Daybreak Alberta

This hour, the Top 10 tracks of 1986, and why you should check your credit score well before you apply for credit or a loan. Plus music from Bony M, Glass Tiger, and Leonard Cohen.

This hour, the bug origins of candy. Also, making drive-thrus more efficient, Can an App replace a therapist? Plus music from Huey Lewis & The News, Howard Jones, Tennile Townes, Patrick Wilson.

This hour, Calgary's poet laureate, Sheri-D Wilson is looking for portraits of people, and whats you to compose new poetry or prose about someone who's had a lasting impact or you or the city. Also, Fort Macleod is about to "Get Lit" with its first literary festival. Author Ali Bryan joins Russell Bowers to preview the event on November 16. Plus music from the Skydiggers, the Stampeders, Supertramp, and Suzie Vinnick.

This hour, the future of car-sharing programs in major cities. Also, the waiting list for a pottery class in Edmonton. Plus music from ABBA, Bob Dylan, Triumph, Pretty Archie, and Emily Triggs.

The month of November will be a busy one for Calgary's poet Laureate, Sheri-D Wilson. She will be appearing at the Canadian Jazz Festival (https://www.jazzyyc.com/) on November 8 and 9, opening for jazz great Quincy Troupe (Miles Davis' biographer and friend). In addition, she is spending the month scouring her city for stories of the extraordinary and the ordinary. When her term as Poet Laureate wraps up in April of 2020, she wants to launch an anthology collecting poems and prose, fiction and non-fiction all about Calgarians. She hopes to find stories that paint a portrait of modern Calgary from the people living today, who are affected by those famous or anonymous, past or present. To challenge those who write, or haven't yet, she came in to speak with Russell Bowers.

https://sheridwilson.com/2019/09/sheri-d-wilson-project-leader/

The National Film Board of Canada (nfb.ca) has a new documentary revealing what happened to an Indo-Canadian family when a sexual predator preyed on the lives of three young girls. The abuse was kept a secret for decades but finally, the sisters had to speak up and their story is outlined in the new movie, "Because We Are Girls." Screenings are set for later this Fall in Edmonton, but the film will be part of the Marda Loop Justice Film Festival, Saturday, November 16 at 4:15 PM, at River Park Church Auditorium.

(http://www.justicefilmfestival.ca/because-we-are-girls) Jeeti Pooni is the woman who helps tell what happened to her and her family in the doc and she spoke with Russell Bowers.

Fran Kimmel returns to Daybreak with a new novel. The Lacombe author visited with Russell Bowers in her hometown during a Daybreak@Night in 2017 and she's returned with a tome entitled "No Good Asking."

The book takes a stark look inside a family when they decide to take in a troubled child, Hannah. Even though her time with the family seems short, the book asks how long family can impact our lives.

Russell caught up with Fran Kimmel in the Daybreak studio.

It's an obligation that many parents take on without even thinking about it too much. Being there for the sporting life of their kids. To cheer them on, to console them when they falter, to be their transportation, all of it despite the cost to other aspects of family life. Is it worth it?

That's what Angie Abdou asks herself in a new memoir, "Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom." It's a unflinching and revealing account of the toll sports (especially hockey) can take on family dynamics and fortunes. Should sports change? Or should our expectations?

Angie Abdou sat down with Russell Bowers to discuss that and more.

Each month on Daybreak, award-winning author Angie Abdou (The Bone Cage, Home Ice) drops by to review a new Alberta book. This month, Angie is live on stage with Russell at the historic Empress Theatre in Fort Macleod to chat about the new book by Calgary writer, Ali Bryan and her novel "The Figgs."

This hour, how the #MeToo movement is still affecting the environment for business. Also, celebrating 25 years of the Vinyl Cafe on CBC Radio. Producer, Jess Milton, release 2 new volumes of recordings. Plus, music from Tennille Townes, Sam Cooke, and Roxy Music.