Ch.1: Have you heard of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response? Maybe you’ve stumbled onto an ASMR video on youtube? It’s those close up, slow talking whisper videos. To lots of us they seem a little weird and we don’t get the point. But some people get a totally different experience from them.

Guest: Dr Joanna Greer, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University

Ch.2: Which Canadian city has the best flood infrastructure? Answer: it’s not in B.C. 

Guest: Krista Hessey, The New Reality

Ch.3: What is happening to the federal Conservatives in Canada? According to our next guest they’re on a slippery slope to looking an awful lot like the Republicans to the south.

Guest: Trevor Harrison, Political Sociologist at the University of Lethbridge and former Director of Parkland Institute

Ch.4: Indigneous people upset over trucker treatment at Coutts

Guest: Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Ch.5: The new job numbers are out and BC is sitting at 5.1% unemployment.

Guest: Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation

Ch.6: Milk prices went up almost 16% this week in BC. Inflation keeps rising and food keeps getting more expensive.

Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab & Professor in Food Distribution at Dalhousie University

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View From Victoria:

We get a local look at politics from the Provincial capital.

Guest: Vaughn Palmer, The Vancouver Sun

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Owners hate it...players enjoy it...and so it ends up being second tier hockey action.

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Ch.1: There has been a breakthrough in Coutts, Alberta yesterday as truckers agreed with Mounties to clear one lane at the border between the Canada US Border.

Guest: Jim Willett, Mayor of Coutts, Alberta.

Ch.2: O’Toole’s time as leader of the Conservative Party has come to an end. As the Conservatives look to select a new leader for the party, things are up in the air on what direction the party is going.

Guest:  David Akin, Global National Chief Political Correspondent.

Ch.3: In BC one of the hardest things to come by is a covid-19 test.  But beware! There are covid testing appointment scams making the rounds to get your personal information.

Guest:  Simone Lis (Lees), President and CEO of Better Business Bureau of BC

Ch.4: Vancouver Real Estate Association says that sales will drop

Guest: Dane Eitel, Founder and Lead Analyst at Eitel Insights.

Ch.5: Microdosing is regularly ingesting small amounts of a psychedelic substance. But is it good for you? An experiment done by scientists in Edmonton would say ‘yes’

Guest: Dr. Trevor Hamilton, Associate professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University. 

Ch.6: Have you ever felt like a word sounds how it should? Like ‘woof’ for a dog barking? You might remember from grade 9 English class, that the phenomenon is called ‘onomatopoeia’ – where the word matches the sound we hear.

Guest: Raji interviewed Márton Sóskuthy, a Linguistics Professor at UBC

Ch.7: Will the IOC accept the First Nations led bid for bringing the Olympics back to Vancouver?

Guest: Bruce Kidd - Professor Emeritus, Sport & Public Policy of University of Toronto, Scarborough and former Olympic track athlete

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The games start on Friday...but things are starting to happen now!

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