Guest: Dr. Andrew Kolodny - executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (an advocacy and education group in the US)

Guest: Sandy Garossino - former Crown prosecutor and columnist with the National Observer

Topics on the Show:

-When addicts develop their addiction to opioids, it's usually because they start off with a prescription for the drugs.  We look at the role physicians play in combating the addiction/opioid crisis that exists.

-Today is the Solar Eclipse, What is happening around Vancouver?

-The NDP ran a campaign where they said the bridge tolls in the lower mainland would be gone.  Now the public are asking...when are these tolls going to be ousted?  And how will the new BC government pay for this move.

The familiar voice of Norman Ruff, the retired political science professor from the University of Victoria, who commented for several decades here on CKNW on provincial and federal politics in this country.  He passed away Saturday night.

The latest updates on the terrorist attacks in Barcelona, Spain.

Those looking to buy a new parking permit for Vancouver's West End should do it before September 1st.  That's when the fee is increasing by more than four times. 

At least 14 people were killed in Barcelona Thursday when a van mowed down pedestrians on Las Ramblas, a major pedestrian boulevard.  With Reports from CBS.

The mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed by a neo-nazi after he drove a car into a crowd of protestors, will no be accepting a phone call from the President. This after Donald Trump came out saying there was fault on "many sides" during the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Will Gordon Wilson get the $5 million he is asking for in a lawsuit against the government?  The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth is here with his take on the day's headlines.

The events that unfolded in Charlottesville over the past weekend was sparked by the discussion around the removal of a General Lee Statue.  Our guest was the first councilor, back in 2013, to suggest it be moved to a different location.  How did it snowball into the chaos that erupted?

Guest: Kristin Szakos - a city councilor in Charlottesville (was first to mention moving the statue in 2013)

How do people get mixed up with hate groups and terrorist organizations?  Our guest offers her insight into how she was lured toward a white supremacist group and what led to her getting out.

Guest: Elisa Hategan - author and public speaker, but she was involved with the white supremacist group Heritage Front in the 1990s. She later turned against them, providing evidence to anti-racist advocates and testified against one of the group's leaders in court.