The Best of The Simi Sara Show - High-Risk sex offender to live in Vancouver / Transit strike: what you need to know during the transit shutdown in Metro Vancouver & More...

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

It’s @SimiSara980’s 🔥 question of the day:

Would you support a federal ban on single-use plastics?

Yes, save the planet

No, they’re so convenient

 

Chapter 2

Cost of ‘starter’ vaping products is coming down, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada claims

The group, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada is out with new research, which they say shows that the prices of some 'starter' vaping products is coming down.

And that's prompting concerns that could make the products more accessible to young people - and counteract measures like the new regulations that have just been announced by B.C.'s government.

Guest: Cynthia Callard

Executive Director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

 

Chapter 3

High-Risk sex offender to live in Vancouver

It was a story back in 2004 that gripped Metro Vancouver, an 11-year-old Langley girl kidnapped and assaulted and finally found in Surrey.

Now the person charged and serving time for the offence is on parole and living in Vancouver and police have a warning for the public. He’s 57-year-old Brian Abrosimo.

Sergeant Aaron Roed from the Vancouver Police Department has been sharing more details with reporters in the past few minutes.

 

Chapter 4

Science With Simi

Addictions are very complicated things, and they are different for every person. But what has some similarity is how they get started, and for so many people who become addicted to things like opioids - it’s about pain management.

It may have started with dealing with something physically painful and descended from there. But what if there was another way of managing that pain? Could we maybe prevent people from becoming addicted to opioids? Or even help them get off opioids?

It’s an idea that is being developed thanks to some research being done at the BC Centre on Substance Use. One of their ongoing studies looked at the ways in which addicts manage their pain, and the results were surprising - because they found a trend.

To learn more about that and how promising it is, we’re joined by Stephanie Lake, a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and research associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use.

Guest: Stephanie Lake

PHD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC

Research Associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use

 

Chapter 5

Transit strike: what you need to know during the transit shutdown in Metro Vancouver

Day 21 of the transit strike in Metro Vancouver, as the region prepares for a potential shutdown of bus and SeaBus services on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week.

The Premier, John Horgan, is calling on both sides in the transit dispute to get back to the bargaining table this weekend. He was speaking in the past half-hour.

His comments come as the Coast Mountain Bus Company has sent out a statement this lunchtime, once again calling on Unifor to agree to mediation.

This particular job action will not affect SkyTrain, Canada Line, West Coast Express or HandyDART service, or contracted shuttle services in Langley and on Bowen Island.

It also won’t have any effect on the West Vancouver Blue Bus system, which is operated by a different company.

Metro Vancouver Transit Police say they will also increase staff to deal with any crowding at SkyTrain stations.

But next week’s shutdown will impact the 350,000 people who take the buses every day in Metro Vancouver.

So let’s find out now about the contingency planning that’s being put in place - and how you can get around while services are cancelled.

Guest: Shawn Chaudhry

One of the people running a Facebook group for SFU carpooling

Guest: Selena McLachlan

Director of Marketing & Communications, Modo

Guest: Matthew Ramsey

Director of University Affairs at UBC’s Media Relations Department                        

Guest: Dave Wharf

Evo’s Senior Manager of Customer Operations

 

Chapter 6

BREAKING: CUPE 7000 members deliver 96.8-per-cent strike vote

CUPE 7000 members working for SkyTrain have voted overwhelmingly in favour of job action if a fair and equitable agreement cannot be reached with the BC Rapid Transit Company (BCRTC).

In likely the highest turnout ever for a strike vote by Local 7000 (87.3 per cent), members voted 96.8 per cent in favour of job action.

“This vote demonstrates that our members are deeply concerned that the Company has not addressed our key issues at the table,” said CUPE 7000 President Tony Rebelo.

Guest: Tony Rebelo

CUPE 7000 President

 

Chapter 7

Messaging to prevent infant sleep deaths needs to improve, finds B.C. panel

A BC Coroners Service death panel review into sudden infant sleep deaths has found that babies continue to die under many of the same circumstances as a similar review five years ago.

The panel also determined that the deaths were disproportionately among young families with risk factors such as exposure to tobacco, or other vulnerabilities, and that sleep position combined with health issues may have increased mortality risk among some infants.

Guest: Michael Egilson

Chair, Child Death Review Unit

 

Chapter 8

Who is Brian Abrosimo?

Vancouver Police are warning the public, because a man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young girl 15 years ago, has now been released to a halfway house.   

57-year-old Brian Abrosimo was sentenced to just over 14 years and given a ten-year supervision order after he was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Langley girl in 2004.

Global News Senior Reporter, Janet Brown, covered that case. She’s here to bring us more background on this man, and why his past behaviour has led police to bring this warning to the public.

Guest: Janet Brown

Global News Senior Reporter

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

It’s @SimiSara980’s 🔥 question of the day:

Would you support a federal ban on single-use plastics?

Yes, save the planet
No, they’re so convenient

 

Chapter 2

Cost of ‘starter’ vaping products is coming down, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada claims

The group, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada is out with new research, which they say shows that the prices of some 'starter' vaping products is coming down.

And that's prompting concerns that could make the products more accessible to young people - and counteract measures like the new regulations that have just been announced by B.C.'s government.

Guest: Cynthia Callard

Executive Director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

 

Chapter 3

High-Risk sex offender to live in Vancouver

It was a story back in 2004 that gripped Metro Vancouver, an 11-year-old Langley girl kidnapped and assaulted and finally found in Surrey.

Now the person charged and serving time for the offence is on parole and living in Vancouver and police have a warning for the public. He’s 57-year-old Brian Abrosimo.

Sergeant Aaron Roed from the Vancouver Police Department has been sharing more details with reporters in the past few minutes.

 

Chapter 4

Science With Simi

Addictions are very complicated things, and they are different for every person. But what has some similarity is how they get started, and for so many people who become addicted to things like opioids - it’s about pain management.

It may have started with dealing with something physically painful and descended from there. But what if there was another way of managing that pain? Could we maybe prevent people from becoming addicted to opioids? Or even help them get off opioids?

It’s an idea that is being developed thanks to some research being done at the BC Centre on Substance Use. One of their ongoing studies looked at the ways in which addicts manage their pain, and the results were surprising - because they found a trend.

To learn more about that and how promising it is, we’re joined by Stephanie Lake, a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and research associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use.

Guest: Stephanie Lake

PHD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC

Research Associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use

 

Chapter 5

Transit strike: what you need to know during the transit shutdown in Metro Vancouver

Day 21 of the transit strike in Metro Vancouver, as the region prepares for a potential shutdown of bus and SeaBus services on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week.

The Premier, John Horgan, is calling on both sides in the transit dispute to get back to the bargaining table this weekend. He was speaking in the past half-hour.

His comments come as the Coast Mountain Bus Company has sent out a statement this lunchtime, once again calling on Unifor to agree to mediation.

This particular job action will not affect SkyTrain, Canada Line, West Coast Express or HandyDART service, or contracted shuttle services in Langley and on Bowen Island.

It also won’t have any effect on the West Vancouver Blue Bus system, which is operated by a different company.

Metro Vancouver Transit Police say they will also increase staff to deal with any crowding at SkyTrain stations.

But next week’s shutdown will impact the 350,000 people who take the buses every day in Metro Vancouver.

So let’s find out now about the contingency planning that’s being put in place - and how you can get around while services are cancelled.

Guest: Shawn Chaudhry

One of the people running a Facebook group for SFU carpooling

Guest: Selena McLachlan

Director of Marketing & Communications, Modo

Guest: Matthew Ramsey

Director of University Affairs at UBC’s Media Relations Department                        

Guest: Dave Wharf

Evo’s Senior Manager of Customer Operations

 

Chapter 6

BREAKING: CUPE 7000 members deliver 96.8-per-cent strike vote

CUPE 7000 members working for SkyTrain have voted overwhelmingly in favour of job action if a fair and equitable agreement cannot be reached with the BC Rapid Transit Company (BCRTC).

In likely the highest turnout ever for a strike vote by Local 7000 (87.3 per cent), members voted 96.8 per cent in favour of job action.

“This vote demonstrates that our members are deeply concerned that the Company has not addressed our key issues at the table,” said CUPE 7000 President Tony Rebelo.

Guest: Tony Rebelo

CUPE 7000 President

 

Chapter 7

Messaging to prevent infant sleep deaths needs to improve, finds B.C. panel

A BC Coroners Service death panel review into sudden infant sleep deaths has found that babies continue to die under many of the same circumstances as a similar review five years ago.

The panel also determined that the deaths were disproportionately among young families with risk factors such as exposure to tobacco, or other vulnerabilities, and that sleep position combined with health issues may have increased mortality risk among some infants.

Guest: Michael Egilson

Chair, Child Death Review Unit

 

Chapter 8

Who is Brian Abrosimo?

Vancouver Police are warning the public, because a man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young girl 15 years ago, has now been released to a halfway house.   

57-year-old Brian Abrosimo was sentenced to just over 14 years and given a ten-year supervision order after he was convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Langley girl in 2004.

Global News Senior Reporter, Janet Brown, covered that case. She’s here to bring us more background on this man, and why his past behaviour has led police to bring this warning to the public.

Guest: Janet Brown

Global News Senior Reporter