CHAPTER 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

It’s @jillreports’ 🔥 question of the day: Victoria became the first municipality to endorse a campaign for provincially-funded contraception. Vancouver councillors will vote on a similar motion today. Would you support MSP covering contraceptive options for women?

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CHAPTER 2

Wally Oppal provides update on Surrey Police Transition

Wally Oppal provided an update on Surrey’s Police Transition this morning at the Surrey Board of Trade. Surrey City Councillors like Brenda Locke were in attendance, while the mayor was not.

Guest: Brenda Locke

Surrey City Councillor

CHAPTER 3

Democrats unleash fierce attack on Sanders during South Carolina debate FOR OTT

Democrats unleashed a roaring assault against Bernie Sanders and seized on Mike Bloomberg’s past with women in the workplace during a contentious debate that tested the strength of the two men at the center of the party’s presidential nomination fight.

Guest: Reggie Cecchini

Global National Washington Correspondent

CHAPTER 4

Should all birth control in B.C. be free?

Vancouver City council is voting to urge the province to make birth control free today. The motion was brought forward by Christine Boyle and Jean Swanson. Boyle says vasectomies are covered by the province's medical services plan, but women's contraception is not.

She says the cost of contraception has become a significant barrier for people with low incomes. If passed, the motion will ask the provincial government to add prescription contraception to the MSP. Victoria city council already passed this motion in January.

Guest: Dr. Ruth Habte

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Resident at UBC

AccessBC

CHAPTER 5

Canadians split on healthcare professionals citing moral or faith-based objections when providing physician assisted death

While practically half of Canadians are not in favour of legislative action that would entrench conscience rights for health care workers, the country is evenly divided when assessing cases of physician-assisted death, a new Research Co. poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative national sample, 44% of Canadians agree that health care professionals should have the ability to object to providing services if they have a moral or faith-based objection to physician-assisted death. A similar proportion of Canadians (42%) disagree with this stipulation.

Alberta—where public debate over Bill 207 intensified late last year—has the lowest proportion of residents who would agree to entrench conscience rights in cases of physician-assisted death (38%).

The level of support for a caveat for health care professionals on physician-assisted suicide cases is highest in British Columbia (48%), followed by Quebec (47%), Atlantic Canada (46%), Saskatchewan and Manitoba (46%) and Ontario (41%).

Guest: Mario Canseco

President, Research Co.

CHAPTER 6

Protests a textbook example of how noble intentions can breed self-righteousness

A new column from Mike Klassen at the Vancouver Courier argues that ongoing protests are breeding self-righteousness

Guest: Mike Klassen

Columnist, Vancouver Courier

CHAPTER 7

Pilot clinical trial in China to test UBC researcher’s findings as a targeted therapy for COVID-19

A UBC Faculty of Medicine researcher is part of an international team working with a biotechnology company on a pilot clinical trial of a potential new treatment for patients with severe coronavirus infections in China.

Guest: Josef Penninger

Director of UBC’s Life Sciences Institute and Canada 150 Chair in Functional Genetics

CHAPTER 8

COVID-19: You’ve been asked to self-isolate. Now how do you pay the bills?

With concern growing about the possibility of COVID-19 becoming a genuine pandemic, what are the options available to people who’ve been forced into isolation at home?

Guest: Stephen Gillman

Employment Lawyer, Associate at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP.

CHAPTER 9

Why officials from a Major League Baseball franchise visited Vancouver

A Major League Baseball franchise has sent delegations on fact-finding missions to Vancouver twice in the last two years, including one visit to determine the viability of hosting games at B.C. Place Stadium

Guest: Sean Fitzgerald

Senior National Writer, The Athletic Canada

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