8:30 – Sunwing canceling flights during the holiday rush has left many stranded and even more scrambling to find new flights. We go to Professor Karl Moore from McGill University who joins Gormley to discuss what is going on in the airline industry.
LIVE: Karl Moore, aviation expert, assoc. prof. in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill.
9:00 – Hour of the Big Stories…open lines
9:30 – The sudden canceling of flights from Sunwing have left a lot of passengers trying to figure out how to get home. Gabor Lukacs, founder of advocacy group Air Passenger Rights Canada, joins John to discuss what passengers can do after the cancelation of their flights.
LIVE: Gabor Lukacs, Passenger Rights Advocate.
10:00 – Bill C-235 An Act respecting the building of a green economy in the Prairies has passed through the senate and this bill is focused on making the prairies more green. Senator Brent Cotter of Saskatchewan joins Gormley to tell us more about it.
LIVE: Senator Brent Cotter, Senator of Saskatchewan
11:00 – Flex Ed is a virtual school with certified teachers that provides education in a nontraditional way. Parents who have busy schedules, families that travel, and home-schooled students are just some of the people who benefit from this. The government has always supported the choice in education but now that they are now creating a new Crown to remove that choice of attending the virtual school. Ann Cook, principal of Flex Ed joins Gormley to tell us more.
LIVE: Ann Cook, Flex Ed School Principal
12:00 – Indigenous communities are taking steps in building their own systems for internet access. Sally Braun Director of First Mile Connectivity Consortium joins Gormley to tell us more about it.
LIVE: Sally Braun, Director of First Mile Connectivity Consortium