A local transit operator posted a video talking about hygiene.

Plus – Did this principal go too far?

 

After a series of washing machine fires, Jim is getting concerned.

Plus – Are you Team Fireworks or Team Pets?

 

GUEST: Marla Friebe - Acting Deputy Chief, Community Risk Reduction Division - Toronto Fire Services

 

Jim talks to an analyst with a grim outlook for Canada’s finances.

Plus – Why is Jim hoarding air conditioning units?

GUESTS: John Turley Ewart - contributing columnist at the Globe & Mail and a Canadian banking historian

Spelling counts! Jim takes calls from people with hard-to-pronounce names and tries to get them right.

Plus – Will Mark Carney fulfil his promise of upping NATO defence spending?

GUEST: Richard Shimooka - Military Expert and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute

Not so fast, says the longtime broadcaster.

Plus – What big idea does Olivia Chow need right now?

Jim takes some of the weirdest calls you’ll hear this summer.

Plus – Should governments be helping churches more financially?

You get the last word on the pool closure debate today.

Plus – Will there be more missile exchanges between the US and Iran?

GUEST: Peter MacKay - former defence minister

Deb got a notice from her kid’s school.

Plus – Does this sign in a park go too far?

 

GUEST: Sunira Chaudhri - employment lawyer at Workly Law

Jim talks with an infectious disease expert about concerns as kids head off to camp

Plus – What is the movie that messed you up?

 

GUESTS: Dr. Isaac Bogoch - infectious disease expert

Mark Mendelson - Newstalk 1010 Crime analyst and former homicide detective

 

A new study suggests switching from star ratings to thumbs up/thumbs down

Plus – What is your thermostat fight?

 

GUESTS: Moshe Lander - Economics professor at Concordia University 

Dr. Mitch Shulman - Newstalk 1010 Chief Medical Analys