Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

Rob Breakenridge shares his thought's on Ken King's response to the City of Calgary's offer for a new NHL arena.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's hearing reviewed some of Omar Khadr's bail conditions. Global reporter Julia Wong give us the latest information on Khadr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The initial findings of the operational review of the Calgary Board of education was released yesterday. Why was there a need for a review? Rob talks to Education Minister David Eggen about what was discovered and what needs to be worked on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob Breakenridge shares his thoughts about Ken King's announcement on Tuesday that the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation would not pursue a new arena. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study from the Rand Corporation shows the USA would save 9 billion dollars by adjusting school times to suit teenagers' sleep patterns. Marco Hafner, Senior Economist at Rand Europe.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Economist Jack Mintz from the University of Calgary School of Public Policy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A judge in Hamilton Ontario has been suspended 30 days for wearing a Trump-style Make America Great Again hat. Christie Blatchford, National Post, weighs in.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A story out of Vancouver about a mystery guest who keeps attending funerals in the area- and has been doing so for maybe a whole decades.  Audio from The Steele and Drex Show out of CKNW and then Rob takes your calls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With University of Toronto Criminology Doctoral student Erick Laming.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News investigative reporter Stewart Bell has the story of a Canadian man who returned to this country after being recruited by ISIS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Randy Brown of Gravedigger and Cam Mcqueen from Northern Nightmare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Clinical Immunologist for the Toronto Hospital for Sick Kids Dr. Adelle Atkinson.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When their kids' bus route was cancelled by CBE these parents organized an alternated without the help of the school board. With parent Amory Hamilton-Henry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Andrew Coyne, National Post.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An MLA in BC is proposing we build a Mount Rushmore type monument in Canada, the NAtional Post's Tristin Hopper has more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Herb Emery, a Fellow at The School of Public Policy and Vaughan Chair in Regional Economics at the University of New Brunswick.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Simmy, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor of Education at the University of Alberta was involved in a study which assessed how math is taught in highschools in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenore Skenazy, Founder of Free Range Kids Movement and Chairman of the Let Grow Foundation shares her thoughts on the case of the Vancouver man who isn't to allow his children to ride the bus to school alone.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgarian Krista had a huge run around trying to get out of the path of Irma today and in trying to communicate with Air Canada.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What/who is Anti-fa? Where did they come from? With Mark Bray, historian and author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MacEwan University under attack by phishers and have now been defrauded of nearly $12 million. Jason Markusoff wrote an article on Maclean's on this topic and chats with Rob about how the university got into this mess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just kidding.  Dr. Alan Levinovitz, Author of The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat joins Rob to chat about how clickbait headlines and constant new studies about nutrition claiming to be game changers is damaging people's faith in science. And how nutritionists haven't changed their recommendations much over time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Ward 12 City Councillor Shane Keating.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Kevin Milligan, Professor of Economics at UBC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices