Guest Steve Saideman (Sayd-man), Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network, co-host of the Battle Rhythm podcast, and Carleton professor

Guest Gerard Lucyshyn is the VP Research and a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. As an economist, Gerard’s interests include fiscal, monetary, and economic/trade policies and legislation. He has written and presented on a variety of topics dealing with municipal, provincial, federal, and international issues

Guest Dr. Joan Vernikos, former Director of Life Sciences at NASA, and President and Founder of Fitterfirst

Guest Lana Wells is the Brenda Strafford Chair in the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, Research Fellow and Instructor with the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. She is currently leading Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence, a large-scale primary prevention initiative

Guest Marcel Latouche,  president and CEO of The Institute for Public Sector Accountability

On today’s show we start by talking about Don Cherry’s firing. Then, Dr. Aaron Phillips, professor at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine tells us about the surgery Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco Ryan Straschnitzki had that made his legs move again. We talk about the race against Facebook’s cryptocurrency with Ben Perrin, from the educational YouTube channel BTC Sessions. Lastly, Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher at MEI tells us about Quebec’s $5-billion surplus

Guest Germain Belzile, Senior Associate Researcher at MEI

Guest Ben Perrin, from the educational YouTube channel BTC Sessions, which is a Calgary based YouTube channel geared towards helping you understand Bitcoin and cryptocurrency