Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

A Professor at the University of Lethbridge is urging open debate on the holocaust and believes that the Sep. 11 attacks were perpetrated by Israel and not Al Qaeda.  B'nai Brith Canada is asking the U to investigate the Prof based on some of the things he has said.  Joining Rob from B'nai Brith Canada is Amanda Hohmann, their National Director of Advocacy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

An uptick in rural crime has some farmers arming themselves for protection.  Joe O'Connor from the National post has been following this story and joins Rob on air to chat, you can read his story here: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/fear-in-farm-country-saskatchewan-farmers-take-up-arms-after-masked-men-enter-land Also joining Rob on air, Lee Smith, one of the creators of the Farmers Wit...

Councillor Diane Colley Urquhart joins Rob to chat about her perspective of why FOIP requests need to be looked at. Rob also asks her about a poll that showed dismal approval for Calgary police.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgary Council is drafting new rules that could see all FOIP requests end in a data dump online. Michael Platt with the Calgary Sun has written about it and joins Rob on air to chat, you can read his column here: http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/09/27/city-councils-policy-of-open-information-serves-to-muzzle-media?token=d7c8a9c441af8996a6646e6f90f4befc   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Angry citizens of Airdrie have created a facebook group to bring awareness to a project Airdrie council has been working on without prior public consultation.  Rob invited Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown on today to chat about the situation.  You can listen to Bruce Kenyon's interview with Marnie Marr, representative from the facebook group here:   https://omny.fm/shows/the-morning-news-with-bruce-kenyo...

Rob welcomes to the show Gretta Vosper, atheist minister, ordained by the United Church.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate Lunau, Canadian Editor of Motherboard - VICE Media's digital vertical dedicated to science, technology and future culture, joins Rob to chat about Elon Musk's big announcement regarding Mars today as well as Nasa's announcement this week about Europa, Jupiter's moon.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Councillor Druh Farrell joins Rob on air to chat about some questions they have about the composition of the Calgary Olympics exploration committee. You can read Rob's blog on it here:  http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/breakenridge-study-into-olympic-bid-must-be-rigorous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob welcomes to the show Byron Nelson who has thrown his name in the running for PC Leadership.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob is joined by Political Scientist Bob Murray to chat about the first presidential debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week we chatted about a study that shows mortality rates for treated and untreated cancers seem the same and we chatted about whether or not PSA screening leads to reduced mortality, you can hear that segment here: https://omny.fm/shows/afternoons-with-rob-breakenridge/prostate-cancer-treatments We got a call from the Prostate Cancer Centre asking if they could have a urologist join Rob on ai...

Author of Peckerwood in the Hood: Misadventures of a Kansas City Cop, D.W. Rawlings joins Rob in studio to chat about American policing and the way he has made it humourous in his book.  More here:  http://www.dwrawlings.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MLAs Leela Sharon Aheer and Prasad Panda penned an op-ed published today about the NDP use of social license when it comes to the carbon tax in AB. MLA Aheer joins Rob to chat about it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inspired by a reddit threat Rob chats with Calgary Police Staff Sergeant Paul Ceci about jaywalking laws in Calgary.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Lawton guest hosts today.  Joined this segment by Wildrose health critic Drew Barnes to chat about hospital parking fees.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Lawton in for Rob again today.  Joined by Allan Lichtman, Political Historian at American University in DC. He has correctly predicted the result of every presidential election since 1984. He says Trump is going to win this time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest after a second shooting and another night of riots in Charlotte, North Carolina Guest:  Jaweed Kaleem, Race and Justice Reporter for the LA Times covering the story in Charlotte, North Carolina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Lawton is in for Rob today. He is joined by Postmedia's Kelly Mcparland to chat about the most recent liberal spending question- $200,000 for two staffers to move residences?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Lawton in for Rob Breakenridge. Last October bus ads were pulled down in Edmonton that showed pictures of girls honour killed by their families and read "is your family threatening you? Is there a fatwa on your head? We can help: go to FightforFreedom.us"  The Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms is arguing for the free expression rights of this group. Joined by president John Carpay....

Andrew Lawton takes the mic for Rob Breakenridge today. As the sex trade moves increasingly online are police sting operations effective in curbing prostitition? Joined by Loretta J Stalans Ph. D. Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University in Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Lawton fills in for Rob Breakenridge today. The Canadian government is looking to follow the lead of Australia with plain packaging for cigarettes, Andrew is joined by Caroline Evans from JTI-Macdonald Corp who says plain packaging doesn't work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Freemen of the Land are in the news again. Sociologist Stephen Kent joins Rob to chat about the group and "paper terrorism." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Macdonald-Laurier institute has released it's Justice Report Card- and things don't look great for the legal system in Canada.    Rob is joined by Benjamin Perrin, Senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A study out of the the UK shows that the decision to seek treatment does not affect mortality rates of prostate cancer. Rob is joined by Dr James Dickinson, professor of family medicine and community health sciences at the U of C who conducted a study earlier this year showing PSA screening is not as effective as we thought. You can see the whole study from the UK here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/ful...

There is a good variety of professions represented on the Olympic consideration committee, but strangely enough no economist. Trevor Tombe, economics prof from the U of C joins Rob to chat about what the Olympics could mean, economically speaking.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices