Chapter 1: Canada secures 2 new deals for possible COVID-19 vaccines

Guest: Mike Le Couteur, Global National Parliamentary Correspondent.

Chapter 2: Hotel staff, airline employees, and people who work in tourism still don’t know when their industries will return to normal.  We know income inequality is already a struggle in Canada but what’s it going to look like a few months or even years down the road when the full effects of these prolonged layoffs are felt?

Guest: Lars Osberg, Economics Professor at Dalhousie University specializing in income and wealth distribution.

Chapter 3: It’s that time of year again - corn mazes are opening for the season today. But how will this traditional fall pastime change because of COVID-19? Niki Reitmayer spoke to Mike Bose, owner of Bose Farm Corn Maze in Surrey off 64th Ave and 156th St.

Chapter 4: If you’re looking for a way to talk to your kids about COVID-19, there’s a book by Kamloops writer, artist, and mom Susan Mark you might want to check out.  Susan joins us to talk about her second book for helping kids navigate the pandemic: ‘Safe at School’.

Guest: Susan Mark, writer, artist, mom.

Chapter 5: Simon Fraser University has a new president - Joy Johnson. She starts her new role under very unusual circumstances. What does SFU have planned for the return to classes next week? 

Guest: Joy Johnson, SFU President

Chapter 6: Greater Vancouver Board of Trade release economic recovery plan.

Guest: Bridgitte Anderson, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, member of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Task Force.

Chapter 7: Chances are you have a neighbourhood cat you see wandering around once in a while, well the Stewardship Centre for BC is trying to figure out how many there are and where they like to wander. 

Guest: Jaylen Bastos, lead investigator

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September is here. Is this the time to press the reset button? What will it take to start driving the case numbers back down?

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Chapter 1: Road trips are an awesome way to spend a vacation and I went on a few while I was on vacation up north last week.  We still have some time before the snow flies so where should you go? What should you keep in mind? 

Guest: Jonathan Klinger, Hagerty's VP of Car Culture.

Chapter 2: The school reopening guidelines published by the province have been criticized since they were released and a group of teachers and parents took their concerns public at a rally over the weekend.  

Guest: Lisa Descary, teacher in Richmond.

Chapter 3: Another story about a black bear interacting with people from over the weekend.  Video shows a black bear approaching a woman on the Coquitlam Crunch path and gently swatting her leg, and this is just the most recent in a string of stories we’ve seen about bears in the area.

Guest: Luci Cadman, Education Coordinator with the North Shore Black Bear Society.

Chapter 4: Ten days until kids go back to school.  We’ve seen reopening plans presented over the past week, Surrey school district superintendent Jordan Tinney joins us this morning to talk about what things will look like there. 

Guest: Jordan Tinney, Surrey District superintendent.

Chapter 5: Vancouver councillor pushing to keep temporary street patios open through winter.  Hundreds of temporary street patios are set to expire at the end of October, but Vancouver NPA councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung wants to see that deadline pushed back. 

Guest: Sarah Kirby-Yung, Vancouver NPA city councillor.

Chapter 6: There’s a neighbourhood you’ve likely never heard of near downtown Vancouver, and it’s a pretty unique solution to a lot of the problems people face when it comes to finding housing. 

Guest: Derek Petersen of Greater Vancouver Floating Home Co-op (GVFHC) in False Creek South.

Chapter 7: You might be familiar with Jeff Rubin for his books on energy, but his latest is an interesting departure from that theme. He joins us to talk about his new book The Expendables, how the middle class got screwed by globalization.

Guest: Jeff Rubin, Author

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The Education Ministry has fueled back to school controversy with a TV ad featuring Dr. Bonnie Henry.  We take 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: New information released from Stats Canada paints a bleak picture of how people with disabilities have been impacted by the pandemic. 

Guest: Jewelles Smith, Former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities and is on the board of directors for the National Educational Association of Disabled Students.

Chapter 2: Some of the biggest sports leagues out there are on pause as players protest the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on the heels of international Black Lives Matter protests. 

Guest: Christian Aumell, host of the Sports Show on 680 CJOB.

Chapter 3: All sixty school district reopening plans are now publicly available and there’s still some people who aren’t convinced it’s safe for their kids to go back to class.  So what’s the alternative?

Guest: Patty Marler, Homeschool.Today spokesperson.

Chapter 4: While BC has been the success story in Canada in terms of dealing with the pandemic, Denmark has been an example the world has looked to. 

Guest: Shane Woodford, Freelancer in Denmark, former CKNW

Chapter 5: Communities and stakeholders in the Howe Sound region are presenting a report on the ecological health of the region since 2017.  They’ve been able to gather a lot of data over the past three years and  Ocean Watch manager Aroha Miller joins us to talk about what they’ve found.

Guest: Aroha Miller, Ocean Watch Manager.

Chapter 6: Let’s end the week on a high note here and talk about an incredible story that began in Pitt Meadows and ended about 1,300 km away.  Alisha’s daughter broke her arm last week and someone very thoughtfully sent her a get well soon basket with treats and balloons, and that sparked an epic story that Alisha joins us to talk about this morning. 

Guest: Alisha, Eliana’s mother.

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