The Jill Bennett Show

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Dorian on pace to hit Halifax and Nova Scotia: Here’s what you need to know Guest: Anthony Farnell, Global News Meteorologist Chapter 2 Poll: Wait Times Are Biggest Health Care Issue for British Columbians Guest: Mario Canseco, President, ResearchCo Chapter 3 Can we really know what animals are thinking? Guest: Jacob Beck, Associate Professor, Department of Philosoph...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Vaping and Your Health Guest: David Hammond, Researcher, University of Waterloo Chapter 2 Space Crime Guest: Kyla Lee, Criminal Lawyer with Acumen Law Chapter 3 Hurricane Dorian makes landfall Guest: Jackson Proskow, Global News Washington Bureau Chief Chapter 4 Dog’s euthanization stayed Guest: Victoria Shroff, Animal Law Lawyer, Professor of Animal Law at the Allard...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Doug McCallum’s comments against ride sharing in Surrey Guest: Mike Smyth, The Province Columnist Chapter 2 Hong Kong Democracy Protest @ Art Gallery Guest: Swana Luk, Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement Spokesperson, Spokesperson for the rally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sunday Edition with Guest Host Mike Smyth Chapter 1 Surrey Police Force Gets the Green Light Guest: Jim Cessford, Former Delta Police Chief Chapter 2 Ride Sharing dead end Guest: Kirk LaPointe, Editor-in-Chief of Business in Vancouver Media Group and the Vice President, Editorial, Glacier Media Chapter 3 Upcoming UBCM Meetings Guest: Brad West, Mayor of Port Coquitlam Chapter 4 Vancouver is no...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1  Protests in Hong Kong are entering their 12th straight week, and tempers across the ocean have begun to flare Guest: Justin Chun-Yin Cheng, Master’s Student at UBC in Hong Kong History, Born and Raised in Hong Kong Chapter 2 Repair Café Guest: Dan Withers, Co-founder of the MetroVan Repair Cafes Chapter 3 North Shore Traffic Study Guest: Linda Buchanan, Mayor of the...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Wilson-Raybould says she was contacted by RCMP amid SNC-Lavalin scandal Guest: Mike Smyth, Province columnist Chapter 2 Wilson-Raybould says she was contacted by RCMP amid SNC-Lavalin scandal Guest: Ari Goldkind, Criminal Lawyer in Toronto Chapter 3 World watching how Beijing, and Vancouver, react to mass protests in Hong Kong Guest: Angela Calla, Host of the Mortgage...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Canada Line changed direction of transit in Metro Vancouver: former councilor Guest: Gordon Price, fellow with the SFU Centre for Dialogue and former City of Vancouver councilor Chapter 2 Woodstock's real and lasting legacy? Hope Guest: Eric Alper, Publicist and Music Commentator Chapter 3 Energy development wins when it’s pitted against endangered species Guest: Sha...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 How Much Traffic Do Uber and Lyft Cause? Guest: Laura Bliss, CityLab’s west coast bureau chief Chapter 2 Nurses call on B.C. to decriminalize drugs as ‘essential step’ to end overdose crisis Guest: Tess Kroeker, Full time nurse and spokesperson for the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia Chapter 3 Former police chief blasts Langley RCMP for apparent gap...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Smoke from 2017 B.C. wildfires supports expert’s conclusions for nuclear winter GUEST: Alan Robock, professor, department of environmental sciences at Rutgers in New Jersey Chapter 2 What Foodora couriers’ push to unionize could mean for the gig economy Guest: Larry Savage, Professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University Chapter 3 Victoria jaywalker...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Texting at work no reason to be fired: B.C. Tribunal   Guest: Lior Samfiru - employment lawyer, partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP Chapter 2 Almost Two Thirds of Canadians OK with Same-Sex Marriage  Guest: Mario Canseco - President, ResearchCo  Chapter 3 For orcas’ sake, don’t hook a Chinook this summer   Guest: Jay Ritchlin - Western Region director-general​ of the David...

The Saturday Edition: Chapter 1: A new study is showing that an average Canadian household is paying more in taxes than they are on living their life. Guest:  Finn Poschman, Resident scholar at the Fraser Institute Chapter 2: Guest: Dr. Beth Taylor, an infertility and egg freezing specialist.  She is a co-founder and co-director of Olive Fertility Centre. Chapter 3: It's not all about sentimentali...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 The uproar over taking ‘man’ out of ‘manhole’ Guest: Shannon Dea, Professor, Department of Philosophy. Vice-President, Faculty Association of University of Waterloo Chapter 2 Most Canadians Believe “Conversion Therapy” Should Be Banned  Guest: Mario Canseco, President, ResearchCo Chapter 3 Titanic Lack of Focus May Sink Vancouver’s Chance to Make Housing Affordable Gue...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Outrageous! “Dooring” death of a person cycling might get off with an $81 fine! Guest: Jeff Leigh, HUB Cycling board member and chair of our Vancouver Local Committee Chapter 2 SFU research on Southern Resident Killer Whales aims to prevent ship collisions Guest: Ruth Joy, SFU statistician and specialist in quantitative marine mammal science Learn more about your ad...

The Canadian Armed Forces are approved to join the nationwide manhunt for northern B.C. murder suspects Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and his friend Kam McLeod, 19. Guest: Crystal Goomansingh, Global News Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Accusations fly at human rights hearing into transgender woman's Brazilian wax complaint Guest: Jay Cameron, litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms Chapter 2 Hotel Association of Canada calls on political parties to crack down on online short-term rentals Guest:  Alana Baker, Director of Government Relations for the Hotel A...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Canada’s food guide should be under review – but it must not be politicized Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, at Halifax’s Dalhousie University. Chapter 2 Developing Vancouver’s city-wide plan will be like public consultation on steroids Guest: Mike Klassen, Columnist, Vancouver Courier Chapter 3 Opinion: $81 fine for man invo...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 B.C. home inspector under fire for offering ‘pre-inspections’ to benefit sellers over buyers Guest: Bob Hamm, President, Home Inspectors Association of BC Chapter 2 Air Canada turbulence: What are the rights of passengers injured on a flight? Guest: Gabor Lukacs, Founder and Coordinator, Air Passenger Rights Chapter 3 Uber will (finally) come to B.C. But the province t...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 The Case For a Carbon Tax: What Went Wrong? Guest: Philip Cross, Macdonald Laurier Institute Munk Senior Fellow Chapter 2 Living with rats involves understanding the city as an ecosystem Guest: Chelsea Himsworth, Regional Director for the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, University of British Columbia Chapter 3 Vancouver property taxes could rise up to 10% to co...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Recreational Fisherman upset over Chinook Salmon Fishery Restrictions - Minister response Guest: Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard Chapter 2 More than 2,300 new child-care spaces on the way in Vancouver Guest: Sharon Gregson, spokeswoman for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC Chapter 3 'Doc, do you mind if I vid...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 Wudrick: Imagine if we treated all rich people the way we treat Kawhi Guest: Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Candian Taxpayers Federation Chapter 2 How a Traffic Ticket Will Affect Your Insurance Rates in BC Guest: Kyla Lee, Lawyer,  Acumen Law Chapter 3 Compliant flooring not the answer to preventing fall-related injuries Guest:  Dawn Mackey,  Associate Professor,...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Most Canadians stumped by 30 question quiz testing knowledge of quirky Canadian facts Guest: Anthony Wilson-Smith, President and CEO, Historica Canada Chapter 2 Flag, Armed Forces and Economy Make Canadians Proudest Guest: Mario Canseco, President, ResearchCo Chapter 3 I Have A Disability. My School Told Me I'd Die in an Emergency.  Guest: Ben Dooley, CKNW Producer Cha...

The Saturday Edition Chapter 1 City of Vancouver votes to demand fossil fuel companies cover climate change costs Guest: Stewart Muir, Executive Director, ResourceWorks Chapter 2 Always ticking: Canada’s population clock shows demographic changes in real time Guest: Howard Ramos, Professor of Sociology, Dalhousie University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sunday edition Chapter 1 Matt Gurney: Liberals and even the Toronto Star admit handgun bans miss the mark Guest: Matt Gurney, National Post Contributor Chapter 2 Cognitive dissonance: Canada declares a national climate emergency and approves a pipeline Guest: Warren Mabee, Professor and Head Chapter 3 Elections Canada paid ‘influencers’ $325K — but won’t ask for the money back Guest: Aaron Wud...

The Saturday Edition with Guest Host Stirling Faux Chapter 1 Legal tax dodges cost Canada $25B, PBO study says GUEST: Toby Sanger, Executive Director of Canadians for Tax Fairness Chapter 2 There’s faint hope carbon pricing won’t go up in smoke GUEST: Gerry Nicholls, Columnist, the Hill Times Chapter 3 Most Canadians Think Trump Presidency Has Been Bad for Canada GUEST: Jeffrey Meyers, Lecturer, T...

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Father’s Day: Involved dads are healthier and happier Guest:  Nikki Martyn, Program Head of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber.​ Chapter 2 B.C. government ruling out Class 5 licences for ridesharing drivers despite committee recommendation Guest: Ian Tostenson, President, Ridesharing for BC Now Chapter 3 The Kids Are Alright GUEST:  Daniel Fonta...