Afternoons With Rob Breakenridge

With Herb Emery, a Fellow at The School of Public Policy and Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics at the University of New Brunswick.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Simmy, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor of Education at the University of Alberta was involved in a study which assessed how math is taught in highschools in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenore Skenazy, Founder of Free Range Kids Movement and Chairman of the Let Grow Foundation shares her thoughts on the case of the Vancouver man who isn't to allow his children to ride the bus to school alone.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgarian Krista had a huge run around trying to get out of the path of Irma today and in trying to communicate with Air Canada.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What/who is Anti-fa? Where did they come from? With Mark Bray, historian and author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MacEwan University under attack by phishers and have now been defrauded of nearly $12 million. Jason Markusoff wrote an article on Maclean's on this topic and chats with Rob about how the university got into this mess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just kidding.  Dr. Alan Levinovitz, Author of The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat joins Rob to chat about how clickbait headlines and constant new studies about nutrition claiming to be game changers is damaging people's faith in science. And how nutritionists haven't changed their recommendations much over time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Ward 12 City Councillor Shane Keating.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Kevin Milligan, Professor of Economics at UBC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How would the decriminalization of opioids help with the crisis? With Nazlee Maghsoudi, Knowledge translation manager at the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After making the title of his show too provocative, activists have pushed for the venue to cancel it all together. Comedian Danny Polishchuk joins Rob.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabor Lukacs, Air Passenger Rights Advocate, chats about the kickoff of the public hearing regarding the Air Transat flight that kept passengers on the tarmac for over 6 hours.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Calgary Corrado Malia, and calls from listeners.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Debra W Soh, PhD is a poli sci and sex science writer in Toronto- she posits that the left is alienating those on the right by discouraging events with controversial themes and speakerds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of our regular guests on the show, Tim Caulfield Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta, a Trudeau Fellow and author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture And Science Clash has a new show called  A User's Guide to Cheating Death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Phoenix New Times Editor in Chief Stuart Warner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Licia Corbella- who has been following this story for Post Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A report from Michael Zwaagstra, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and a high school teacher shows that students learn best is content rich environments.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boxer announcer for Showtime and Historian Steve Farhood joins Rob to chat about the big McGregor Mayweather fight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices