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  • Lawyer files suit on behalf of 26 Canadians with ISIS ties stuck in Syrian camps

    Evan Solomon speaks with Lawrence Greenspon, a human rights lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of 26 Canadians stuck in Syrian camps. Then we hear from you: should they be brought home?

    On today's show: 

    • We play Evan’s full interview with Conservative MP Michael Chong on mandatory vaccines for members of parliament.
      • Lawrence Greenspon, a human rights lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of 26 Canadians stuck in Syrian camps.
        • Barbara Barrett, executive Director of Frontier Duty Free Association on the cost of the Canada-U.S land border closure on businesses.
        • Mark Critch, comedian and bestselling author on his new book An Embarrassment of Critch's.
          • 1 hr 19 min
        • Free For All Friday

          Free For All Friday, hosted by Amanda Galbraith, features top talent from 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 Natasha Hall, co-host of Montreal Now on CJAD, and Jim Warren, president of Riseley Strategies, a national columnist with the Toronto Sun and a political analyst for CTV. 

          Topics: 

          1. Canadians face record gas prices ahead of Thanksgiving weekend. Are you worried we're going to have an energy crisis?
          2. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp suffered worldwide outages earlier this week. Would you have been okay if it never came back?
          3. Trudeau says he regrets travelling to Tofino on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Do you accept his apology?
          4. There’s an outpouring of support for Carey Price as sports shift away from mental illness stigma. 
          5. Do you have any fun holiday traditions?

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            40 min
          6. Group claims it has identified the Zodiac Killer

            Evan Solomon chats with the Canadian scientist whose breakthrough research made COVID-19 vaccines possible. Plus, how did a team of investigators uncover the identity of the Zodiac Killer? 

            On today's show: 

            • We play Evan’s full interview with Omar Alghabara, Minister of Transport of Canada.
              • Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist at Nanos Research, on a new, exclusive poll about booster shots.
                • Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology Specialist, on NASA's planning to deliberately crash into an asteroid's moon in the name of planetary defence.
                  • Dr. Ian MacLachlan, a Canadian scientist whose breakthrough research made the COVID-19 vaccine possible. 
                    • Jen Buchholz, a former Army counterintelligence agent who helped solve the mystery behind the identity of the Zodiac Killer. 
                    • Marie Henein, one of Canada's most famous criminal defence lawyers, on her new book.
                      • 1 hr 18 min
                    • COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for federal workers by end of October

                      Evan Solomon breaks down the federal government's plan to require federal public servants show they’re fully inoculated by Oct. 29 or face unpaid administrative leave.

                      On today's show: 

                      • Chris Aylward, the National President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, who says there was no consultation with his union on the federal vaccine mandate. 
                      • Tim Guest, president of the Canadian Nurses Association, on the emergency COVID-19 summit. 
                      • The War Room” with former NDP leader Tom Mulcair and political strategists Stephen Carter and Tasha Kheiriddin.
                      • Ahmed Elgammal, who is part of the team using A.I. to complete Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony.
                        • 1 hr 19 min
                      • Former Green leader criticized for saying Paul calls racism 'when she doesn't get her way'

                        Evan Solomon speaks with former Green Party leader Jim Harris on Annamie Paul stepping down as leader. We also chat with a political strategist ahead of a key post-election meeting where Erin O'Toole is faces a divided caucus that is set to vote on whether MPs should give themselves the power to oust him.
                         

                        On today's show: 

                        • Tasha Kheiriddin, political strategist, on Erin O'Toole's leadership.
                        • Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group, on Facebook's whistleblower testimony. 
                        • Susan Harvie, Nova Scotia mother who came up with the idea for Ryan's Park, a "pocket community" named after her son that's designed to fit the needs of people with disabilities. 
                        • We play Evan's full interview with Jim Harris, former Green Party leader.
                        • Leo Zeilig, the son of a Canadian journalist whose unaired interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono have sold at an auction for more than $50,000.
                          • 1 hr 19 min
                        • Some prominent Canadians appear in the Pandora Papers
                          The Pandora Papers reveal how the world’s rich and powerful use offshore accounts to shield their assets. Evan Solomon speaks with Toronto Star investigative journalist Robert Cribb, one of the 600 journalists that worked on the report.
                          On today's show: 
                          We play Evan's full interview with former federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
                          Doug Finnson, a national representative for Teamsters Canada – who have filed a union vote at an Edmonton Amazon warehouse.
                          Carl Graham, a Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer, talks about how his pumpkin was just 3 pounds shy of getting the Canadian record for HEAVIEST pumpkin.
                          PLUS, Should there be a crackdown on university parties? Also, do we need to eliminate the “gifted” programs at schools? We take your thoughts on these two matters.
                          1 hr 19 min
                        • Free For All Friday
                          Free For All Friday, hosted by Amanda Galbraith, features top talent from 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 Dave Kaufman and features panelists Jamil Jivani, host of The Jamil Jivani Show, weeknights at 7 on the iHeartRadio Talk Network, and Karl Dockstader, co-host of One Dish One Mic, Saturdays from 10am-12pm on CKTB, CJBK and CKLW on the iHeartRadio Talk Network.
                          Topics: 
                          What were your impressions of Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Day?
                          Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flying to Tofino, B.C. on Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
                          Should all MPs be vaccinated for the return to parliament? 
                          Who should be the next James Bond?
                          Is it possible for a country as ours to have “Canada’s team,” and if so, who is it?
                          39 min
                        • Trump's top military advisor took secret action to protect nuclear weapons, book says
                          Evan Solomon speaks with Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa about their new book that takes readers deep inside the White House and the 2020 presidential campaign.
                          On today's show: 
                          We play Evan's full interview with Patty Hajdu, Canada's Minister of Health.
                          Kamila Telendibaeva, wife of Canadian Huseyin Celil who has been detained in a Chinese prison for 15 years. 
                          Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on 'Peril', their new book about the transition from the Trump to Biden administration.
                          'The War Room' with political strategists Zain Velji and Tasha Kheiriddin and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair.
                          1 hr 19 min
                        • Attorney Gloria Allred says R. Kelly is 'the worst' predator she has ever seen
                          Evan Solomon discusses R. Kelly's guilty verdict in his sex trafficking trial and chats with a doctor who is pleading for a 'fire break' lockdown in Alberta amid a serious fourth wave of COVID-19.
                          On today's show: 
                          Gloria Allred, victims rights attorney, on the three victims she represented in the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial.
                          We play Evan's full interview with Victoria Galea, Annamie Paul’s executive assistant, on Paul's decision to resign as Green Party leader.
                          Dr. Paul Parks, president of the  emergency medicine section for the Alberta Medical Association on pleading for a 'fire break’ lockdown in Alberta.
                          Toby Boulet, father of Logan Boulet who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, on his disappointment in Saskatchewan suspending its organ donation program.
                          Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology specialist, on whether our cellphones can detect if we're high.
                          1 hr 19 min
                        • Canada's two Michaels freed from Chinese prison after 1,020 days
                          Evan Solomon chat with a Canadian who was detained in China for two years on what comes next for the two Michaels now that they're back home in Canada. Plus, we hear from a Canadian woman who has made college football history. 
                          On today's show: 
                          Kevin Garrett, a Canadian detained in China for two years, on what comes next for the two Michaels.
                          Dani Lanouette, who is Anishinaabe from Chippewas of Nawash and Algonquins of Barriere Lake, on Hudson's Bay's sale of orange shirts to support residential school survivors.
                          Kristie Elliott, a kicker with Simon Fraser University’s football team who made college football history last weekend.
                          1 hr 19 min

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