The Start

Restrictions and schools, frustration, where is the Premier? (0:05); CFIB reacts to those who say 'no more handouts' (6:00); What's your favourite rivalry? (10:33); Dry prairies a 'grave situation' as areas of 'extreme drought' expand (17:05); Teachers prepare to go remote in Winnipeg and Brandon, and a HILARIOUS story about Greg and pocket-dialing a video call (24:15); Many businesses closed...again (34:00); You're frustrated, you're angry, and we get it (39:43); Weekly visit with Bob Irving (43:57); Premier to speak about supports for biz /// Texts on 'be kind' (53:06); Listener got vaccine at supersite over the weekend, says it wasn't busy. WHY? (57:48); Winning text on rivalries (1:03:37).

Have you ever taken a sick day, for mental health? If you call in sick should it matter if it's physical or mental? (1:40); Favourite movie moms! (8:30); The Couch Potatoes - WE MISS GOING TO THE MOVIES (14:50); More on mental health & workplace (24:40); Nurses brace as third wave rises (29:30); Workplace and mental health...with more people struggling, are employers better at saying 'take a mental health day'? (37:05); More movie moms (45:15); Blue Bombers/Purolator Small Business Initiative (49:50); Celebrate Mom with Nemeth Diamonds WINNER (56:35); Gab with Gabby (1:01:05).

All week long we celebrated our moms ahead of Mother's Day and our listeners shared countless amazing stories. There were four qualifiers, and in the end, there can be only one, and Karin Durand took home the $500 gift card from Nemeth Diamonds! Congrats!

JETS WIN AGAIN AT LAST. And vaccine eligibility expands big (1:40); Eligibility expands so kids 12 and up now qualify. Will your teen get a say in the vaccine decision? (6:40); Mom's best recipes! (12:40); Small Town Salute - The couple who has golfed ALMOST every course in MB (21:00); DON'T ban nuts in schools? New study says time to change guidelines around food allergens in schools (27:45); Teens and vaccine chat // food bans in school chat (40:15); Mom's best recipes winning text (47:30); LASAGNA SMACKDOWN, and Dad's Press Conference (51:35); Geoff Currier on sports cliches (1:02:00).

Are you more emotional lately? (1:37); SK releases its re-opening roadmap based on vaccinations - Manitoba Chambers of Commerce wants our province to do the same (7:55); MOM HARD WITH A VENGEANCE! Tell us about a time when Mom really came through in the clutch (13:35); A lawyer weighs in on vaccines and the workplace (15:57); Texts on Mom Hard (21:53); Kids and transmission of COVID-19 (27:52); Text on mom, then 30% of people say they only do THIS once or twice a year... (34:30); More mom texts, and what we wear at work vs what we wear while working from home (40:13); Feelings bubbling at the surface? How Laughing Yoga can help Jeanine Carman (46:05); Winning Mom Hard text (55:15).

Benjamin Hecht is a managing partner at Pitblado Law and a labour and employment lawyer. He joined to answer some of our questions about the workplace and the vaccine.

Jets lose AGAIN, & another anti-mask rally what's wrong with these goofs (1:40); Mom whose son first got COVID shares her thoughts from hospital bed, Greg delivers passionate follow-up (9:00); Tell us something funny about your mom! (15:15); Get the first shot available...or wait? NACI messaging continues to confuse, and anger is rising (24:40); Walking 20 km with 10 kg of gear: Winnipeggers tribute Canadian soldiers & Holland through Nijmegan March (31:45); What's the difference between the Mom Joke and Dad Joke? (42:00); Rocket from China's space station could fall back to Earth?? (46:15); Winning text on something funny about your mom (55:10); Brandon scores first ever AAA Under 15 girls hockey team (57:25).

Lauren got her shot! Selfies and teens (1:07); Some doctors are saying the current restrictions aren't enough (7:40); Tell us about a time your mom got mad at you! (12:33); Do you use filters before posting photos? (20:18); Texts on Mom (27:10); How kids are using apps to alter appearances before posting selfies Body Confidence Canada (29:54); Clearing up public health update, and more texts on Mom (37:08); Weekly visit with Bob Irving (41:30); Manitoba Olympian FUELING SPORT Canadian Women's Soccer team star Desiree Scott (50:58); Winning text on Mom getting mad (60:00).

Stop scaring people with pics of needles and bleeding arms! (1:07); Teachers getting shots in North Dakota now (7:19); COOKIES! (13:31); Manitobans being asked to show their appreciation (20:12); Passionate text from a teacher (22:58); Busiest start to wildfire season for WFPS in years (29:12); Fun, non COVID-chat on cookies... then it took a turn to wisdom teeth and pain BECAUSE LOL (33:52); High Tea Bakery teams up with Winnipeg Love to offer special cookies for Eid al Fitr & to Celebrate Everything (40:52); East India Company directing portion of revenue to effort to purchase oxygen concentrators needed in India (48:43); Gab with Gabby - Hundreds of $$$ in late fees at the library! (55:12); Winning text on cookies (55:12).

Greg's first crack at Tim Horton's self-checkout in drive-thru (1:40); Having Coffee, Talking... Self-checkout & automation. Do you like it? (8:35); Confusion around vaccines for immuno-compromised and cancer patients (15:50); Texts on self-checkouts (22:30); Small Town Salute to Winkler! Spenst Bros Premium Meats and the success of their frozen pizzas (24:45); Weight gain (and loss) in the pandemic (32:25); 'Grow a pair.' 'Let's go guys.' British teacher trying to get kids to stop using these and other phrases (37:40); Manitoba Teachers' Society sounding alarm on Covid in Winnipeg schools, wanting 'circuit breaker' // Dog poop patroller in action in White Rock, B.C. (48:30); Winning text on self-checkouts (56:05); Vaccine Hesitancy in Southern MB - we chat with Winkler Mayor Martin Harder (59:40).

Tuesday was a beautiful day for languishing; Late fees! An Oklahoma woman found out she was wanted for felony embezzlement over a VHS tape she rented 20 years ago; Should Canada start using vaccine certificates?; Texts on late fees & assorted shocking bills; India Association of MB reacts to COVID surge in India; Weekly visit with Hal Anderson!; Would you take a pay cut to work from home permanently?; The ethics of a vaccine certificate; Winning text on late fees; Winnipeg Crime Stoppers on Manitoba Unsolved Mysteries - the 1987 murder of 15-year-old Cheryl Duck

We speak to Cst. Doug Singleton of the WPS, the Police Coordinator for Winnipeg Crime Stoppers, on the 1987 murder of 15-year-old Cheryl Duck. www.winnipegcrimestoppers.org204 786 TIPS / 204 786 8477https://macp.mb.ca/unsolved-mysteries/

Jets get WAXED, and new restrictions starting Wednesday (1:40); Four losses in a row for the Winnipeg Jets (5:45); Restrictions and stepping up enforcement (8:55); Hal locked himself out of his truck on his birthday! What's your 'locked out' story? (15:45); Texts on getting locked out (21:50); Breakfast with the Bombers - Former Blue Bomber Mike Abou-Mechrek donates his kidney to his dad (24:10); The Power of the Vaxxie with Susie Erjavec Parker (35:20); Vaccine supercentre volunteer (40:00); Four Crowns Restaurant & Cafe offers to help buy produce from food court restaurants that have to close (47:55); Winning text on getting locked out (56:20); Languishing, and... Losing the gift of gab? Why small talk is struggling (59:30).

Lauren & Greg are both having MONDAYS // Additional public health measures coming; Vaccines in high risk neighborhoods - the work to get the message out; Most hated yard job; Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce on impending health measures ; Lauren's hated yard job; Cancer patient looking for vaccine finds work-around; Restrictions coming -- let's put a myth to bed; Lauren's dog Moose is a holy terror and a remorseless eating machine. But he's so cute!; What's next for gas prices? Roger McKnight, Analyst with En-Pro International; Santa Lucia Pizza contest winner

WAKE UP!! (1:40); Ontario looking at paid sick leave, Manitoba looking to feds to help (8:55); Curfew stories! (10:50); Brett finally makes it to work / Fed up with cooking? Recipe ideas with Chef Kevin Funk, who runs a ghost kitchen (18:00); Brett explains why he was late for work (26:35); Vaccine hot spot update // curfew texts (29:40); Paid sick leave. Ontario looking into it. Manitoba looking to feds. (35:30); Hula Hoop for weight loss? (42:10); Paid sick leave. Listener reaction and chat (52:05); Contest winner (56:25); Made Simple App offers resources for moms (59:15).

We speak with Juliana Avella, holistic nutritionist and doula, and the creator of the Made Simple App

The CFL is back! And transit drivers: No vaccine for you! (1:06); Vaccine eligibility rules change again, and how's our supply? (6:34); The CFL is set to kick off in August! How will it work, and will we need an immunity passport? (11:01); Our old piles of electronics! (18:23); Transit union reacts to not being included in updated vaccine priority for front line workers (26:36); EMERGENCY text on old electronics (34:51); Trucker Chris got his vaccine in North Dakota! (36:30); Emotional discussion with Kevin Chief over expansion of WASAC night with the Jets (44:54); Winning text on old electronics (55:12); On this Earth Day, what do we do with our old electronics?? (56:35).

Brett got his first vaccine! (1:40); AstraZeneca vaccines explode thanks to expanded eligibility, overwhelming pharmacies (7:45); Tell us a childcare story! (15:50); TICKS! They're already here! We talk to Taz Stuart (22:05); Jeff McWhinney, Keeper of the Cup, on his new children's book and its important message (29:45); Pharmacist weighs in on the sudden change in vaccine eligibility, and how excited he is to see the demand (39:25); Maples Collegiate principal helps teachers book vaccine appointments after the news broke (47:35); The Kathy Kennedy Bursary! (58:30).

Hans Epp, pharmacist and owner at the Shoppers Drug Mart in Steinbach

Crappy weekend weather made Greg fall down go boom (1:40); Vaccination hesitancy (7:40); Manitobans can't go to their Ontario cabins under new rules in Ontario - we speak to a Winnipegger with a family cabin at Malachi Lake, in Ontario (11:50); Rude awakenings! Lauren has a hilarious story of overnight pandemonium courtesy of her dog Moose (19:05); Doctors Manitoba survey on vaccine hesitancy (28:40); Will we end up with restrictions similar to Ontario? (37:40); Weekly chat with Bob Irving (44:00); Winning text on rude awakenings (52:55); "Swimming Aimlessly" - Winnipeg author on new book on infertility (55:35).

Ontario has closed its border to Manitoba, which means Manitobans with cabins in that province are out of luck for now. On Monday, we spoke to Winnipegger Mike Grosvenor, whose family cabin is at Malachi Lake in Ontario.

Big day for Siloam Mission, big win for the Jets, and a big jump at the pump! (1:40); MB announces changes to priority system for vaccines (8:05); Help from strangers (15:05); With the arrival of the Brazil variant, should be be banning all non-essential travel? (21:45); Lauren's story on help from strangers (27:30); Former Siloam Mission client Ron Bohdan (30:00); Brett's quick review of 'Nobody', the Bob Odenkirk action movie that was shot in Winnipeg! (37:15); Police to be vaccinated thanks to revamped priority list (41:00); Helping a stranger get home in a storm! (51:05); Winning text on help from strangers (56:20).

COVID & vaccine questions, and your collections! (1:07); Listener sends pics of sweet KISS collection, then questions about the vaccine rollout (8:19); The stuff we've collected over the years (14:54); More restrictions coming? Tighter rules on gatherings? Masks outdoors? (21:34); Texts on collections (28:18); Third + Bird Spring Market is this weekend, as the variants continue to loom (31:03); Do other medications we take have the risk of blood clots? (41:33); Winning text on collections (45:01); The man with the Transformers collection that's More than meets the eye! (48:30).

McNabb is back! Still running on almost no sleep though, which ties in to the stress moms are feeling during the pandemic (1:07); Bad haircuts and hair mishaps! (6:12); COVID cases are growing in the 10-19 age bracket - should teachers be prioritized for vaccination? (11:55); Texts on bad haircuts (17:41); What's in a name? Global B.C. reporter Neetu Garcha is going back to the way her name is supposed to be pronounced (19:20); COVID-19 stress is taking a toll on moms (23:23); Winning text on bad haircuts (31:28); Sachit Mehra from East India Company on Apu and Hank Azaria's apology (34:20).

James Bedford, President of the Manitoba Teachers' Society

More proof that Tuesdays suck (0:30); More restrictions on the way because of a few rule-breakers? (8:20); Alan Cross: Sorry Gen X, but the music of your youth is now the new classic rock (15:35); Open Streets plan - no pedestrians?? (20:25); Latest on protests and violence in Minnesota following police shooting (28:10); Camping system stinks / WE ARE SICK OF WINTER (35:00); Brett hates this classic rock song / The province weighs in on its lousy reservation system (41:25); Winning text on classic rock! (49:55); City Councillors survey shows strong support for reduced residential speed limits (52:30).

Greg's back in the 'home office', broadcasting from home again as variant cases ride and Canada falls behind on vaccination (1:07); Global's Kahla Evans on the return of winter weather (7:51); Grand Beach Club is back! Which clothing brand or trend would you like to see return, or not return? (11:38); A 'growing sense of dread' for Manitoba's COVID numbers (18:50); Downtown employment pre-pandemic and now 26:03); Weekly chat with Bob Irving (24:28); Hybrid working - as we work to get more people vaccinated, how many will actually return to the workplace? (42:12); Winning text on clothing trends (51:01); Twenty-two-year-old Manitoban offers warning about the variants and how bad they were - he got one! (52:06).

Peter Soliman, 22, recently posted on Instagram about his experience being one of the first young Manitobans to get the B-1-1-7 variant. He was extremely sick. Here's what he said in his Instagram post: "This picture of me was taken before leaving the hospital. Not many of you know this but last month I got extremely sick with the Covid-19 B117 variant (aka the UK strain). I’m only writing this because I see many people who have never been touched by covid 19 starting to go back to normal and acting like the pandemic isn’t real or they’re just over it. I’m 22 years old, previously healthy, i eat well and I have been staying physically active. Before this, I always thought yenno I’m young, healthy and have no other medical conditions, this virus would be just like any flu; it wasn’t. The first week, I had very high fevers daily, my temperature would reach 40-41 degrees. My body felt like it ran a marathon and I barely got any sleep from the discomfort. I thought yenno its been a week in, I should start recovering now... but no. I developed pneumonia and my oxygen saturation dropped to 70%, if you don’t know what that number means ask someone who does seriously. I was bed bound and unable to get up to go to the bathroom. I was taken to the hospital not once but twice, and was told by a doctor my condition was worse than a 84 year old in the room next door with covid. These variants are serious, if you believe being young and healthy got you covered it doesn’t. I was one of the first young people in Manitoba to get it and I was told “we know nothing about this variant”, physicians were trying different med doses on me. So I want you to imagine being sick and everyday you’re being told physicians don’t know they just hope you get better. An ICU doctor came and talked with me to let me know that if tomorrow my condition got slightly worse they would have to take me to the ICU. I am not writing this for attention or sympathy, I am grateful and thank God everyday to be slowly recovering and trying to get back to my normal self; I am only writing this because I see how many people feel invincible, I see how many people are sick of watching the news and sick of the rules. This isn’t the time to let go of this, with few peopl vaccinated it’s up to each one of us to protect ourselves, the ones we love and take some pressure off the overworked healthcare workers"

Kate Fenske, CEO Downtown Winnipeg BIZ with results of a March 2021 Probe Research Omnibus survey

Dr. Gigi Osler is an ear, nose and throat specialist AND former president of the Canadian Medical Association

Dwight MacAulay, former Chief of Protocol for Manitoba

We speak with contractor Rick Lavallee (also a loyal listener who goes by North End Rick!)

Why are our throats so dry??? (1:06); Budget! Pallister comments on teachers ruffle some feathers, while another budget announcement receives applause (7:44); School supplies! Favourites / most coveted / WORST (13:46); Teachers tax rebate - how much DO they spend out of pocket for supplies? (20:59); Texts on teachers (28:15); Small Town Salute once again to St. Adolphe for Hockeyville - voting starts Friday! (30:17); No more COVID cases in care homes (37:08); April is Limb Loss Awareness Month (46:53); Winning text on school supplies (55:48); Former NHLer Brantt Myhres on his issues with addiction (57:56).

We speak to Chris Marshall, President of the Amputee Coalition of Canada

Alberta more restrictions to combat COVID variants (1:40); With provinces shutting down around us, should we take a harder look at our possible COVID symptoms? (8:05); Global's Abigail Turner gave away some couches, and three weeks later the person brought them back! What's the weirdest thing you've returned (or had returned to you?) (13:20); Leah Hextall for this week's Jets chat (21:15); Camping reservation update / King's Head issues emotional plea to province after having to turn away people from out of province who should be isolating (31:10); Weekly visit with Hal Anderson! (38:15); Lauren's 'guilty pleasure' song irks Brett (48:10); Winning text on returning stuff (51:40).

Greg's back, Brett got lots of sleep, Lauren got no sleep, and many campers are grumpy today (1:40); Vaccine shaming! Would you question someone for getting the shot if it seems like they're jumping the queue? (9:00); Stories about... WOOD! Yes, wood. We'll explain! (13:20); Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman on Brett's social anxiety & exhaustion after going golfing and being around people again for the first time in months (20:30); One sweet, and one hilarious text on wood (28:15); Winnipeg Blue Bombers are heading to SPICE WORLD (30:00); More on vaccine shaming (36:40); Third anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash (39:55); Winning text on wood (49:05).

I went golfing three times over the long weekend, and it was WONDERFUL to play the game I love and even MORE wonderful to see so many of my friends whom I haven't seen for months. But at the end of each of those days, I was asleep by 9pm! Exhausted, was I, just from being around people again and having to make conversation, so we turned to psychologist Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman to find out if others are experiencing this kind of thing thanks to pandemic isolation. - Brett

Brett's tired... from being around people! (1:07); Camping reservations start today, and listener Christie is JACKED (8:01); Funny camping stories (15:45); The golf rule that many Manitobans thought was an April Fool's joke (21:41); Texts on funny camping stories, and Brett's friend doesn't understand how maps work (28:35); Kids and the COVID variants (31:52); Weekly chat with Bob Irving (41:25); SUCCESS for listener Christie! (51:03); Winning text on camping stories (55:57); She's an emergency physician AND an award-winning author! And playwright! Melissa Yi tells us about her new book "Scorpion Scheme" (59:47).

It's Great Thursday! (1:40); People called 911 to complain about Tuesday's Amber Alert (8:45); Favourite children's entertainers and shows! (14:40); Infill housing and Winnipeg's future (23:05); Texts on children's entertainers (29:30); Small Town Salute - The Quest for Hockeyville in Ste Adolphe (31:55); It's not an April Fool's Joke: Golf courses can't serve alcohol on the course (38:10); Gab with Gabby! (43:40); Winning text (52:20); Just Call Me Jen and her amazing tiny houses! (55:45).

Amber Alert resolved quickly and safely - Did you get the alert? (1:08); Trudeau's warning for Easter / Passover gatherings (8:56); What's your favourite Easter treat? (13:47); More reports of long lineups at the Convention Centre for vaccination (20:10); Some texts on Easter treats (28:05); The Couch Potatoes: GODZILLA VS KONG (29:49); Canadians spend big on self-care throughout pandemic (35:21); Winning text on Easter treats (40:23); Newly announced Manitoba Rent Bank should be ready to go in the coming weeks (42:41).