Making the case for the four-day work week

Guest: Joe O’Connor, Work Time Reduction Center of Excellence

Montreal Airbnb scam quadruples rents; replaces long-term tenants with ghost hotels

Guest: Zachary Kamel, freelance journalist and contributor to Ricochet Media

Working to raise awareness about Canada’s role in the Korean War

Guest: Guy Black, military historian

Canada and the Manhattan Project

Guest: Ron Verzuh, historian and author

Paper Trails: A life in stories from acclaimed journalist Roy MacGregor

Guest: Roy MacGregor, journalist and author of Paper Trails

A game of political musical chairs - 30 portfolio changes in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle

Guest: Richard Johnston, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections and Representation, University of British Columbia

Journo Corner: Cabinet shuffle and more

Guest: Nick Taylor-Vaisey, journalist, Politico

The world expected more of Canada: British Medical Journal calls on Ottawa to launch national inquiry into COVID-19 response

Guest: Dr. Tania Bubela, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University and co-author of a British Medical Journal report on Canada’s COVID-19 response

Canada become first G20 country announce phasing of out 'inefficient' fossil fuel subsidies

Guest: David Victor, chair, Peter Cowhey Center for Global Transformation in Innovation and Public Policy, University of California at San Diego, co-author of Fixing the Climate

Time is on his side: Mick Jagger turns 80

Guest: John Einarson, Musicologist and Rock Historian, author of multiple music biographies

Who’s in, who’s out and who’s moving in the biggest cabinet shuffle of the Trudeau era

Guest: Tim Powers, Chairman of Summa Strategies

What goes on behind the scenes of a major cabinet shuffle

Guest: Jeni Armstrong, Instructor, Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management

As home prices soar, Habitat for Humanity helps higher-income Canadians buy properties

Guest: Julia Deans, President, Habitat for Humanity

An active underwater volcano teems with life off Vancouver Island

Guest: Cherisse Du Preez, Head of Deep-Sea Ecology Program, Marine Spatial Ecology and Analysis Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean Sciences and Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, University of Victoria

A world built on trash: How garbage creates an environmental and human catastrophe

Guest: Oliver Franklin-Wallis, features editor at British GQ and author of Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where it Goes, and Why It Matters

A retired RCMP officer charged in an alleged Chinese foreign interference case

Guest: Stephanie Carvin, associate professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

A former Toronto principal bullied over accusations of racism dies from suicide

Guest: Greg Brady, host of Toronto Today, 640 Toronto

Floods in Nova Scotia - a mayor of a hard-hit municipality speaks to the damage, and rebuilding to come

Guest: Carolyn Bolivar-Getson, Mayor, Municipality of the District of Lunenburg

Amsterdam bans cruise ships, should Canadian cities do the same?

Guest: Ross Klein, author of Paradise Lost at Sea and Cruise Ship Blues

X marks the spot as Twitter rebrands

Guest: Allan Adamson, co-founder, Metaforce and author of Seeing the How

Playing drums with some of the most legendary names in rock

Guest: Brian Tichy, drummer, The Dead Daisies

Move to attract tech workers from the U.S. to Canada is an instant success

Guest: Benjamin Bergen, president, Council of Canadian Innovators

The saucy details of the donair costume taking Alberta by storm

Guest: Catherine Griwkowsky, Alberta Legislature reporter for AB Today

Remembering the incomparable Tony Bennett

Guest: David Evanier, author, All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett

Ocean temperatures appear to be rising much quicker than anticipated - how does that impact the world today?

Guest: Jacquie De La Cour, Operations Manager, NOAA Coral Reef Watch and Senior Faculty Specialist, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland

How extreme weather and peer pressure could tilt the fight against climate change

Guest: Robert H. Frank, professor, Cornell University and author of The Economic Naturalist, Success & Luck and Under the Influence

40th anniversary of the Gimli Glider: A first-hand account of one of the most dramatic events in Canadian aviation history  

Guest: Bob Pearson, Gimli Glider pilot and Pearl Dion, Gimli Glider passenger

Review finds transfer of notorious killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison was done by the book, do the rules need changing? 

Guest: Rodney Stafford, father of Tori Stafford a young murder victim in 2009

Food banks are on the frontlines of Canada’s affordability crisis

Guest: David Long, CEO, Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Megastars are making megabucks on concert tours this summer, what’s driving the huge demand.

Guest: Mara Klaunig, Senior Analyst, Camoin Associates

 Talia’s T-Swift Seattle Adventure 

Guest: Talia Miller, Supreme Swiftie/Swiftie Correspondent, and technical producer, A Little More Conversation

The B.C. port strike is withdrawn, for now - how has the federal government handled the situation?

Guest: Lisa Raitt, Managing Director and Vice Chair, Global Investment Banking at CIBC Capital Markets, former deputy leader of the Conservative Party, former minister of labour

Should you be friends with your co-workers?

Guest: Stephen Friedman, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Studies, Schulich School of Business, York University

50-years after his death, Bruce Lee’s legacy is larger than ever 

Guest: Wilson Tang, member of the Chinatown Storytelling Committee and creative advisor, Vancouver Chinatown Foundation.

Journo Corner: Eve of “Barbenheimer”, is the blockbuster really back? 

Guest: Walter Chaw, film writer and movie critic

She didn’t publish her first novel until her mid 40’s, now Irish author Liz Nugent is back with her fifth bestseller in a decade. 

Guest: Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

Looking back at successes and challenges at the helm of the CMA

Guest: Dr. Alika Lafontaine, outgoing president, Canadian Medical Association

Extreme weather; the world swelters in record-breaking heat

Guest: Kristie Ebi, professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Washington

2026 host bows out: Is it curtains for the Commonwealth Games? 

Guest: Cheri Bradish. Director, Future of Sport Lab and Sport Initiative at Toronto Metropolitan University

The B.C. port strike is back on - union rejects tentative deal

Guest: Mark Thompson, labour relations professor, University of British Columbia

End of America’s oldest craft brewery and why are beer sales going flat?

Guest: Dave Infante, contributing editor and columnist for VinePair and editor and publisher of the Fingers Newsletter:

He's been obsessed with John Deere tractors since he was a kid. Now he's opening his own museum

Guest: Dave McEachren, retired farmer and John Deere collector 

Two Canadian firefighters die fighting wildfires in under a week - reviewing firefighter training and safety

Guest: Bruce Blackwell, owner, B.A. Blackwell & Associates Ltd.

How is Canada handling the immigration process for Ukrainians entering the country?

Guest: Joel Sandaluk, immigration lawyer, Mamann, Sandaluk & Kingwell LLP

Russia quits grain deal critical to global food supply. What happens now?

Guest: Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations.

Governor-General feels the heat over Iceland trip expenses 

Guest: Barbara Massamore, professor, department of History, University of the Fraser valley and VP and Fellow with the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada

A weekend of injury and insult - Why do we still lack selfie-awareness? 

Guest: Anabel Quan-Haase, a professor in the faculty of information and media studies as well as the department of sociology at Western University

CREA downgrades sales forecast as interest rates weigh on buyers

Guest: Shaun Cathcart, Director and Senior Economist, Housing Data and Market Analysis, Canadian Real Estate Association

 Would you share houses with a family you don’t know? A unique way some are buying real estate

Guest: Noam Dolgin, realtor, and Elizabeth Wilcox, mother of two

One year of the James Webb Telescope, what has it shown us? 

Guest: Robert Smith, professor of history in the department of history, classics, and religion, University of Alberta

Former Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten freed - was that the right decision?

Guest: Jeffrey Melnick, professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and author of Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family