Afternoons With Rob Breakenridge

City Council has approved a draft proposal for four capital projects, including a new arena. Councillor Evan Wooley, who voted against the proposal joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book strikes down myths of aging. Seniors are starting businesses, vacationing, and being more active than ever. Author Carl Honoré discusses his book Bolder: Making the Most of our Longer Lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alberta families are getting a disproportionate carbon tax rebate (lower income families get more back than they spend & vice versa for higher income families). Trevor Tombe, Economist at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian Comedians fear their livelihoods may be at risk as Just for Laughs takes over a Sirius XM Comedy Channel. Sandra Battaglini, an award-winning stand-up comic, actor, and writer joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liberals tabled Bill C-93 in the House today, which will provide for pardons for old pot convictions. Kirk Tousaw, BC Lawyer and cannabis advocate joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian musician Kim Mitchell joins the show to talk about his music and his upcoming performance at the Grey Eagle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stuart Bell, National Online Journalist, Investigative for Global News joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tasha Kheiriddin of Global News Radio 640 Toronto joins Rob to discuss the latest in the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Franco Terrazzano, Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses has released its annual Property Tax Gap Report which states that Calgary tops list of most unfair property tax systems for small business. Richard Truscott, Vice President of BC and Alberta for the CFIB joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should organ donation be an opt-out system instead of an opt-in? Michael Ravenhill, CEO of the David Foster foundation joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Quebec elementary schools are experimenting with supervised “rough play” zones in the schoolyard. Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Associate Professor for the Department of Pediatrics and School of Population & Public Health at UBC and Investigator at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should fluoride be reintroduced to the water in Calgary? Juliet Guichon, President of Calgarians for Kids' Health and Assistant Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Calgary joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trevor Tombe, Associate professor of Economics at the University of Calgary and Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy joins the show to talk about the recent Statistics Canada numbers released regarding child poverty in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The province is considering variable speed limits on Deerfoot saying it could help reduce gridlock. Karan Arora joins the show and is a transportation planning engineer (EIT) with four years of combined experience in traffic engineering, transportation demand modeling, transportation planning, microsimulation, traffic impact assessment and transportation management strategies, highway design and research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alberta Veterinary Medical Association voted to ban unnecessary surgeries such as, declawing, ear and tail docking, etc.. Dr Darrell Dalton, council member at ABVMA joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inclusion Alberta applauds the Education Minister for banning seclusion rooms, CEO of Inclusion Alberta, Trish Bowman joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The School of Public Policy released a report that outlines a framework for the effective use and implementation of Community Revitalization Levies and examines the current CRL framework and mechanisms in Alberta. Nancy Wanye, graduate of the Master of Public Policy at The School of Public Policy and co-author of this report joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kent Hehr’s accusers say they’re ready to forego privacy in exchange for laying eyes on findings of a third-party investigation into the Calgary Centre representative’s conduct. Kristin Raworth, Alberta civil servant and one of Hehr's accusers joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rally 4 Resources and Canada Action are holding a rally today in support of Trans Mountain for NEB announcement. Cody Battershill, founder of Canada Action joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices