Vancouver police investigate a possible hate crime. A man in Vancouver is punched in the mouth on a restaurant patio for speaking a foreign language (Turkish) and being shouted at by his alleged assailant that he was speaking in a “[bleep]ing foreign language.” The punch appears to have followed a vocal exchange at Starbucks on Thursday. The punched individual says he was not disturbing anyone.
In the U.K. failure by immigrants to learn the English language means being cut off government services. Does it bother you to hear people in Canada not speaking English (or French)? Ever feel like telling them to speak English, or if they won't, then go back where they came from? In Quebec it's not unheard of for some Francophones to demand an Anglophone speak French. Are we that angry over the language spoken in public? - Global News reports a "notorious repeat convicted rapist has been released back onto the streets of Calgary. The release is terrifying one of his victims. James Alexander Pratt has been let out prison on 'statutory release according to the Parole Board of Canada. Parent has been in and out of prison for decades. In 1987, Parent broke into a house, tied up the woman owner and repeatedly raped her over a period of hours. That woman is now terrified at the news of Parent's release. How did Parent earn his release? The PBC quoted release is mandated by law when two-thirds of sentence is served. Calgary police opposed Parent's release. Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta Crown Attorney and former senior policy advisor to the federal Solicitor General.
- What do you do when you lose your significant other? What steps do you take to recover? How do you go about meeting someone new? Guest: Becky Aikman, author of the bestselling book "Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking their Lives” - the story of six young widows who decide to form a pack of friends and support each other as they rebuild their lives. -
Alison Azer continues her desperate quest to be reunited with her four Canadian children. This after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met personally with Alison in May and promised he would do everything he possibly can to reunite the mother with her four children, abducted by their father, Dr. Saren Azer, and for whom a Canada-wide warrant and Interpol warrant exist. Now Iran, which had arrested Saren Azer on the INTERPOL Red Notice issued by Canada has released Azer and cleared him because Canada did not follow up on its own INTERPOL Red Notice. Alison Azer is convinced Justin Trudeau lied to her and that his government intentionally refused to take an available step to see her illegally abducted Canadian children returned to her. Guest: Alison Azer
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Pokémon Go craze - millions of children and adults are taking to the streets in pursuit of rare Pokémon. Before summer vacation children missed school, parents have missed work, others have abandoned careers to pursue Pokémon full time. What is going on? Are people increasingly blurring the line between virtual reality and reality? Guest: Dr. Mari Swingle, neurotherapist,clinical psychologist in Vancouver and author of "I-minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming and Social Media are Changing our Brains, our Behaviour,and the Evolution of our Species."
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