Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge

Sanjay Jeram, PhD, senior lecturer of political science at Simon Fraser University says we should be encouraging debate and discussion about immigration policy in Canada rather than shying away from it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob connects with Graham Thomson, political Affairs columnist with Postmedia to chat about the first caucus meeting- and then he takes calls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert M Sapolsky, author, biologist, nuroscientist, neurosurgeon and researcher at Stanford says there is no such thing as "free will" according to the science we know.  His book here: https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/1594205078/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graham Wadsworth, senior manager of inspections for the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) explains the policy changes that have given restaurants greater control of their patios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BBQ on the Bow society is running a competition over the weekend at the Stampede Grounds. It is their first time heading down and formally joining the Stampede Festivities.  Ken Black, President of the BBQ on the Bow Society and Board Member Terry Brow come on down- and bring some samples! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if Amelia Earhart didn't die in a plane crash? A new photo has people thinking she may have survived and had her photo taken on Juliet Atoll.  Rob is joined by Brian Dunning, Science Write/ Host and producer of Skeptoid Podcast who feels this theory is unlikely.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer chats about his first Stampede in Calgary- And the decision to pay Omar Khadr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could the music you are listening to, the colour of your plate, or even how the item is listed on the menu affect how it tastes? Charles Spence, Experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, Joins Rob. His primary research is about how the senses and brain interpret the subtle cues of food. Author of the book Gastrophysics More on the book here: https://www.amazon.ca/Gastrophysics-Science...

Howard Anglin, Director of the CCF, previously served as Senior Advisor of Legal affairs and Policy to PM Harper, is asking questions about why Canadians are paying Khadr for mistreatment. His piece here: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/howard-anglin-trudeau-is-making-omar-khadr-rich-and-he-still-hasnt-told-us-why/wcm/fad82c8c-2a8a-4bb3-a0eb-d0ed5475d784 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Rob is joined by Camille Brillon, Seismic Analyst with Natural Resources Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob connects with Wayne Sossin PhD, of the Sossin Lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital at McGill University, who is researching how memories could be scrubbed from the brain to treat things like PTSD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 men from the Canadian Armed Forces are in hot water with the Minister of Defence disrupted an indigenous ceremony on Canada day in Halifax. Who are the Proud Boys? Justin Ling with VICE News has been following this story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob is joined by Toronto Star National Security Reporter Michelle Shepard who wrote a book called Guantanamo's Child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With President and CEO Tim McMillan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The practice of solitary confinement in Canada is being constitionally challenged by the BC Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada. Rob is joined by the Executive Director of the BBCLA Josh Paterson.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter S Taylor, Editor-at-large of Mclean's Magazine says that if we start judging all our historical figures with modern sensibilities we risk losing part of our history altogether.  His piece here: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-case-for-keeping-langevin-block/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should the taxpayer be on the hook for Omar Khadr's payout from the Canadian government? Rob takes calls on the issue.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whitney Deane chats with Calgary Immigration lawyer, Raj Sharma, about situations such as Jim Lewis'. How can this happen? What are the next steps for people going through the same thing as Jim Lewis? How long should people keep immigration documents for?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 69 years of living in Canada and believing he was Canadian, ICBC informed him, while renewing his driver’s license, that he was short a piece of primary ID and they would be unable to give him photo ID. So he decided to apply for a permanent resident card, after all that’s what he was. Casey Lewis, son of Jim Lewis (AKA Benny the Bear,) joins the show to explain the situtation.  Learn more a...

Dr. Conor Wild, neuroscientist at the Brain and Mind Institute, at Western University, joins the show to talk about a massive Western University study into sleep.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recently posted C.D. Howe Institute blog, suggests that Alberta’s barriers on beer act as a tariff, and questions the constitutionality of Alberta’s levy on small breweries. The author of the blog Robert Mysicka, joins the show.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is it hard for Canada 150 to compete with Expo 67? Bob Bothwell, professor of history, at the University of Toronto, and author of Your Country My Country: A Unified History of Canada and the United States, joins the show to answer this question and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Akin, Global’s chief political correspondent, talks about Canada Day at Parliament Hill.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Horgan will be B.C.'s new premier. David Moscrop, political scientist, at the Simon Fraser University, joins the show to talk about what comes next.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Gurney from our sister station AM640 in Toronto joins Rob to chat about the optics of praising a Canadian sniper for a record shot while professing to not be in combat overseas, as well as the decision to extend Canada's involvement in the ISIS mission.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices