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October 08, 2021 Squire on Sports - Depends on the perspective
Depending on the way you look at it...Canucks losing could be a good thing.
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3 min
October 07, 2021 Canada's connection to 'Pandora Papers', Long term care and sick pay & Making better vaccines
Ch.1: The Pandora Papers don’t seem to have a particular focus on Canada, or do they?
Guest: James Cohen, Executive Director of the Canadian chapter of Transparency International.
Ch.2: In the first extensive review of COVID-19 deaths in British Columbia’s long-term care system, seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie has found care homes should have had more rigorous testing for staff and a more comprehensive sick pay program.
Guest: Terry Lake, CEO of BC Care providers Association.
Ch.3: A controversial proposal for city-wide residential parking permits as a part of Vancouver’s climate action plan failed Wednesday night, with Mayor Kennedy Stewart casting the deciding vote.
Guest: Kennedy Stewart, Vancouver Mayor.
Ch.4: SFU Vaccinologist explains how highly effective vaccines are against variants.
Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor
Ch.5: Paid sick leave is in the spotlight once again, as yesterday’s report from the office of the BC Seniors Advocate made it known that care homes with weak paid sick leave policies are at risk for larger COVID outbreaks.
Guest: Mike Schilling, President & CEO of Community Savings Credit Union
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43 min
October 07, 2021 Squire on Sports - Seeing stars in exhibition games
Tonight some top Canuck players will hit the ice in Edmonton
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3 min
October 07, 2021 View From Victoria: Saving face ahead of an election
View From Victoria:
We get a local look at politics from the Provincial capital.
Guest: Vaughn Palmer, The Vancouver Sun
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11 min
October 06, 2021 Making Cents of the Markets
Making Cents of the Market:
Time for Making Cents of the Markets with Lori Pinkowski. Lori Pinkowski is the Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Canaccord Genuity. You can contact The Pinkowski Wealth Management team directly at 604-695-LORI or visit their website at Pinkowski.ca
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10 min
October 06, 2021 The debate on parking fees, Spending FOMO & Children and vaccines
Ch.1: Vancouver city council will vote on a new parking fee that would see big dollars fly out of the pockets of residents.
Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor
Ch.2: The Vancouver City Council is continuing to hear speakers on the Climate Emergency Parking Program which proposes an overnight permit for vehicles on all residential city streets.
Guest: Dr. Melissa Lem, Vancouver family physician/President-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment/Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Ch.3: Do you ever find yourself perusing online and making spontaneous purchases because of ‘fear of missing out’?
Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor
Ch.4: It was announced that the Ministry of Education is gathering a committee to meet immediately to discuss the issue of whether vaccines should be mandatory for all teachers and school staff across the province. But what about the kids?
Guest: Carly Weeks, Globe and Mail Health reporter.
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34 min
October 06, 2021 View From Victoria: BC employers listen up
View From Victoria:
We get a local look at politics from the Provincial capital.
Guest: Vaughn Palmer, The Vancouver Sun
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10 min
October 06, 2021 Squire on Sports - The future of the Kraken
Will the Seattle Kraken come out swinging like the Las Vegas Knights did?
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3 min
October 05, 2021 Social media shutdown, The safe-supply approach & More enforcement for resto's
Ch.1: Facebook, along with some of their family of apps went down for nearly 6 hours yesterday. Did you notice? Did it impact your business?
Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor
Ch.2: The B.C. government is looking to partner with agencies to offer new substance-use recovery beds on Vancouver Island.
Guest: Hon. Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and MLA for Nanaimo.
Ch.3: A software engineer and father in New Westminster has created a website that sends text notifications when there has been a COVID-19 exposure at a school.
Guest: Gabriel Bauman, Software Engineer and Founder of exposure.watch.
Ch.4: Facebook says its apps and services are back online after a nearly six-hour long widespread outage, impacting millions of users across the globe on Monday.
Guest: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship and Director of the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University.
Ch.5: It’s Fall now and along with worsening weather comes car collisions and trouble on the roads.
Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor
Ch.6: Three weeks into British Columbia’s vaccination card program, the province says three violation tickets have been handed out in total.
Guest: Jeff Guignard, Executive Director, ABLE BC (BC's Alliance of Beverage Licensees).
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47 min
October 05, 2021 View From Victoria: Back to the same old thing
View From Victoria:
We get a local look at politics from the Provincial capital.
Guest: Vaughn Palmer, The Vancouver Sun
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11 min

About Mornings with Simi

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Mornings with Simi (Monday – Friday: 5.30 – 9am) helps you wake-up, reconnect, and get your day off on the right foot. Simi Sara dives into on the headlines of the day with veteran Global News anchor Gord MacDonald and contributor Raji Sohal. They help you navigate through the details of the stories, highlight essential information and share new perspectives on how the daily news affects you. Simi loves the Lower Mainland. She’s lived here her whole life and truly understands the history and challenges our communities have faced over the years.