The Jill Bennett Show

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GUEST:  Dr. Steven Lerigakis   TOPIC: Dr. Lerigakis received stem cell transplants from donor Katie Karker (from Michigan) after they matched on One Match Stem Cell and Marrow network. He is now able to play sports and basically return to normal life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST:  Brad Wisker -  Reporter CHED Edmonton   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Vancouver couple never thought they would be one of the one-in-six couples that have fertility issues. They were eager to start a family after they got married but 10 years later they had gone through a whole gamut of testing and treatment that included two in vitro fertilization procedures (IVF) that ended in heartbreaking miscarriages. But Gladys never gave up hope and she finally had a succes...

GUEST: Catherine Atyeo - President of CLICK    Inner City Kids Week (May 9-15) highlights 1 in 5 children in BC lives in poverty.  (Contributing to the lives of Inner City Kids) is a local charity that is is putting the spotlight on the fact that 50.3% (85,450) children in Metro Vancouver go to school hungry and lack other basics in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

GUEST: Joan Brydon - Reporter Canadian Press TOPIC: Prime Minister spending more than $25,000 and bringing 44 people on a trip to Washington D.C, including: Trudeau nannies, top bureaucrats, top PMO’s, his mother etc…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Dr. Sonya Kashyap - Medical Director of Genesis Fertility Centre   1 in 6 Canadian couples struggle with infertility and of that number, 1 in 6 seek out fertility treatments. This year, Canadian Infertility Awareness Week (CIAW) is May 12 – 20 and Vancouver-based fertility doctor Dr. Sonya Kashyap, is advocating for the normalization of infertility issues in light of the staggering number o...

  GUEST:  Grace McCarthy - Former BC Deputy Premier GUEST: George Affleck - Vancouver City Councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Sonia Kang TITLE:  Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto   It’s a disturbing practice called “resumé whitening” and involves deleting telltale signs of race or ethnicity from a CV in the hopes of landing a job. And it happens more often than you’d think. According to a two-year study led by University of Toronto researchers, as many as 40 per cent of minorit...

GUEST: Jill Blakeway TITLE:  Acupuncturist and clinical herbalist   Making Babies offers a proven 3-month program designed to help any woman get pregnant. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, but Dr. David and Blakeway know a better way. Starting by identifying "fertility types," they cover everything from recognizing the causes of fe...

GUEST: Charlene Krepiakevich, Executive Director, Vancouver International Marathon Society   Vancouver’s only marathon, which started in 1972 with just 32 finishers, has grown into an internationally recognized marathon weekend offering races for everyone. Nearly 16,000 runners, from over 60 countries, will run across the event’s six different races this year at the BMO Vancouver Marathon. Learn m...

GUEST: Charlene Giovanetti-King, Executive Director, Eagle Ridge Hospital Foundation Over 350 riders from across Greater Vancouver will cycle up to 100km to raise funds for the hospital that touches 1 out of 2 Tri-Cities residents, Eagle Ridge Hospital. Presented by BOLD Properties, the course spans through Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Langley and Surrey, holding the title...

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GUEST:  Kristen Gill Kristen Gill is one of 35 teachers chosen from among 800 educators who applied to the Grosvenor Teacher Fellow program, an annual professional development program run by a partnership of National Geographic Education and Lindblad Expeditions. The program involves taking teachers, historians and naturalists – as well as other paying guests – on board the National Geographic Exp...

GUEST:  Stewart Muir - Executive Director of Resource Works   The AB and BC governments are now in talks to support the Northern Gateway pipeline in exchange for a long-term contract to buy electricity - electricity produced from BC's new $8-billion Site C dam. This potentially ground-breaking development is a game-changer in the debate surrounding the country’s energy future as this controversial...

GUEST: Jodie Emery - 4/20 Smoke-up organizer, Owner, Cannabis Culture Store   TOPIC: 4/20 Smoke-up post mortem,  with a path to marijuana legalization, will we see a large smoke-up protest like this in the future, what are there next steps for the cannabis legalization movement? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Kirk Tousaw - Marijuana Lawyer TOPIC: The Feds say they will table marijuana legalization legislation next spring, Kirk Tousaw has frequently been on CKNW to talk about the legalities when it comes to current marijuana laws. What could the legislation look like? Will the current industry embrace the new legislation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  GUEST: Bill Fordy - Assistant Commissioner, Officer in Charge of the Surrey RCMP   TOPIC: Surrey RCMP community forum on recent gang violence in city. The forum which takes place Monday, April 18th at 6:30 at the Bell Performing Arts Centre is part of the Surrey RCMP’s Neighbourhood Safety Program. The goal of the program is to provide parents and families information to identify signs that chil...

GUEST: Steven Bednash - Show Manager, BC Rod and Gun Show TOPIC: Rod and Gun Show started Friday and runs to Sunday at Cloverdale Rodeo. http://bcrodandgunshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Melissa De Genova - Vancouver City Councillor, NPA TOPIC: Affordable home ownership strategy An NPA Vancouver city councillor is urging her colleagues to unanimously endorse a plan coming before council next week to make housing in the city more affordable. Melissa DeGenova says the "Affordable Home Ownership" pilot project stems from a motion she put forward almost a year ago. Essentially,...

Technology is constantly changing and for many, keeping up with all of the latest gadgets and how to use them, can be a challenge. For seniors, it’s an especially difficult age to ‘keep up’ in. That’s why some Kelowna post-secondary students have taken the initiative to help bridge the technology age-gap. Throughout the month of March, three Okanagan College (OC) students: twins Daniel and Rebecca...

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