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Full Episode: Irish Monuments, High Speed Rail & Kidnapped by Parents
Chapter 1:
-BC's Police Watchdog is probing an incident at a Vancouver McDonald's not far from the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station. It involves a man who is said by police to have set himself on fire. The Independent Investigations Office tweeting early this morning it plans to release more details "in due course."
Chapter 2:
-Brendan Flynn successfully petitioned the city to build an Irish-Canadian monument in Yaletown.
Chapter 3:
-Ford has stated it plans to revamp ¾ of its models in the next two years in hopes of appealing to a domestic market that appears to be losing interest.
&
Watch out for a new local scam that preys on good samaritans! A man is flagging down drivers ands tells them he’s been towed. After the kind stranger drives him to the impound lot, he asks for money.
Chapter 4:
-BC Hydro has signed it’s second biggest contract for construction on the Site C dam. At $1.6 billion to build generating station and spillways. The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.
Chapter 5:
-The Duolingo website has made it possible for the Star Trek fan to learn Klingon for free! Tim Dickert has the tech report.
Chapter 6:
-High Speed Rail From Vancouver To Seattle Will Be Announced Today. Is this project, that is expected to cost $42B US, worth the money?
Chapter 7:
-BC casinos would lose $88m in revenue each year, if the NDP enacted anti money laundering measures.
Chapter 8: Squire on Sports
-It's a weird stat when you sit back and look at the career of Vancouver Canucks Henrik Sedin...But he only has two goals this season...TWO!
Chapter 9:
-When a child goes missing, it’s rare they’ve been taken by a stranger, like we see in the movies or on TV. Most commonly, the kidnapper is one of their parents, caught in a bitter custody battle. This morning, Niki Reitmayer is asking the question: why would a parent kidnap their own child?
Chapter 10:
-Canada is falling behind when it comes to clean energy and transitioning to a zero carbon economy. Canada is still doing the same old things instead of innovating new a smart technologies. We see that with the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline. So what is the direction Canada is trying to steer its economy?
Chapter 11:
-In February of this year, Michael Bannon, 35, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and is banned for life from accessing the internet. Bannon had pleaded guilty to 22 charges including sexual interference and benefiting from the sexual services of a minor. One of his victims who was only 17 at the time, was contacted by him on Facebook out of the blue, he then picked her up near her home in Surrey and took her to a hotel in Vancouver. Over the course of a weekend, he forced her to have almost 30 sexual encounters. Human trafficking isn’t a far off problem, it's happening here in the hotels of cities all over Canada. Tim Dickert spoke with Larissa Maxwell, who is the Director of Anti-Human Trafficking Programs for the Salvation Army, to better understand the realities of Human Trafficking in Canada.
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By CuriouscastChapter 1:
-BC's Police Watchdog is probing an incident at a Vancouver McDonald's not far from the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station. It involves a man who is said by police to have set himself on fire. The Independent Investigations Office tweeting early this morning it plans to release more details "in due course."
Chapter 2:
-Brendan Flynn successfully petitioned the city to build an Irish-Canadian monument in Yaletown.
Chapter 3:
-Ford has stated it plans to revamp ¾ of its models in the next two years in hopes of appealing to a domestic market that appears to be losing interest.
&
Watch out for a new local scam that preys on good samaritans! A man is flagging down drivers ands tells them he’s been towed. After the kind stranger drives him to the impound lot, he asks for money.
Chapter 4:
-BC Hydro has signed it’s second biggest contract for construction on the Site C dam. At $1.6 billion to build generating station and spillways. The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.
Chapter 5:
-The Duolingo website has made it possible for the Star Trek fan to learn Klingon for free! Tim Dickert has the tech report.
Chapter 6:
-High Speed Rail From Vancouver To Seattle Will Be Announced Today. Is this project, that is expected to cost $42B US, worth the money?
Chapter 7:
-BC casinos would lose $88m in revenue each year, if the NDP enacted anti money laundering measures.
Chapter 8: Squire on Sports
-It's a weird stat when you sit back and look at the career of Vancouver Canucks Henrik Sedin...But he only has two goals this season...TWO!
Chapter 9:
-When a child goes missing, it’s rare they’ve been taken by a stranger, like we see in the movies or on TV. Most commonly, the kidnapper is one of their parents, caught in a bitter custody battle. This morning, Niki Reitmayer is asking the question: why would a parent kidnap their own child?
Chapter 10:
-Canada is falling behind when it comes to clean energy and transitioning to a zero carbon economy. Canada is still doing the same old things instead of innovating new a smart technologies. We see that with the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline. So what is the direction Canada is trying to steer its economy?
Chapter 11:
-In February of this year, Michael Bannon, 35, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and is banned for life from accessing the internet. Bannon had pleaded guilty to 22 charges including sexual interference and benefiting from the sexual services of a minor. One of his victims who was only 17 at the time, was contacted by him on Facebook out of the blue, he then picked her up near her home in Surrey and took her to a hotel in Vancouver. Over the course of a weekend, he forced her to have almost 30 sexual encounters. Human trafficking isn’t a far off problem, it's happening here in the hotels of cities all over Canada. Tim Dickert spoke with Larissa Maxwell, who is the Director of Anti-Human Trafficking Programs for the Salvation Army, to better understand the realities of Human Trafficking in Canada.