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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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: The SpaceX dragon capsule returned from the International Space Station with astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken returned from 64 days in space.

Guest: Mubdi Rahman, Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.

Chapter 2: US President Donald Trump appears to be following through on threats to shut down Hong Kong based TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps among young people in the United States and Canada.

Guest: Terry Cutler, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the IT security and data defense company Cyology Labs, “Ethical Hacker”.

Chapter 3: Everyone knows the etiquette at gas stations because we’ve been using them our entire lives, it’s become second-nature to get in line, leave space for people to get out and everyone just works together to get in and out as quick as you can.  Electric Vehicles are a different story though, and the etiquette is something that people who drive an EV are still developing.

Chapter 4: A man near Strathcona Park was caught on video threatening to stab Vancouver City Councillor Pete Fry just hours after Fry was on the show with us talking about the need to address the growing encampment in the park. 

Guest: Katie Lewis, Vice President of the Strathcona Residents Association.

Chapter 5: People who experience violence in intimate relationships are in an especially precarious situation amid the pandemic, and a team of researchers have just released a tool they hope will help.

Guest: Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan, helped edit the book, AVP, External Relations at Simon Fraser University

Chapter 6: People are reporting they’re reading a lot more this summer as overseas vacations and big BBQ’s are on hold, but retailers say they’re in a tough spot right now due to an ongoing decline in revenues. 

Guest: Heidi Waechtler, Executive Director Association of Book Publishers of BC.

Guest: Andrew Wooldrigdge, Orca Book Publishers (kids books)

Chapter 7: We’ve seen more deaths result from opioid overdoses than from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and the people working with drug users on the frontlines are more critical than ever before. 

Guest: Jesse Winter, award-winning freelance photographer currently based in Vancouver

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Chapter 1: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified at the finance committee yesterday, as part of the ongoing investigation into the massive contract handed to WE Charity to implement a summer jobs program for youth. 

Guest: Abigail Bimman, Global National Ottawa Correspondent

Chapter 2: If you’re going somewhere you expect to see crowds this weekend, you might want to consider downloading the COVID Alert app developed by the government of Canada.

Guest: Denis Gagnon, President of BCSI Investigations.

Chapter 3: With your windows open during the hot weather, have you been hearing more strange activity from your neighbours? Some of it is annoying, but some of it is funny. 

Guest: Niki Reitmayer - CKNW Mornings contributor

Chapter 4: After the drama following finance minister Bill Morneau’s testimony at the finance committee, it was a relatively underwhelming testimony from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday. 

Guest: Zain Velji, Partner & VP Strategy at Northweather.

Chapter 5: As the Park Board waits for the provincial government to sign off on drinking in parks and at beaches, the city of Vancouver is moving ahead with allowing people to drink in designated public spaces. 

Guest:  Pete Fry, Vancouver City Councillor.

Chapter 6: It’s difficult to say how many Americans are crossing into Canada right now as essential travel continues, but the Canada Border Services Agency is cracking down amidst concerns that people are staying in Canada when they shouldn’t be.  Americans crossing into BC will be given a deadline to complete their trip, and tags for their vehicles. 

Guest: Len Saunders, immigration lawyer.

Chapter 7: US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of delaying the federal election scheduled for November, and the backlash from opponents and even prominent Republicans has been swift. 

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington Correspondent.

Chapter 8: Health officials reported about 1,000 people were exposed to COVID-19 in Kelowna on the Canada Day long weekend, so what’s happening in preparation for THIS weekend?

Guest: Loyal Woolridge, Kelowna city councillor.

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Chapter 1: After hearing testimony from the founders of the WE Charity, the finance committee will get to take their shot at the prime minister today. 

Guest: Abigail Bimman, Global National Ottawa Correspondent.

Chapter 2: If you’re a small business owner this is likely just confirming your suspicions, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says over 20,000 small businesses in BC are at risk of closure right now, and thousands are already at the brink. 

Guest: Dan Kelly, President and CEO at the CFIB.

Chapter 3: Nickel is a critical component in electric vehicles, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he’s looking for a carbon neutral supplier as global demand increases.  Niki Reitmayer had an opportunity to speak with the head of Canada Nickel, Mark Selby, about their plans to provide just that.

Chapter 4: It can be hard to figure out why some relationships work and others don’t.  At least for humans.  Researchers at the Western University in London, Ontario teamed up with relationship researchers around the world to apply machine learning to the massive data cache they collected.

Chapter 5: School will return in the fall but organized sports will be on hold.

Guest:  Jordan Abney, Executive Director of BC School Sports.

Chapter 6: The Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is confident that school reopening won’t lead to massive outbreaks in the fall.  Education minister Rob Fleming joins us to talk in more detail about plans to get kids back into the classroom in a little over a month. 

Guest: Rob Fleming, Provincial Education Minister.

Chapter 7: Temperature checks at airports begin today, mandated by Transport Canada.  What does this mean when you’re thinking of getting on a flight, and whether this might help quell some of the fears we’ve seen after cases where people on flights later tested positive for COVID-19. 

Guest: Claire Newell, president of Travel Best Bets.

Chapter 8: Last December we learned 15 million people’s health data was compromised in an attack on LifeLabs. The medical lab chain is now going to court to block privacy officers in BC and Ontario from investigating the full extent of this.

Guest:  Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security 

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