Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

Alex Laurin, director of research at C.D. Howe Institute, joins Rob to discuss his study of the 2016 federal tax hike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Lafleur, senior policy analyst with the Fraser Institute, joins Rob to look at who the minimum wage earners really are in Alberta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with veteran pollster John Wright, CEO of DART Insight and Communication.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with National Post columnist Chris Selley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roberto Noce, condo and real estate lawyer with Miller Thomson, joins Rob after apartment and condo rental company Boardwalk announced a ban on marijuana use and cultivation in their properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Mount Royal, there is some relief that slower residential road speeds could be on the way. We talk with Jodi Morel from the Mount Royal Community Association, lead for Slow Down YYC, and co-founder of Vision Zero Calgary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Neil Webber of Webber Academy agrees there's nothing good about residential schools, but wonders where the harm is in allowing the question to be asked to the contrary? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is cheering on whoever leaked out that Olympic document to the press.  Franco Terrazzano tells us why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are gas prices the price they are right now? And what are the follies of the provincial government getting involved in keeping prices low?  Rob talks with Michael Ervin, Senior VP with Kent Group Ltd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with Clio Smeeton, president of the Cochrane Ecological Institute and director of the Cochrane Research Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new investigation out this week uncovers some of the tools scalpers have access too and just how deep their ties to a major ticket provider go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's next for TMX?  Rob talks with Dwight Newman, Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law - University of Saskatchewan and Munk Senior Fellow (Constitutional law) with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tristin Hopper from the National Post joins Rob to talk about chronicling curiosity of Bert and Ernie's sexuality over the last few decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Clark is a director of a documentary about flat earthers.  He joins Rob to talk about the film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob talks with Alison Reid, director of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With his new People's Party only days old, could Maxime Bernier's fledgeling conservative outpost possibly find itself getting married to Tim Moen and the Libertarians? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob speaks with Ted Morton, Executive-in-Residence at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary and Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment, at the Manning Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is outrage over a Nigerian Christian preacher who has been invited to speak in Calgary this week who has denounced homosexuals as "demonic." Junaid Jahangir is an assistant professor at MacEwan University, and joins Rob to shine a light on what's happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week marked the one year anniversary of the fire at CFB Suffield, and those neighbours who were affected say they're still getting the runaround. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two big stories in the world of teachers are at the fore today. New numbers out show just how much violence teachers have to endure at the hands of students. Meanwhile, Tzeporah Berman will be making a command performance at an upcoming teacher’s conference. But contrary to what social media thinks, union dues are not being used to pay for her appearance. We talk with the ATA's Jonathan Teghtmeyer...

The Humboldt Broncos will play their first regular season home game on Wednesday night just months after a tragic bus crash killed 16 people connected with the team.  Mike Armstrong from Global National is in Humboldt and joins us to give us a sense of the mood in the community, and in the rink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colin Craig is a volunteer with the "No" campaign against the 2026 Games and is the former Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He joins Rob to share his thoughts on today's unveiling of the host plan by the Calgary BidCo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Calgary Economics associate professor Trevor Tombe joins Rob to discuss the latest unemployment numbers and what they mean for Alberta's economic recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report out says the province should be banking non-renewable resource revenue rather than spending it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Gurney of our sister station Global News Radio 640 Toronto joins Rob to talk about the work he's done to dig in some numbers that are driving a debate on whether handguns should be banned.  He says the data everyone's working with is wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices