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Evan Solomon speaks with Kory Teneycke, campaign manager for the Ontario PC Party, on how Doug Ford cruised to a second majority win. What does this mean for the future of the Ontario Liberals? 

On today's show: 

• Kory Teneycke, 2022 campaign manager for the Ontario PCs, on Doug Ford winning another election. 
• Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator and former communications director for Prime Minister Paul Martin, on the future of the Ontario Liberals. 
• Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum Historian, on the 78th anniversary of D-Day. 
• A man drove his truck into a small crowd marching to honour the victims and survivors of residential schools in B.C. Garrett Dan, a witness and an organizer of the march, joins the show. 
• Alex Finely, a former CIA officer who is now tracking the luxurious superyachts of Russian oligarchs. 
• Francois-Marie Dibon, who just shattered the world record for most bungee jumps in 24 hours.

Free For All Friday - Hour 1

Amanda Galbraith breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.

On today's show:

• Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development in Ontario, on his union strategy. Is it replicable across the Conservative movement? 
• For today's cross-country road trip segment, we speak with Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, BC. What are the hidden gems in her city? 

Free For All Friday - Hour 2

Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. 

This week's show features panelists Ken Eastwood, morning show host on News Talk 1290 in London, and Bob Richardson, senior counsel at National Public Relations and a former Ontario Liberal chief of staff.

Topics:

1. Ontario PC leader Doug Ford has secured a second majority government. Are you surprised by the provincial election results and voter turnout? 

2. Canada's government introduced legislation on Monday to implement a national freeze on the sale and purchase of handguns. Do you think this will be effective?

3. Drug users in British Columbia who possess up to 2.5 grams of illicit drugs for personal use will not be arrested or charged starting next year. Should there be a national approach to the toxic drug supply crisis?

4. A Grade 4 student in Winnipeg wrote in his yearbook he wants to be a bartender when he grows up. His school rejected it.

5. Have you watched Top Gun: Maverick yet? Will you?

Graham Richardson, filling in for Evan Solomon, discusses a new report which found the Tim Hortons' mobile app tracked and recorded users' movements resulting in ‘a mass invasion of Canadians' privacy’.

On today's show: 

• Tom Mulcair, CTV political analyst and former NDP leader, on election day in Ontario and what to expect. 
• Janice Payne, lawyer at Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP in Ottawa, on Elon Musk telling Tesla employees to return to the office or be fired. 
• Dr. Ann Cavoukian, former three-term Ontario Privacy Commissioner and executive director of the Global Privacy and Security By Design Centre, on Tim Hortons violating Canada’s privacy laws. 
• Overhyped v. Underplayed with Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator, and former communications director for Prime Minister Paul Martin.
• For his yearbook, a Grade 4 student wrote he wants to be a bartender when he grows up. The school rejected it. Jennifer Anderson, his mother, joins the show.
• Riskin It All with Dan Riskin, CTV science and technology specialist.

Evan Solomon speaks with David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, on his final survey of the 2022 Ontario provincial election. Which party appears to have the most support? He breaks it down. 

On today's show: 

• David Coletto, a founding partner and CEO of Abacus Data, on the Ontario election. 
• Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett on decriminalizing small possession of illicit drugs in B.C.
• The War Room political panel with Tim Powers, Sharan Kaur and David Moscrop.
• Dr. David Liu, director of the Merkin Institute at the Broad Institute and professor at Harvard University, on the future of gene editing and changing our DNA.

Evan Solomon speaks with Hopwood DePree who went online to search his genealogy and ended up moving to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.

On today’s show: 

• Marco Mendicino, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, on a national freeze on buying, importing, transferring and selling handguns.
• We play Evan’s full conversation with former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour on her scathing report on military sexual misconduct.
• Irene Reilly and Christine Naylor, members of Moms Stop The Harm, on the pending announcement about B.C.’s overdose crisis.
• Hopwood DePree, an American actor, author, comedian and filmmaker. He went online to search his genealogy and now he's saving his English ancestral castle.
• Jacqueline Nuñez, who just purchased the farmhouse that was the real-life setting of a story that inspired the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring.

Evan Solomon talks with Sam Samplonius, a survivor of military sexual assault, on her reaction to the independent report on military sexual misconduct and the recommendations that have been outlined. 

On today's show:

• We play Evan's full conversation with Martin Luther King III on his calls for gun control in the U.S.
• John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion, on the latest polling and predictions in the Ontario election. 
• Temur Durrani, technology reporter for The Globe and Mail, on educational tech harvesting personal data from children. 
• Sam Samplonius, a survivor of military sexual assault, on the highly-anticipated report on military sexual misconduct. 
• Renée Forrestall, Halifax resident, on how she unknowingly bought used roller skates she owned 40 years ago.

Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. 

This week's show is hosted by Deb Hutton and features panelists Jerry Agar, host of the Jerry Agar Show on News Talk 1010 in Toronto, and Tamara Cherry, former crime reporter and founder of Pickup Communications.

Topics:

1. Nineteen students and 2 teachers at an elementary school in Texas were murdered in a mass shooting. What is the solution to gun violence? Why does this keep happening?

2. The Ontario election is a week away. Whose campaign has been the strongest?

3. Former co-hosts of Toronto radio personality John Derringer are accusing him of workplace harassment. Do we think this is indicative of the industry and private sector management?

4. The goal of Quebec's Bill 96 is to protect the French language, but is it instead an assault on English language rights? 

5. A Florida high school class president was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.”

Evan Solomon and CTV science and technology specialist Dan Riskin discuss how researchers are adopting vaccine technology to design a monthly injection or nasal spray that would reverse the aging process. 

On today's show: 

• Overhyped v. Underplayed with Scott Reid. 
• Rudy Husny, political analyst and former Conservative leadership candidate, on the French-language Conservative leadership debate. 
• Merella Fernandez, CTV National News correspondent and CTV News Channel anchor, who is in Uvalde.
• Liberal MP Anthony Housefather on Quebec's French language Bill 96. 

• Canadian singer-songwriter Charlotte Cardin on her incredible Juno wins. 

• Riskin It All with Dan Riskin.

Evan Solomon talks with a Columbine survivor about gun violence in the United States and the trauma of reliving school shootings. 

On today's show: 

• Ann Hampton, a Columbine survivor, on the Uvalde school shooting. 
• Dave Cullen, Author of 'Columbine' and 'Parkland: Birth of a Movement'. 
• The War Room with political strategists Zain Velji and Tim Powers, and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair. 

• We play the live press conference of Texas Governor Greg Abbott on the Uvalde school shooting. 

Evan Solomon speaks with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson about how his city is recovering after a powerful storm swept the region, leaving a trail of destruction. 

On today's show: 

• Ottawa City Councillor Catherine Kitts on how Navan, one of the hardest hit communities of Ottawa, is recovering after the storm. 
• Former UK prime minister Tony Blair on Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.
• Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on his city's storm recovery efforts. 

• Christopher Skeete, MNA and parliamentary assistant to Quebec Premier Francois Legault, on Quebec’s French language Bill 96.

• Matt Taylor and Jon Klip, chefs and co-founders of Affinity Fish, on how they are trying to rejig supply chains around local catch.