What's that old line about necessity being the mother of invention? COVID hits, Fox40 invents a new whistle and within months, it's in production and 50,000 have already been distributed.

Guest: Ron Foxcroft , Canadian businessman, Founder & C.E.O., Fox 40 International Inc.

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Cottage sales are surging as city residents flee the city to embrace cottage life. Is the pandemic boosting business?

Guest: Catharine Inniss, current President of the Lakelands Association of Realtors

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Beloved duct tape guru Red Green is back with a new podcast. Has he ever really gone away though?

Guest: Steve Smith, Canadian actor, writer, comedian

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast – with Scott Radley filling in for Scott

Michael Shellenberger is one of the environmental movement's golden boys but he now says that although climate change is real, it is not the world-ending catastrophe that it has been made out to be, and not the biggest environmental threat. He joined Scott Radley to discuss his changing perspective on environmental issues.

Guest: Michael Shellenberger, author and environmental policy writer

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Could we see the Canadian dollar hit pre-coronvirus levels? Only if oil and stocks get back on track according to a Reuters poll.

Guest: Marvin Ryder. Business Professor, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

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Have you heard of Cronk? No, not Gronk, the football player. Cronk, the drink! Well, neither had seemingly anyone else in this century. That is until Paul Fairie discovered an ad from the mid-1800s, while he was reading microfiche. Now a new batch is brewing, even though nobody knows what it will taste like. To find out more about this forgotten bit of history, Scott talks to man who rediscovered Cronk!

Guest: Paul Fairie, Senior Research Associate, University of Calgary

Scott Radley, who is filling in for Scott Thompson, takes a look at the safety precautions that will change how you see a movie, and what to expect when you set foot in an airplane.

Guests:

Barry Hertz, Film Editor and Deputy Arts Editor with the Globe and Mail

Dr. Gabor Lukacs of Air Passenger Rights

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast – with Scott Radley in for Scott Thompson

Should masks be mandatory in Ontario? The province has declined to make masks mandatory indoors, instead leaving it up to municipalities to decide what is best for their regions.

Guest: Dr.Todd Coleman,  PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health Sciences Wilfrid Laurier University

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Should Ontario shut down farms due to the spread of COVID-19 among migrant workers? What would that do to our food chain?

Sylvain Charlebois lead researcher and professor at Dalhousie University

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How bad has the mafia situation become during the COVID-19 pandemic? Canada is joining Western nations in combating exploitation during the pandemic.

Guest: James Dubro, well known, longtime crime writer and researcher, long time specialist in organized crime

Legendary entertainer, writer and producer, Carl Reiner has died at the age of 98.

Bill Brioux. Brioux.tv

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