Sarah Mills: Beckhams are latest family to have drama go public
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8:30 – CN Rail has had a rough month, cancelling more than 400 trains and issuing temporary layoffs to 450 employees in Eastern Canada as the protest blockades continue to hamper rail traffic across the country. Despite court injunctions, the protests have continued to cause difficulties for rail operators, which has a big impact on many of our industries. CN Rail’s executive vice-president Sean Finn joins Gormley to discuss the rail blockades across Canada, how they’ve affected the rail line and Saskatchewan’s industries, and what they’re hoping to see as a government response.
LIVE: Sean Finn, CN Executive Vice-President, Corporate Services and Chief Legal Officer.
9:00 – The Ultimate Open Lines…
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10:00 – Writer and researcher Vivian Krause specializes in following the money behind anti-oil activism in Canada. She says The Tar Sands Campaign, launched in 2008 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Tides Foundation, aims to stop the transport and export of Canadian oil by pipeline, tanker and by rail and Tides has paid at least $28 million to First Nations and environmental groups, including the Wet’suwet’en. Krause says the protesters currently operating blockades around Canada are largely unpaid, but the organizers are. Krause believes the current crisis was set in motion by foreign funding going back as far as ten years, and she joins Gormley to discuss foreign funds opposing pipeline construction in Canada.
LIVE: Vivian Krause, writer and researcher following the money behind anti-oil activism in Canada.
11:00 – Whitney Houston is going on tour later this month, despite the fact the singer died in 2012. The tour will feature a recording of Houston performing in “hologram” form, with live back-up singers. The tour kicks off Feb. 25 and covers Europe and North America, with reasonably-priced tickets, but some fans are already calling the hologram format weird, creepy, and wrong. Would you pay to see a hologram performance from an artist who’s no longer with us? Is there a particular artist you’d love to see in hologram form? Is a performance like this doing a disservice to Whitney Houston’s memory? Call 1-877-332-8255 and tell us what you think!
