The Best of The Simi Sara Show

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

✅ @SimiSara980’s 🔥 question of the day

Who will you be cheering for on Saturday’s @USopen’s Women’s Singles Final?  #USOpen

Andreescu #SheTheNorth

Williams #GOAT

 

Chapter 2

Why are some people still driving at unsafe speeds?

Kids have been in school a couple of days now - and some drivers still aren't getting the message to slow down in school zones to 30 kilometers an hour.

In Delta, Global's Janet Brown caught up with Constable Vince Neudorf doing enforcement along busy 72nd Avenue outside Heath Elementary.

As the first week back at school wraps up, how many other drivers have been ticketed in the city?

Guest: Acting Inspector Ryan Hall

Oversees the traffic unit of the Delta Police Department

 

Chapter 3

#SheTheNorth: What does it take for a young tennis player like Bianca Andreescu to get to the U.S. Open? 

Canadian Bianca Andreescu is taking the tennis world, and Canada, by storm as she continues her extraordinary run at the U.S. Open, where she will meet American legend Serena Williams in the final on Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern.

Guest: Vadim Korkh 

Former coach of Vasek Pospisil, Rebecca Marino and 8 other Canadian junior champions 

 

Chapter 4

City of Vancouver says 73% of short-term rentals are now licensed

A little over a year after introducing regulation on short term rentals, the City of Vancouver says the majority are now operating legally - but there's still many who haven't obtained a licence.

Chief Licence Inspector Kathryn Holm says Vancouver has the best compliance rate for any major North American city, but through audits, they're hoping they can do better.

The short term regulation program was introduced to combat illegal and unstable rental operations in the city. It went into effect September 1st last year.

Guest: Kathryn Holm

Chief Licence Inspector, City of Vancouver

 

Chapter 5

Education Assistants speaking out about working conditions

We've all heard of the huge shortage of Education Assistants in BC classrooms.

An EA in the Richmond school district is speaking up, fed up with the situation, especially the lack of hours.             

June Kaiser says many EA's have two jobs just to make ends meet. She spoke to our Global News Senior Reporter, Janet Brown.

"it's not easy for anybody and it has an impact on the kids because if we're worried about our finances, if we're worried about the fact we have to rush off to another job, if we're tired becaues we worked all night and now have come to work with the kids during the school day they're not getting the best of us."

Kaiser also says because of the limited hours, pensions are also impacted.

The hourly rate she says in Richmond has just gone to 29-dollars an hour but in some jurisdictions it's as low as 21-dollars an hour.

 

Chapter 6

Here are the six ways the Granville Bridge could look

The City of Vancouver has presented six ways the Granville Bridge could look in the future, with more space for bikes and pedestrians, and less space for cars.

They’re looking for the public’s input, and you’ll have your chance to weigh in later this month.

Guest: Paul Storer

Manager of Transportation Design, City of Vancouver

 

Chapter 7

Park Board not going ahead with injunction to remove tents and structures at Oppenheimer Park

The Vancouver Park Board has voted NOT to kick out the homeless people camping in Oppenheimer Park.

Chair of the board, Stuart McKinnon say this is a bigger issue about homelessness across  Vancouver.

He wants the city to create a multi jurisdictional homeless tasks force-but not necessarily take over the park. 

The city asked for the tents and structures to be cleared last month, but about 40 tents and dozens of people still live there.

Guest: Robyn Crawford

Global News Reporter

 

Chapter 8

What’s up with all these moths?

The staff at CKNW observed a very odd sight this morning when they came into work. When the Jon McComb Show team walked in this morning, they were greeted by dozens of moths resting on the exterior windows of the building. The moths continued to hang around throughout the morning, and with their presence grew many questions. Why are these moths here? Is something wrong? Are we being attacked?!?!

CKNW contributor Claire Allen decided that she would get to the bottom of these questions. She caught up with Katie Marshall, an assistant professor in the department of zoology at UBC, to find out more about these moths…

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

✅ @SimiSara980’s 🔥 question of the day

Who will you be cheering for on Saturday’s @USopen’s Women’s Singles Final?  #USOpen

Andreescu #SheTheNorth
Williams #GOAT

 

Chapter 2

Why are some people still driving at unsafe speeds?

Kids have been in school a couple of days now - and some drivers still aren't getting the message to slow down in school zones to 30 kilometers an hour.

In Delta, Global's Janet Brown caught up with Constable Vince Neudorf doing enforcement along busy 72nd Avenue outside Heath Elementary.

As the first week back at school wraps up, how many other drivers have been ticketed in the city?

Guest: Acting Inspector Ryan Hall

Oversees the traffic unit of the Delta Police Department

 

Chapter 3

#SheTheNorth: What does it take for a young tennis player like Bianca Andreescu to get to the U.S. Open? 

Canadian Bianca Andreescu is taking the tennis world, and Canada, by storm as she continues her extraordinary run at the U.S. Open, where she will meet American legend Serena Williams in the final on Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern.

Guest: Vadim Korkh 

Former coach of Vasek Pospisil, Rebecca Marino and 8 other Canadian junior champions 

 

Chapter 4

City of Vancouver says 73% of short-term rentals are now licensed

A little over a year after introducing regulation on short term rentals, the City of Vancouver says the majority are now operating legally - but there's still many who haven't obtained a licence.

Chief Licence Inspector Kathryn Holm says Vancouver has the best compliance rate for any major North American city, but through audits, they're hoping they can do better.

The short term regulation program was introduced to combat illegal and unstable rental operations in the city. It went into effect September 1st last year.

Guest: Kathryn Holm

Chief Licence Inspector, City of Vancouver

 

Chapter 5

Education Assistants speaking out about working conditions

We've all heard of the huge shortage of Education Assistants in BC classrooms.

An EA in the Richmond school district is speaking up, fed up with the situation, especially the lack of hours.             

June Kaiser says many EA's have two jobs just to make ends meet. She spoke to our Global News Senior Reporter, Janet Brown.

"it's not easy for anybody and it has an impact on the kids because if we're worried about our finances, if we're worried about the fact we have to rush off to another job, if we're tired becaues we worked all night and now have come to work with the kids during the school day they're not getting the best of us."

Kaiser also says because of the limited hours, pensions are also impacted.

The hourly rate she says in Richmond has just gone to 29-dollars an hour but in some jurisdictions it's as low as 21-dollars an hour.

 

Chapter 6

Here are the six ways the Granville Bridge could look

The City of Vancouver has presented six ways the Granville Bridge could look in the future, with more space for bikes and pedestrians, and less space for cars.

They’re looking for the public’s input, and you’ll have your chance to weigh in later this month.

Guest: Paul Storer

Manager of Transportation Design, City of Vancouver

 

Chapter 7

Park Board not going ahead with injunction to remove tents and structures at Oppenheimer Park

The Vancouver Park Board has voted NOT to kick out the homeless people camping in Oppenheimer Park.

Chair of the board, Stuart McKinnon say this is a bigger issue about homelessness across  Vancouver.

He wants the city to create a multi jurisdictional homeless tasks force-but not necessarily take over the park. 

The city asked for the tents and structures to be cleared last month, but about 40 tents and dozens of people still live there.

Guest: Robyn Crawford

Global News Reporter

 

Chapter 8

What’s up with all these moths?

The staff at CKNW observed a very odd sight this morning when they came into work. When the Jon McComb Show team walked in this morning, they were greeted by dozens of moths resting on the exterior windows of the building. The moths continued to hang around throughout the morning, and with their presence grew many questions. Why are these moths here? Is something wrong? Are we being attacked?!?!

CKNW contributor Claire Allen decided that she would get to the bottom of these questions. She caught up with Katie Marshall, an assistant professor in the department of zoology at UBC, to find out more about these moths…