The Best of The Simi Sara Show - Surrey's city council meeting spirals into chaos during vote to pass the city's budget for the next year & More...

CHAPTER 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

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

Should there be a referendum in Surrey on a new municipal force?

Yes, we need clarity

No, it’s been settled

 

CHAPTER 2

Surrey's city council meeting spirals into chaos during vote to pass the city's budget for the next year

Chaos, frustration and anger - that describes what happened at Surrey City Hall last night when 400 people packed into council chambers and hundreds stood outside in the lobby, as City Council passed the controversial budget for next year that does NOT include money for any new RCMP officers, firefighters, and community centres.

Guest: Allison Patton

Surrey City Councillor representing the Safe Surrey Coalition

Guest: Janet Brown

Global News Senior Reporter

Guest: Frank Bucholtz (Book-holts)

Columnist for the Surrey-Now Leader and the Peach Arch News

 

CHAPTER 3

Pot edibles available online in B.C. from this Thursday

Starting on Thursday, you'll be able to by legal cannabis edibles for the first time - stuff like chocolate, cookies, soft chews, and mints. 

The Liquor Distribution Branch says you'll be able to buy these online on the BC Cannabis Store website, and you should be able to get them at retail stores once they get shipped out to retailers - probably around late December.

For the moment, they're only expecting a small number of products to be available for retail sale.

Guest: Deepak Anand

Vice President of Government Relations for Cannabis Compliance Inc.

 

CHAPTER 4

Tax tips: take these steps before the end of the year to help with your 2019 tax return

Guest: Jamie Golombek

Managing Director of Tax and Estate Planning, CIBC

 

CHAPTER 5

Surrey's city council meeting spirals into chaos during vote to pass the city's budget for the next year

Chaos, frustration and anger - that describes what happened at Surrey City Hall last night when 400 people packed into council chambers and hundreds stood outside in the lobby, as City Council passed the controversial budget for next year that does NOT include money for any new RCMP officers, firefighters, and community centres.

Guest: Steven Pettigrew

Surrey City Councillor

 

CHAPTER 6

BREAKING: Lifelabs privacy breach could impact as many as 15 million Canadians

15 million Canadians are potential victims of a cyber attack against Lifelabs, with most in BC and Ontario.

The lab-testing company says it reported the attack November 1st, and government agencies in the two provinces are investigating.

It says cyber criminals hacked into their systems, swiped data, and demanded a ransom, which the company paid to secure data that included 85,000 test results from people in Ontario.

The affected systems contained the name, address, email, customer login, passwords, health card numbers, and lab tests of patients.

BC Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy calls the breach "devastating" for those affected.

Lifelabs is apologizing to its customers.

Guest: Charles Brown

President and CEO of Lifelabs, speaking to us from Toronto today.

 

CHAPTER 7

Pattison company bows out of Canfor bid

A company owned by BC billionaire Jim Pattison is bowing out of a bid to buy Canfor Corporation and take the lumber producer private.

Pattison's Great Pacific Capital Corp. had offered 16-dollars per share for most of the remaining 49 per cent of Canfor shares the company doesn't already own.

But the roughly one-billion dollar offer failed to win over Canfor's minority shareholders -- with one company that holds a 4.8 per cent stake in Canfor complaining the offer was too low.

Canfor board members had recommend acceptance of the Pattison proposal, calling it ``compelling'' value.

Guest: Keith Baldrey

Global’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria

 

CHAPTER 8

A new book called “The Sorry Plane” reveals that forcing your kids to say sorry doesn't really work

We’ve all heard the saying as kids: “Say you’re sorry.” followed by a “No, like you mean it.” Well according to clinical counselor and educator Deborah MacNamara, that doesn’t really make your child more empathetic later in life. She talks about this and more in her new book  “The Sorry Plane” which was inspired by her two daughters. She joins us in-studio now.

Guest: Deborah MacNamara

Author, Educator and Clinical Counsellor

 

CHAPTER 9

Surrey Mayor, Doug McCallum, speaks to Mike Smyth on CKNW’s Simi Sara Show

Guest: Doug McCallum

Mayor of Surrey

 

CHAPTER 10

Reaction to Doug McCallum’s interview on the Simi Sara Show

Guest: Ken Hardie

Liberal Member of Parliament for Fleetwood-Port Kells riding

Guest: Anita Huberman

CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade

CHAPTER 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

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

Should there be a referendum in Surrey on a new municipal force?

Yes, we need clarity
No, it’s been settled

 

CHAPTER 2

Surrey's city council meeting spirals into chaos during vote to pass the city's budget for the next year

Chaos, frustration and anger - that describes what happened at Surrey City Hall last night when 400 people packed into council chambers and hundreds stood outside in the lobby, as City Council passed the controversial budget for next year that does NOT include money for any new RCMP officers, firefighters, and community centres.

Guest: Allison Patton

Surrey City Councillor representing the Safe Surrey Coalition

Guest: Janet Brown

Global News Senior Reporter

Guest: Frank Bucholtz (Book-holts)

Columnist for the Surrey-Now Leader and the Peach Arch News

 

CHAPTER 3

Pot edibles available online in B.C. from this Thursday

Starting on Thursday, you'll be able to by legal cannabis edibles for the first time - stuff like chocolate, cookies, soft chews, and mints. 

The Liquor Distribution Branch says you'll be able to buy these online on the BC Cannabis Store website, and you should be able to get them at retail stores once they get shipped out to retailers - probably around late December.

For the moment, they're only expecting a small number of products to be available for retail sale.

Guest: Deepak Anand

Vice President of Government Relations for Cannabis Compliance Inc.

 

CHAPTER 4

Tax tips: take these steps before the end of the year to help with your 2019 tax return

Guest: Jamie Golombek

Managing Director of Tax and Estate Planning, CIBC

 

CHAPTER 5

Surrey's city council meeting spirals into chaos during vote to pass the city's budget for the next year

Chaos, frustration and anger - that describes what happened at Surrey City Hall last night when 400 people packed into council chambers and hundreds stood outside in the lobby, as City Council passed the controversial budget for next year that does NOT include money for any new RCMP officers, firefighters, and community centres.

Guest: Steven Pettigrew

Surrey City Councillor

 

CHAPTER 6

BREAKING: Lifelabs privacy breach could impact as many as 15 million Canadians

15 million Canadians are potential victims of a cyber attack against Lifelabs, with most in BC and Ontario.

The lab-testing company says it reported the attack November 1st, and government agencies in the two provinces are investigating.

It says cyber criminals hacked into their systems, swiped data, and demanded a ransom, which the company paid to secure data that included 85,000 test results from people in Ontario.

The affected systems contained the name, address, email, customer login, passwords, health card numbers, and lab tests of patients.

BC Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy calls the breach "devastating" for those affected.

Lifelabs is apologizing to its customers.

Guest: Charles Brown

President and CEO of Lifelabs, speaking to us from Toronto today.

 

CHAPTER 7

Pattison company bows out of Canfor bid

A company owned by BC billionaire Jim Pattison is bowing out of a bid to buy Canfor Corporation and take the lumber producer private.

Pattison's Great Pacific Capital Corp. had offered 16-dollars per share for most of the remaining 49 per cent of Canfor shares the company doesn't already own.

But the roughly one-billion dollar offer failed to win over Canfor's minority shareholders -- with one company that holds a 4.8 per cent stake in Canfor complaining the offer was too low.

Canfor board members had recommend acceptance of the Pattison proposal, calling it ``compelling'' value.

Guest: Keith Baldrey

Global’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria

 

CHAPTER 8

A new book called “The Sorry Plane” reveals that forcing your kids to say sorry doesn't really work

We’ve all heard the saying as kids: “Say you’re sorry.” followed by a “No, like you mean it.” Well according to clinical counselor and educator Deborah MacNamara, that doesn’t really make your child more empathetic later in life. She talks about this and more in her new book  “The Sorry Plane” which was inspired by her two daughters. She joins us in-studio now.

Guest: Deborah MacNamara

Author, Educator and Clinical Counsellor

 

CHAPTER 9

Surrey Mayor, Doug McCallum, speaks to Mike Smyth on CKNW’s Simi Sara Show

Guest: Doug McCallum

Mayor of Surrey

 

CHAPTER 10

Reaction to Doug McCallum’s interview on the Simi Sara Show

Guest: Ken Hardie

Liberal Member of Parliament for Fleetwood-Port Kells riding

Guest: Anita Huberman

CEO of the Surrey Board of Trade