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On tonight's show, we speak to an Alberta dad, Warren Henschel, about his take on the province of Alberta bringing back what they call "seclusion rooms" - really, they're solitary confinement. His son has autism, and has suffered through one. Peter Silverstone, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta talks about alarming rates of PTSD in Fort McMurray as a result of the forest fires. Finally, Erin Little joins us to talk about how Health Canada has hiked the price of a medication for her daughter, the staves off blindness thanks to a disorder called cystinosis.

On tonight's show, former Vancouver School Board Chair Patti Bachus joins us to give us her thoughts on Ontario's upcoming cellphone restrictions in classrooms. Then, a current teacher from Vernon, BC, Craig Leverman, talks about his take on phones in the classroom. Charles then has a heart-to-heart conversation with Canada about love, marriage and what makes Canada, Canada. Finally - the science guy Jason Tetro joins us to talk about a new test that claims to be able to give you an idea of your mortality.

Two men who were convicted over a plot to derail a Via Rail train have succeeded in securing a retrial due to an error in jury selection. Michele Mandel writes for the justice beat for the Toronto Sun and she saw the writing on the wall back in February. Hayley Barrett, the Mother of a young blind equestrian athlete is speaking out after her daughter, Kyra, was banned from competition due to an "unfair advantage" - her guide. Emily Rea is stranded in Kelowna after Swoop Airlines cancelled her flight, and told her that the next one home to Winnipeg is 11 days away - we talk to her about what's going on. Finally - In the wake of billboards that encouraged Canadians to vote for Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada and oppose “mass immigration,” Tareq Hadhad, owner of Peace By Chocolate received tons of support - we hear from him.

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Pharmaceutical industry researcher at the University of Victoria Alan Cassels joins to program tonight to talk about how Johnson & Johnson may have been fined - but it was a pittance. As well, Canada has decided to say "No!" to those anti-immigration billboards. We speak to immigration and refugee lawyer Will Tao We also speak to Zain Velji, who works with Everyone's Canada - the folks who helped pressure the billboard to be taken down, about what happened. Finally, the voice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Bob Irving, chats with Charles about the suspension of running back Andrew Harris - are the Bombers in trouble?

 

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Coming up, Alberta oil worker Bernard Hancock comes on to explain why its a good day for out-of-work oil workers in Alberta. A little later we have Michael Byers of the university of British Columbia join us to discuss what Canada is hoping to accomplish at this weekend's G7. And finally, we speak with environmental professor Kai Chan on why the Brazilian wildfires are a major threat to earth’s oxygen supply.

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