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Free For All Friday, hosted by Amanda Galbraith, 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 features panelists Karen Restoule (CEO of Shared Value Solutions, Bold Realities, & Whose Land) and Elias Makos, host of the Elias Makos Show on CJAD in Montreal. 

Topics:

1. With other countries making that decision, is it time to end Canada's connection to the monarchy?
2. Does Jason Kenney's resignation show the struggle of what modern Conservatism is in this country?
3. Canada to ban China's Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks. Is it about time?
4. Would you try Soft Serve KD - the new 'delicacy' at the Calgary Stampede?
5. What musician would you study?

Evan Solomon talks with CTV science and technology specialist Dan Riskin about a new study claiming a mind-altering parasite spread by cats making infected people more attractive to others. 

Evan also speaks with:

• Peter Donolo, Former Director of Communications for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, about the monarchy's role within Canada.
• Dr. Isaac Bogoch, infectious disease specialist, about an outbreak of Monkeypox in Montreal.
•  Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator and former communications director for Prime Minister Paul Martin, who brings us this week's edition of OVERhyped or underPLAYED.

Plus, we have a special episode of The War Room panel. 

Evan Solomon speaks with the Calgary Stampede's director of programming about the new, bizarre dishes that are on the menu for this year's Stampede, including Kraft Dinner soft serve. 

On today's show: 

• Marco Mendicino, Canada's Minister of Public Safety, on the Emergencies Act and Russian sanctions. 
• Amanda Lang, BNN Bloomberg anchor of Taking Stock, on Canada's inflation rate hitting another three-decade high. 
• Andrew Pinsent, host of CFRA Live on News Talk 580 CFRA , on Prince Charles and Camilla's visit to Ottawa. 
• The War Room with Zain Velji, Tom Mulcair and Tim Powers.
• Yves Giroux, Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer, on the latest PBO report. 
• Kyle Russell, director of Calgary Stampede programming, on what Kraft Dinner soft serve ice cream entails. 

Evan Solomon speaks with Ben Crawford, a parent from Cincinnati, who is under fire for allowing his six-year-old son to run a full marathon alongside his family. 

On today's show: 

• Robert Benzie, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, on the key highlights from the Ontario leader's debate. 
• Cindy Clegg, organizer of the ‘Save Juno Beach' campaign, provides a big update on the efforts to stop a proposed condo development from being built on Juno Beach. 
• We play Evan's full conversation with Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown on the mass shooting at a supermarket.
• Prince Charles and Camilla are in St. John's to kick off their Canadian tour. We carry live coverage of their visit. 
• Ben Crawford, who is defending his decision to allow his 6-year-old son to run a marathon.

Evan Solomon and Robert Benzie, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, break down what Ontario voters can expect heading into the first official leadership debate of the election campaign. 

On today's show: 

• An exclusive one-on-one conversation with Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown. 
• Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner on condemning the 'white replacement theory'—which played a role in the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. 
• Sherri Darlene, the founder of Justice 4 Black Lives in the Niagara Region, whose father regularly shops at the supermarket where the Buffalo mass shooting took place.
• Robert Benzie, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, on what to expect in the first official leadership debate of the Ontario election. 

• Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell weighs in on the abortion debate and the direction of the Conservative party.

   

Free For All Friday, hosted by Amanda Galbraith, 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 features panelists Marieke Walsh, political reporter with The Globe and Mail, and Ryan Price, news director and afternoon drive host on CFAX 1070 in Victoria, B.C.

Topics:

1. The six Conservative leadership candidates squared off Wednesday night at the first official English party debate. Who won?
2. Jagmeet Singh was verbally harassed this week during an Ontario election campaign stop in Peterborough. Is this just what’s expected when you become a politician? Or has the harassment gone too far?
3. RBC is spending $200M to keep workers in a tight labour market. Is this the start of a trend?
4. Gas prices are hitting record highs across Canada. Have you changed your summer plans because of it?
5. Apple is discontinuing the iPod after 21 years. Are you sad to see it go?

Evan Solomon hosts a special edition of The War Room political panel to break down the key takeaways of the first official Conservative leadership debate. 

On today's show: 

• We play Evan’s full conversation with the Prime Minister of Latvia, Krišjānis Kariņš, on his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
• The War Room political panel with Tim Powers and Zain Velji. 
• Overhyped v. Underplayed with Scott Reid.
• Riskin It All with Dan Riskin. 
• Amelia Cline, a former gymnast and the named plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit claiming abuse in the sport.
• Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner on his party’s fully-costed platform.

Evan Solomon speaks with Mayor Andrew Shea about Fogo Island losing its last permanent doctor in June and what this will mean for its more than 2,100 residents. 

On today's show: 

• We play Evan’s full conversation with David Lametti, Canada’s Justice Minister, on Alberta's top court saying the federal environmental impact law is unconstitutional. 
• Tim Blair, CEO of Kindred Works—a new company that is transforming church properties into attainable, sustainable housing.
• Fogo Island's last permanent doctor is leaving next month. Mayor Andrew Shea joins the program.
• The War Room political panel with strategists Zain Velji and Tim Powers, and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair. 
• A conversation with Canada's most decorated Olympian, Penny Oleksiak.

Evan Solomon discusses a Bloc motion calling for the immediate removal of the reading of the prayer that takes place before the House of Commons sits every day. Then we take your calls: Should there be prayer before Parliament? 

On today's show: 

• Stephanie Levitz, reporter with the Toronto Star, on the Ontario election and the first leaders’ debate. 
• Tim Sutton, resident of Miramichi, New Brunswick, who is participating in a mysterious game that has citizens following clues and searching for hidden cash. 
• Amanda Lang, BNN Bloomberg anchor of Taking Stock, a podcast and weekly business program, on the crypto crash. 
• Laura Young, an independent antique and vintage dealer in Texas, on how her thrift shop find turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Roman relic. 

Evan Solomon and Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, discuss the record-breaking gas prices across Canada and what's expected in the coming weeks. 

On today's show: 

• Dan McTeague President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, on record gas prices. 
• We play Evan's full conversation with the David Dodge, former Bank of Canada governor, on Pierre Poilievre's claim the central bank is financially illiterate.
• Andriy Shevchenko, former Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada, on Prime Minister Trudeau’s surprise visit to Ukraine.
• Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca on his party's fully costed election platform.
• Ellen White, private investigator and host of the ‘Whereabouts Unknown' podcast, on searching for clues in six missing cases at the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital.
• Darren Dunn, CEO of Assiniboia Downs, on the Manitoba connection to the Kentucky Derby winner.