U.S. border agents set up surprise checkpoint in B.C., stirring debate (0:58)

Guest: Laurie Trautman - Director, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

Vancouver Police accused of intimidating presence outside drug consumption sites (8:29)

Guest: Caitlin Shane - Staff Lawyer, Pivot Legal Society

Pope Leo XIV named 1st American leader of Catholic Church (22:06)

Guest: John W. Martens - Professor of Theology, Director of the Centre for Christian Engagement, St. Mark's College

Guest: Tara Parry - Director, Permanent Services, Robert Half

Guest: Sylvain Charlebois - Professor & Director of the Agri-Food Analytic Lab at Dalhousie University; co-host, The Food Professor Podcast; co-host, Bite Sized (Sundays at 1pm on CKNW)

Guest: John Martens - Professor of Theology, Director of the Centre for Christian Engagement, St. Mark's College

Guest: Claire Newell - President/Founder Travel Best Bets

Guest: Caitlin Shane - Staff Lawyer, Pivot Legal Society

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

In theatres:

- Fight or Flight (2025): If you want an action-comedy with not a lot of originality, this film from the same production company that did the "John Wick" movies fills the bill perfectly. The lack of originality isn't a negative thing here at all - once we have the set-up, we are drawn into a thriller that has many of the same elements as the 2022 Brad Pitt movie "Bullet Train," as well as the previously mentioned John Wick films. Josh Hartnett is Lucas Reyes, a mercenary and hand-to-hand combat expert who has been living in exile in Thailand because his former handler in a shadow government organization, who was also his one-time-lover, did him wrong, leaving him hung out to dry and on the lam. She is Catherine Brunt, played by Katie Sackhoff from "Battlestar Galactica," and her approach to Lucas is that if he gets on a San Francisco-bound international flight and secures a never-before-seen terrorist known only as Ghost, and brings the fugitive back alive, Brunt will make everything right and restore his reputation and his good standing as an operative

- Shadow Force (2025): This spy thriller doesn't offer a lot that is new - with one exception that really doesn't work that well, we have seen most of this before, which is just fine for the genre. It offers double-dealing spies and counterspies, political derring-do, those who cannot be trusted, and others who are not what they appear to be. Kyra Owens and Isaac Sar (Kerry Washington and Omar Sy) are husband-and-wife members of Shadow Force, a government agency part of the CIA that does ... well, we really don't know what it is that it does as it isn't spelled out for us. In any case, once you are in Shadow Force, you are there for life and you dedicate everything you have to the team, totally selflessly. Romantic entanglements are forbidden, but that did not stop Kyra and Isaac from falling in love, and for later abandoning the team and going underground on the run. Why? Well, Kyra became pregnant and that put the lock on being active spies, although Isaac turned out to do most of the parenting while Kyra kept the other Shadow Force members at bay using her skills as a sniper to take out those who were getting too close

On Netflix:

- Havoc (2025): With one Oscar-winner (Forest Whitaker) and one Oscar-nominee (Tom Hardy) in the cast, this British-made set-in-America crime action film has a lot going for it. The story is one of deception, cruelty, corruption, and murder and it has polarized audiences, some of which see it as a great crime thriller and others who feel it is overly violent, difficult to follow, and without many redeeming qualities. Of course every film is in the eye of the beholder and this one, which I found acceptably violent, with enough plot twists to maintain my interest, definitely worth the time. Tom Hardy ("Venom," "Mobland") is always worth the price of admission for me, able to play off the script to maximum advantage, giving us a full look at his character and plunging us completely into the action. He is Patrick Walker, a homicide detective, estranged from his family, and working a side hustle as a security expert for Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker), who is a mega-developer of investment properties, and also a candidate for mayor

Guest: Anne Whitmore - President, Surrey District Parents Advisory Council (DPAC)

Guest: Laurie Trautman - Director, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

What is modular housing and how can it help provide housing in Canada? (0:42)

Guest: Alex Gray - Founder, Sightline Building Solutions

Mark Carney targeted by deepfakes on social: how common are these? (17:07)

Guest: Nora Benavidez - Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights, Free Press

How can we fix Vancouver's cleanliness problems? (27:10)

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