Danielle Smith

Two guests joined the show to talk about how to handle dementia in the family, and to talk about the financial hardships that elders face. 

Lee Cardwell, a family caregiver and the author of Dementia in the Family

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Nadia Graham, is an accredited credit counsellor, at the Credit Counselling Society

Today's full show includes interviews about pedophiles and passports, cannabis, beer tax, free speech, and smart cities. 

Is it okay for a city to track what’s in your poop? Dr. Dan Munro, incoming director of Policy Projects in the Innovation Policy Lab, at the University of Toronto's Munk School for Global Affairs, talks about smart cities and more. 

Ari Goldkind, criminal defence lawyer, and legal commentator, joins the show to talk about Australia striping pedophiles of passports and RCMP-file backlog threatens efforts to crack down on child sex tourism. 

Derek From, staff lawyer at the Canadian Constitution Foundation, joins the show to talk about cannabis legalization, beer tax and free speech. 

New commission to guide opioid emergency response. Dr. Elaine Hyshka, assistant professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta and co-chair, Minister’s Opioid Emergency Response Commission, joins the show. 

Today's full show includes interviews about opioids, drug-addiction and recovery, Christianity, Elk Island, and pronouns. 

Protecting transgender people means protecting our pronouns. Lee Airton, teaches at the Master of Teaching Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, shares more details. 

Elk Island National Park floats idea of allowing hunting to address elk, moose populations. Dale Kirkland, Elk Island National Park superintendent, joins the show to answer questions and myth-bust. 

A listener called in after Danielle talked about Jim Carrey to face trial for suicide of ex-girlfriend Cathriona White. She talked about her struggle with drug addiction and about her recovery.