Free For All Friday - Hour 1.

Guest host Mark Towhey breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.

On today's show:

• Adriane Gear, President of the BC Nurses’ Union on B.C. to require hospitals have designated spaces for patient illicit drug use
• Kevin Page, president of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy in Ottawa, and a former Parliamentary Budget Officer on how will the  Liberals pay for billions in promised spending and loans?
• Dan Stanton, Former CSIS executive manager to wrap up what we saw at the inquiry into foreign interference this week.
• Nicholas Pope, Human Rights Lawyer at Hameed Law on judicial vacancies building up.

Free For All Friday - Hour 2.

Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. This week's show features panelists Bob Richardson, senior counsel at National Public Relations, Melanie Paradis, Conservative strategist and former senior staffer to Erin O’Toole, and President of Texture Communications and Cam Holmstrom, Founder and Principal, Niipaawi Strategies.

Topic 1: NDP abandons carbon tax

Topic 2: Why can’t we have more judges? How short are we? How big a problem is this?

Topic 3: Rules for RRSP and mortgages

Topic 4: Budget: Who’s going to pay for all this?

Topic 5: The rules are the rules… unless they’re ridiculous. Can a team score in 0.3 seconds?