Seniors Advocate calls for rapid testing of all staff at long term care homes.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer join the show.

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Chapter 1: Let’s talk about what happened at the Cullen Commission’s investigation into money laundering this week with Global News investigative journalist Sam Cooper. 

Guest: Sam Cooper, Global News investigative journalist.

Chapter 2: A new survey called The Canadian Cheese Obsession Index conducted by Italy’s Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium shows that Canadians love our cheese. In fact, in the first half of 2020, sales of Parmigiano Reggiano grew in Canada by 153%.

Chapter 3: The tourism industry had a difficult summer, and new health restrictions from Dr. Bonnie Henry yesterday are going to complicate the winter as well.  We’re joined by the vice chair of the Tourism Industry Association of BC, Vivek Sharma for more on that. 

Chapter 4: So much new information from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry yesterday, including a warning to people thinking of travelling within the province.

Guest:  Jack Crompton, Whistler Mayor.

Chapter 5: Do you plan on spending more or less this year? Lisa Colangelo, Senior Vice President of Retail Banking at Coast Capital Savings, spoke to our Niki Reitmayer about what spending trends were revealed in a new survey - plus, how can you stay on budget this holiday season.

Chapter 6: Health minister Adrian Dix joins us this morning to talk about the new restrictions announced yesterday afternoon, including a mandatory mask order!

Guest: Adrian Dix, Provincial Health Minister.

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Social gatherings, travel and masks was were all addressed at the most recent update on the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr. Bonnie Henry.

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Chapter 1: Winter is unofficially here as far as anyone driving the Coquihalla recently is concerned, so what are we in for this year?  Global News Chief Meteorologist Anthony Farnell is here to tell us!

Chapter 2: There’s a vocal group of doctors and researchers supporting the idea of ‘COVID-zero’ - or attempting to completely eliminate the virus through aggressive short-term restrictions.

Guest: Andrew Morris, infectious diseases specialist at Toronto's Sinai Health and University Health Network.

Chapter 3: A woman in North Surrey found a collection of old family photos in a home that she rents. She is now hoping to reunite the photos with the family they belong to. 

Guest: Niki Reitmayer, CKNW Mornings contributor

Chapter 4: St. Paul’s Foundation’s Lights of Hope lighting celebration goes virtual on Nov 19th. Broek Bosma, their Chief Development Officer, joins us to chat about the details of this annual event and the important impact of donations on patients, residents, visitors and departments.

Guest: Broek Bosma, Chief Development Officer of the St Paul’s Foundation.

Chapter 5: Long term care might look substantially different when this pandemic is all over, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  The pandemic highlighted huge flaws in our care homes and a group is taking to parliament this morning to demand Ottawa set a standard for care. 

Guest:  Vivian Stamatopoulos, teaching professor at Ontario Tech University, specializing in family caregiving.

Chapter 6: Premier John Horgan is calling on the federal government to impose restrictions on non-essential travel between provinces.  Enforcing travel restrictions is a logistical nightmare but will the pandemic force the feds hands?

Guest: Dr. Valorie Crooks, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies.

Chapter 7: Real estate giant CBRE is reporting Vancouver added 28,000 tech jobs in the past five years.  That’s according to their annual tech talent ranking, How have that numbers been trending in the past couple years. 

Guest: Jason Kiselbach, CBRE’s Vancouver Managing Director.

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Horgan spilled the beans on the Non essential travel ban. What’s that going to look like?

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