Synopsis
Join Rob Breakenridge weekday afternoons from 12:30pm - 3:00pm.
Episodes
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Students and Physicians Call for Vaping Regulations
14/02/2019 Duration: 14minUniversity students, high school students and physicians call on the Federal and Provincial Governments to regulate vaping strictly. Elliott Reichardt is the president and one of the co-founders of SAAVE. (Stop Addicting Adolescents to Vaping and E-Cigarettes). He currently works at the University of Calgary in the departments of community health sciences and psychology as a researcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Should Drivers who Get Too Close to Cyclists be Fined?
14/02/2019 Duration: 08minAnnie McKitrick, MLA for Sherwood Park, Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Education joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Restaurants Canada Launches Campaign for Survival
14/02/2019 Duration: 14minRestaurants Canada launches campaign to reveal realities of restaurants struggling for survival in Alberta and dire need for policy solutions. Mark von Schellwitz, Restaurants Canada Vice President, Western Canada joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Stephen Mandel on Elections Alberta appeal
13/02/2019 Duration: 20minAlberta Party leader Stephen Mandel joins Rob to discuss the appeal he and other member of the Alberta Party are launching in light of a 5-year ban on running in a provincial election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of an American Lawman
13/02/2019 Duration: 10minDouglas Century, Co-Author of “Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord” joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
13/02/2019 Duration: 13minJohn Ibbitson, Writer at Large for the Globe & Mail and Co-Author of the book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global population Decline" joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Greg Clark on Alberta Being (Effectively) a Two-Party Province
13/02/2019 Duration: 11minGreg Clark, Alberta Party House Leader says the NDP and UCP have used their majority on a committee to ram through changes that will effectively create a two-party state in Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Alberta's Oil Cuts Backfire as Crude-by-Rail Shipments Collapse
11/02/2019 Duration: 11minMike Walls, Senior Crude Oil Analyst responsible for production forecasting and market analysis at Genscape joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Calgary to Get New Mega-Mall
11/02/2019 Duration: 10minGeorge Chahal, Ward 5 Councillor joins the show to talk about his concerns regarding the project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Recognizing Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s Leader Isn’t a Coup - It’s an Embrace of Democracy.
10/02/2019 Duration: 11minIrwin Cotler, Chair at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Professor Emeritus of Law at McGill University, and Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Impaired Driving Activist Speaks Out
10/02/2019 Duration: 10minTina Adams wants to team up with the drunk driver who hit her to send a powerful message with speaking tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Alberta Teachers Association Cancels Controversial Guest
10/02/2019 Duration: 07minGreg Jeffery, President of the Alberta Teachers’ Association joins the show to talk about the cancellation of guest, Andy Evans, scheduled to speak at Calgary Teachers’ Convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Better Tax Competitiveness for Canada
10/02/2019 Duration: 13minWilliam B.P. Robson, President and CEO of the D Howe Institute - Ottawa should spur growth through better tax competitiveness and get back into the black by curbing overspending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Senate at odds over Bill C-69
08/02/2019 Duration: 15minSenator Paula Simons joins Rob to discuss the consultations and discussions the Senate is having to modify Bill C-69. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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'If you're sentencing someone to die behind bars, it creates the same moral problems as capital punishment.'
08/02/2019 Duration: 14minCatherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society, joins Rob to discuss the sentencings of Bruce McArthur and Aleander Bissonette in the context of Canada's justice system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Canadian Government's Plans to Use Armed Drones
08/02/2019 Duration: 12minProfessor Craig Martin, from Washburn University School of Law in the United States. Canadian lawyer, Called to the Bar in Ontario, and also a former Canadian Forces Naval Officer, and graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada joins the show to talk about armed drone technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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PMO Accused of Pressing Wilson-Raybould to Abandon Prosecution of SNC-Lavalin
08/02/2019 Duration: 08minAmanda Connolly, political reporter for Global News joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Halifax Woman’s Fight to Change Canada’s Assisted-dying Law Continues After Her Death
08/02/2019 Duration: 12minShanaaz Gokool, CEO, Dying With Dignity Canada talks about the "Audrey Amendment." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Book: The Sopranos Sessions
08/02/2019 Duration: 16minMatt Zoller Seitz,TV critic for New York Magazine and Alan Sepinwall, chief TV critic, Rolling Stone join the show to talk about their book, The Sopranos Sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Should Kids Take Mental Health Days from School?
08/02/2019 Duration: 08minKelly Pedro is a former journalist turned freelance writer who specializes in writing about education, health and literacy joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices