Chapter 1: Questions about the source of cash for high rollers in B-C casinos were bad for business. That was what two casino executives told Lottery Corp. Chief Operating Officer Brad Desmarais back in 2015. 

Guest: Sam Cooper, Global News investigative journalist

Chapter 2: The Prime Minister’s announcement that domestic vaccine production is on the horizon might seem like good news, but it sounds like it won’t happen anytime soon.

Guest: Marieke Walsh, Globe and Mail reporter

Chapter 3: Bad news for SpaceX after a prototype Mars rocket exploded on landing yesterday.  A busy couple of days for the company after launching two more rockets this morning as part of their StarLink satellite internet project.* 

Guest: Greg Pallone, Space Coast reporter for Spectrum News 13 in Brevard County, FL, covering rocket launches and space travel.

Chapter 4: How many cases of COVID-19 are linked to travel?  We know there’s a real concern about it here in Canada, just look at the new travel restrictions the federal government introduced requiring a negative COVID test and hotel quarantines on arrival.  But we don’t actually know how many cases might be linked to passengers from outside or even inside Canada?

Guest: Dr. Anne-Marie Nicol, associate professor in Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

Chapter 5: Whether it’s because you’re working from home or just going to restaurants less, many of us started cooking more during the pandemic.  The Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University has released a new report on food literacy, and the director of the lab, Professor Sylvain Charlebois, is here to break it all down for us.

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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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View From Victoria: 

A local look at politics from the Provincial capital.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer, and Global News reporter Richard Zussman join the show with their take on the day's headlines.

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Chapter 1: One current and one former executive with the B.C. Lottery Corporation testified at the Cullen Commission into money laundering yesterday, and the testimonies are just stunning when you consider what we know now.

Chapter 2: The unsolved murder of BC realtor Lindsay Buziak has been a recurring story since 2008, but now a new task force - including members of the FBI, are looking at the evidence again.

Guest: Denis Gagnon, President at BCSI Investigation.

Chapter 3: If you’re still paying off that credit card from Christmas, you’re not alone.  It turns out a lot of us spent more than we expected to during the holiday season, even though holiday celebrations were so subdued.  RBC has released some numbers on this and you might find yourself nodding along to what they found.

Chapter 4: Granville Street has been looking pretty bleak during this pandemic.  We’ve been talking about business closures and dingey storefronts there for years but could there actually be some hope on the horizon?

Guest:  Karm Sumal, Co-founder and CEO at Daily Hive.

Chapter 5: We’re still waiting to learn whether a possible COVID-19 variant exposure at a school in Maple Ridge has resulted in any new cases, and that’s obviously something parents and teachers and students are all concerned about. 

Guest: Stephanie Higginson, president of the BC School Trustees Association.

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View From Victoria: 

A local look at politics from the Provincial capital.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer, and Global News reporter Richard Zussman join the show with their take on the day's headlines.

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