Hear the story of Point Grey resident Sandra Evans and her family. Even though she is a lawyer and her partner is a specialized physician, they know what it feels like to be renovicted and what a neighbourhood of empty home looks like.

With the local mountains open early and a promise of a cold winter, most of us are ready to dust off our skis and boards. But what about the most important tool for a safe and effective run on the slopes: our bodies?

Guest:  Briana Kelly - Kinesiologist and Strength Coach at it’s time! Fitness Results.

Tim Dickert is here to update us on the progress of the Vancouver Canucks.

The new federal housing plan appears to do little for the middle class and is said to be “very old fashion” by our guest.  He doesn’t think that the plan does anything to rein in home prices so younger Canadians can have a hope to buy.

Guest: Paul Kershaw - the founder of Generation Squeeze (a lobby group pushing for housing affordability for Canadians age 20 to 40)

Topics on the Show:

Chapter 1:

-There has been a mudslide that is affecting traffic this morning, A missing hiker has been rescued & a story about bureaucracy and Canada’s 150.

Chapter 2:

-A missing Coquitlam dog walker and three dogs have been found alive and well almost 48 hours after they went missing.  More than 60 search and rescue crew members and RCMP officers had been searching for 56-year-old Annette Poitras and three dogs since they went missing Monday afternoon.  Coquitlam RCMP say Poitras was found shortly before noon Wednesday and has now been taken to hospital after being rescued by search and rescue crews.

Chapter 3:

-A Chilliwack School trustee is asking one of his colleagues to step down, after a controversial speech earlier this week.  Dan Coulter says Barry Neufeld’s comments about the LGBTQ community are extremely damaging, and he’d like him to resign.

Chapter 4:

- Earlier this year, well-known local sportscaster Neil Macrae passed away after battling three separate cancers. The first of the three cancers is rarely associated with men — breast cancer.  Wife Laurie Rix-Macrae remembers the day he approached her about a lump that had been growing for months.

Chapter 5:

-The kill-it-or-build-it decision is getting closer every day and with so much of the public's money on the line it’s hard not to stay focused on the site c dam.  The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth is here with his take on the day's headlines.

Chapter 6:

- An Ottawa PhD candidate may have made a breakthrough in the fight against cancer.  Tim Dickert has the tech report.

Chapter 7:

- You’ve heard a lot about Naloxone in the news - a life-saving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. But if you had to use it to save a person’s life...would you know how?

Chapter 8:

-Hear the story of Point Grey resident Sandra Evans and her family. Even though she is a lawyer and her partner is a specialized physician, they know what it feels like to be renovicted and what a neighbourhood of empty home looks like.

Chapter 9:

-The new federal housing plan appears to do little for the middle class and is said to be “very old fashion” by our guest.  He doesn’t think that the plan does anything to rein in home prices so younger Canadians can have a hope to buy.

Chapter 10:

- With the local mountains open early and a promise of a cold winter, most of us are ready to dust off our skis and boards. But what about the most important tool for a safe and effective run on the slopes: our bodies?

Chapter 11:

- Tim Dickert is here to update us on the progress of the Vancouver Canucks.

The Federal government is set to outline the details of their Canada wide housing strategy.  The government wants to create up to 100 Thousand new affordable housing units across the country.  The time proposed is a 10 year plan and some details are unknown still and will be announced in the new year.

Guest: Tsur Somerville - senior fellow at the UBC Centre of Urban Economics and Real Estate

Amid the horrific opioid crisis in B.C. and across Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says the number of prescriptions for opioids is going up.  The latest figures show there 21.5 million in 2016, up from 20.2 million in 2012.  CIHI Manager of Pharmaceuticals Jordan Hunt says Canada is one of the largest consumers of opioids in the world, after the U.S.

Guest: Michael Gaucher - Director, Pharmaceuticals and Health Workforce Information Services at the Canadian Institute for Health Information

Every Wednesday morning we take a look at the markets with Lori Pinkowski.  It’s Making Cents of the Markets on CKNW.

All this week on CKNW, we’ll be discussing Vancouver’s ridiculously expensive cost of living and proposing possible solutions as part of our new series, ‘Vancouver’s Rental Reality’.  For this morning’s segment, we hear the story of Terran Bell and Lucas Gallagher. They’re both in their early thirties, recently married and work hard to make rent each month. They know all too well about Vancouver’s renoviction process, having moved apartments last year after receiving their third eviction notice.

Topics on the Show:

Chapter 1:

-The Girl Scouts are asking families to not encourage little girls to give hugs this holiday season.  They say that teaching girls to hug someone, leads to them feeling a sense of obligation to hug men later on in life.

Chapter 2:

-The flames at Whistler Olympic village could be lit again after the latest Calgary city council meeting on Monday.  City council voted to study venues outside Calgary to save money, including the possibility of using venues from the 2010 Winter Games in Whistler.

Chapter 3:

-Parents and families are gearing up for a rally in support of the sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum in B.C. schools.  PFLAG Vancouver President Colin McKenna says they’ve noticed SOGI 123 has been getting a lot of push back in the Fraser Valley.

He says some parents need to understand how this curriculum makes all students feel safe at school.

Chapter 4:

- Net neutrality is once again under fire in the United States.  Is Canada vulnerable to changes in our Internet rules and regulations?

Chapter 5:

- For the first time in almost 30 years, Washington state governor addressed the B.C. legislature in a Speech Tuesday that was one for the history books.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.

Chapter 6:

-If you could buy a hybrid car for the same price as a gas powered vehicle…would you? Tim Dickert is here with the details on the tech report.

Chapter 7:

-The Federal government is set to outline the details of their Canada wide housing strategy.  The government wants to create up to 100 Thousand new affordable housing units across the country.  The time proposed is a 10 year plan and some details are unknown still and will be announced in the new year.

Chapter 8:

-Amid the horrific opioid crisis in B.C. and across Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says the number of prescriptions for opioids is going up.  The latest figures show there 21.5 million in 2016, up from 20.2 million in 2012.  CIHI Manager of Pharmaceuticals Jordan Hunt says Canada is one of the largest consumers of opioids in the world, after the U.S.

Chapter 9:

-Every Wednesday morning we take a look at the markets with Lori Pinkowski.  It’s Making Cents of the Markets on CKNW.

Chapter 10:

- All this week on CKNW, we’ll be discussing Vancouver’s ridiculously expensive cost of living and proposing possible solutions as part of our new series, ‘Vancouver’s Rental Reality’.  For this morning’s segment, we hear the story of Terran Bell and Lucas Gallagher. They’re both in their early thirties, recently married and work hard to make rent each month. They know all too well about Vancouver’s renoviction process, having moved apartments last year after receiving their third eviction notice.