What it was like in Morocco during the earthquake?

Guest: John Norman, mayor of Bonavista, Newfoundland and in Marrakech 

How does earthquake search and rescue work?

Guest: Dr. Joe Barbera, Co-Director, George Washington University (GWU) Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management

PM plane woes and CPC convention wrap-up

Guest: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent, Global News

Prison Break - how do prison escapes successfully occur?

Guest: Ian Acheson, former head of security at Wandsworth Prison, senior advisor of the Counter Extremism Project

What is ‘skimpflation’ and how does it affect what you eat?

Guest: Pascal Theriault, agricultural economist, McGill University

Quake challenges in Morocco and building more quake-resistant structures

Guest: Katsu Goda, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Western University

Interest rate pain: B.C. couple's mortgage payments up $2700 a month

Guest: Sarah Dueck, BC homeowner

NYC moves to ban short-term rentals, should Canadian cities follow suit?

Guest: David Wachsmuth, assistant professor, School of Urban Planning, McGill University

As wildfires continue to burn, Canada marks Firefighters’ National Memorial Day on Sunday 

Guest: David Sheen, Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation President

Why Calgary’s E. coli outbreak in daycares is such a cause for concern

Guest: Dr. Stephen Freedman, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and professor at the University of Calgary

Snow, snow and more snow: Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a winter whiteout for most of Canada 

Guest: Jack Burnett, Managing Editor, Old Farmer’s Almanac

The history of pronouns, and the “pronoun debate” in schools today

Guest: Dennis Baron, professor of English and linguistics, emeritus, University of Illinois and the author of What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She

What you should pay attention to at the Conservative Party convention (1:17)

Guest: Fred DeLorey, 2021 national campaign manager for the federal Conservatives

Marking one year since the Queen’s death (16:59)

Guest: Patricia Treble, royal commentator and author of Write Royalty on Substack

Lahaina fire - One month later (33:06)

Guest: Robin Muto and Alexander Muto, Maui residents and co-founders, Ignite a Life Foundation

Military underestimating mental health risks of domestic deployments (48:48)

Guest: Gregory Lick, Canadian Armed Forces ombudsman

A teacher shortage causing headaches for Canadian educators (1:04:59)

Guest: Annie Ohana, teacher and local representative for the Surrey Teachers Association

A bright future for Canadian basketball at the FIBA World Cup (1:21:02)

Guest: Paul Sir, former executive director, Alberta Basketball

Bank of Canada keeps interest rate at 5%; Why are politicians weighing in on these decisions? (1:32)

Guest: Christopher Ragan, an Associate Professor and the founding Director of McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy

Journo Corner: Covering Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal (15:50)

Guest: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News

 MP Michael Chong to testify to US Congress about Chinese intimidation (32:00)

Guest: Michael Chong, MP Wellington-Halton Hills and Conservative foreign affairs critic

Marking the 25th anniversary of deadly Swissair crash off Nova Scotia (45:00)

Guest: Howard Green, author, and director, writer and co-producer of The Investigation of Swissair 111

 Back to school - To embrace or expel AI from the classroom (1:01:48)

Guest: Houman Harouni, lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former elementary and high school teacher

A Canadian Olympian inching closer to a podium finish in race walking (1:16:07)

Guest: Evan Dunfee, a Canadian race walker and Olympian

Yellowknife prepares for the return of 20,000 residents (1:28)

Guest: Rebecca Alty, mayor of Yellowknife

Why does Saskatchewan want to pick some immigrants based on their nationality? (15:00)

Guest: Richelle Bourgoin, Deputy Minister of Immigration and Career Training, Government of Saskatchewan

Should cell phones be banned from schools? (24:54)

Guest: Harley Klak, Alberta junior high teacher, Vincent J. Maloney Catholic Junior High School

Criminal trial begins for Ottawa trucker convoy’s two key organizers (39:48)

Guest: Michael Spratt, an Ottawa-based defence lawyer

 Burning Man attendees start to make mass exodus after heavy rain and flooding stranded thousands (49:40)

Guest: Mark Fromson, Canadian photographer and Burning Man attendee

Burger King,Taco Bell, McDonald's and Wendy's all face class action lawsuits alleging their ads misled customers (57:05)

Guest: Spencer Sheehan, New York lawyer

Why are scientists so excited about the vagus nerve? (1:08:51)

Guest: Theresa Larkin, associate professor of medical sciences, University of Wollongong

NWT update: How a delayed back-to-school start affects evacuees

Guest: Robyn Scott, teacher, artist and Yellowknife evacuee

NWT update: How the government deals with a delayed back-to-school start

Guest: R.J. Simpson, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Minister of Justice and Government House Leader, Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories

Labour Day: Are unions making a comeback? 

Guest: Barry Eidlin, associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada

Europe is importing more Russian LNG, how can Canada step in? 

Guest: David Detomasi, author of Profits and Power: Navigating the Politics and Geopolitics of Oil.

What explains the surge in military coups in Africa? 

Guest: Chris Roberts, sessional instructor, University of Calgary and founding director of the Canadian Council on Africa

The mystique of wooden roller coasters 

Guest: Korey Kiepert, Engineer and Principal, The Gravity Group, LLC.

Spikes in opioid usage across Canada cause concern on International Overdose Awareness Day

Guest: Monty Ghosh, an internist, addictions specialist and assistant professor at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta

A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures, what impact does that have on housing? 

Guest: Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist, CIBC Capital Markets

Where should the Prime Minister’s official residence be?

Guest: Michael Wernick, former head of the Privy Council

New research reveals secret operation from Pierre Trudeau’s office to gather intelligence about Quebec separatists

Guest: Dennis Molinaro, legal historian, Ontario Tech University and former national security adviser

Would you pay more to sit in a child-free section of an airplane? 

Guest: John Gradek, Faculty Lecturer and Academic Programs Coordinator, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations and Integrated Aviation Management, McGill University

The buzz on the 5 million bees that fell off a truck in Burlington, Ontario 

Guest: Luc Peters, beekeeper and founder of Humble Bee Inc.

The rare ”Super Blue Moon” illuminates the world

Guest: Kelly Lepo, an Education and Outreach Scientist at the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute

Journo Corner: Why many Canadians don’t believe the future is bright, the paper straw fallacy, and more

Guest: Tristin Hopper, columnist and reporter, National Post

 Is Canada sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time? 

Guest: Phillip Colmar, Managing Partner and Global Strategist at MRB Partners.

A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on

Guest: Jiaying Zhao, associate professor of psychology, University of British Columbia

Pierce LePage becomes 1st Canadian to win decathlon gold at worlds

Guest: Pierce LePage, Team Canada decathlete, world champion

Why do we go so crazy for pumpkin spice in the Fall?

Guest: Catherine Franssen, a neuroscience professor at Longwood University

12 more charges laid against Ontario man accused of aiding suicides

Guest: Dr. Tyler Hickey, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto and forensic pathologist, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service

Poor mental health, violence among threats to children in Canada 

Guest: Sara Austin, founder and CEO of Children First Canada

BC confirms first Canadian case of new COVID-19 Omicron variant 

Guest: Dr. Horacio Bach, a researcher at the Immunity and Infection Research Centre and a clinical assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia

Can the Conservatives translate a surge in the polls to electoral success? 

Guest: Ken Boessenkool, founding partner, Meredith Boessenkool Policy Advisors

Soccer Canada is a mess ahead of the 2026 World Cup

Guest: Alan McDougall, Professor of History, University of Guelph, author of "Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football"

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin buried at a St. Petersburg cemetery

Guest: Anders Aslund, economist, former economic advisor to Russia, later Ukraine, author of Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy

How scientists recreated a famous Pink Floyd song from brain waves

Guest: Ludovic Bellier, a computational research scientist at UC Berkeley

Has a year of natural disasters shown a need for a federal emergency management agency like FEMA? 

Guest: Jean Slick, the program head and a professor in the Disaster and Emergency Management graduate programs, Royal Roads University

What is behind a troubling summer for air traffic control operations?

Guest: Duncan Dee, former Chief Operating Officer of Air Canada

The legacy of The Price is Right - after the passing of Bob Barker

Guest: Adam Nedeff, author and game show historian; Bob Boden, veteran game show producer

The fight over plans to rename Toronto’s Dundas Street 

Guest: Jennifer Dundas, former Crown Prosecuto

Hang on Little Tomato - catching up with Pink Martini

Guest: China Forbes, lead singer, Pink Martini