Mornings with Simi

To address Canada’s rising violent crime—up 50% over the past decade—Prime Minister Mark Carney and the federal Liberals are urged to adopt a public health approach to violence prevention.

This includes appointing a dedicated federal minister and deputy minister focused solely on preventing violent crime.

Guest: Jeffrey Bradley - Ph.D. Candidate in Legal Studies at Carleton University

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A team of Canadian and Danish scientists are drilling deep into the Müller Ice Cap on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian Arctic to extract an ice core containing up to 20,000 years of climate history.

This ambitious project, led by glaciologist Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and supported by a $10-million Canadian research chair, aims to uncover data about past climate conditions, including volcanic eruptions and ocean activity, which can help predict future environmental changes.

Guest: Dr. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen - Canada Excellence Research Chair in Arctic Ice, Freshwater-Marine Coupling and Climate Change in the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Manitoba

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Guest: Steve Mossop - Executive Vice President, Leger Western Canada

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Whales and humans might be worlds apart, but when it comes to how we structure our sounds, we’re surprisingly alike.

In a new study, psychologist Inbal Arnon and her team found that humpback whale songs follow a core rule of human language known as Zipf’s law—a statistical pattern that predicts how often we use certain words.

Guest: Professor Inbal Arnon - Linguist and Developmental Psycholinguist in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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How to make the perfect pour-over coffee, according to physics!

Physicist Arnold Mathijssen studied how fluid dynamics can optimize pour-over coffee.

The history of Expo 86!

Expo 86 was a defining moment for Vancouver, drawing 22 million visitors and transforming the city’s global image.

What does it take to win the Championship Seagull Screeching Contest?

After suffering a personal loss, Danish woman Anna Brynald embraced joy and absurdity by entering — and winning — the 2025 European Championship Gull Screeching contest in Belgium.

How to fight environmental decline in your backyard!

Time to focus on the soil and less on the plants

Go electric with all of your garden tools.

Add bird feeders in the summer.

Bring back the flowers

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After suffering a personal loss, Danish woman Anna Brynald embraced joy and absurdity by entering — and winning — the 2025 European Championship Gull Screeching contest in Belgium.

Dressed in feathers and yellow lipstick, she squawked her way to gold among 60 participants from 14 countries, who mimicked gulls in sound and performance.

Guest: Anna Bryland - Winner of the 2025 European Championship Gull Screeching Contest

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What can we expect from the Case of the Prosecution?

Guest: Jennifer Johnston - Vice President of the BC Crown Counsel Association

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Expo 86 was a defining moment for Vancouver, drawing 22 million visitors and transforming the city’s global image.

Guest: Craig Baird - Host of the Podcast “Canada History Ehx”

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Time to focus on the soil and less on the plants

Soil stores carbon, and the trees and plants in our gardens take this carbon from the air and through their roots, they store carbon in the ground.  Healthy soil full of micro- organisms keeps the carbon in the ground.  

Cornell university reference - 1 lb of synthetic fertilizer releases 4-5 lbs of CO2 

Go electric with all of your garden tools.  

A gas powered lawn mower releases the same emissions as driving 800 km

Check your indoor battery tools to see if they also have outdoor garden tools

New technology in this area makes the batteries recyclable

Add bird feeders in the summer.  

Our local native songbirds are in decline due to Loss of habitat and food sources

Summer feeding has shown to increase local nesting and allows parent birds to more easily care for young

Bring back the flowers

Guest: Carson Arthur - Celebrity Landscaping and Gardening Expert

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Physicist Arnold Mathijssen studied how fluid dynamics can optimize pour-over coffee.

Their research, published in Physics of Fluids, found that pouring hot water from a higher height, slowly and steadily, improves coffee extraction, enhancing flavor without needing more beans.

This kitchen-based science reflects broader physical phenomena and is part of Mathijssen’s ongoing passion for “kitchen physics,” which he began exploring during the pandemic and continues to study through a growing body of research.

Guest: Dr. Arnold Mathijssen - Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania

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