Hour 1: • Peter McInnis, Canadian Association of University Teachers • Lori Turnbull, Dalhousie University • Dr. Laurette Geldenhuys, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment • Sandra Mullen, NSGEU Hour 2: • It's Open Hour. Todd takes your calls! Hour 3: • Livio Di Matteo, Fraser Institute • Ramesh Venkat, Saint Mary's University • Moshe Lander, Concordia University • Joseph Robichaud
In Hour 1, Peter McInnis, president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, shares how professors and students say the Nova Scotia university bill, which gives the government more control over the province's 10 universities, is a case of overreach that could threaten academic freedoms. Politics chat with political science professor Lori Turnbull at Dalhousie University. Dr. Laurette Geldenhuys, a Halifax-based physician and member of the Nova Scotia arm of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, says a Nova Scotia government bill that would allow fracking for fossil fuels and exploration for uranium is dangerous and should be scrapped. NSGEU President Sandra Mullen discusses a Nova Scotia bill that members of the public say threatens people's access to information and violates labour rights in the civil service. In Hour 2, Todd open up the lines for the Open Hour. In Hour 3, Livio Di Matteo, author and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, shares a new study that says Halifax has more than twice the property crime rate as Boston. Ramesh Venkat, director of the David Sobey Retailing Centre at Saint Mary's University, discusses what the possible closure of Hudson's Bay stores could mean for the Nova Scotia retail landscape. Moshe Lander, an economist from Montreal's Concordia University answers the question, will axing the consumer carbon price save you money? Where you may feel it. Author and photographer Joseph Robichaud shares is new book, My Looking Glass: Nova Scotia A 50-Year Photographic Retrospective.