Connecting Winnipeg with Hal Anderson

00:00 - Work-Life Balance -- Which is more important to you? Are you able to take time off for important days with your family or friends? Pro golfer Phil Mickelson is skipping the U.S. Open to attend his daughter's graduation. Would you have that option to skip work for something important in your personal life? 27:08 - Working in the heat -- Warren Preece, Director of Communications, Safe Work M...

Mackling & Megarry - Friday, June 2nd, 2017 00:00 - TALKER: In its latest effort to compete with online giant Amazon, Walmart is testing a delivery service using its own store employees, who will deliver packages ordered online while driving home from their regular work shifts. 17:56 - Winnipeg Rowing Club's Annual Open House is Saturday, June 3rd, at 20 Lyndale Drive, Drop-in anytime between 12pm...

00:00 - 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles -- 680 CJOB's Geoff Currier joins us to talk about why the album was, and is, so influential 09:27 - Retired Brandon University Professor William Gordon tells us about how he played the French Horn on Sgt Pepper! 17:48 - Researchers at the University of Calgary have discovered that a drug used to combat ACNE has been...

00:00 -- It's World No Tobacco Day, and one of Canada's big tobacco companies says the federal government needs to explain the discrepancies between tobacco and marijuana policy. We speak to Eric Gagnon, Head of Corporate and External Affairs for Imperial Tobacco Canada. 28:43 - Merry Jetsmas! It's the 6th anniversary of the official announcement that the Atlanta Thrashers were relocating to Winni...

00:00 - How do police define impaired driving? Follow-up chat on Tiger Woods, whose DUI was NOT alcohol-related, but instead was due to a reaction to his prescriptions. 18:03 - Did you know you have to pay tax on bottled water in Manitoba? If it's under 600 ml, you pay PST & GST. A retailer in Pine Falls didn't know that, and now has to pay $23,000 in back taxes after a recent audit. We speak to t...

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00:00 - Guy on Price Is Right wins $31,000 playing Plinko. What's your favourite game show? 15:15 - Global News reporter Christian Aumell on what Mayor Brian Bowman thinks of the bill tabled at the Legislature that would kill a requirement that the province fund half of municipal transit costs. 17:48 - Teddy Bears Picnic this Sunday! We're joined by Tanya Williams, Director of Marketing for the Ch...

00:00 - It's the 40th anniversary of Star Wars! On this day in 1977, the first Star Wars movie was released. 11:36 - The "Love Actually" reunion is happening tonight on NBC as part of Red Nose Day. 17:48 - AIRSHIPS! Are they the future for getting supplies to Northern Manitoba? We're joined by Dr. Barry E. Prentice, Professor at I.H. Asper School of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management,...

00:00 - Richard Cloutier vs. Obby Khan - WPG Cycle Spin Challenge for CancerCare Manitoba 8:11 - St. Charles Councillor Shawn Dobson says handing out speeding tickets in school zones on holidays is a cash grab. What do you think? 18:30 - Ruth Abernethy, celebrated Canadian sculptor who is in Winnipeg tonight at McNally Robinson to launch her book "Life and Bronze: A Sculptor's Journal" 36:58 - TON...

00:00 - News conference at MTS Centre in response to Manchester suicide bombing outside an Ariana Grande concert, Kevin Donnelly with True North Sports & Entertainment, and Constable Rob Carver with the Winnipeg Police Service. Conference is followed by a discussion, and listener feedback. 37:09 - BOB IRVING tells us what Winnipeg Blue Bombers General Manager Kyle Walters discussed today with the...

  00:00 - TICKS! - Hikers pick up 400 ticks on Mantario Trail earlier this week. Are you concerned? 28:04 - Dr. Harold Katz, internationally recognized bad breath expert -- DO NOT BBQ YOUR BREATH -- Dr. Katz reveals the five worst BBQ foods for your breath, and the five vital tips and foods to prevent bad bbq breath 37:22 - Mike Dover, author of "Dante's Infinite Monkeys: Technology Meets the 7 De...

00:00 - Hamilton police officers arrests journalists at the scene of a crash, even though they're well-behind the police tape. Too far? 13:46 - Topic continued: Duncan Pike -- Campaigns and Advocacy Coordinator, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression 18:32 - Death of Chris Cornell -- Eric Alper, music commentator 29:06 - Toronto Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar apologizes for homophobic slur -- 680 CJOB'...

00:00 - If you Bring Your Own Booze (BYOB), should it be ok for you to BYOBH? IE, Bring Your Own Booze HOME. 36:47 - Big traffic disruption over the long weekend / What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? (We had to rag the puck for this segment, we had a misfire in trying to get in touch with our next guest...) 44:02 - The "Dean of Canadian Science Fiction", Robert J. Sawyer, is being given t...

00:00 - WHEN IS IT OK TO START JOKING ABOUT IT?? -- Former sprinter Ben Johnson, IE the Canadian sprinter who had his 1988 Olympic gold medal stripped, is in a cheeky new commercial for an Australian sports betting app. Are you ok with that? We think it's funny, but others say 'not so fast'. 18:07 - Celebrating the local film scene with aspiring Winnipeg filmmaker Andrew McCrea, whose first short...

00:00 - GOOSE ADVENTURES -- Hi there, it's Brett. I hit a goose with a golf ball on the driving range on Sunday. Not in the air, sitting on the ground. I hit a terrible shot and drilled the poor thing. It's ok though. Earlier Sunday, I had to slow my car down while a goose lazily crossed the road, and it hissed at me when I honked my horn. IT HISSED AT ME AND MY CAR. Have you had any goose adventu...

00:00 - Do we do a bad job of not recognizing 'the good old days' while they're in them? With the Paddlewheel Queen having been set ablaze Tuesday, that got us wondering about whether or not we appreciate things while we have them. For example, the Winnipeg Jets 1.0. ALSO, Tourism Manitoba launches its latest campaign. 18:19 - Humanizing Transit with Internationally Recognized Transit Expert -- Fu...

00:00 - Mounties are investigating after a man allegedly tried to lure a nine year old girl out of her house in Steinbach. We speak to the girl's mother, Julie Pert. 18:13 - Is The Rock the next POTUS? 27:38 - Emergency Broadcast Test coming this afternoon! Mike Gagne is the Director of Operations for Manitoba's Emergency Measures Organization. 36:58 - The StopGap Foundation is teaming up with the...

00:00 - The future of a key piece of land Winnipeg's Exchange District is coming into focus at City Hall: CentreVenture has released its report on the Market Lands, where the old Public Safety Building and Civic Parkade reside. We are joined by CentreVenture's President & CEO Angela Mathieson. 18:12 - More problems for airlines! A brawl broke out Monday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International A...

00:00 - How much profanity is acceptable? The FCC is looking into Stephen Colbert's faux-pas from last week where he made a joke about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, a joke that's been labeled as homophobic by many. Colbert will not apologize, but says if he could do it again he would use language that isn't so crude. That got us talking about where and when is it acceptable to use any level of...

00:00 - Manitoba Hydro has requested a BIG increase. What do you think about it? 27:14 - Shamattawa students taking on the RCMP in a basketball game -- We hear so much bad news from First Nations, suicide crisis, fires... here's a story about something that's being done to make things better. 37:25 - "The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters From Comic Book History" is a...

00:00 - Yellow Benches Remind Students of the Power of Hello -- Friendship Bench installed at Grant Park High School by the founder of The Friendship Bench, Sam Fiorella, who joined us live in studio. Sam's son Lucas committed suicide in 2014, now Sam travels the country advocating for mental health awareness. 19:09 - Food banks increasing focus on nutrition -- A top Winnipeg chef and dietitian ha...

00:00 - Is this Heineken "Worlds Apart" advert-film the anti-Pepsi ad? Or is it just a load of hogwash? 28:00 - Cirque du Soleil's KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities needs to hire roughly 200 people for a variety of jobs during its stay in Winnipeg from June 2nd to July 9th -- Kevin Donnelly, True North VP of entertainment 36:41 - Sexual abuse against male victims is often not reported, leaving the vi...

00:00 - Greg & Brett took a tour at Siloam Mission today, what an incredible facility full of incredible people 27:27 - Jimmy Kimmel's emotional monologue about his newborn son's heart condition 36:37 - Post-Partum Depression & Women's Depression -- Tara Brousseau-Snider, executive director Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba; Jennifer Hanslip, director of post-partum services, MDAM 55:05 - Kel...

00:00 - The ongoing evolution of retail, and "5 reasons Amazon is experimenting with physical stores" 37:04 - Winnipeg Police news conference with Chief Danny Smyth regarding an officer-involved shooting in a skywalk adjacent to the police headquarters 45:23 - The Forks looking to remove two lanes of Israel Asper Way and replace the roadway with greenspace -- Clare MacKay, VP Corporate & Community...