Free For All Friday - Hour 1

Guest host Mark Towhey breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.

On today's show:

• Darrell Bricker, CEO, Ipsos joins Mark to discuss population growth within Canada.
• Carmi Levy, tech journalist and analyst joins Mark to discuss the future of batteries.. do we need Lithium?
• Dr. Jonathan Lai, Executive Director of Autism Alliance of Canada joins Mark to talk about Canada’s first National Autism Strategy.

Free For All Friday - Hour 2

Guests from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. This week's show features panelists Sabrina Grover, Sr Advisor, Spark Advocacy and NorthStar Public Affairs, Alex Chreston, Vice President with Crestview Strategy and Marion Nader, Co-CEO Nexus Strategy Group, Former NDP Strategist.

Topic 1: Will the Liberals make it to Christmas? How do they regain ‘confidence’ in Canadians after the non-confidence votes coming through. Have the NDP and the Bloc positioned themselves well?

Topic 2: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has lost 205 firearms since 2020, including machine-guns

Topic 3: Feds eyeing new ways to publicly flag possible foreign interference during elections – A senior federal official says the government is mulling new ways to inform the public about possible foreign interference developments during an election campaign. Would this be beneficial?

Topic 4: I like dining alone. I’m great company. Do you?