Chapter 1: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday gave the green light to cautious hugging and the serving of pints inside pubs after months of strict restrictions as he set out the next phase of Covronavirus lockdown easing in England.

Chapter 2: People need to register to get vaccinated so we can all get back to a more normal way of life.  But is there hesitancy among British Columbians?

Chapter 3: During an ongoing turf war in 2017, Surrey RCMP put out names and photos of five people they said were a risk to public safety.  This included Karman Singh Grewal, the man shot and killed outside the Vancouver International Airport Sunday afternoon.  B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth seemed to imply Monday that more resources to fight the spate of recent gang shootings could soon be coming.

Guest: Keiron McConnell, Former gang officer and current lecturer at SFU and KPU in Organized Crime.

Chapter 4: A new article from the Wall Street Journal has given BC some praise after new research shows that BC has curved an outbreak of the P.1 variant.

Guest: Sarah Otto, Professor and Mathematical Biologist at The University of British Columbia

Chapter 5: Ever sit underneath a big old oak tree and get the feeling you’re a part of something much more important… even, wise? "Finding The Mother Tree: Discovering The Wisdom Of The Forest" is a new book – a memoir – by Dr. Suzanne Simard that’s making international waves.

Chapter 6: The Surrey Police Service says it's not putting some of its new hires through a polygraph test and one former police chief and solicitor general says that's wrong.

Guest: Janet Brown, CKNW/Global News Senior Reporter

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