The Shift with Shane Hewitt

A North Vancouver school is taking drastic steps to crack down on students vaping.  In a bulletin sent to parents, the school said students have been vaping during class time, breaks and at lunch...and they've now decided to lock the student bathrooms.

ARE YOU OK WITH...a Grade 1 substitute teacher telling the truth about the guy in the red suit not being real?

Plus Weird Science with Andrew Ferreira!

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Liberal M-P Raj Grewal says he's repaid his sizable gambling debts and is now reconsidering his hasty decision to quit politics late last week. He now says he'll take a leave of absense and some people are not impressed.

Plus, Mike Hall joins us.  He's the star of the new History Channel show "Rust Valley Restorers". He's in his sixties, has hundreds of cars on his property, and he wants to restore them.

And ARE YOU OK WITH...a couple of firefighters having sex at work, then getting fired? 

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Coming up in January, Canada will host its first ever BONGspiel.  It will take place in Wiarton, Ontario.  Ted Radcliffe and his friend came up with the idea to raise some cash for his curling club.

Ed The Sock is travelling across Canada on his #Waronstupid tour. He stopped by the studio, took some calls, and helped us induct a few new faces into the Imbecile Index!

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A Mom in Hamilton did not want her kids participating in yoga at school and sought a religious accomodation. Her daughter came home and said she was doing yoga in class. We discuss how the faith accomodation failed and the ramifications surrounding the incident

Jenny Yuen is an award winning journalist who's written for the Toronto Sun and Now Magazine. She has written the new go-to book on polyamorous relationships. We spoke about the "Polyamorous."

And in Bob's Bits...he will bring all the boys to the yard...with a milkshake.

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First-time shoplifters will no longer be prosecuted in two of Toronto's busiest police divisions as part of a pilot project called "Shop Theft".  We chat with criminal lawyer Paul Doroshenko.

ARE YOU OK WITH...the idea of getting rid of the word "midget" when it refers to sporting teams? 

In Bob's Bits: The question for the ages...Why do we always have room for dessert?

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GM is ghosting Oshawa.  They have confirmed they will be pulling out of the city by the end of 2019, leaving 2500 people without jobs.  We have passionate reaction from across Canada.

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General Motors are set to announce today the ending of their operations in Oshawa, affecting almost 3,000 union and salary positions. The plant has been in operation since 1953 and has built models for Pontiac, Chevrolet and Buick.

Andrew Ferreira is back with Weird Science. We chat the MARS InSight lander, what it is, how it'll land, and what science it's going to do.  Also "7 Minutes of Terror", the period in which we can't communicate with the spacecraft as it descends through the Martian atmosphere.

There's a new podcast coming to Curiouscast. Jason Tetro is the host of the brand new weekly Science and Tech podcast, "The Super Awesome Science Show".  Jason joined us to talk about his new show, and answer Drex's questions about moldy cheese.  

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More hijinx from the BC Leg as Speaker Darryl Plecas and his new special advisor are under fire after BC Liberal House Leader Mary Polak presented a sworn affidavit that stated Plecas wanted to appoint his friend Alan Mullen as the acting seargent-at-arms. We chat to Global BC's Keith Baldry.

He is about to embark on a tour starting in BC next week, as Ed The Sock is on the show to hep set this country straight! 

Plus the imbecile index is back, along with a dose of Bob's Bits. 

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As rotating postal strikes continue, Canada's Minister of Employment Workforce Development and Labour of Canada Patty Hadju might decide to act. She announced that the federal government could bring in back-to-work legislation as soon as Thursday night. Could we be forced back to the mall this year? 

A woman who was caught going 215 kilometres an hour on a northern Alberta highway has been given a $2300 penalty. She was tagged on radar going 105 kilometres over the limit on Highway 63 in August of last year. 

Toronto writer Pasquale Casullo is getting plenty of attention. He wrote an op ed for the Globe & Mail where he talks about not having the internet at his house. 

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Facebook is facing backlash after the social network was used by a family in South Sudan to auction off a child bride, even though it is illegal in South Sudan to be married before age 18.  It's just another in a long list of bad news for Facebook.  What would they need to do for you to delete your account? 

We ask Jesse Miller, the man behind mediatedreality.com

For nearly three decades, Michael Poole has been living on 17.5 acres of land on the west coast of BC, where he started an anarchist commune for young people looking to break away from mainstream society.  Vice reporter Manisha Krishnan went went there for a few days to experience it...as well as "nitrogenous urea"...

Plus Bob's Bits!

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