Guest: Gary Teelucksingh - Co-founder, Money Wise Institute

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

In theatres:

- Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025): Well, maybe it's the final reckoning and maybe it isn't. This latest number in the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible franchise certainly leaves the door open for another instalment, although if it finished on this note, it would be complete and satisfying. Just 11 minutes short of three hours long, it almost needs an intermission so that patrons can have a comfort break without missing any of the action. I found this a fine action-thriller with Cruise's Ethan Hunt continuing the search for the artificial intelligence Entity that was the subject of the previous movie, and which makes this one essentially a part 2, and a conclusion rather than a sequel. The cast from the previous film remains virtually intact with Hunt's IMF team including Grace (Hayley Atwell), Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg), and the return of the villainous Kittredge (Henry Czerny) and a fine turn by Angela Bassett as the President of the United States. What separates this instalment from the previous MI films is the simultaneous action sequences. In the earlier movies we had the frenetic action and fight sequences in our sights from start to finish

On Amazon Prime:

- Elevation (2024): This sci-fi thriller has good bones and a good cast, and manages to deliver a serviceable end-of-civilization story on what is clearly a small budget. Anthony Mackie (the newest Captain America) and Morena Baccarin (both "DeadPool" movies as well as the title alien character in the sci-fi series "V") are just two of a very small number of human survivors on the planet after a marauding alien hoard invaded the earth three years prior, and decimated the population leaving just 5% of those on the planet alive. The handful of survivors have, for reasons not completely explained, managed to stay alive because they live in the mountains above the town of Boulder, Colorado, and have learned that the aliens cannot or will not access any altitude above 8,000 feet. A white demarcation line has been placed all around the mountaintops on which they live, managing without utilities, beyond a small amount of electricity generated by a few solar cells, no phones, and no real contact with the world outside

- The Order (2024): This film, based on actual incidents and individuals, was shot in Alberta filling in for the Pacific Northwest where the actual events occurred. It's the story of a White Supremacist group which, under the leadership of Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hault), masterminded a series of bank robberies to build up a war chest in a bid to declare war on the U.S. Government and its people. Most of the events occurred in 1983 in such places as Whidbey Island, WA, just down the I-5 from us, Coeur d'Alene Idaho, and Missoula, Montana. Matthews was the mastermind who spun off from a so-called Christian White Supremacist group, building what amounted to an army using the ideology that fuelled his adherents to participate in criminal acts in order to create a force that would become instrumental in returning the U.S. to becoming what he believed was its ultimate goal, free from any and all residents other than European and American born White citizens, while at the same time driving out all other factions

Guest: David Perry - President & CEO, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Guest: Matt Ion - Communications Director, Four Wheel Drive Association of British Columbia

City council approves permanent Vancouver sign (0:53)

Guest: Rebecca Bligh - Vancouver City Councillor

Are private health clinics selling patient data? (10:57)

Guest: Dr. Dan Raza - Family Physician with Unity Health Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital and Assistant Professor with the University of Toronto

Are we headed for a recession? (17:07)

Guest: Armine Yalnizyan - Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers at Atkinson Foundation

Guest: Dr. Dan Raza - Family Physician with Unity Health Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital and Assistant Professor with the University of Toronto

Guest: Vanessa Lapointe - Child development expert, author and former psychologist

Guest: Landon Hoyt - Executive director, Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association (HxBIA)

Guest: Renny Grilz - Resource management officer, Meewasin Valley Authority

Guest: Don Abelson - Professor of political science, McMaster University