Mornings with Simi artwork

Full Show: Solving the worlds problems with Science, Cleaning up the beaches & Giving up on home ownership in Canada

Mornings with Simi

English - May 05, 2023 11:29 - 57 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Seg 1: Getting the nitty gritty on the problems in all their awful solemnity: climate change, pandemics, cyber insecurity, the threat of bioterrorism and the potential for AI and bioengineering to run amok.
Guest: Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and Author of If Science is to Save Us
Seg 2: What can we expect from the King’s Coronation? 
Guest: Redmond Shannon, European Correspondent for Global News
Seg 3: How does the Park Board plan to prevent beaches from drowning in trash?
Guest: Brennan Bastyovanszky, Vice Chair of the Vancouver Park Board for ABC
Seg 4: Is Canada’s housing market rigged? A recent RBC Economics report indicates a potential shortage of 120,000 homes by 2026.
Guest: Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Author of The Tenant Class
Seg 5: How should BC prepare for the looming threat of emergency flooding?
Guest: Bowinn Ma, BC’s Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness
Seg 6: How SFU could have saved its Football Program
Guest: JR Davies, Coach for the Calgary Stampeders and Former Quarterback for SFU
Seg 7: Why litigators shouldn't be held responsible for releasing repeat offenders
Guest: Aleem Bharmal, President of BC’s Canadian Bar Association
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Seg 1: Getting the nitty gritty on the problems in all their awful solemnity: climate change, pandemics, cyber insecurity, the threat of bioterrorism and the potential for AI and bioengineering to run amok.

Guest: Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, and Author of If Science is to Save Us

Seg 2: What can we expect from the King’s Coronation? 

Guest: Redmond Shannon, European Correspondent for Global News

Seg 3: How does the Park Board plan to prevent beaches from drowning in trash?

Guest: Brennan Bastyovanszky, Vice Chair of the Vancouver Park Board for ABC

Seg 4: Is Canada’s housing market rigged? A recent RBC Economics report indicates a potential shortage of 120,000 homes by 2026.

Guest: Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Author of The Tenant Class

Seg 5: How should BC prepare for the looming threat of emergency flooding?

Guest: Bowinn Ma, BC’s Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness

Seg 6: How SFU could have saved its Football Program

Guest: JR Davies, Coach for the Calgary Stampeders and Former Quarterback for SFU

Seg 7: Why litigators shouldn't be held responsible for releasing repeat offenders

Guest: Aleem Bharmal, President of BC’s Canadian Bar Association

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