Canadian Press reporter Michelle McQuigge and our producer Kevin Philipupillai join us for our weekly news panel. We talk about calls for western separation, which have been growing louder since the Liberals held on to power without winning a single seat in Alberta or Saskatchewan. We discuss recent criticism of the way the Harvard campus newspaper, the Crimson, covered a recent protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. We ask whether the tech lobby, with its army of lawyers and publicists, has become as influential as the lobbies for other dominant industries in history. We talk about some of the best and worst costume ideas we’ve come across for Halloween this year. Entertainment critic Michael McNeely gives us a preview of the movie Waves, starring Sterling K. Brown. Our colleague Greg David tells us about a few upcoming AMI-audio live events. This is the October 25, 2019 episode.