Guest: Claire Newell - President/Founder Travel Best Bets

Guest: Richard Kurland - Immigration lawyer and policy analyst

Guest: Rick Forchuk - TV Week Magazine Columnist and CKNW Contributor

In theatres:

- Novocaine (2025): Jack Quaid, son of actor Dennis Quaid, hardly has the look of an action superhero with his tall, skinny physique and his mild manners, but that's sort of what he turns out to be in this dark comedy with a lot of action attached. Quaid plays Nate Caine, an assistant manager at a San Diego credit union where he has worked for six years. We learn very early on that he has a heart when he is forced to tell a long-time customer named Earl (Lou Beatty, Jr.) that the institution will be forced to foreclose on the old gentleman's home ... but Nate finds a temporary fix to allow Earl a few months' grace to try to find the money somehow. Nate spends his off hours playing online videogames, and the only friend he has is someone he met on the internet and has never seen in person, Roscoe, played by Jake Batalon with a string of Spider-Man movies to his credit. And then there is Sherry (Amber Midthunder). She works in the same branch as Nate, and on this fateful, just-before-Christmas day, she asks him to lunch. He refuses - he does not "do" lunch ... but his desire to spend time with her overcomes his reticence, and we learn, when she tries to get him to sample her cherry pie, that he has a secret of sorts

- Black Bag (2025): There have been many movies made over the years about the spy business, primarily in the UK, that hammer the point home that the real spies in real government organizations such as MI6 spend more time talking and strategizing than they do blowing stuff up and shooting people. That has been true in such classics as "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," and it is very much the case here, in Steven Soderberg's well-reviewed, and critically acclaimed look at an internal investigation designed to route a rat from a tightly knit group of British spies. Michael Fassbender plays George Woodhouse, who, with amazing restraint, is forced to investigate his group of eight spies, one of whom is his wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). It seems that a weapon with world-changing consequences has been liberated, and George has just one week to determine who is guilty and who must be stopped

On Amazon Prime

- Reacher (season 3) (2025): Jack Reacher is back in the person of Alan Ritchson's version of author Lee Child's creation, a former military MP, now a righteous drifter with fists the size of canned hams, and an uncanny ability to take on several assailants at once. This new season has the distinction of having the highest number of viewers for any Amazon Prime bareturning series with numbers approaching 60 million. Based on the eight Lee Child novel, "Persuader," Reacher finds himself embroiled in a complicated business that involves big-time drug smuggling as well as the return of an old enemy. Set in Maine but shot in and around Kingston, Ontario, the big guy falls in with what appears to be a drug kingpin when he is tasked with protecting the man's teenage son who has already been a kidnap victim of the boss's enemies, losing one of his ears in the process. If your only experience with film versions of Jack Reacher involve the two Tom Cruise movies, just slide aside and watch the highly muscled and totally ripped Ritchson set you straight. The story is a relatively straight line with a couple of diversions, and it is punctuated with episodes where Reacher is accosted by bad guys, and situations in which good people die too soon

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Guest: Jess Ketchum - Co-founder, Save Our Streets

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Guest: Michael Emerson - Former EU ambassador to Russia at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels

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Guest: Calvin Chrustie - Senior partner, Critical Risk Team

Guest: Jess Ketchum - Co-founder, Save Our Streets

Guest: Michael Emerson - Former EU ambassador to Russia at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels

Guest: Calvin Chrustie - Senior partner, Critical Risk Team

Guest: Claire Newell - President/Founder Travel Best Bets

Guest: Colin Robertson - Former Canadian diplomat, Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute; Host, Global Exchange podcast