Free For All Friday - Hour 1

Amanda Galbraith breaks down today's biggest stories with Canada's top newsmakers.

On today's show:

• Dr. Christopher Labos, cardiologist and medical writer with a degree in epidemiology on the ongoing measles outbreaks in various parts of Canada and his level of concern
• Flavio Volpe, President, Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, on the shift reduction at the GM Oshawa plant announced this morning, pushing for tariff removals, and CUSMA-compliant auto parts being exempt from tariffs implemented by the U.S.
• Carmi Levy, Tech Journalist and Analyst on Meta's Mark Zuckerberg suggesting there's a market for personalized AI friends to make up for a lack of real ones

Free For All Friday - Hour 2

Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss this week's five biggest news stories. Attending today's session are Deirdra Tindale, Vice President at Crestview Strategies and Bob Richardson, Senior Counsel at National Public Relations.

1. Prime Minister Mark Carney's first remarks since election — what do we make of what we heard? Expectations for the first 100 days of the new government?
2.  Election debriefs – it’s been five days, the dust has settled, what do you think this election result means for the country in terms of Western alienation voiced by premiers Danielle Smith and Scott Moe?
3. Election debriefs — what do you make of how things broke down across party lines? Some provincial and the federal NDP are pointing fingers at each other while Pierre Poilievre works to identify a landing spot and the NDP are reduced significantly.
4. Revisiting our segment on personalized AI friends — are you open to this? Should the clamp be brought down on that? Other concerns?
5. Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson have been catching media attention including an odd interview on CBS Sunday Morning — what's going on here?