Murray Wood: Yes, it's the Wood File not the wood pile
Murray Wood says despite some listener confusion, his daily commentary is the Wood File, a place for his thoughts, not f...
8:30 – Monday Morning Coffee – Bernie Eiswirth, recently retired executive officer of the Saskatchewan Federation of Police Officers and former general manager for the Regina Red Sox, joins Evan to discuss the biggest stories making headlines this morning.
9:00 – Country Thunder wrapped up over the weekend, and it’s always a busy time for RCMP and local police. But this time around, the RCMP had a bit of extra help from the Marshals Service. Robert Cameron, Chief Marshal of the Saskatchewan Marshals Service, joins Evan for a quick chat on why the service was there and how it helped assist RCMP during the busy weekend.
Listener Question: Do you think the Marshals Service should have been at Country Thunder, or are they more valuable elsewhere?
9:15 – What happened with Friday’s Roughrider game? Eventually, after hours-long delay, the game was postponed to Saturday because of air quality, but why did that announcement take so long? Jamie Nye, host of The Green Zone on 650 CKOM/980 CJME, joins Evan to discuss Saturday’s game and Friday’s fan frustrations.
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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 – The Round Table of Justice – Each and every Monday, we invite experts in the law to pull up a seat and discuss the week’s biggest crime and justice stories. In today’s Round Table of Justice, Evan is joined by Prince Albert Police Service Deputy Chief Farica Prince; Regina Police Service’s Lisa Frei, TRiP Coordinator; and Brian Lewis, executive director of Growing Young Movers Youth Development Inc. to discuss youth justice and how police services and programs steer youth away from crime.
11:00 – In April 2020, Canadians woke up to tragedy in Nova Scotia. A lone gunman, disguised as a Mountie, went on a killing spree in a rural part of the Atlantic province. He killed 22 people. Paul Palango, retired investigative journalist and author of Anatomy of a Cover-Up:
The Truth about the RCMP and the Nova Scotia Massacres, joins Evan to discuss what he uncovered through his research and what questions remain unanswered.
LQ: What do you think the RCMP and police could learn from this massacre?
11:30 – We’re living in a time where the word “crisis” is thrown around everywhere: climate crisis, housing crisis, mental health crisis, the list goes on. But while it can feel like the world is living on edge, humans manage to push through. James Cairns, professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, Law and Social Justice at Wilfrid Laurier University and writer of In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times, explores this in his latest essay. He joins Evan to share what inspired him to write this essay and how we can all stay grounded in uncertain times.
LQ: Do you feel like we’re living in a constant state of crisis—or does that word get overused these days?
12:00 – Move over Jurassic Park, there’s a new discovery in town, and it’s a lot closer to home. A 390-million-year-old, ancient, armoured fish has been discovered in Lake Manitoba. Just after a free fishing weekend in Saskatchewan, Dr. Melina Jobbins, research team leader and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba’s Earth Sciences Department, joins Evan to discuss the first-of-its-kind prehistoric fish discovery for Manitoba!
