Mornings with Simi

Businesses are leaving the Downtown East Side because of theft and street disorder

Guest: Lucy Maloney, OneCity Vancouver City Council Candidate

The need for bigger, family oriented homes

Guest: Brad West, Port Coquitlam Mayor

Can small monthly changes boost your savings

Guest: Kelly Ho,  Partner at DLD Financial Group & Certified Financial Planner

The benefits of giving up

Guest: Andreea Gavrila, a psychological expert at Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada

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The Weekly Cecchini Check-in:

Every Friday we take a look back at the week in American politics with Global’s Reggie Cecchini

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View From Victoria: Street Disorder and Government response

Guest: Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun Columnist

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London Drugs closing its Woodwards location

Guest: Landon Hoyt, Executive Director, Hastings Crossing BIA

Should Canada drop the Chinese EV tariffs?

Guest: Addisu Lashitew, Associate Professor, McMaster University

Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America

Guest: Dr. James Horncastle, assistant professor, humanities, Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations

Decriminalization pilot project set to end Jan 31st

Guest: Garth Mullins,Host of the Crackdown Podcast and advocate for drug users

Is Canada driving away foreign entrepreneurs 

Guest: Stephen Green, Immigration Lawyer

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View From Victoria: Who are all these people?

Guest: Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun Columnist

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View From Victoria: A Pipeline, A Refinery and a lot of debate

Guest: Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun Columnist

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Should Canada prepare for a US military coercion

Guest: Thomas Homer-Dixon, author, social scientist, and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute

Is strict online age verification coming to Canada?

Guest: Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law

WestJet faces backlash over viral video of shorter legroom

Guest: John Gradek, an aviation management professor with McGill University

WestJet faces backlash over viral video of shorter legroom

Guest: Jason Vaughn, Content Creator and Travel agent with Fat Tested Travel

How to map out smells?

Guest: Dr. Kate McLean-MacKenzie, University of Kent Lecturer, Artist, Designer, Researcher AND creator of the Atlas of smells 

Does Canada need a new pipeline to deal with a potential Venezuela surge?

Guest: Gary Mar, CEO of Canada West Foundation Former trade representative in Washington DC

Gen Z are more likely to book a flight than save for a home

Guest: Cindy Marques, Financial planner at FP Canada

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Why is the Trump regime restarting rhetoric about capturing Greenland?

Guest: Whitney Lackenbauer, professor and Canada Research Chair in the study of the Canadian North at Trent University

What does a new generic Ozempic mean for consumers in Canada?

Guest: Dr. Akshay Jain, an endocrinologist based in Surrey

Do you flirt to get what you want?

Guest: Braden T Hall, a PhD student at the University of Alabama, study author who collaborated with the University of Alabama Psychology Research Think Tank.

Why are highly skilled immigrants leaving Canada?

Guest: Daniel Bernhard, CEO Institute for Canadian Citizenship

Did ABC Vancouver cook their crime stats in year-end messaging?

Guest: Dan Fumano, Vancouver Sun Columnist

The desperate measures renters are taking to find housing

Guest: Pete Fry, Vancouver City Councillor

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View From Victoria: An embarrassment for Eby Infrastructure

Guest: Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun Columnist

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US health institutions no longer dependable

Guest: Timothy Caulfield, Canadian professor of law at the University of Alberta, the research director of its Health Law Institute, and current Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy.

Donald Trump has attacked Venezuela and taken Maduro

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

Western hemisphere influence and what is to come after Venezuelan chaos?

Guest: Max Cameron, Professor at UBC’s Department of Political Science with expertise in Latin American politics

Have Canada’s micro condos lost their appeal?

Guest: Tom Davidoff, Director of UBC’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, and associate professor at the Sauder School of Business

Where is Slumach’s gold?

Guest: Craig Baird, Host of Canadian History EhX

Former MLA Mike Starchuk enters 2026 mayoral race in Surrey

Guest: Mike Starchuk, Former MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale and 2026 mayoral candidate

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