked the red carpet tonight for the European premiere of ``Star Wars: The Last Jedi,'' in which the royal siblings reportedly make a cameo appearance.

Good news the economy is booming, and unemployment is low… so low that there are actually hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs in Canada. We have a labour shortage. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business release a study on exactly this and Ted Mallett the Vice President of CFIB joins us on the line today to talk about the findings.

Guest: Ted Mallett - Vice President and Chief Economist Canadian Federation of Independent Business