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8:30 – Premier Scott Moe made some hopeful announcements Tuesday, saying our COVID-19 measures could get less restrictive as soon as next week. Moe also announced that the province will be focusing on getting everyone their first dose of the vaccine, meaning all adults could get their first injection by the end of June. Moe joins Gormley to share the latest on Saskatchewan’s fight against COVID-19.

LIVE: Scott Moe, Saskatchewan Premier

9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session

10:00 – Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is calling for the creation of a government institution to tackle disinformation on social media, arguing that we need better tools to control “dangerous speech” that doesn’t fall under our hate speech laws and Criminal Code. Although evolutionary psychologist Dr. Gad Saad has written about the dangers of “parasitic ideas,” he says Housefather’s proposal is “insane,” and joins Gormley to tell us why.

LIVE: Gad Saad, Professor in the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Evolutionary Psychologist, author of ‘The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense’

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12:00 – Last summer Drew Dillabough and his friends were in Elkridge when they had an air conditioner issue. It left them trying to find the right person to fix it and it to fix it fast. While discussing how to find the right person for the job, they came up for an idea for an app that could connect home owners with contractors. They worked with Push Interactions and developed the app Fixter, which launched Feb. 22.  Co-creator Dillabough joins Gormley to tell us more about their app.

LIVE: Drew Dillabough (DILL-ah-BO), Co-creator of Fixter app