Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

Ward 12 Councillor Shane Keating joins Rob to discuss why residential speed limits shouldn't go down to 30 km/h immediately and why speed reductions need to be carefully considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk to Jon Healey from the Los Angeles Times about his piece today - Colin Kaepernick, the best publicized yet most misunderstood man in sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Woodward, the journalist who dove deep into the Watergate Scandal, is out with a new tell-all book about the Trump Presidency.  We get the latest from our Reggie Cecchini. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ward 9 Councillor Gian-Carlo Carra joins Rob to discuss the notice of motion at Calgary city council proposing a drop in the residential speed limit to 30 from 50 km/h. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Kasbrick of the Alberta Motor Association joins Rob to discuss why changes need to be made to the "Slow Down, Move Over" legislation on Alberta highways and roadways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Veterans Affairs paying for PTSD treatment for a convicted murderer who never served?  Drex -- who hosts The Shift with Drex on 770 CHQR -- joins Rob to share this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada is back at the bargaining table with the US on trade.  How might this end? What is a win for Canada and what is a win for the US?  Rob talks with Daniel Schwanen, VP - Research at the C.D. Howe Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada’s immigration minister says the backlogged asylum system is not sustainable. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erin O'Toole, foreign affairs critic of the Conservative Party of Canada, joins Rob to discuss where the bilateral talks between Mexico and the US leaves Canada in terms of NAFTA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S/Sgt. Bev Vorvos joins Rob in-studio to discuss the gathering of women police officers in Calgary as part of the International Association of Women Police, the challenges women in uniform face, and some of the successes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Griswold of the Institue for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and lead author of the study saying no amount of alcohol is safe, joins Rob Breakenridge to explain how, as you reduce the number of drinks you have, you reduce the risks to your health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon Lester, associate director of the Cato Institute's Herbert S. Stiefel Centre for Trade Police Studies joins Rob Breakenridge to discuss the importance of a continent-wide free trade zone, and what needs to be done to update the decades-old document. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maxime Bernier doused his bridge to the Conservative Party of Canada in regular unleaded today, lit a match and never looked back.  He's off to start his own party.  Has his ego got the best of him, or does he have a point? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke with Nicola (Nico) Lacetera, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and chief scientist with BEAR (Behavioural Economics in Action @ Rotman), University of Toronto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spoke about yesterday's dramatic legal developments in the U.S. with legal analyst Ken White, who is a former federal prosecutor and currently a criminal defense attorney at Brown White & Osborn in Los Angeles  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As more allegations of pedophile priests go forward, there's a crisis in the Catholic church.  Jason Berry is an investigative journalist, filmmaker, novelist and cultural historian and is an authority on scandals in the Catholic church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fallout continues after the Prime Minister labelled a heckler at an event in Quebec as being intolerant. National Post columnist Chris Selley joins Rob to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Calgary Hotel Association is asking for a level playing field and more regulation of the Airbnb industry in Calgary.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada is a suburban nation and its population became more suburban from 2006–2016, despite the planning policies of most metropolitan areas.  We talk with Dr. David Gordon, Urban Planning Professor at Queens University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mother of an 11-year-old girl could be deported and may soon be forced to choose between leaving her daughter alone in Canada or returning with her to Sierra Leone where her daughter is at risk of forced genital mutilation. Despite calls for change, Canada continues to deny child refugees the right to add their parents to their permanent residency applications. That’s because, according to Imm...

You might argue the earth is round, but the folks running the Flat Earth International Conference in Edmonton can make a convincing argument that challenges what you think. Guest host Zack Hewitt talks with Robbie Davidson, organizer of the conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New numbers out from Statscan say even without legalization, a large number of Canadians are driving high. What is needed to change habits before weed is legal? Guest host Zack Hewitt speaks with Andrew Murie of MADD Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People are flocking to pools around the city to cool down as we scrape the top of the thermometer this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After more than a decade of telling Calgary stories, Swerve magazine was shuttered last week by Postmedia.  Shelley Youngblut was Swerve's creator and first editor.  She joins guest host Zack Hewitt to share her thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nova Scotia could be contravening federal regulations when it comes to marketing pot because of how they intend to set up their stores.  Dr. Simon Sherry is an associate professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Dalhousie University, and shares with guest host Zack Hewitt his concerns about how the in-store experience is being proposed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...