Chapter 1: An apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday.  He's facing an enormous amount of backlash after the news that his government awarded a massive contract to a charity that had paid immediate members of the prime minister’s family for speaking engagements. 

Guest: Abigail Bimman, Global National Ottawa Correspondent. 

Chapter 2: The pandemic really illustrated how critical temporary foreign workers are in Canadian agriculture.  Well the first of two reports on temporary foreign workers in Canadian agriculture was released this morning.

Guest: Robert Falconer, researcher at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy.

Chapter 3: Are BC governments making the right moves in addressing homelessness?  Last night the Park Board voted on whether or not they would allow overnight camping in Vancouver city parks.  Recently a handful of hotels were bought up by the provincial government which has put some local businesses at risk of closure.

Guest: Niki Reitmayer - CKNW Mornings contributor

Chapter 4: A new app called MyPlan is designed to help women experiencing domestic violence exit harmful relationships. Colin Varcoe is the professor at the UBC School of Nursing and she helped work on the app.

Chapter 5: No decision on a motion to approve overnight camping in parks at last night’s meeting of the Vancouver Park Board.  They reconvene tonight when a vote is expected to take place, we’re joined by park board commissioner Tricia Barker for more on what this 

Guest: Tricia Barker, Vancouver Park Board Commissioner.

Chapter 6: Last week we learned the unemployment rate had dropped down to 13%, and today she’s going to deliver a fiscal update. Everyone is hoping to see things trending back towards normal after a federal government deficit forecast of almost $350 BILLION last week. 

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

Chapter 7: Premier John Horgan is riding the wave of high approval numbers according to polling out of Insights West. 

Guest: Steve Mossop, President at Insights West.

Chapter 8: The parents of a Vancouver baby are fighting against incredible financial odds to save the life of their daughter. Niki Reitmayer has more.

Chapter 9: After a consistent downward trend in the number of active COVID-19 cases, we’re seeing a disturbing change in direction. BC announced 62 new cases over a three-day period yesterday, pushing the total number of cases in BC over 200 for the first time in weeks.

Guest: Sally Otto, Department of Zoology professor at UBC.

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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: If you’re thinking of buying a car, now might be the time.  Nuno Loureiro is the director of business intelligence at autoTrader DOT C-A and their latest price analysis shows that it’s a buyers market.

Guest: Nuno Loureiro, Director Business Intelligence at autoTRADER.ca

Chapter 2: Bianca Hayes is a young woman who has overcome an incredibly difficult past to achieve an incredible accomplishment. Biance just finished a 6-thousand km cycle from Vancouver to Halifax in under 20 days to raise Awareness for Ovarian Cancer. She has thus completed the fastest mainland crossing of Canada by a woman. 

Guest: Bianca Hayes

Chapter 3: If you are or if you have been collecting CERB, there is one very important thing you must remember. Our Niki Reitmayer has more.

Chapter 4: A couple months of ago we learned that talented young local actor Logan Williams, known from The Flash, passed away from an opioid overdose. Well his mother Marlyse has spoken with us about how difficult it was to find help in BC, because she wants his story to inspire the kind of change that will help adolescents in the same situation.

Chapter 5: Interior Health have now identified four locations in Kelowna that were attended by people infected with COVID-19 between July first and July ninth.  Interior Health Medical Health Officer Dr. Silvina Mema joins us on the phone this morning to talk about how they’re tracking these cases, and where they were detected. 

Guest: Interior Health Medical Health Officer Dr. Silvina Mema.

Chapter 6: More people in British Columbia died from an overdose in the month of May than from COVID-19, and the BC Coroners’ Office is set to announce the number of overdose deaths from June later this week.

Guest: Judy Darcy, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions.

Chapter 7: How do you plan for the unknown? Even with some people returning to work, a lot of them are returning part time or are earning less money because of COVID-19.

Guest: Melissa Leong, personal finance advisor.

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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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