Free For All Friday - Hour 1.

Host Amanda Gailbraith breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.

On today's show:

• Maria Popova, Associate Professor in Soviet politics at McGill on Alexei Navalny’s passing this morning.
• Derek Finkle, Journalist who lives across the street from the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and supervised injection site in Toronto on a class action law suit being issued against South Riverdale Community Health Centre.
• Kady Lyons, Research Scientist at Georgia Aquarium on a stingray that fell pregnant despite having no male stingrays in her habitat.

Free For All Friday - Hour 2.

Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. This week's show features panelists Bob Richardson, Senior counsel at National Public Relations and a former Ontario Liberal chief of staff and Melanie Paradis, Conservative strategist and former senior staffer to Erin O’Toole.

Topic 1: Carbon tax rebranding

Topic 2: ArriveCan Scandal

Topic 3: Guilbeaults comments on road funding – and walking them back saying he just meant ‘bigger roads

Topic 4: The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger – A dangerous Scam, why have these become more prevalent?

Topic 5: Loud Budgeting trend – are you one? Are you comfortable sharing finances?