Episodes

  • New book dives into the life outside of running for Canadian legend Terry Fox

    New book dives into the life outside of running for Canadian legend Terry Fox
    Sep 28 2024
    The Latest from Lebanon (1:28) Guest: Jeff Semple, senior correspondent, Global National New book dives into the life outside of running for Canadian legend Terry Fox (15:56) Guest: Barbara Adhiya, author and editor of “Hope by Terry Fox” The Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World (33:32) Guest: Ben MacIntyre, author of "The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World" Northern Ontario man solves local legend, finds long-lost vintage liquor at bottom of a lake (51:09) Guest: Jason Ploeger, a Northern Ontario man who found a bottle of whiskey
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Lucky loser: How Donald Trump Learned to Pass the Buck

    Lucky loser: How Donald Trump Learned to Pass the Buck
    Sep 27 2024
    How will Canada cope with a surge in asylum claims? (1:54) Guest: David Thomas, a Vancouver-based lawyer and mediator with over 20 years in immigration law How are new school cell phone rules working out? (16:19) Guest: Dana Kam, Toronto teacher (middle school gr.7/8s - tough age for pushing boundaries) Lucky loser: How Donald Trump Learned to Pass the Buck (27:00) Guest: Susanne Craig, NY Times reporter and co-author of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success Canadian bestselling author returns with tribute to music and the 90s (46:23) Guest: Marissa Stapley, author of The Lightning Bottles Blind Spots: Exposing Groupthink In The Medical Establishment (1:01:26) Guest: Dr. Marty Makary, John Hopkins University, author of Blind Spots
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Big idea or Bad Idea: Ontario’s premier vows to build 50km traffic tunnel under Toronto’s busy Highway 401

    Big idea or Bad Idea: Ontario’s premier vows to build 50km traffic tunnel under Toronto’s busy Highway 401
    Sep 27 2024
    Guest: Jeff Casello, professor of transportation, engineering planning at the University of Waterloo
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    18 mins
  • Meet the man behind one of Canada’s most beloved TV themes and the petition to get the Littlest Hobo theme composer a Walk of Fame star

    Meet the man behind one of Canada’s most beloved TV themes and the petition to get the Littlest Hobo theme composer a Walk of Fame star
    Sep 26 2024
    Big idea or Bad Idea: Ontario’s premier vows to build 50km traffic tunnel under Toronto’s busy Highway 401 Guest: Jeff Casello, professor of transportation, engineering planning at the University of Waterloo Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre reveals he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, what’s the link between concussions and the disease? Guest: Ravi Menon, professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University Journo corner: What you need to know about the BC election Guest: Keith Baldrey, legislature bureau chief, Global BC Meet the man behind one of Canada’s most beloved TV themes and the petition to get the Littlest Hobo theme composer a Walk of Fame star Guest: Terry Bush, musician and composer of the Littlest Hobo theme Grin and Bear it: A BC man fends off a bear that charged him from inside his garage Guest: Alex Gold, BC man who was charged by a bear Why aging speeds up and slows down at certain periods of our lives Guest: Michael Snyder, geneticist, director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Canadian woman among 37 accusing former Harrod’s owner Mohamed El-Fayed of sexual assault shares her story

    Canadian woman among 37 accusing former Harrod’s owner Mohamed El-Fayed of sexual assault shares her story
    Sep 25 2024
    Trudeau can bank on his celebrity in the U.S., could his appearance on The Late Show hurt him back home? (1:50) Guest: Andrew Perez, Principal, Perez Strategies. Political Commentator & Liberal Strategist Six weeks to go in what is shaping up to be one of the closest U.S. presidential elections in memory (16:58) Guest: Brooks Simpson, , Foundation Professor of History, Arizona State University What more are we learning about the implosion of the Titan at a US Coast Guard inquiry? (36:12) Guest: Peter Girguis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Adjunct Oceanographer, Applied Ocean Engineering and Physics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Canadian woman among 37 accusing former Harrod’s owner Mohamed El-Fayed of sexual assault shares her story (47:23) Guest: Amy How climate disaster survivors cling to the precious few items they managed to salvage (1:09:35) Guest: Lorna Fandrich, executive director of the Lytton Chinese History Museum, and Lytton fire survivor How to save democracy from Silicon Valley (1:23:23) Guest: Marietje Schaake, author of The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Historian petitions to get Littlest Hobo theme song writer a star on the Walk of Fame

    Historian petitions to get Littlest Hobo theme song writer a star on the Walk of Fame
    Sep 24 2024
    Guest: Craig Baird, host of the Canadian History Ehx podcast
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    18 mins
  • Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keeler about to join the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

    Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keeler about to join the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
    Sep 24 2024
    Disgraceful’ school trip to Toronto protest needs to be investigated, Ontario premier says (2:00) Guest: Melissa - TDSB parent Instagram rolls out teen accounts, other privacy changes designed to protect those under 18 (17:11) Guest: Elaine Uskoski, video gaming addiction specialist, coach and author, her books include Cyber Sober: A Caregiver’s Guide to Video Gaming Addiction. , “ Seeing Through the Cracks” Public system spent at least $1.5-billion on private nurses last year, a sixfold increase since 2020 (35:12) Guest: Dr. Joan Almost, professor of nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Greg Keeler about to join the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (49:23) Guest: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, Blue Rodeo and 2024 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Think your dog understands words? You might be right (1:09:06) Guest: Federico Rossano, associate professor, department of cognitive sciences, University of California, San Diego
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • They call him Bear but you can call this lifesaving puppy Hero

    They call him Bear but you can call this lifesaving puppy Hero
    Sep 21 2024
    They call him Bear but you can call this lifesaving puppy Hero (1:25) Guest: Darren Cropper, Bear’s owner How to admire nature’s wonders in unexpected urban places (17:10) Guest: Christopher Brown, author of The Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places Woman nearly shut out of mother's estate sues brother in B.C. Supreme Court – and wins (35:54) Guest: Ginny Lam, plaintiff; Aubrie Girou, estate lawyer, Alexander Holburn Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains (52:15) Guest: Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology, Royal B.C. Museum
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    1 hr and 13 mins