Afternoons With Rob Breakenridge

Rob takes calls and reads some texts to get opinions on the Carbon Tax.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do Albertans really feel about the Carbon Tax now that it is out and rolling? Quito Maggi, President and CEO of Mainstreet Research on what their recent poll has found.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, discusses the results of a new poll that suggests more than half of Albertans oppose the carbon tax but support the NDP's plan for a coal phase-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA announced today the discovery of 7 earth sized planets only 40 light years away from us. Joining Rob to add some context to this discovery: Dr. Nathalie Ouellette, research associate at Queen's University in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The locations for 4 safe injection sites in Edmonton have been announced today. Dr. Elaine Hyshka, Dr. Elaine Hyshka Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the U of A joins Rob to chat about what it means going forward.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holocaust denial posters at the U of C, Imams seemingly praying for the death of jews, and M103. Michael Mostyn, CEO of B'Nai Brith Canada.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Douglas Garland, convicted in the first degree murders of Alvin and Kathy Likness and their Grandson Nathan O'Brien has been beaten only days into his sentence. Global news crime reporter Nancy Hixt joins Rob to chat about it.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the real deal with Vitamin D? Is it a miracle cure or are it's effects being exaggerated? And what can regional vaccination numbers tell us- how is the new Australian policy for vaccination going? Tim Caulfield is the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, Trudeau Fellow and Professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Public Health and the Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salma Siddiqui, president of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations, chats with Rob Breakenridge about M-103, a motion that calls on MPs to study and find solutions to Islamophobia and systemic racism in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Professor Matthew P Harrington, law professor at the University of Montreal.  You can read his column here http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-declaring-montreal-a-sanctuary-city-is-an-expensive-mistake     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salma Siddiqui, President of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations says that being critical of radical Islam is not the same of Islamophobia. You can read her thoughts here: http://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/im-muslim-criticism-political-islam-cant-conflated-islamophobia   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economists from the University of Colorado have discovered that the first letter of your last name might be holding you back.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new organization in Calgary is hoping to ban trophy both in and outside of Canada.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playboy magazine reverses position, brings back photographs of naked women after year-long ban. Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi, joins the show to share his insight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative Party Leadership hopeful Michael Chong, talks to Rob about M-103.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Fell, columnist for the Chicago Tribune and contributor to AskMen and Men's Health, chats with Rob Breakenridge about his decision to give up drinking for a year.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Preston Manning says this isn't the first time the right has tried to unite, he outlines an effort in 1966.  You can read his piece here: http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/manning-this-isnt-the-first-time-albertans-have-grappled-with-uniting-the-right   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A study out of Penn State University has shown that the pressures of "fat shaming" can cause people to gain weight. With Researcher Dr. Rebecca Pearl, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry from Penn's Centre for Weight and Eating Disorders.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AUPE President Guy Smith says, Wage freeze? no thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2015 an air quality test painted Red Deer with an alarming brush, pointing to dangerous levels of particulate matter in the air. But Warren Kindzierski, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the U of A says he's had a look at it again, the findings aren't quite right.  His column here: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/albertas-ndp-politicians-are-determined-to-fix-an-air-quality-problem-but-theres-no-evidence-it-exists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices