Chapter 1: New research is revealing more about the surface of Mars, completely upending how we thought the planet developed.
Guest: Gordon Osinski, director of Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration
Chapter 2: Part of the federal government's aggressive plan to welcome over 300,000 new immigrants to Canada every year is due to our consistently declining birthrate, and experts are concerned that the pandemic will make things even worse.
Guest: Nora Spinks, CEO of the Vanier Institute for the Family.
Chapter 3: The list of signatures is growing on an online petition that demands the province make back-to-school optional this fall.
Guest: Niki Reitmayer, CKNW Mornings contributor
Chapter 4: We’ve been talking about vaccine development for COVID-19 for MONTHS, but how will it be received once people can actually get it? Some worrisome results from polling done on this by the Angus Reid Institute.
Guest: Shachi Kurl, Angus Reid Institute Executive Director.
Chapter 5: It’s been nothing but bad news from Strathcona Park lately where over 300 tents are housing a lot of the people who were evicted from Oppenheimer Park in early May.
But advocates say the park's residents are left without any alternatives and the park has become a last resort for so many people who have fallen through the cracks.
Guest: Fiona York, coordinator with the Carnegie Community Action Project and a tenant support worker with the Lookout Emergency Aid Society.
Chapter 6: The TransMountain Pipeline expansion is being called into question after an entire month where no oil tankers filled up at the terminal in Burnaby. 19 vessels filled up on crude oil at the terminal in the first 6 months of the year, but a professor at Simon Fraser University wants the federal government to reassess the financial viability of the project in light of the unused capacity with just a single line in place.
Guest: Tom Gunton, head of the Resource and Environmental Planning Program at Simon Fraser University.
Chapter 7: Just a few weeks until we find out who will replace Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, months after the initial plan to finish the race by the end of June.
Guest: Jenni Byrne, founder of Jenni Byrne and Associates consulting group and former campaign manager for Stephen Harper.
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