Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

How would the decriminalization of opioids help with the crisis? With Nazlee Maghsoudi, Knowledge translation manager at the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After making the title of his show too provocative, activists have pushed for the venue to cancel it all together. Comedian Danny Polishchuk joins Rob.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabor Lukacs, Air Passenger Rights Advocate, chats about the kickoff of the public hearing regarding the Air Transat flight that kept passengers on the tarmac for over 6 hours.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Calgary Corrado Malia, and calls from listeners.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Debra W Soh, PhD is a poli sci and sex science writer in Toronto- she posits that the left is alienating those on the right by discouraging events with controversial themes and speakerds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of our regular guests on the show, Tim Caulfield Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta, a Trudeau Fellow and author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture And Science Clash has a new show called  A User's Guide to Cheating Death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Phoenix New Times Editor in Chief Stuart Warner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Licia Corbella- who has been following this story for Post Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A report from Michael Zwaagstra, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and a high school teacher shows that students learn best is content rich environments.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boxer announcer for Showtime and Historian Steve Farhood joins Rob to chat about the big McGregor Mayweather fight.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Nelson, International affairs for Environmental Defense Fund's US climate and energy program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is happening with the NAFTA negotiations and what should we know about them? Sarah Goldfeder, Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and Principal with Earnscliffe Strategy Group discusses this with Danielle Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Mount Royal Poli Sci Prof Duane Bratt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An injured beaver at the Alberta Conservation centre has a new friend. Caring for the two beavers is proving to be costly. The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation has created a Go Fund Me page to raise some money for the two beavers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Peter Jaworski, author of Markets Without Limits and an Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University, also a fellow with the CCF.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Tubbs is a Senior Reporter at Charlottesville Tomorrow.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cost for the Springbank dam has jumped to $182 million over the original cost. Bruce McAllister, Executive Director Rocky View 2020 weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kim has been raising children as a foster mom for many years, two kids she was raising were taken from her home- but despite her efforts communication has been completely cut off with the kids. She is baffled by the system and wonders for the kids.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American literature has seen a dramatic rise in the amount of profanity it uses, Jean Twenge, San Diengo Psychologist and Author of iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Nichols is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and at the Harvard Estension School. He writes for the Federalist.  His piece here: http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/09/not-time-north-korea-options/#.WYumLD6CPyo.twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Wildrose Party President Jeff Callaway has jumped into the UCP race.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Debra Soh's take on the man fired from Google for a memo they felt was sexist.  Her piece here: https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manifesto-isnt-sexist-or-anti-diversity-its-science/article35903359/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob is joined by Dr. Omalua Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist, was the first to publish findings of CTE in American football players. He is the chief medical examiner of San Joaquin County California and a professor at the University of California, Davis.  His book: Truth Doesn't Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery About the Danger of Contact Sports is out now...

Newstalk 770's John Himpe has been following this story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global News Investigative Reporter Stewart Bell joins Rob to chat about a story he has been working on that suggests some refugees with criminal records are using fake names in their asylum claims.  more here: http://globalnews.ca/news/3658241/somali-criminal-records-canada-us-deportation-intelligence/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices