Chapter 1: With current health restrictions set to expire Friday and Super Bowl Sunday just two days later, restaurant and bar owners are worried.  Don’t forget they had the rug pulled out from under them on New Year’s Eve when the province changed the rules the day before. 

Guest: Jeff Guignard, Alliance of Beverage Serving Licensees

Chapter 2: Interesting information out of Statistics Canada this morning.  They found Canadians between the ages of 15 and 30 are less obese, more active, and smoke less than older Canadians. When you compare them with the same age bracket twenty years ago however, they are more obese, less active, and have a worse diet.

Chapter 3: New restrictions on travel in and out of Canada may take effect as soon as Thursday according to Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.  Professor Kelley Lee has been advocating for travel restrictions for weeks, she’s the Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. 

Guest: Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University.

Chapter 4: New travel restrictions are set to come into effect on Thursday but international travelers landing in Toronto will be tested for COVID-19 beginning today.  Global News Reporter Marianne Dimain is at Pearson Airport this morning taking it all in, she joins us with more.

Chapter 5: The spread of COVID-19 variants was one of the primary considerations when the federal government announced new travel restrictions.  We’ve heard that there may be a case of exposure to the variant at a high school in Maple Ridge, and experts have said it’s just a matter of time before most of our cases will be variants. 

Guest: Freelance journalist in Denmark

Chapter 6: Remember that story about GameStop stocks last week?  A group of investors online decided to bet against the major hedge funds, and the confusion resulted in billions of dollars in losses as the stock prices the hedge funds had bet against, skyrocketed.  Well, now it sounds like they’re trying to do the same thing with silver.

Guest: Rob Levy, CKNW Business Analyst

Chapter 7: You might have noticed some unusual nighttime activity in the skies this winter, bats!  It’s uncharacteristic to see them outside this time of year, and it turns out they may be suffering from a condition that’s been observed in Washington State. 

Guest: Linda Bakker, Co-Executive Director of the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC.

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Chapter 1: More uncertainty over Pfizer vaccine deliveries to Canada, even as the federal government is trying to clarify exactly how many doses we’re slated to receive. Eric Sorensen is covering this story for Global News.

Chapter 2: There’s a sort of general perception that Canada, and B-C in particular, has done a pretty good job of responding to the pandemic.  It’s easy to use the U-S as our only comparison for obvious reasons, but a new global ranking of COVID responses has been a real wake-up call. 

Guest: Scott Gilmore, Macleans Editor-at-large.

Chapter 3: We spoke with federal Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday morning, but let’s find out how their pre-budget consultation with local stakeholders went. 

Guest: Anita Huberman, Surrey Board of Trade CEO.

Chapter 4: Listen up if you’re heading for the great outdoors this weekend, Avalanche Canada has issued a warning because of snow conditions, which includes the North Shore Mountains. 

Guest:  Mike Danks, Northshore Rescue Team Leader.

Chapter 5: A Universal Basic Income may not be the silver bullet for inequality advocates say it is.  That’s what a comprehensive report released yesterday found, and it also presented a series of recommendations on how to create a more just society. 

Guest: David Green,  professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC.

Chapter 6: Some investigative work from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation we need to talk about this morning.  Translink has once again found themselves in a bad place when it comes to management salaries. 

Guest: Kris Sims, BC director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

Chapter 7: There’s a new priority for renters in Vancouver, and it’s not just the price. 

Guest: Frances Bula, Globe and Mail writer, local journalist.

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Chapter 1: A small study at the University of Victoria has resulted in troubling findings about the health impact the pandemic is having on nurses.

Guest: Lynneth Stuart-Hill, Director at the Centre for Occupational Research and Testing at the University of Victoria.

Chapter 2: Medical equipment manufacturing has boomed during the pandemic, but industry experts say the sector is struggling for commercial real estate in markets like Vancouver.

Guest: Kevin Nelson, Executive Vice President at CBRE Limited.

Chapter 3: Everything we thought we knew about fiscal responsibility at the government level kind of went out the window after the pandemic began.  Canada isn’t the only country to post record deficits but how do we plan for the future?

Guest:  Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

Chapter 4: Premier John Horgan and Doctor Bonnie Henry have both told B-C residents to stay home for Family Day weekend as interprovincial travel continues to cause more cases of COVID-19.  An outbreak at Big White was a huge problem for that community and we’re also seeing more exposures at restaurants in Whistler. 

Guest: Jack Crompton, Whistler Mayor.

Chapter 5: We’ve talked about the impact we’ve had on marine wildlife at length over the years - but some recently published data paints a stark picture of the decline in certain species. 

Guest: Nick Dulvy, SFU Professor, Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation.

Chapter 6: It’s fitting that we were talking about the increase in cyber security breaches people have experienced during the pandemic yesterday because today is actually data privacy day.  It’s something everyone needs to stay on top of and BCIT Centre for Digital Transformation Steve Wilson joins us for more on this. 

Guest: Steve Wilson, Director at the BCIT Centre for Digital Transformation.

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