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Seventeen years ago Reverend Dale Lang lost his son to a school shooting in Taber. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks to him about how to learned to forgive his son's murderer. 

Our next guest says no. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott speaks with Nina Teicholtz, science journalist and author of 'The Big Fat Surprise' on how following the food guide could lead to obsesity. 

An International Study shows that habitual marijuana smokers are more likely to have finanacial and relationship issues. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott speaks with Dr. Magdalena Cerda, an author of the study, about her findings. 

Those in Chinatown fear the integrity and experience of Chinatown will be compromised if the city passes an area redevelopment plan.

Although a very prominent disease, Alzheimer's has very few drugs and treatments on the market for patients. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott speaks with Dr. Serge Gauthier, the Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit at the McGill Centre Studies in Aging, about why it's been such a difficult disease to treat. 

After the sentencing of Marco Muzzo for impaired driving and killing 1 adult and 3 children, many wondered if the sentence of 10 years in prision was enough. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott posed the question to callers and here are their responses. 

Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins Calgary Today's Angela Kokott to talk about bike lanes, CalgaryNEXT and city expansion. 

Calgary Today's Angela Kokott chats with MP for Calgary Nose Hill Michelle Rempel on her thoughts about the Liberal's new federal budget.  

Sobey's Grocery Stores have released pre-packaged peeled avocados for customer's convenience. Although many are attacking the grocery chain on social media calling the product wasteful. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks to Sylvain Charlebois of the University of Guelph's Food Institute and he says this may be the future of fresh food. -calgarytoday

A new study out of the U.S. says preventative mastectomies could actually have more negative effects than positive. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks with Dr. Mehra Golshan, senior author of the study and chair in surgical oncology at Brigham’s Women’s Hospital in Boston.

On this #InternationalWomensDay the Ontario Human Rights Commission is attempting to ban provocative or discriminating work wear. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks to Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane. -calgarytoday

Speculators say the low point of oil could be behind us. Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks to Energy Analyst Peter Linder about his thoughts. -calgarytoday

Many are questioning Premier Notley’s leadership skills after the Quebec Injunction. Columnist Chris Nelson thinks she needs to start acting like a premier instead of the leader of the NDP. -calgarytoday

National Post Columnist Jen Gerson joins Angela Kokott to talk about the ridiculousness of the reaction to Calgary's BRT plan. Jen thinks the problems with this plan arise from people who refuse to integrate with other communities.

In the latest twist of Calgary teacher Neil Bantleman's sex abuse trial in Indonesia, the supreme court overturned his acquittal. His brother Guy Bantleman joins Jock Wilson on Calgary Today to talk about the family's shock.

Shoppers Drug Mart is looking into selling medicinal marijuana at their stores. Is this the best place to sell? Calgary Today's fill in host Jock Wilson talks to Sylvain Charlebois of the University of Guelph’s Food Institute.

Jock Wilson talks to Rob Laidlaw, executive director and founder of ZooCheck Canada. Rob says while the Calgary Zoo has had a lot of highly publicized deaths in the past years, they are not so different from other zoos in Canada.

Air Canada recently came out and said that airlines should be able to share passenger information if they are unruly or threatening on flights. We talk to Airline Analyst Karl Moore and hear his thoughts.

Should doctors will moral obligations against assisted death be able to opt out? Calgary Today's Angela Kokott speaks to Professor of ethics Arthur Schafer to find out more.

A new study says that people who smoked regularly as teens could have poorer verbal memory later on in life. Lead of author of the study "Long-Term Marijuana Use Associated with Worse Verbal Memory in Middle Age", Dr. Reto Auer joins Angela Kokott to tell her more.

A new study finds that horses can recognize humans and their emotions, even from photographs. Angela Kokott talks to Lesly Shire of Opening Gaits Therapeutic Riding Centre to find out more.

Calgary Today's Angela Kokott hears from the event coordinator of YYC Helping Homeless on how the city kicked them out of a park because they didn't have a permit.

Calgary Today's Angela Kokott talks to Global News Toronto Reporter Adam Miller about the first day at the Jian Ghomeshi trail.

Jock Wilson fills-in for Angela Kokott on Calgary Today and talks to Mental Health Professional Sharon Lindstrom about bullying. Jock shares a personal story about how his son was bullied at school and how he helped him overcome his bullies.

Calgary Today's Angela Kokott receives a call from Rob who is responding to Dave Taylor's segement "What are We Going to Do With Mom?" Rob says he visits his mother everyday and feels sad for those elderly patients who don't receive visitors.