Guest: Charles de Brabant - Executive Director, Bensadoun School of Retail Management, McGill University

Guest: Robin Lindsey - Professor emeritus at UBC's Sauder School of Business

Guest: Claire Newell - President/Founder Travel Best Bets

Guest: Charles-Étienne Beaudry - Professor of political studies at the University of Ottawa and author of the book Radio Trump: How he won the first time

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

In theatres:

- Dog Man (2025): This animated action film from Dreamworks Animation is definitely either an acquired taste, or something that will work for individuals with no taste at all, namely kids who know the character as a spinoff from the "Captain Underpants Epic Movie" (2017) which was itself inspired by the "Captain Underpants" children's graphic novels by David Pilkey. This new movie is directed by Peter Hastings who co-wrote the script along with originator Pilkey, and has the stage set when a police officer and his canine companion, a police dog, are seriously injured on the job and emergency surgery is required to save one or both of them. The end result is the half-man-half-dog entity who cannot speak, but who is still sworn to protect and to serve, as well as to roll over and play dead

- Companion (2025): This is a very difficult film to review without falling into major spoiler territory. I don't recall ever having seen a preview of the film, and reading about it on the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com) says almost nothing about it other than, and I quote, "A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate." That's it. In the cast are Iris, played by Sophie Thatcher from the series "Yellow Jackets," her boyfriend Josh played by Jack Quaid of "The Hunger Games" and the Amazon Prime superhero series "The Boys," and who is, incidentally, the son of actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, and Lucas Gage from the series "White Lotus." And yes, they are all at the billionaire's estate for the weekend when things go unthinkably wrong

On Paramount+:

- Star Trek: Section 31 (2025): I am a significant "Star Trek" fan, and have been since day one ... significant enough to know that aficionados of this genre bristle at being called "Trekkies," when the correct term is "Trekkers." This new movie that stars Michelle Yeoh, has as much to do with the "Star Trek" franchise as one would get from a McDonalds with no golden arches, no Big Macs, fries, or Quarter Pounders, and not a Happy Meal in sight. I found the film profoundly disappointing and saw it as much closer to Yeoh's turn in the Oscar-winning "Everything Everywhere All at Once" than to anything in the "Star Trek" universe

Guest: Hamish van der Ven - Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business Management of Natural Resources, University of British Columbia

Vape detectors at B.C. high school have reduced students vaping in washrooms (0:46)

Guest: Todd Manuel - Superintendent of Schools, School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha)

Crime groups are making more fentanyl in Canada (8:19)

Guest: Christian Leuprecht - Professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, senior fellow at The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and author of Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada

B.C. Premier David Eby asks Canadians to think carefully about spending money in the U.S. (17:34)

Guest: Bryan Yu - Chief Economist at Central 1

Guest: Graham Isador - Healthy Living Reporter, The Globe and Mail

Guest: Christian Leuprecht - Professor at the Royal Military College and Queen’s University, senior fellow at The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and author of Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada

Guest: Todd Manuel - Superintendent of Schools, School District No. 67 (Okanagan Skaha)