A USask Engineering team is designing a new type of N95 respirator mask for healthcare workers amid the global shortage of medical-grade masks. The team has designed a prototype mask which is comfortable and reusable, and it's currently being tested by healthcare workers at Royal University Hospital. Once the design receives medical approval for use in the field, the team is planning to manufacture them using the university's 3D printers. Erik Olson, one of the engineering grad students designing the masks, joins Gormley to discuss the project.

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Why did the perpetrator of the mass shooting in Nova Scotia impersonate an RCMP officer? The shooter had an obsession with policing, going as far as to restore retired cruisers to near-identical copies of police vehicles. Police impersonators tend to be either "wannabes" seeking status and authority or those looking to commit crimes of opportunity through impersonation, but criminologist Dr. Mary Dodge says the Nova Scotia case is unique in that it doesn't fit either profile.

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While Saskatchewan has one of the lowest COVID-19 case totals among provinces, Quebec has by far the highest with 20,126 as of this morning. More than 1,041 people have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, and more than 174,490 tests have been performed. Les Perreaux, Montreal-based Globe and Mail reporter, says Quebec has two epidemics, "one waning in the general community, one ripping apart nursing homes." Perreaux joins Gormley to discuss the COVID-19 situation in Quebec.

Justin Trudeau to address Canada and take questions

On Tuesday the Sask Health Authority announced new measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and limit the possible exposure of seniors in care facilities. Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone says workers at personal care and long-term care homes will only be allowed to work at a single facility, and will now have access to an online screening tool. Livingstone joins Gormley to discuss the new measures and the latest on the fight against the pandemic.

Many MPs are donating their recent pay increase to charities, but Aaron Wudrick, federal director with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says our federal representatives should go a step further and reduce their pay. Leaders in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, and India have cut their own salaries by as much as 30 per cent, and Wudrick says it's important to see our leaders leading by example as so many Canadians face huge financial hardships due to COVID-19. Wudrick joins Gormley to discuss why he thinks our MPs should sacrifice part of their paycheques.

RCMP in Saskatchewan recently uncovered a series of online romance scams, which saw women losing as much as $2-million to strangers they met online, primarily through game apps. After initiating a relationship, the men would pretend to fall ill or experience a financial crisis and ask for money. According to RCMP Sgt. Kim Stewart, who led the complex, cross-country investigation, the women in question were intelligent and educated, not unsophisticated like many victims of confidence scams. Stewart joins Gormley to discuss the case and how you can protect yourself from similar cons.

According to economist Philip Cross, economists and policy-makers have greatly underestimated the costs of Canada’s COVID-19 strategy when it comes to jobs, income, and Canada's long-term debt. Cross, writing for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, argues that economic forecasts are often low in their early estimates of shocks like the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID-19 is no different. According to Cross, the oil and gas sector and small business will be the most greatly affected, and he joins Gormley to discuss the real economic impact the pandemic will have in Canada.

Prime Minister Trudeau gives an update on the COVID-19 outbreak

Three days after the worst mass shooting in Canada's history, there are still many unanswered questions. While the gun control debate looms large politically, the RCMP hasn't told the public what weapons the shooter used. At the RCMP's media conference Monday, Tim Bousquet of the Halifax Examiner raised questions about the RCMP's communication with the public during the shooting, asking why the RCMP used Twitter to inform residents rather than the emergency alert system, and calling attention to incorrect information released on Twitter. Bousquet joins Gormley to tell us what he's been learning about the case and discuss some of the still-unanswered questions.