Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look back at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list ...
8:30 – The vote on the 2nd reading of the Saskatchewan First Act had 6 NDP MLAs vote in favour meaning half the caucus supports this piece of legislation. This has led to procedural political sparing and Saskatchewan NDP MLA and House Leader Nicole Sarauer joins Gormley to discuss it.
LIVE: Nicole Sarauer, Saskatchewan NDP House Leader Justice Critic.
9:00 – Bugs Day…the hour of rage!
10:00 –Retired politician Preston Manning has launched a ‘citizen-led’ inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response. The National Citizens Inquiry project will dive into what went right, what went wrong and what can be learned. Manning joins Gormley to discuss his inquiry.
LIVE: Preston Manning, Chair of the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) into Canada’s response to COVID-19.
11:00 –We meet Dr. Chris Keefer, who is an emergency room physician in Ontario. He also heads up the organization Canadians for Nuclear Energy (C4NE), a grassroots non-profit organization composed of Canadian scientists, doctors, engineers, energy workers, policy experts, and citizens who believe that nuclear energy must be part of Canada’s path forward on climate change. Dr. Keefer joins Gormley to discuss their work and the merits of nuclear energy as an option for the province.
LIVE: Dr. Chris Keefer, physician, and president of Canadians for Nuclear and director of Doctors for Nuclear Energy.
12:00 –The Regina Food Bank is working towards creating a food hub in downtown Regina by purchasing the former SLGA store from the province on Broad Street. The idea is this will function more as a choice model instead of distributing hampers of food to people. CEO John Bailey of the Regina Food Back is here to talk about it.
LIVE: John Bailey CEO of the Regina Food Bank
