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At The Box Office

Rick Forchuck is here with all your movie information! Also what's new on Netflix and a couple new TV shows. Guest: Rick Forchuck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 5, 201711 min

ProBus Month is Here

There is a club for retiree's who want some socializing and networking opportunies and this month they are celebrating. It's ProBus Month and our guest Tony Hart tells us why ProBus clubs are important. Guest: Tony Hart, Membership Coordinator - Applewood Probus club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 5, 20179 min

Music Heals Increases Access to Therapy, from Cover Charges

Over 80 bars, clubs and pubs in 30 cities across Canada are donating $1 per cover charge (or making a flat donation of $1 per patron, for those that don't charge cover) to Music Heals for one night. The Music Heals Charitable Foundation helps raise awareness of the healing powers of Music and fundraises to increase access to Music Therapy for patients in children’s hospitals, senior’s homes, palliative care, AIDS & HIV programs, bereavement, and more. Music Therapy is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health GUEST: Zoe Peled - Community Outreach Specialist, Music Heals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 4, 20179 min

Raising Money to Cover New US Administration Cuts to Family Planning Programs

An international conference, alarmed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies could push women “into the Dark Ages,” has raised nearly $200-million (U.S.) from Canada and other countries to help replace Mr. Trump’s planned cuts to contraception and family planning programs. GUEST: Sarah Kennell - Public Affairs Officer, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 4, 20177 min

March is Fraud Protection Month: Tips & Advice to Help You Out

March is Fraud Prevention Month. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the annual education and awareness campaign that began in 2004 by encouraging Canadians to recognize, reject and report fraud. Spearheaded by the Competition Bureau, Fraud Prevention Month is a unique effort that brings together over 80 law enforcement agencies and public and private sector organizations to combat fraud. During the month of March, the Bureau and its partners in the Fraud Prevention Forum carry out numerous activities and host a variety of events to inform Canadians about the impact of fraud and how to protect themselves. GUEST: Kelley Keehn - Award-winning author & personal finance educator, Consumer advocate, Financial Planning Standards Council Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 4, 20179 min

The State of Cannabinoid Research & Determining Appropriate Dosages of Marijuana in Medicine

Ontario's Dr. Ira Price has a lot to say as an international leader in cannabinoid (cannabis) -based medicine. He is the creator of the Price Protocol for dosing cannabis used by physicians around the country... and has a lot of opinions on the state of cannabis medicine in Canada. Guest: Dr. Ira Price- Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine through the Department of Internal Medicine at McMaster University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons trained in Emergency Medicine, with a Fellowship in Sports Medicine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 4, 201712 min

LGBT youth in sports

GUEST: Elizabeth Saewyc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 26, 201711 min

Raising the age of smoking

GUEST: Neil E. Collishaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 26, 20179 min

One Quarter of Detached Homes in Vancouver could be Demolished by 2030- Report

Approximately one-quarter of detached homes in Vancouver’s red-hot housing market could be torn down between now and 2030, according to a new forecasting tool developed by a UBC researcher and industry collaborator. This forecasting tool, known as the teardown index, suggests that the lower the value of the residence relative to the value of the overall property (its relative building value, or RBV), the more likely it is the house will be torn down and replaced by a new one. GUEST: Joe Dahmen - Professor of Architecture at the University of British Columbia and a Wall Scholar at UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 25, 20179 min

Will CETA Really Benefit Every Canadian as Promised?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says CETA, Canada’s new trade deal with Europe, will benefit all Canadians — but the accuracy of that statement is yet to be seen. GUEST: Mario Seccareccia -Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 25, 20179 min

Ruling States that there can be no more Challenges of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner’s Decisions- Checking in with Democracy Watch

Democracy Watch appealed B.C. Supreme Court Justice Affleck’s ruling in January that no court challenges are allowed of B.C. Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser’s decisions because they are unreviewable opinions with no direct legal effect limiting the Premier’s conflicts of interest. GUEST: Duff Conacher- Co-founder Democracy Watch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 25, 20178 min

Restaurant Closures in White Rock Causes Changes to try and Revitalize Commercial Hub

A string of restaurant closures along Marine Drive in White Rock in the past few months has the city looking to roll out an ambitious plan to revitalize the commercial hub. GUEST: David Chesney - City of White Rock Councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 25, 201710 min

Foster parents

GUEST: Marie the Foster Mom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 19, 201712 min

Home and community care

GUEST: Daniel Fontain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 19, 201710 min

B.C.'s Overdose Epidemic has Lead to a Substantial Increase in Organ Donors

B.C.’s overdose epidemic, especially deaths involving fentanyl, is behind a significant increase in the number of organ transplant donors, according to a B.C. Transplant agency leader. GUEST: Ed Farre- BC Transplant’s Provincial Operations Director Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 18, 20177 min

A Dispensary in Nanaimo has been Closed due to its Proximity to a Daycare

Nanaimo Mounties have closed a marijuana dispensary that opened next door to a children's daycare centre. Leaf Labs Medical Cannabis Services, at 679 Terminal Ave., was shut down Monday, three days after it opened, when police checked the business and allegedly observed evidence they believe contravene Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The dispensary was closed and secured until a search warrant was granted to search the premises.Police seized about 0.7 kilograms of marijuana. A 24-year-old man, allegedly operating the dispensary, was arrested for possession for the purpose of trafficking and released later that day on a promise to appear in Nanaimo provincial court July 10. The dispensary was brought to the RCMP’s attention because of its location directly next door to the Kidz Kompany daycare centre. GUEST: Tony Wilson, Associate Counsel at Boughton Law Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 18, 20179 min

A New Ruling is Protecting an Employee Whom Stormed Out of Work in Ontario

All employees face workplace frustrations, but most know better than to storm out of the workplace in the heat of the moment. A recent Ontario ruling protected one employee from her ill-informed decision to do just that. GUEST: Howard Levitt -Senior Partner of Levitt LLP, Employment and Labour Lawyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 18, 201711 min

The Jill Bennett Show - Variety Telethon

GUEST: Kristy Gill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 20178 min

Refugees crossing into Manitoba

Global News reporter Zahra Premji is on the ground in Emerson, Manitoba - a small border town which has seen dozens of asylum seekers cross illegally into Canada as the political climate in the U.S. darkens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 20178 min

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump meet

GUEST: Naomi Christensen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 20179 min

Donald Trump: tweets, executive orders and ongoing battles

GUEST: Stephen Gordon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 20179 min

Newspaper coverage of HIV

GUEST: Laura Bisaillon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 20179 min

Canadian multiculturalism in the time of Trump

GUEST: Barbara Perry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 201710 min

Getting to Dawson Creek Could be Best Done by Motor Home

If it weren’t for the 75-year-old Alaskan (ALCAN) Highway, a stretch of road that runs for 2,232 km and offers the ultimate road trip for adventurers looking to experience the North-Eastern regions of BC, Lower Mainlanders would not have linkage to Alaska. Built by US soldiers and Canadian citizens, the road was developed during World War II when the US suddenly joined the armed conflict after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today there is no shortage of pit stops and spectacular sights along the route GUEST: Austin Weaver - Tourism, Dawson Creek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 20179 min

The Frequency with which Female Donors can Give Blood has been Reduced- Why?

New guidelines introduced by Canadian Blood Services limiting the number of times female donors can donate in a year has the national agency scrambling to find new donors to make up the difference. The change, implemented in December, was part of tougher guidelines on the amount of hemoglobin or iron required in the blood. The new rules mean that female donors are now required to wait 12 weeks or 84 days between donations, as opposed to the previous eight weeks or 56 days. Nothing has changed for male donors although as of March 5 individuals will have to pass a slightly higher hemoglobin test. GUEST: Trudi Goels - Territory Manager, Canadian Blood Services BC-Yukon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 20179 min

How Steve Bannon’s “Dark Vision” Could Shape the World

Revolution is not only inevitable, it’s necessary: How Steve Bannon’s dark vision could shape the world Guest: Joe Brean - National Reporter, National Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 20178 min

Governments Must Create New Social Contracts to Avoid Deepening Inequality

The head of the government’s economic growth advisory council says governments need to craft “new social contracts” with Canadians to avoid deepening income inequality over time. GUEST: Dominic Barton - Managing Director, McKinsey & Co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 201710 min

Two Thirds of Canadian Companies Feel They are Losing the Battle Against Cyber Attacks: Study

In a study of Canadian IT and security workers, the survey results found that: A majority of Canadian companies fear they are losing the war on cyber security threats as cyber-attacks against Canadian companies year-over-year. 41 per cent of respondents indicated their organization had systems in place to deal with APT’s (advanced persistent threats), up from 38 per cent last year. The most frequent compromises continue to be web-borne malware attacks (76%) followed by rootkits (67%). Mobile devices (75%) and third party applications (70%) were identified as the greatest potential risks threatening their company’s IT environment. GUEST: Ryan Wilson- CTO of Scalar Security Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 20179 min

Election Reform

GUEST: Nathan Cullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 5, 201714 min

Self-driving cars

GUEST: Paul Godsmark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 5, 201710 min

Jill's Editorial

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Feb 5, 201714 min

Being a nomad

GUEST: Steffani Cameron Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 5, 201713 min

Uncertainty in the U.S. Means Canada Could Benefit Economically from an Influx of International Students

The head of Canada's biggest university organization says there's growing evidence that post-U.S. election uncertainty could help boost an important source of cash for the economy: international students. GUEST: Paul Davidson - Universities Canada President Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 201711 min

Canadians Finally get to Watch American Ads During the Super Bowl - but is this a good thing?

It's a long-standing Canadian Super Bowl tradition: tuning in to the big game, but being shut out from the big-budget, star-studded U.S. commercials. That changes this year as a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy banning the simultaneous substitution of Canadian ads over U.S. ones during the big game comes into play for the first time. GUEST: Michael Geist - Law Professor at the University of Ottawa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 20178 min

A Look into the Logistics of NAFTA

U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to renegotiate or entirely rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement has politicians and business owners deeply concerned. With trade in goods and services between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico totalling US$1.3 trillion in 2015, it’s easy to understand why. But for all the strong feelings and intense debate it inspires, economists say NAFTA has had less of an impact on the Canadian economy than many might assume. Here’s why the agreement Trump calls the “worst trade deal in history” might not actually be all that bad — or all that great. GUEST: Keith Head - Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division, UBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 20177 min

What Might Americans be Looking for in a Renegotiated Form of NAFTA?

Wondering what the Americans might want from Canada in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement? Clues might be embedded in a document published by the U.S. government. GUEST: Alan Wolff - Dentons Trade Lawyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 201711 min

A Message to Parents from Their Kids' Daycare: Get Off Your Phone!!

That was the the bold underlined message on the door parents were greeted with last week when they picked their kids up at a Hockley, TX daycare center. “You are picking up your child,” the note reads. “Your child is happy to see you! Are you happy to see your child?? We have seen children trying to hand their parents their work they completed and the parent is on the phone. We have heard a child say ‘Mommy, mommy, mommy…’ and the parent is paying more attention to their phone than their own child. It is appalling.” GUEST: Ann Douglas- Author, Radio Columnist, Speaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 4, 20179 min

Why the BC- Kinder Morgan Revenue Sharing Deal is bad for Canada

Almost five years ago, British Columbia announced five “conditions” for its “approval” of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline expansion. The last of the five conditions – that there be a “fair share of benefits” for British Columbians – has now been met, with Kinder Morgan agreeing to pay $500-million to $1-billion over 20 years to the B.C. government. Environmental concerns will be addressed by the 194 specific national and provincial conditions for the project, plus the federal commitment to a $1.5-billion ocean-protection plan. But the fifth condition was all about money and local politics. GUEST: Martha Hall-Findlay- President and CEO of Canada West Foundation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 201711 min

Victoria Latest Addition to List of Cities with Real Estate Woes

Canada’s housing agency has added Victoria to its list of real estate markets with problems, seeing danger signs in the B.C. capital’s home values. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Thursday that it is maintaining its “red warning” for the country’s real estate market as a whole, with high prices in and around Vancouver and Toronto among its top concerns. GUEST: Eric Bond- Senior Marketing Analyst (Victoria) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 20179 min

Canadian Doctors Remove Lungs to Save Woman’s Life in Groundbreaking Procedure

In what’s believed to be a world first, Canadian doctors say they were able to save a young mother’s life with a radical procedure — they removed her lungs. GUEST: Dr. Niall Ferguson - Head of Critical Care at the University Health Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 201711 min

The Perceived Benefits of Climate Change

Research suggests climate change could increase the number of nice days Canadians enjoy. Most global warming studies have focused on extreme weather or broad-scale averages of temperature and precipitation. But Karin van der Wiel, of Princeton University, says that’s not how people will experience their new circumstances. GUEST: Karin van der Wiel- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 20176 min

Seniors Typically Frugal in Retirement: Study

According to a recent Texas Tech University study, most retired people of moderate means don’t spend all of their income from social security, pensions and investment earnings, nor do they draw down the principal in their nest egg. Even affluent retirees are spending nowhere near an amount that would place them in danger of running out of money, say the study’s authors Chris Browning, Tao Guo and Yuanshan Cheng. Guest: Wanda Morris- VP Advocacy and COO, Canadian Association of Retired Persons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 28, 20178 min

Skin Cancer is the most common type of cancer in Canada, and people are still using Tanning Beds

About 1.35 million Canadians are still using tanning beds, because they thought getting a base tan would help protect them against sunburns. The Canadian Cancer Society is calling the number of people that are using tanning beds 'quite alarming'. Guest: Rob Nuttall- Assistant Director of Health Policy, Canadian Cancer Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 201711 min

Are Goals to end Homelessness too Lofty?

Communities accross Canada and around the world have embarked on a wide range of initiatives with the goal of ending homelessness. Some jurisdictions have declared progress but rarely have defined their goals. What should the short-term and long-term goals be for alleviating the problem of homelessness? The School of Public Policy in collaboration with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and the Alliance to End Homelessness released a report that investigates this and related questions. Guest: Dr. Alina Turner- Fellow, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 201710 min

It's Not a Protest, but the Women's March on Washington Wouldn't be Happening Without Yesterday's Inauguration

It's not billed as an anti-Trump protest, but the Women's March on Washington wouldn't exist had it not been for the new U.S. President. Organizers expect between 2,000 and 3,000 to attend a Vancouver march on Saturday, January 21- a day after Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 20177 min

Whistler Pride and Ski Festival Hosting Revelers from 26 Countries

Whistler Pride welcomes gay men and women from 26 nations coming together to celebrate diversity and to explore the incredible 8,176 acres (3308 hectares) of pure skiing and riding bliss. Guest: Dean Nelson- CEO, Executive Producer of GayWhistler.com & the annual Whistler Pride and Ski Festival Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 20179 min

Number of Canadian Children on Antidepressants & Antipsychotics up by one third: study

Canadian doctors are increasingly medicating children with antidepressants and antipsychotics, suggests a new study. Experts worry this is the latest sign of using drugs to achieve "behavioural control". Nationally, antipsychotic dispensing to Canadian children and youth increased by 33 percent over a four-year period, while the rate of antidepressants jumped 63 percent, new research shows. Quebec had the highest pediatric antipsychotic dispensing rate in the country, with 253 prescriptions filled for every 1,000 youth under 18. Guest: Dr. Paul Kurdyak- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 21, 201711 min

Talking warming centres with Provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall

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Jan 15, 20178 min

Metro Vancouver sets Municipal Housing Records

The number of residential units in Metro Vancouver in 2016 reached a number that broke the record set decades ago. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CHMC), there were 27,914 housing starts in the region last year, up from 20,863 in 2015. Guest: Robyn Adamanche- Principal Market Analyst (Vancouver), Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 14, 20179 min

Moving Toward Marijuana Legalization

Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government was elected on a platform of legalizing marijuana. Since the election, teh Liberals have been moving toward actually doing it. Late last year, a task force reported on the practicalities of legal pot, and legislation is expected this year. Guest: Steven Hoffman- University of Ottawa Law Professor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 14, 201710 min