Tim Horton's cost cutting is affecting quality, according to franchisees!

Topics on the Show:

-Premier Christy Clark is now promising to establish an independent panel to get information from RCMP and political parties on campaign donations.

-Is the Metro Vancouver Transit Police force really needed? That's the question West Vancouver's mayor is asking.

-BC's top court believes tougher sentences need to be handed down to drug dealers responsible for the fentanyl crisis.

Tenants in Vancouver’s West End are waiting to find it out if they could be paying up to an extra $500 in rent.

Amanda Panon says she and her family have been living in a two-storey walk-up building for 10 years, and last month 11 out of 13 suites were served a dispute notice for arbitration with the Residential Tenancy Branch.

Tennis: Canada's Vasek Pospisil won his match over #1 ranked Andy Murray.

Rugby: Team Canada finished 7th after losing to Argentina in their final match on Sunday. We did really well on Saturday, beating both Scotland and Russia (although we lost to New Zealand). On Sunday, after sustaining a lot of injuries, there was only nine healthy players on the team.

Amid mounting controversy, Premier Christy Clark is expected to announce that if the B.C. Liberals win the May 9 provincial election, her government will form an independent commission to study campaign donations.  The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth is here with his take on the day's headlines.

Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Minister Jean Yves Duclos is in Vancouver today to discuss the state of the middle class and how the Government of Canada is committed to growing the economy and the middle class.  Meanwhile, as the Federal Minister of Families and Children how does he feel about the state of that ministry here in BC?

Guest: Jean Yves Duclos, Federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development

Making Cents of The Markets with Lori Pinkowski, Senior Vice President & Sr. Portfolio Mgr at Raymond James.

Lori is a Senior Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President at Raymond James Ltd, an internationally respected investment firm. She is a founding partner of the Pinkowski-Allen Financial Group, which is one of the top investment teams in the country. She also has more than 14 years’ experience in the investment industry. She studied at BCIT and has earned her Canadian Investment Manager (CIM) and Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI) designations, two of the highest honours in the financial services industry. Lori specializes in conservative wealth management and financial planning and her expertise is in blue-chip Canadian and US stocks, bonds, income trusts, ETFs and managed portfolios.

With a provincial election fast-approaching on May 9th, Premier Christy Clark is expected to make a move later today to defuse mounting criticism over BC Liberal party fundraising techniques. What can we expect to see?

Guest: Gary Mason, Globe & Mail Reporter

Tenants in Vancouver’s West End are waiting to find it out if they could be paying up to an extra $500 in rent. Amanda Panon says she and her family have been living in a two-storey walk-up building for 10 years, and last month 11 out of 13 suites were served a dispute notice for arbitration with the Residential Tenancy Branch. She says her landlord wants to raise rent for long-term tenants to match today’s average rental price, which is legal.

Guest: DJ Larkin, Housing campaigner at Pivot Legal Society

Today is the deadline for the Trump administration to release evidence proving that Obama was behind alleged phone taps in the Trump Tower.

No more high heels in BC restaurants?