Chapter 1: The manhunt in Quebec continues this morning, but the tone of the search is shifting to a more subdued grind.
Guest: Mike Armstrong, Global News National reporter.
Chapter 2: Niki is live at Strathcona Park this morning after last night's Park Board meeting on overnight camping in parks. Take a listen to some of the people who were against the bylaw, from the perspective of being advocates for the homeless.
Chapter 3: Talking about higher prices at the grocery store that might result from a shortage of temporary foreign workers earlier this year. So let’s find out more about our food security and what impact all this might have.
Guest: Dr. Evan Fraser, Director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph.
Chapter 4: Poll shows Canadians want mandatory masks, vaccinations against COVID-19
Guest: Darrell Bricker, IPSOS Public Affairs CEO.
Chapter 5: Vancouver City Council passed a motion to open some streets up to pedestrians a couple months back, and there’s now 9 of what they’re calling ‘pop-up plazas’ around the city.
Guest: Lisa Parker, Branch Manager of Street Activities.
Chapter 6: At one of those pop-up plaza that we just heard about is a new bright and colourful mural. You can see it on Helmcken St outside the Earls in Yaletown. Niki Reitmayer spoke to the Vancouver-based artist who created that mural, Jean Huang
Chapter 7: British Columbia is facing the largest single-year deficit in the history of the province.
Guest: Carole James, BC Finance Minister.
Chapter 8: A disturbing document from Pan Pacific Hotel management asking workers to voluntarily transition out of their permanent roles has been brought to light by a local trade union.
Guest: Robert Demand, Unite Here Local 40’s executive director.
Chapter 9: We’re trying to figure out how to safely see friends and family again, but a local mathematician who studies infection, evolution, and public health is trying to put a number on it.
Guest: Caroline Colijn, Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health at Simon Fraser University.
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