Synopsis
Join Rob Breakenridge weekday afternoons from 12:30pm - 3:00pm.
Episodes
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How "human challenge" trials for vaccines can speed up development
23/04/2020 Duration: 16minWe spoke with Josh Morrison, co-founder of 1DaySooner (1daysooner.org) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oil prices dip into negative territory
20/04/2020 Duration: 10minWe spoke with Rory Johnston, Managing Director and Market Economist at Price Street Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How Alberta became a leader in COVID-19 testing
20/04/2020 Duration: 13minWe spoke with Dr. Graham Tipples, Medical-Scientific Director, Public Health, Alberta Public Laboratories / Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology - University of Alberta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Promising new trial drug for COVID-19
20/04/2020 Duration: 12minWe spoke with Dr. Josef Penninger, Canada 150 Chair in Functional Genetics and the Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The race for a COVID-19 vaccine; contact tracing technology; China's "Chernobyl moment"; debate around "porch portraits
15/04/2020 Duration: 48minToday's guests: Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Emerging Viruses at the University of Manitoba. Daniel Leung, Founder & CEO - LivNao Technologies Charles Burton, Senior Fellow - Macdonald-Laurier Institute / Associate Professor at Brock University Bill Marsh, Photographer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Encouraging signs regarding Alberta's COVID-19 hospitalization rates
15/04/2020 Duration: 15minWe spoke with Dr. James Kellner, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine / Infectious-diseases specialist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Health Canada approves new rapid COVID-19 test
15/04/2020 Duration: 11minWe spoke with Dr. Paul Lem, founder and CEO of Spartan Bioscience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Bleak unemployment forecast for Alberta; allowing Canadians to access RRSPs; help for oil & gas sector; fairness for cannabis retailers
08/04/2020 Duration: 46minToday's guests: Trevor Tombe, Associate professor, Economics - University of Calgary / Research Fellow - School of Public Policy Alexandre Laurin, Director of Research - C.D. Howe Institute Tim McMillian, President & CEO - Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Nathan Mison, Chair of the Alberta Cannabis Council, co-chair of the National Cannabis Task Force with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, VP of Government & Stakeholders Relations - Fire & Flower Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Alberta students help with COVID-19 contact tracing
07/04/2020 Duration: 07minLauren Bilinsky, a resident physician with Alberta Health Services joins Rob Breakenridge to discuss how students in Alberta are helping health-care workers trace COVID-19 infections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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COVID-19: How food prices are being affected; China's attempts to expand its influence; the evidence on wearing masks; testing & tracing
07/04/2020 Duration: 43minToday's guests: - Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University - Terry Glavin, author/journalist/columnist - Dr. Bayan Missaghi, Infectious disease specialist and clinical assistant professor at the Cumming School of Medicine - Dr. Lauren Bilinsky, Public Health and Preventive Medicine with Family Medicine, University of Calgary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How all of this isolation and distancing is affecting Canadians
06/04/2020 Duration: 12minWe spoke with Steve Joordens, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Canada to suffer record job losses in March & April
06/04/2020 Duration: 10minWe spoke with Conference Board of Canada Chief Economist Pedro Antunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The challenges in developing - and explaining - COVID-19 models
04/04/2020 Duration: 16minWe spoke with Tyler Williamson, associate professor of biostatistics in the U of C’s Community Health Sciences department Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not
02/04/2020 Duration: 12minWe spoke with Emil Verner, assistance professor of finance at MIT Sloan School of Management Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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COVID-19: Why governments need to be more up front with us
02/04/2020 Duration: 19minWe spoke with Matt Gurney, columnist and editor with the National Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What economic recovery can look like and the steps needed to get us there
01/04/2020 Duration: 16minWe spoke with Dr. Jack MIntz, President's Fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How Staying Home Can Be an Excuse To Give Kids Some Free Time
01/04/2020 Duration: 14minWe spoke with Lenore Skenazy, President of Let Grow, (a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience) and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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COVID-19: How good data can help shape an effective pandemic response
01/04/2020 Duration: 15minWe spoke with Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Infectious Disease Specialist and Clinician Investigator, with the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the University of Toronto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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COVID-19: Confronting issues around medical ethics and bioethics
31/03/2020 Duration: 10minWe spoke with Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine in New York City Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The pros and cons of widespread mask-wearing to counter COVID-19
31/03/2020 Duration: 14minWe spoke with environmental scientist Blair King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices