8:30 – As a teenage girl deals with major injuries in hospital that were inflicted on her by a fellow student at Evan Hardy School, Evan delves into violent threat assessments. Saskatchewan Minister of Education, Jeremy Cockrill, joins Evan to discuss those assessments and how such a situation still happened in a Saskatoon school.
Listener Question: Should this student have been left with the general student population? Whose responsibility was it to take action?
9:00 – The head of the Saskatchewan Nurses Union (SUN), thinks people in Saskatchewan should be apprehensive about the sorts of care they’ll receive in the moments they need it. That’s because the health care system in the province continues to struggle with staffing and high demand. Tracy Zambory, SUN president, joins Evan to share what health care is looking like these days in Saskatchewan.
LQ: What is the first order of business for improving health care in the province?
9:30 – Open phones – Evan goes to the phones to chat with listeners about what’s on their minds today. Call 1-877-332-8255.
10:00 – Evan catches up with Saskatoon’s Chief of Police, Cam McBride, to talk local crime statistics, how the city is doing in 2024 and what information people in Saskatchewan should be aware of.
LQ: What does crime look like in your part of the province right now? Share what you’re seeing!
10:30 – About half of Canadians are not opposed to the idea of mandatory national service being imposed for a period of time for all 18-year-olds in the country, according to a new poll from Research Co. Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., joins Evan to discuss the poll’s results.
LQ: Do you think there should be mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds in Canada?
11:00 – The Toronto International Film Festival will screen films from around the world this weekend. Evan welcomes the directors of So Surreal: Behind the Masks, Joanne Robertson and Neil Diamond, to talk about their film, illustrating the journey to bring the surrealist ceremonial masks back home, in a journey from Turtle Island to Europe.
11:30 – What fun commercial has stayed in your head for weeks, months or years? Tell it (or sing it!) to Evan at 1-877-332-8255!
12:00 – We’re coming up on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Matt Warshauer, professor at Central Connecticut State University and author of ‘Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation,’ believes that much of the chaos currently in American politics and international relations can be traced back to the events that day. He joins Evan to discuss how 9/11 has shared a generation.