President Donald Trump has declared that they are going to fix the opioid problem in America, and they are going to fix it better than any other country.  But he has yet to set out a plan to actually acheive this goal.  What can be done in the US and Canada in order to get people the help they need to battle their addictions to opioids.

Guest: Keith Humphreys - Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and a public policy advisor

A Kelowna beer maker has been receiving death threats from around the world for hanging an anti-fascist flag in his brewery.

The NDP has been in power for 100 days. How has it gone so far? The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines. 

The most prominent pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in the opioid epidemic is now free on bail. John Kapoor, founder of Insys Therapeutics, is accused of racketeering, conspiracy, fraud and other felonies.  CBS' has the report.

In British Columbia, we live with the looming threat of “the Big One” - an massive earthquake that could strike at any time, expected to cause catastrophic damage. But what if we could predict when that earthquake will strike?

A Pitt Meadows city councillor has been charged with sexually assault. However, he has yet to step down and there is no legal mechanism that forces his removal from office. Furthermore, the Mayor of Pitt Meadows has defended him by calling councillor David Murray his “best friend.”

We check in with BC Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver to see how the first 100 days are going as the Green Party props up the NDP government.

Guest: Andrew Weaver - Leader of the BC Green Party

CKNW's Back on the Beat comes at you Saturday's and host John
Daly is here to break down the stories he's chasing this weekend.

Topics on the Show:

Chapter 1:
-A 10 year old boy has stolen his parents car, and not for the first time. It took cops 20 miles outside of his hometown to finally get the boy to stop the car and surrender himself.

Chapter 2:
-A document dump of thousands of government files is shedding new light on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. President Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records, saying he "had to."

Chapter 3:
-President Donald Trump has declared that they are going to fix the opioid problem in America, and they are going to fix it better than any other country.  But he has yet to set out a plan to actually acheive this goal.  What can be done in the US and Canada in order to get people the help they need to battle their addictions to opioids.

Chapter 4:
-A Kelowna beer maker has been receiving death threats from around the world for hanging an anti-fascist flag in his brewery.

Chapter 5:
-The NDP has been in power for 100 days. How has it gone so far? The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.

Chapter 6:
-The most prominent pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in the opioid epidemic is now free on bail. John Kapoor, founder of Insys Therapeutics, is accused of racketeering, conspiracy, fraud and other felonies. CBS' has the report.

Chapter 7:
-In British Columbia, we live with the looming threat of “the Big One” - an massive earthquake that could strike at any time, expected to cause catastrophic damage. But what if we could predict when that earthquake will strike?

Chapter 8:
-A Pitt Meadows city councillor has been charged with sexually assault. However, he has yet to step down and there is no legal mechanism that forces his removal from office. Furthermore, the Mayor of Pitt Meadows has defended him by calling councillor David Murray his “best friend.”

Chapter 9:
-We check in with BC Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver to see how the first 100 days are going as the Green Party props up the NDP government.

Chapter 10:
-CKNW's Back on the Beat comes at you Saturday's and host John Daly is here to break down the stories he's chasing this weekend.

A 10 year old boy has stolen his parents car, and not for the first time. It took cops 20 miles outside of his hometown to finally get the boy to stop the car and surrender himself.