Afternoons With Rob Breakenridge

Karyn Drake, former rider of Quick six, the Calgary Stampeders' touchdown horse.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Author David Sax who wrote Revenge of Analog, you can read his op-ed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/opinion/sunday/internet-digital-technology-return-to-analog.html?mwrsm=Email   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year Wickfest brings girl's hockey teams from all over the world to Calgary. Hayley Wickenheiser joins Rob to chat about the program.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you hear the one about how the feds paid 5.6 million to put a skating rink on parliament hill? https://globalnews.ca/news/3828605/parliament-hill-skating-rink/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President of the Alberta Dental Association and College Council Dr. Mintoo Basahti joins Rob to share his thoughts.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Genomics research has the potential to do a world of good for medicine, but research is lacking in a variety of genomics data- namely visible minorities.  Michael Mackley, Dphil is at Dalhousie University.  More Here https://theconversation.com/how-the-genomics-health-revolution-is-failing-ethnic-minorities-86385     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One doctor says he could successfully transplant a head to a body, but most other doctors and neuroscientists are calling his bluff saying that it is impossible.  One of the critics is Dr. Dean Burnett neuroscientist and author of The Idiot Brain.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Staff Sergeant Glenn Laird and Constable Mark Shaw drop by the studio after spending the morning chatting with whoever wanted to drop by Mcdonalds on 17th ave to hang out and ask questions of them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ward 13 Councilor Diane Colley-Urquhart was just re-elected to her post, but is taking some time away to visit penguins in Antarctica while the city debates the budget.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Kim Miller, Epidemiologist American Cancer Society and co-author of this report.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21440/full   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer for Wired magazine Brian Raftery.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

See him tonight at the John Dutton Theatre- Calgary Central Library at 7pm. Tickets at wordfest.com Check out his new book and album at www.alandoyle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may remember the story of Andy Hill, an ex oil patch worker who founded a business a few years ago using old fire trucks to install Christmas lights. We though we would check in on him and see how business is going. Spoiler: It's going great! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We recently found out that when she isn't playing Olympic level hockey for Canada Meghan Agosta is an active membe of the Vancouver Police Department and we just had to ask her about it. She chats about her work life balance and training up for another Olympic push.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob connects with Mubin Shaikh, Ex-CSIS and RCMP undercover counter terrorism expert.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Update on a story from yesterday: The president of Wilfrid Laurier University has released a public apology to Lindsay Shepherd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rob connects with Lindsay Shepherd who was reprimanded for introducing a controversial viewpoint into a class discussion at Wilfred Laurier. More here: http://globalnews.ca/news/3868080/laurier-accused-of-censorship-after-ta-reprimanded-for-playing-gender-pronoun-debate-clip/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lynda Colgan is a Professor of Elementary Mathematics at Queen's University. Her piece on this here: https://theconversation.com/science-in-the-home-boosts-childrens-academic-success-86668   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices