the Best of The Simi Sara Show - Mon Feb 25th 2019

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @simisara980's 🔥 question of the day: who do you expect to win the byelection in Burnaby South today? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Richard T Lee, Liberals

Jay Shin, Conservatives

Jagmeet Singh, NDP

Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, PPC

 

Chapter 2

Burnaby South by-election preview

A selection of some of the soundbites from the campaign in Burnaby South, and the voices of four of the candidates: Richard T Lee from the Liberals, Jay Shin from the Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh from the NDP, and Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson from the People’s Party of Canada.

Polls are open and you have until 7 o’clock tonight to cast your vote.

Guest: Kelvin Gawley

Burnaby Now reporter

 

Chapter 3

Oscars wrap

Some of the acceptance speech Olivia Colman gave after she collected her award for Best Actress at the Oscars ceremony yesterday. That was for for portrayal of Queen Anne in "The Favourite,'' which means Glenn Close still has not won an Oscar.

"Green Book'' won the best picture award, as well as best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali, and best original screenplay.  "Bohemian Rhapsody'' won four awards, including best actor for Rami Malek's role as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Now, the Vancouver Film School has its hands all over Hollywood’s biggest movies, with alumni working on each of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2018. So just before we came on-air, I ran through last night’s ceremony, and all the Vancouver connections, with the school’s executive producer, Christopher Bennett.

Guest: Christopher Bennett

Executive Producer at the Vancouver Film School

 

Chapter 4

Ann Hui’s quest to uncover ‘fake Chinese food’ uncovers real Canadian family stories

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included—her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn’t yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in Canada.Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants weaves together Hui’s own family history—from her grandfather’s decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father’s path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest “Western” kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret—with the stories of dozens of Chinese restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind “chop suey” cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like “ginger beef” and “Newfoundland chow mein,” and other uniquely Canadian fare like the “Chinese pierogies” of Alberta.

Guest: Ann Hui

Author of CHOP SUEY NATION: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

Globe and Mail reporter              

 

Chapter 5

Senior care: Key recommendations still not implemented seven years after Ombudsperson’s investigation

Seven years after conducting a wide ranging investigation examining seniors care and services in the province, the Ombudsperson finds a number of key recommendations are still outstanding, including legislative changes that would make significant improvements to service quality and the protection of seniors’ rights.

Guest: Jay Chalke

BC Ombudsperson

 

Chapter 6

Mom advocacy group endorses call for Heroin Compassion Clubs

Dr Christy Sutherland, Medical director of PHS Community Services Society and one of the authors of the report

A national organization representing families who’ve lost a loved one to substance use is endorsing a proposal calling for regulated and controlled heroin sales to help stop fentanyl-related overdose deaths.Members of Moms Stop the Harm say the proposal should be urgently implemented in light of the ongoing overdose crisis. An estimated 11 Canadians die everyday of an opioid overdose, the vast majority attributable to the fentanyl-adulterated drug supply that is controlled by organized crime.

Guest: Leslie McBain

B.C.-based co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm.

 

Chapter 7

How a Vancouver-based charity launched Liberia’s first emergency ambulance service

A charity based here in Vancouver has been changing lives in West Africa, where the healthcare system struggles to meet the urgent needs of patients.

Workers from the Korle-Bu Neuroscience Foundation have just returned home from Liberia, where they helped to launch the country's first-ever emergency ambulance service, and performed the first-ever spinal fusion surgeries.

Guest: Marj Ratel

Vancouver-based nurse, and founder of the Korle-Bu Neuroscience Foundation

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @simisara980's 🔥 question of the day: who do you expect to win the byelection in Burnaby South today? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Richard T Lee, Liberals
Jay Shin, Conservatives
Jagmeet Singh, NDP
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, PPC

 

Chapter 2

Burnaby South by-election preview

A selection of some of the soundbites from the campaign in Burnaby South, and the voices of four of the candidates: Richard T Lee from the Liberals, Jay Shin from the Conservatives, Jagmeet Singh from the NDP, and Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson from the People’s Party of Canada.

Polls are open and you have until 7 o’clock tonight to cast your vote.

Guest: Kelvin Gawley

Burnaby Now reporter

 

Chapter 3

Oscars wrap

Some of the acceptance speech Olivia Colman gave after she collected her award for Best Actress at the Oscars ceremony yesterday. That was for for portrayal of Queen Anne in "The Favourite,'' which means Glenn Close still has not won an Oscar.

"Green Book'' won the best picture award, as well as best supporting actor for Mahershala Ali, and best original screenplay.  "Bohemian Rhapsody'' won four awards, including best actor for Rami Malek's role as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

Now, the Vancouver Film School has its hands all over Hollywood’s biggest movies, with alumni working on each of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2018. So just before we came on-air, I ran through last night’s ceremony, and all the Vancouver connections, with the school’s executive producer, Christopher Bennett.

Guest: Christopher Bennett

Executive Producer at the Vancouver Film School

 

Chapter 4

Ann Hui’s quest to uncover ‘fake Chinese food’ uncovers real Canadian family stories

In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included—her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn’t yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in Canada.

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants weaves together Hui’s own family history—from her grandfather’s decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father’s path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest “Western” kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret—with the stories of dozens of Chinese restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind “chop suey” cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like “ginger beef” and “Newfoundland chow mein,” and other uniquely Canadian fare like the “Chinese pierogies” of Alberta.

Guest: Ann Hui

Author of CHOP SUEY NATION: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

Globe and Mail reporter              

 

Chapter 5

Senior care: Key recommendations still not implemented seven years after Ombudsperson’s investigation

Seven years after conducting a wide ranging investigation examining seniors care and services in the province, the Ombudsperson finds a number of key recommendations are still outstanding, including legislative changes that would make significant improvements to service quality and the protection of seniors’ rights.

Guest: Jay Chalke

BC Ombudsperson

 

Chapter 6

Mom advocacy group endorses call for Heroin Compassion Clubs

Dr Christy Sutherland, Medical director of PHS Community Services Society and one of the authors of the report

A national organization representing families who’ve lost a loved one to substance use is endorsing a proposal calling for regulated and controlled heroin sales to help stop fentanyl-related overdose deaths.

Members of Moms Stop the Harm say the proposal should be urgently implemented in light of the ongoing overdose crisis. An estimated 11 Canadians die everyday of an opioid overdose, the vast majority attributable to the fentanyl-adulterated drug supply that is controlled by organized crime.

Guest: Leslie McBain

B.C.-based co-founder of Moms Stop the Harm.

 

Chapter 7

How a Vancouver-based charity launched Liberia’s first emergency ambulance service

A charity based here in Vancouver has been changing lives in West Africa, where the healthcare system struggles to meet the urgent needs of patients.

Workers from the Korle-Bu Neuroscience Foundation have just returned home from Liberia, where they helped to launch the country's first-ever emergency ambulance service, and performed the first-ever spinal fusion surgeries.

Guest: Marj Ratel

Vancouver-based nurse, and founder of the Korle-Bu Neuroscience Foundation