The Start

Today Brayden and Greg are joined by, Louis Taylor, Senior Property Manager at Paragon Living, Brett Megarry, co-host of The Start, CARMI LEVI, Dr. Natalie Riediger, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences at U OF M, and Vlad Kovalenko

Today Brett and Greg talk their parkade problems, the Air Canada deal, home care concerns and Winnipeg Firefighters

Brett is back, but injured. They talk about, Air Canada cancels flights as union defies back-to-work order, Greg went to see the made-in-Manitoba 'Nobody 2'! Concerns over two week closure St Vital Fire Hall, Alaska Summit/Zelenskyy visit to DC, CEBL Championship Weekend is SET, Restoring The Bears NOT On Broadway

Today we talk to Grant Hamilton, Reggie Cecchini.

00:00 Bombers tomorrow night / Sea Bears tonight / Open Invite winner #2 today / THE SMOKE IS TERRIBLE

07:56 Grizzly bear scares the Seattle Kraken, elsewhere a small dog chases away a bear - Wildlife interactions!

15:41 Wildlife interactions

18:06 THE COUCH POTATOES!

29:22 OPEN INVITE WINNER #2!

32:39 Wildlife interactions ** YOU CAN CUT OFF THE LAST COUPLE OF MINUTES WITH THE SGA STORY

40:00 Bombers vs Stamps tomorrow night in Calgary! - Derek Taylor, voice of the Blue Bombers

51:25 CLAYHEM!

58:31 Winning entry on wildlife interactions

1:02:00 Tate McRae is here this weekend - Canadian pop superstar known for her dynamic dancing -- what does she mean to the dancing community?

Tornado warnings Wednesday night! How many notifications did you get? (1:40); Environment and Climate Change Canada - Storm recap, are we expecting more stormy weather? (8:25); The Colosseum is just a 'bunch of rocks'?? What's something that got overhyped for you? (15:15); Plastics summit in Switzerland (23:35); Small Town Salute to St Pierre Jolys - FROG FOLLIES IS THIS WEEKEND! FOLIES GRENOUILLES! (31:45); Stuff that didn't live up to the hype (39:25); Monthly visit with Mayor Scott Gillingham (46:05); Manitoba Nurses Union getting ready to vote on safety issues (58:30); Winning entry on stuff that didn't live up to the hype (1:04:35); Sports! Sea Bears win last night, two games left before Championship Weekend / Tennis phenom Victoria Mboko wins again, in final of big tourney (1:08:40).

The day begins with a weird & dangerous traffic tip / Highway 1 heading east becomes Mad Max Fury Road at Deacon's Corner / Coach's Show last night! (1:40); Highlights from the Coaches Show! Fans complain about Zach Collaros, and Coach Mike O'Shea politely but emphatically pushes back! (10:30); Remember your first trip with your friends?? Just your friends, no parents? (17:20); Your first trip with friends (23:55); What the heck is going on in Texas? And other US happenings (26:45); WTF IS TAIV??? Winnipeg business that overrides TV commercials for places like restaurants so they can run their own ads in-house during commercial breaks (36:15); Big deluge of rain yesterday evening, another deluge this morning // Highlighting the social media account Winnipeg's History - wpghistory (47:15); Winning entry on your first trip with your friends (54:20); How does AI's promise match up with the reality? How can we tell what IS reality anymore?? - Author and Futurist, Robert J Sawyer (58:00).

Greg's back! Mostly relaxing week / Bombers / Greg's bird sightings / Brett's experience at Steinbach Fly-In playing behind a four-generation group (1:40); Trump praises Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad amid backlash (9:25); Times you had a hunch on something and it paid off, like Sarah pushing to check her tire which turned out to have a puncture (17:10); BREAKFAST WITH THE BOMBERS… Kick Return Specialist, Trey Vaval (23:35); KK on officiating a wedding! She was nervous going in... how'd it go??? (34:00); OUR MONDAY WEEKEND SPORTS CHAT... ON TUESDAY! - Bob Irving (41:40); Listener email on marking his fourth anniversary of choosing not to drink (53:20); Winning entry on times we had a hunch (56:25); Jonny’s Big Swim... he swam on the weekend!! (1:00:30).

AUGUST LONG! Tariffs! Bomber game and CFL policy on smoke - what will happen? / Open Invite 1st winner today (1:40); Producer Tyson is seeing more rude / mean behaviour. Are we all becoming jerks?? Brett blames impatience, we're in a rush (8:00); Dan Kelly/Cdn Federation of Independent Biz/tariffs and small biz (12:05); August Long! Favourite August Long events! Favourite August Long memories! (19:20); Canada gets 35% tariffs on non-CUSMA-compliant goods after Trump follows through on threat - Global's Reggie Cecchini (27:30); THE COUCH POTATOES! - The Naked Gun!! / OPEN INVITE WINNER!!!! (34:40); Winning entry for the Bomber tickets (43:50); Longtime Winnipeg DJ — DJ FIN-S — on his recent big gigs in Las Vegas & Seattle, and his overall wild career (46:10); KK gets a terrific birthday greeting (57:10).