Adam Stirling: The Podcast

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, A new service has started to deal with neighbour and roommate conflicts that happen due to sheltering in place. Amanda Semenoff, Program Manager, Quarantine Conflict Resolution Service, joined A...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, What challenges are nurses facing as the pandemic progresses in BC? ​Christine Sorensen, president of the BC Nurses Union, joined the program to talk about how some nurses and other health care...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. 

A new service has started to deal with neighbour and roommate conflicts that happen due to sheltering in place. Amanda Semenoff, Program Manager, Quarantine Conflict Resolution Service, joined Adam to speak about the service and how it can be accessed.

What challenges are nurses facing as the pandemic progresses in BC? ​Christine Sorensen, president of the BC Nurses Union, joined the program to talk about how some nurses and other health care workers in the province have been having difficulties accessing some services because of the fear of transmitting COVID-19.

Dale Sleightholme is a Victoria father advocating for his son with Cystic Fibrosis. He is calling on Canada to accept and regulate a new breakthough treatment for CF called Trikafta.

How has pollution dropped and the environment rebounded since the pandemic? What lessons should we take from this time?  Deborah Harford, executive director, adaptation to climate change team, Simon Fraser University, joined Adam to discuss how COVID-19 has effected the environment and climate change.

Jim Swanson, managing partner and general manager of the Victoria Harbourcats, joined Adam to discuss the announcement that Royal Athletic Park will not be used as a temporary homeless encampment.

Ontario has banned Airbnbs to free up housing for those in need during the pandemic. Meanwhile, industry advocates are calling for a financial bailout for Airbnb operators. Thorben Wieditz of Fairbnb Canada joined Adam to talk about if BC should take similar actions.

Dr. Angus Reid, Chairman of the Angus Reid Institute, joined Adam for a discussion about what polling has taught us about the incidence of COVID-19 in Canada.

Jillian Roberts, child psychologist and associate professor of psychology at the University of Victoria, joined Adam to talk about the impact pandemics have on children and how to talk to your kids about COVID-19.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Dr. Angus Reid, Chairman of the Angus Reid Institute, joined Adam for a discussion about what polling has taught us about the incidence of COVID-19 in Canada. Adam then closes out the show by ta...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Jim Swanson, managing partner and general manager of the Victoria Harbourcats, joined Adam to discuss the announcement that Royal Athletic Park will not be used as a temporary homeless encampmen...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Ontario has banned Airbnbs to free up housing for those in need during the pandemic. Meanwhile, industry advocates are calling for a financial bailout for Airbnb operators. Thorben Wieditz of Fa...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Michael Mulligan, Barrister & Solicitor, Mulligan Defence Lawyers, joined Adam for their weekly discussion pertaining to legal matters of stories that CFAX is following. This week they discu...

Michael Mulligan, Barrister & Solicitor, Mulligan Defence Lawyers, joined Adam for their weekly discussion pertaining to legal matters of stories that CFAX is following. This week they discuss a recent BC Supreme Court case out of Tofino involving a landlord selling equipment from a restaurant over a lease dispute and non-dangerous offenders being released from custody.

Are snitch lines the right way to police a pandemic? London, Ontario has launched a snitch line, and it's proving very popular. Should BC follow suit? Eike Kluge, professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria and medical ethics expert, spoke with Adam about the ethics behind snitching on neighbours.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Are snitch lines the right way to police a pandemic? London, Ontario has launched a snitch line, and it's proving very popular. Should BC follow suit? Eike Kluge, professor of philosophy at the...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Warren Leeder is a paramedic on the provincial executive committee of the Ambulance Paramedics of BC, he joined Adam to share a glimpse of what it's like working on the front lines during the CO...

Sylvain Charlebois, Professor & Senior Director, Agri-food Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University, joined Adam to discuss whether or not price-gouging is occurring in Canadian grocery stores because of potential shortages.

Warren Leeder is a paramedic on the provincial executive committee of the Ambulance Paramedics of BC, he joined Adam to share a glimpse of what it's like working on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. Adam takes calls from listeners all through the final hour of the show.

Dr. Pablo Ouziel, president of the Young Researchers Network of the European Community Studies Association Canada, and fellow at UVic's Cedar Trees Institute at the Centre for Global Studies, joined the program to discuss some of the scary things happening in Spain in response to COVID-19, and share a personal story about how COVID-19 impacted his family.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Dr. Pablo Ouziel, president of the Young Researchers Network of the European Community Studies Association Canada, and fellow at UVic's Cedar Trees Institute at the Centre for Global Studies, jo...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam brings you special programming focusing on everything related to COVID-19 in Canada and keeps you up to date with all the latest news as it happens. In this hour, Constable Markus Anastasiades, public information officer, Saanich Police Department, joined the program to talk about how his department has been dealing with a few groups of people that still...