Best of the Simi Sara Show - Thurs Nov 15th 2018

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

BCLC has approved a new gambling and entertainment facility in the City of Delta. Cascades Casino Delta, operated by Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited, will include a hotel, restaurants, meeting space and a casino with approximately 500 slot machines, 24 table games and up to six electronic table games.

BCLC has approved the Cascades Casino in Delta. Do you support the approval of additional casinos in B.C.?

Yes, great entertainment!

No, potential problems!

 

Chapter 2

Federal Environment Minister McKenna gets a lukewarm reception in British Columbia

Canada’s federal environment minister faced a small but audible group of protesters, who also peppered her with questions about her government’s record on climate change. Catherine McKenna, federal minister of environment and climate change, encountered the protesters Wednesday morning in Saanich as she and provincial counterpart George Heyman announced a combined $14.65 million funding towards the purchase of 7,900 hectares in southeastern British Columbia to complete a conservation area for species-at-risk including Grizzly bears.

Guest: Catherine McKenna

Federal Environment Minister

 

Chapter 3

Humans Have Changed The Course of Evolution in Ways We Never Predicted, Scientist Warns

A paper based on research from around the globe concludes that human beings have radically reshaped evolution for everything from birds to fish to plants. Sarah Otto from the University of British Columbia says people are trimming and pruning the entire tree of life.

The paper says birds are evolving smaller, more maneuverable wings to help them dodge buildings and vehicles. Fish are developing mouths too small for hooks.  Large animals are becoming extinct everywhere on the planet. Otto says it's wrong to believe evolution always takes eons _ changes can show up within years. She says human-driven changes are narrowing the options for species to respond to future environmental pressures.

Guest: Sally Otto

Author of the paper

Professor of zoology at UBC

director of the Liberero Conservation Program

 

Chapter 4

SOS Children’s Village Surrey hosts gala to recognize success and achievement within the B.C. foster care system

Did you know in British Columbia there are over 10,500 children who do not live with their biological parents? A child in foster care in Canada faces the following more hardships than the average child. They will move seven homes, which means 7 families, 7 schools, 7 neighbourhoods etc. As a result, of youth in care, only 40% will graduate within 2 years of expected graduation date.

SOS Children’s Villages is the world’s largest non-governmental, non-denominational child development organization and cares for fostered, orphaned, or abandoned children. It has existed for over 65 years with presence in 135 countries and 572 Villages. British Columbia is home to the only SOS Children’s Village in Canada. SOS Children’s Village BC provides homes, a supportive community, and programs to help foster children and youth in need grow into caring, self-reliant adults.

Only 6% of SOS Children’s Village B.C.’s funding comes from the government, with the vast majority coming from individual and corporate donors. SOS B.C. uniquely focuses on lifelong engagement with foster children and embracing their cultural heritage, and is fighting to fix the foster care system in this province. SOS Children’s Village B.C. is setting the standard for the care of foster children and youth in British Columbia. Indeed, the village in Surrey has a track record of 100% of foster youth graduating high school within two years of expected date, versus only 40% of foster youth graduating in the provincial foster care system.

Douglas Dunn, the Executive Director at SOS Children’s Village BC, joins us today to discuss the 2018 SOS International Foster Awards Gala at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown tonight, and the work that the organization does to help youth in care.

Guest: Douglas Dunn

Executive Director at SOS Children’s VIllage B.C.

 

Chapter 5

'Good Samaritan' homeless veteran and couple who raised $400K for him on GoFundMe arrested as heartwarming tale takes criminal twist

Remember the story of homeless veteran Johnny Bobbit, who gave gave him last $20.00 to Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, after they ran out of gas. If not, let us refresh your memory.

Since that story came out, a lot of drama unfolded in the press. Bobbitt originally filed a lawsuit against McClure and D’Amico for withholding the over $400 thousand that was raised in the GoFundMe. However, there was a SHOCKING TWIST today.

Johnny Bobbitt, a homeless veteran in 2017, as well as Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D’Amico, have been charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception in connection with a GoFundMe scheme that police say fraudulently raised the money on GoFundMe, according to a news release from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. Listen to this report from ABC News…

A New Jersey prosecutor announced today that the story that launched a GoFundMe campaign that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a homeless man was all a hoax.

The prosecutor said that they have spoken with GoFundMe, and they will be refunding ALL of the money that was donated.

 

Chapter 6

Two dozen B.C. youth died, 154 critically injured, in opioid crisis last year: report

Guest: Jennifer Charlesworth

Representative for Children and Youth

 

Chapter 7

With just two weeks before the election reform referendum deadline, ballots are still just trickling in

Premier John Horgan says he’ll instruct his NDP MLAs to block an unappealing version of one of the proportional representation models, if it wins in this month’s referendum. Horgan told Postmedia News on Wednesday that if British Columbians vote to replace the province’s electoral system with mixed member proportional, he will order NDP MLAs to oppose the so-called closed list approach when a legislature committee decides the details of the new system.

Also, with just two weeks before the election reform referendum deadline, ballots are still just trickling in. Increasing by only about a percent each day.

Guest:  Richard Zussman

Global BC Legislative Reporter

 

Chapter 8

Pet on the Net

Today for Pet on the Net we bring you a story that is both tragic and inspirational. This is the story of Poppy. Poppy was a golden retriever and she was a beloved assistance dog who worked at Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. I say “was” because Poppy recently passed away.

To pay tribute to the wonderful work that Poppy did, bringing comfort and joy to seriously ill children and their families, we called up Debby from Canuck Place to learn more about this amazing four-legged hero.

Guest: Niki Reitmayer

CKNW Contributor

Pet lover

 

Chapter 9

SIMI’S LOSER AND WINNER OF THE DAY

Loser

Claude Bryant and the All Stars, a New Orleans based band

Cafe Negril is a popular bar on Frenchman Street in New Orleans and on November 8th, Claude Bryant and the All Stars, a local reggae band, were on stage.

The band is used to rowdy partiers, so when a woman asked if she could join the band to sing a few songs, they promptly turned her down.

However, the woman wasn’t just a regular New Orleans reveler

It was 5 Time Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera.

Winner

10 year old Miles Scott

Miles Scott, who stole everyone’s heart as a 5-year-old leukemia patient when he took over San Francisco as Batkid in 2013, has been in remission for five years, the Make-A-Wish Foundation announced.

Scott is now 10 years old and has reached the important milestone, which for many is the point when someone can be considered cancer-freE.

 

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

BCLC has approved a new gambling and entertainment facility in the City of Delta. Cascades Casino Delta, operated by Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited, will include a hotel, restaurants, meeting space and a casino with approximately 500 slot machines, 24 table games and up to six electronic table games.

BCLC has approved the Cascades Casino in Delta. Do you support the approval of additional casinos in B.C.?

Yes, great entertainment!
No, potential problems!

 

Chapter 2

Federal Environment Minister McKenna gets a lukewarm reception in British Columbia

Canada’s federal environment minister faced a small but audible group of protesters, who also peppered her with questions about her government’s record on climate change. Catherine McKenna, federal minister of environment and climate change, encountered the protesters Wednesday morning in Saanich as she and provincial counterpart George Heyman announced a combined $14.65 million funding towards the purchase of 7,900 hectares in southeastern British Columbia to complete a conservation area for species-at-risk including Grizzly bears.

Guest: Catherine McKenna

Federal Environment Minister

 

Chapter 3

Humans Have Changed The Course of Evolution in Ways We Never Predicted, Scientist Warns

A paper based on research from around the globe concludes that human beings have radically reshaped evolution for everything from birds to fish to plants. Sarah Otto from the University of British Columbia says people are trimming and pruning the entire tree of life.

The paper says birds are evolving smaller, more maneuverable wings to help them dodge buildings and vehicles. Fish are developing mouths too small for hooks.  Large animals are becoming extinct everywhere on the planet. Otto says it's wrong to believe evolution always takes eons _ changes can show up within years. She says human-driven changes are narrowing the options for species to respond to future environmental pressures.

Guest: Sally Otto

Author of the paper

Professor of zoology at UBC

director of the Liberero Conservation Program

 

Chapter 4

SOS Children’s Village Surrey hosts gala to recognize success and achievement within the B.C. foster care system

Did you know in British Columbia there are over 10,500 children who do not live with their biological parents? A child in foster care in Canada faces the following more hardships than the average child. They will move seven homes, which means 7 families, 7 schools, 7 neighbourhoods etc. As a result, of youth in care, only 40% will graduate within 2 years of expected graduation date.

SOS Children’s Villages is the world’s largest non-governmental, non-denominational child development organization and cares for fostered, orphaned, or abandoned children. It has existed for over 65 years with presence in 135 countries and 572 Villages. British Columbia is home to the only SOS Children’s Village in Canada. SOS Children’s Village BC provides homes, a supportive community, and programs to help foster children and youth in need grow into caring, self-reliant adults.

Only 6% of SOS Children’s Village B.C.’s funding comes from the government, with the vast majority coming from individual and corporate donors. SOS B.C. uniquely focuses on lifelong engagement with foster children and embracing their cultural heritage, and is fighting to fix the foster care system in this province. SOS Children’s Village B.C. is setting the standard for the care of foster children and youth in British Columbia. Indeed, the village in Surrey has a track record of 100% of foster youth graduating high school within two years of expected date, versus only 40% of foster youth graduating in the provincial foster care system.

Douglas Dunn, the Executive Director at SOS Children’s Village BC, joins us today to discuss the 2018 SOS International Foster Awards Gala at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown tonight, and the work that the organization does to help youth in care.

Guest: Douglas Dunn

Executive Director at SOS Children’s VIllage B.C.

 

Chapter 5

'Good Samaritan' homeless veteran and couple who raised $400K for him on GoFundMe arrested as heartwarming tale takes criminal twist

Remember the story of homeless veteran Johnny Bobbit, who gave gave him last $20.00 to Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, after they ran out of gas. If not, let us refresh your memory.

Since that story came out, a lot of drama unfolded in the press. Bobbitt originally filed a lawsuit against McClure and D’Amico for withholding the over $400 thousand that was raised in the GoFundMe. However, there was a SHOCKING TWIST today.

Johnny Bobbitt, a homeless veteran in 2017, as well as Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D’Amico, have been charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception in connection with a GoFundMe scheme that police say fraudulently raised the money on GoFundMe, according to a news release from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office. Listen to this report from ABC News…

A New Jersey prosecutor announced today that the story that launched a GoFundMe campaign that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a homeless man was all a hoax.

The prosecutor said that they have spoken with GoFundMe, and they will be refunding ALL of the money that was donated.

 

Chapter 6

Two dozen B.C. youth died, 154 critically injured, in opioid crisis last year: report

Guest: Jennifer Charlesworth

Representative for Children and Youth

 

Chapter 7

With just two weeks before the election reform referendum deadline, ballots are still just trickling in

Premier John Horgan says he’ll instruct his NDP MLAs to block an unappealing version of one of the proportional representation models, if it wins in this month’s referendum. Horgan told Postmedia News on Wednesday that if British Columbians vote to replace the province’s electoral system with mixed member proportional, he will order NDP MLAs to oppose the so-called closed list approach when a legislature committee decides the details of the new system.

Also, with just two weeks before the election reform referendum deadline, ballots are still just trickling in. Increasing by only about a percent each day.

Guest:  Richard Zussman

Global BC Legislative Reporter

 

Chapter 8

Pet on the Net

Today for Pet on the Net we bring you a story that is both tragic and inspirational. This is the story of Poppy. Poppy was a golden retriever and she was a beloved assistance dog who worked at Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. I say “was” because Poppy recently passed away.

To pay tribute to the wonderful work that Poppy did, bringing comfort and joy to seriously ill children and their families, we called up Debby from Canuck Place to learn more about this amazing four-legged hero.

Guest: Niki Reitmayer

CKNW Contributor

Pet lover

 

Chapter 9

SIMI’S LOSER AND WINNER OF THE DAY

Loser

Claude Bryant and the All Stars, a New Orleans based band

Cafe Negril is a popular bar on Frenchman Street in New Orleans and on November 8th, Claude Bryant and the All Stars, a local reggae band, were on stage.
The band is used to rowdy partiers, so when a woman asked if she could join the band to sing a few songs, they promptly turned her down.
However, the woman wasn’t just a regular New Orleans reveler
It was 5 Time Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera.

Winner

10 year old Miles Scott

Miles Scott, who stole everyone’s heart as a 5-year-old leukemia patient when he took over San Francisco as Batkid in 2013, has been in remission for five years, the Make-A-Wish Foundation announced.
Scott is now 10 years old and has reached the important milestone, which for many is the point when someone can be considered cancer-freE.