Chapter 1: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has begun preliminary internal discussions about reopening the border with the U.S., even as Canada remains well behind its neighbour in vaccinations.

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington Producer/Correspondent

Chapter 2: Canadians are continuing to reward the federal Liberals with their intended vote support as approval for the Prime Minister remains high. According to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News, the Liberals remain in the driver’s seat with a strong lead over the Conservatives in each of Canada’s most-populous provinces, which would likely secure them a majority government.

Guest: Darrel Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Public Affairs.

Chapter 3: A local Port Coquitlam man, a professor of Archaeology at SFU, has been getting attention lately for his unusually large, and eclectic collection of… beer cans.

Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor

Chapter 4: The chief of the Vancouver Police Department has apologized to retired B.C. Supreme Court justice Selwyn Romilly after he was wrongfully handcuffed by police.  Police were responding Friday to reports of a man on the Vancouver Seawall who was punching and kicking people at random.

Guest: Markiel Simpson, member of the B.C. Community Alliance Steering Committee.

Chapter 5: Over nine-in-10 residents in Metro Vancouver support continued investment in new public transit infrastructure, according to a new survey by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Guest: Andrew Pau, Transportation Leader B.C., Deloitte.

Chapter 6: Will it set a dangerous precedent if Cruise ships are allowed to bypass Canada and only stop at US ports?

Guest: Ian Robertson, CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority.

Chapter 7: Following our conversation with Ian Robertson, the CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, we now go to The BC Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Melanie Mark.

Guest: Melanie Mark, BC Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport.

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Janet Brown will get an RTDNA Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations Janet! 

Guest: Janet Brown, CKNW/Global News Senior Reporter.

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The BC Liberal leadership candidates are gearing up.  Michael Lee says he’s almost ready and will announce later this week, and Kevin Falcon IS ready launching his bid on Facebook earlier this week.

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Chapter 1: Cities across Canada, including Vancouver, saw competing demonstrations over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this weekend. 

Guest: Redmond Shannon, Global News Europe Correspondent.

Chapter 2: It’s hard enough right now for a lot of businesses to find employees. Down in the States companies are offering signing bonuses and free cases of beer to take on jobs. Could that situation be about to get even worse? 

Guest: Laura Williams, Managing Partner of Williams HR Law.

Chapter 3: The widow of a murdered Surrey hockey dad is seeking a referendum on the policing transition in Surrey.

Guest: Darlene Bennett, widow of shooting victim Paul Bennett.

Chapter 4: The 2021 virtual Canada-Wide Science Fair officially opens!

Guest: Reni Barlow, the executive director from Youth Science Canada

Guest: Catherine Diyakonov, Grade 11 student from Vancouver

Chapter 5: What do the new generation of employees want out of their job?  Better pay, Better perks?  It might be a lot simpler than that.

Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor

Chapter 6: Vancouver’s mayor has apologized to a retired B.C. Supreme Court judge who was detained and handcuffed by police in English Bay on Friday.  Selwyn Romilly, the first Black judge elevated to B.C.’s superior court, was held by police who were searching for an assault suspect they said matched his description.

Guest: Pete Fry, Vancouver City Councillor.

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The Horgan government was caught by surprise by the latest news regarding the cruise ship industry and access to BC ports.

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Chapter 1: Who knew what and when, and was it an ethics breach? That’s what a report by the federal ethics commissioner was trying to get to the heart of in the WE Charity scandal involving members of the Trudeau government. 

Guest: David Akin, Global News Chief Political Correspondent.

Chapter 2: When is BC going to reopen? Cases are going down, other jurisdictions have plans they are putting forward - not only giving people something to look forward but giving businesses a path to getting things up and running again.

Guest:  Laura Jones, Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategic Officer of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Chapter 3: The Vancouver Whitecaps are back in action this weekend vs. Sporting KC. You can of course hear all the action on our sister station AM 730 on Sunday morning.

Guest: Marc Dos Santos, Whitecaps Head Coach.

Chapter 4: City will vote to allow drinking at the new public plaza at 800 Robson and three pop-up plazas on Cambie, Fraser and Maple streets

Guest: Sarah Kirby-Yung, Vancouver City Councillor.

Chapter 5: Post investigation finds virus infected more than 1,000 people at 42 homes where outbreak status was deliberately not declared when ‘low risk’ staff fell ill.  Health authorities tried to withhold data about failures of the ‘enhanced surveillance’ strategy, with many homes letting visits and group activities continue

Guest: Isobel Mackenzie, BC Seniors Advocate.

Chapter 5: A great source of pride for British Columbians is how multicultural we are.  Unfortunately, Bloomberg just published an article titled “This is the anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America” and it was about… Vancouver. And this, during Asian Heritage Month.  But a new video hopes to curb the anti-asian hate that exists in Vancouver and the lower mainland.

Guest: Raji Sohal, CKNW Contributor

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Ready? Asked the social media posting Thursday from Kevin Falcon leadership campaign.

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Chapter 1: New preliminary data suggests that mixing Pfizer-BioNtech and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines is safe, but it’s still too soon to tell whether combining doses will provide protection against the virus.

Guest: Crystal Goomansingh, Global News European Bureau Chief.

Chapter 2: Ellen DeGeneres will end her talk show after 19 seasons.  This comes on the heels of wild allegations of a toxic workplace environment, which she says, had nothing to do with her decision to step away.

Chapter 3: Vancouver’s mayor says he understands that some drug users aren’t happy with the city’s proposed model for decriminalization but time is of the essence and the details can be worked out later.

Guest: Kennedy Stewart, Mayor of Vancouver.

Chapter 4: A new survey has found strong support for virtual care at BC Children’s Hospital, with patients and their families saying it is the same, or even better, than in-person visits.

Guest: Brenden Hursh, Pediatric endocrinologist at BC Children’s Hospital.

Chapter 5: The BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program, which provides fresh B.C. fruits, vegetables and milk to students, appears to be nixed after B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham refused to acknowledge whether program funding will be continued.

Guest: Patt Tonn, the executive director of the B.C. Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation.

Chapter 6: You might have heard of the ‘Dunbar Number’ which is based on a 1993 study by Dr. Robin Dunbar.  The theory goes that humans could have no more than about 150 meaningful relationships, a measure that became known as Dunbar’s number.

Chapter 7: By all accounts, there is a humanitarian crisis going on in India right now because of Covid-19. The stories coming out of that country are awful and it’s clear they need all the help they can get. Canada has been sending supplies but there is a way to do more.

Chapter 8: The B.C. government says people who don’t pay COVID-19-related fines could be refused driver’s or vehicle licences.  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced the move Wednesday, which will be accomplished by amending the Motor Vehicle Act.

Guest: Mike Farnworth, BC Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General.

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Bill 22, which would allow involuntary short-term detention of youths who overdose. will return to the BC legislature with a vengeance!

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Chapter 1: On the one hand you have a country like the UK which is coming out of lockdown, planning for the future, moving ahead - thanks to their liberal use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. 

Guest: Andre Picard, Globe and Mail health columnist.

Chapter 2: Could Canada help curb vaccine hesitancy by offering incentives to those who get vaccinated?  Get a vaccine and receive a free donut perhaps?

Chapter 3: The BBB is warning of COVID-19 vaccine passport scams as the Canadian government recently announced they are “actively exploring” the concept of vaccine passports for international travel. There have already been reports of fraudulent vaccine passports being used upon entry to Canada.

Guest:  Denis Gagnon, BCSI Investigations President.

Chapter 4: Metro Vancouver is the only large urban area in the country without a unified police force as the region is divided up between municipal forces and the RCMP. There have been calls for an amalgamation on and off for decades.

Guest: Mike Morris, BC Liberal  critic for public safety.

Chapter 5: One of the things we’ve heard about during the opioid overdose epidemic is that too many people are using drugs alone and it’s leading to dangerous situations. People dying while using by themselves in private residences is a big part of the problem.

Guest: Giuseppe Ganci, Director of Community Development with Last Door Recovery Society & BETTER app Project Manager.

Chapter 6: The federal government and the City of Vancouver are moving towards a new era here, an effort to decriminalize drugs as a way to get a handle on the overdose epidemic.

Guest: Garth Mullins, a representative of VANDU and the host of CRACKDOWN podcast

Chapter 7: When it comes to being a ‘friendly Canadian’, the attitude might stop as soon as you enter your motor vehicle.

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