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Mark Towhey hosts. He speaks with Darrell Bricker, co-author of 'Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline,' about what Earth's population may look like by the end of the century. 

On today's show: 

• A conversation with Darrell Bricker, co-author of 'Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline' and CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs. 
• Sunira Chaudhri, an employment lawyer and the founder of Workly Law, on whether Canada has a problem managing legal cannabis in the workplace. 
• Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, the 'Food Professor,' on how something as common as rain in Vancouver can send shockwaves through Canada's entire food system.
• Glen McGregor, senior political correspondent for CTV News, on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testifying at the Emergencies Act inquiry.
• Do you get paid every 2 weeks? Every month? How would you like to get paid every day? We take your calls. 
• Melanie Vogel, a German hiker who has just become the first woman to walk coast-to-coast-to-coast across Canada.

Mark Towhey hosts. He speaks with Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former chief of the Asia-Pacific desk at CSIS, about a 35-year-old Hydro-Québec employee who is facing espionage charges.

On today's show: 

• A conversation with Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former senior intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

• Gerrit De Vynck, a tech reporter for The Washington Post, on how a layoff spree in Silicon Valley could spell the end of an era for Big Tech.

• The man who inspired 'The Terminal' film has died at the airport he long called home. Charles Bremner, a journalist who has covered France for 20 years and knew Mehran Karimi Nasseri, joins the show. 

• Sarom Rho, organizer of Migrant Students United, on undocumented migrants risking arrest to make their case in Ottawa.

• Jesse Rogerson, an expert in astronomy and space exploration at York University, on a secret unmanned U.S. spaceship that landed in Florida after three years circling Earth.

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 Tamara Cherry and features panelists Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator and former communications director for Prime Minister Paul Martin, and Reshmi Nair, co-host of The Rush on Newstalk 1010 in Toronto.

Topics:

1. Today is Remembrance Day. Let's discuss how we treat our military/veterans on this memorial day compared to the rest of the year. 
2. COVID mask mandates may be coming back. Is there any point? 
3. What do the U.S. midterm results say about the state of ‘Trumpism’ and what it could mean for politics in Canada?
4. Have your views of Twitter changed since Elon Musk took over?
5. Rainn Wilson has changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson to protest climate change. Is this performative or effective?

Tamara Cherry is joined by Dr. Stephanie Ross, associate professor and director of the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University to break down that decision from the Ford government and how we got here throughout the dispute.

On today’s show

• We hear from you on the offer made to CUPE by the Ford government.
• Carmi Levy, tech analyst and journalist, drops by to talk about the latest developments with Elon Musk’s Twitter
• Andrea Humphreys, a BC scuba diver and schoolteacher, talks about her incredible up close encounter with an octopus
• Michael Kempa, criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, gets into the latest with the Emergencies Act Inquiry
• Sarah Burch, Executive Director of the Waterloo Climate Institute at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation tees up the importance of the COP27 summit in Egypt
• Ali Abedi, researcher at Stanford University and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, talks about how devices can be seen through walls via WiFi and what it means for your privacy

Host Mark Towhey speaks with Canadian Senator and former business professor Tony Dean discusses if making workers essential would make it more expensive for taxpayers.

On today's show: 

• A conversation about whether or not education workers should be essential.
• Dr. Rose Zacharias, president of the Ontario Medical Association, discusses moves that can be made right now to ease the burden on our health care system.
• Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen reporter discusses their Remembrance Day project ‘We Are The Dead.’
• Michael E. Miller, Sydney Bureau Chief with The Washington Post discusses his on the ground reporting in Ukraine.

Host Tamara Cherry discusses health care talks breaking down between the province’s and the feds and the current state of health care across the country, including a shortage in children’s medications.

On today's show: 

• Texts and Calls on our health care system
• Adrian Morrow, Washington Correspondent with The Globe and Mail, discusses the U.S. Mid term elections and the wait to see who will control The Senate.
• The War Room Panel dives into the hot political issues of the day, including Canada’s Health Care system and the U.S. Mid Term elections.
• Dr. Richard Stephens, psychologist and lecturer at Keele University in England discusses his new research that shows swearing may be good for us.

Mark Towhey is joined by Matthew Lebo, a specialist in U.S. politics and chair of the political science department at Western University, to get into the stakes of the US midterm elections not just for Canadians but also major global issues like the war in Ukraine.

On today’s show

• Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and author of Freezing Order: A true story of Russian order, money laundering, murder and surviving Putin’s wrath and Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice discusses the latest coming out of Russia
• We get your take on why we all hate meetings and the best ways to hold them
• Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former Senior Intelligence Officer with CSIS, breaks down new reports about Chinese funding of political candidates in Canada in 2019 and what that means then and now
• Tom Mulcair, CTV Political Analyst and Former NDP Leader, on the state of the Quebec Liberals and politics in the province
• Ben Miljure, a reporter with CTV News Vancouver, tells us what to expect from the announcement coming from Canada’s health ministers
• John Elliott, Coordinator of SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St. Andrew’s in Scotland and Chair of UK SETI Research Network, on how to prepare for hearing from extraterrestrial life

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 Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society program and Bob Richardson, senior counsel at National Public Relations and a former Ontario Liberal chief of staff

Topics:

1. How do government’s handle contract talks with so many cost pressures and deficits?
2. What have you made of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ movement after hearing organizers testify this week?
3. Does the use of the notwithstanding clause improve or erode our democracy?
4. Lightning Round: Grocery profits, Twitter, The Sale of the Ottawa Senators and will the Democrats remain in control of congress after next week’s U.S. midterm elections?

Graham Richardson speaks with Ottawa Lawyer Paul Champ to discuss his class action lawsuit involving those who took part in February’s Freedom Convoy occupation back in Ottawa. 

On today's show: 

• Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti discusses pressures facing hospitals and particularly children’s hospitals across the country.
• Alison Braley-Rattai, associate professor of Labour Studies at Brock University discuss the use of the Notwithstanding Clause by the Ontario government in its contract talks with Education workers. 

Graham Richardson speaks with Winnipeg-based science writer and author Chris Rutkowski about how the Canadian air force scrambled some CF-18 fighter jets to respond to potential UFO threats. 

On today's show: 

• CTV Public Safety Analyst / former OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis drops by to discuss the latest from the Emergencies Act Commission.
• A conversation about whether or not you could keep winning the lottery from your partner.
• The War Room Panel dives into the hot political issues of the day. 
• Spokesperson for the Retail Council of Canada Michelle Wasylyshen talks about how seasonal job postings are soaring, but employers may have issues filling those openings.