SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

Guest: Jordan Bimm, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago

Close Canadian friend on the fight to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being held in Moscow 

Guest: Jeremy Berke, writer, Cultivated, friend of Evan Gershkovich

In Kyiv, NATO chief says Ukraine’s ‘rightful place’ is in the alliance

Guest: Kira Rudik, member of Ukrainian parliament, leader of the Golos Party

Power, Paranoia, and the Fraying of Our Politics

Guest: Jared Yates Sexton, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis 

Senate passes bill named in memory of Toronto 4-year old - Keira’s Law aims to educate decision-makers on domestic violence

Guest: Jennfier Kagan-Viater, Keira’s mother and Philip Viater, Jennifer’s husband

Previewing season four of Scott’s Vacation House Rules on HGTV

Guest: Debra Salmoni, HGTV designer

PSAC strike is a delicate balancing act for the Trudeau government 

Guest: Shachi Kurl, president, Angus Reid Institute

PSAC strike and the fight over remote work 

Guest: Alexandra Samuel, an authority on remote work and the digital workplace and author of Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work...Wherever You Are

Get out the popcorn eh! It’s the 10th annual National Canadian Film Day 

Guests: Jack Blum, Executive Director of Reel Canada, Sharon Corder, Artistic Director of REEL Canada, co-founders of CanFilmDay

Journo Corner: PSAC strike, Trudeau’s Tropics Trip, and crime concerns

Guest: Tristin Hopper, columnist and reporter, Postmedia 

How can Canadian cities properly tackle crime concerns? 

Guest: Tarah Hodgkinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sweet little lies: Maple syrup fraud undermines the authenticity of Canada’s ‘liquid gold’

Guest: Maria Corradini, Associate Professor and Arrell Chair in Food Quality, University of Guelph

How does the PSAC strike affect Canadians?

Guest: David Camfield, coordinator of the labour studies program and an associate professor at the University of Manitoba

Trudeau family vacationed with wealthy friends who donated to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

Guest: Geneviève Tellier, professor, school of political studies, University of Ottawa

Galen Weston steps down as Loblaws president - why did this happen, what’s next for Loblaws, and how does this impact grocers?

Guest: Marvin Ryder, professor of marketing and entrepreneurship at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business

How Nike and Michael Jordan revolutionized the sneaker industry—and our relationship to shoes

Guest: Thilo Kunkel, associate professor, School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University

A man’s journey from torture in a Sri Lankan prison to becoming a successful executive in Canada

Guest: Roy Ratnavel, author of Prisoner #1056: How I survived war and found peace

 Can a Canadian team finally end our 30-year Stanley Cup drought?

Guest: Jonathan Willis, hockey writer, The Athletic

What to Know About the Fox-Dominion Defamation Trial

Guest: RonNell Anderson Jones, Lee E. Teitelbaum Professor of Law, College Of Law, University of Utah, Affiliated Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project

Shedding some light on how lighting at home affects your mood 

Guest: Sally Augustin, environmental psychologist, principal at Design With Science

Canadian soprano on taking to the stage as Phantom of the Opera wrapped up a record Broadway run

Guest: Raquel Suarez Groen, opera singer, played Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera

What ChatGPT means for the new future of national security 

Guest: Jeremie Harris, Co-founder of Gladstone AI, author of Quantum Physics Made Me Do It

Why the ash cloud from volcanic eruption In Russia's Far East is impacting Canada and the US  

Guest: Glyn Williams-Jones, professor and chair, department of earth sciences, Simon Fraser University co-director, Centre for Natural Hazards Research 

Katie Telford hearing

Guest: Christian Leuprecht, a professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, and author of Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft

The art and importance of pronouncing names correctly 

Guest: Praveen Shanbhag, Founder & CEO, NameCoach

The rise and fall of Tupperware! As the brand faces collapse

Guest: Laurie Kahn, writer, director and producer, “Tupperware!”

 Digging into some quintessential Canadian Spring foods 

Guest: Sarah Harrison, Secretary, Culinary Historians of Canada.

What’s Canada’s role in supporting Taiwan amid potential Chinese aggression?

Guest: Jeff Semple, senior correspondent, Global National

Intelligence file leaks

Guest: Wesley Wark, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Where is the economy going and what does the newest interest rate announcement mean for you? 

Guest: Don Drummond, a fellow-in-residence at C.D. Howe Institute and a Stauffer-Dunning Fellow at Queen’s University

A company looking to figure out how to get rid of 133,000 Rum and Butter chocolate bars

Guest: Crystal Regehr Westergard, physiotherapist and co-owner of Canadian Candy Nostalgia

Snailfish, the world’s deepest fish, caught on camera for the first time

Guest: Alan Jamieson, Professor at The Oceans Institute and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Western Australia and the founding Director of the Minderoo UWA Deep Sea Research Centre

Did DeMar DeRozan’s daughter “throw off” the Toronto Raptors with her screaming during free throw attempts?

Guest: Joan Vickers, Professor Emerita of Kinesiology, University of Calgary

What triggered the massive resignation of the board at the Trudeau Foundation?

Guest: Robert Fife, Ottawa bureau chief, The Globe and Mail

Journo Corner: Danielle Smith’s unshakable scandal, and more 

Guest: Dave Breakenridge, editor, Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, host of the 10/3 podcast

Revisiting Canada’s biggest ever art heist: the 1972 Skylight Caper  

Guest: Chris Hampton, freelance journalist and author of The Skylight Caper

Gun violence is the leading cause of death among children in the U.S., what’s it like for pediatric surgeons on the frontlines 

Guest: Dr. Stephanie Chao, Trauma Medical Director at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and assistant professor of Surgery Division of Pediatric Surgery at Stanford Medicine.

April 11, 2023 - Guest host Syd Smith in for Ben O'Hara-Byrne

Retirement - the best financial advice to retire faster and with the most money possible

Guest: Rubina Ahmed-Haq, personal finance journalist, host of “For What It’s Worth” on the Corus Radio Network

Retirement - So you’ve retired, what now? 

The psychological look at how to use your new found free time and find purpose after retirement

Guest: Gillian Leithman, Founder, Life Skills Toolbox & Rewire to Retire, and Assistant

How a small act of kindness can go a long way

Guest: Amit Kumar, assistant professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin

World Parkinson’s Day

Guest: Larry Gifford, National Director of Talk Radio, Corus Entertainment & Host, When Life Gives You Parkinson’s Podcast (Curiouscast)

How has the bar for politicians changed when it comes to “losing the people” 

How far can a politician go in controversy before they are “finished”

Guest: Marcel Wieder, political and public affairs consultant, Aurora Strategy

An Ice storm in Quebec knocks out power to more than one million people across the province. Mike Armstrong ( Global National Quebec Correspondent) joins us to give a update on the situation. Lucy Hacker (Abbots Kitchen, St. Albans Cathedral) tells us where hot cross buns come from, and their origin story. We dive into carbon tax increases/oil production cuts with Richard Masson (Chief Commercial Officer, Fractal Systems and Chair, World Petroleum Council Canada). Dr. Tom Elliott (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia) tells us what is Ozempic and why is B.C. cracking down on sales to Americans? We get into Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder lawsuits with Jill McCartney (Partner - Health Law, Class Actions, Siskinds Law Firm) and James Boyd (class actions lawyer, Siskinds Law Firm), and Neil Sahota (advisor on AI to the United Nations, author of Own the AI Revolution) joins us to chat about the reccommendation to hit pause on AI development.

Wally Oppal (senior counsel, Boughton Law and former Attorney General of British Columbia) joins us to talk about Vancouver authorities making the move to clear away one of Canada’s most notorious inner city encampments. David Moscrop (journalist, writer at davidmoscrop.substack.com) joins us for this weeks Journo Corner, we talk about bad spring weather, 24 Sussex drive, and much more. Peter Ivanyi (immigration lawyer and partner with Rochon Genova LLP) speaks about the migrant family that died when illegally crossing a river border. We are joined by Kevin Garinger ( former president of the Humboldt Broncos) as the five year anniversary of the Humboldt tragedy, and by Alex Crizzle, (Associate Professor, Director of the Driving Simulation Laboratory (DSL), Director, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Programs, University of Saskatchewan Associate Professor, Director of the Driving Simulation Laboratory (DSL), Director, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Programs, University of Saskatchewan) on bus safety since that accident. Dr. Shoo Lee (professor emeritus, University of Toronto, former pediatrician-in-chief, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto) gets into why Canada needs to stockpile essential drugs, and Olivia Hahn (author, “Healing Our Wounded Hearts: A real life story about loss in the voice of a teenager”) tells us about her book, which she wrote after losing her mother.