The Best of The Simi Sara Show - Thurs June 20th 2019

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @MikeSmythNews's 🔥 question of the day: Doug McCallum has been back on the job for eight months since winning last October's election. How is the Surrey mayor doing so far?

Good job! I approve.

Bad job! I disapprove.

 

Chapter 2

SkyTrains, police forces, and canals: is this the kind of grand vision the City of Surrey needs?

Last week, Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum raised the idea of building a ‘wandering canal’, Venice style, through the city. But Surrey councillors have been keeping quiet since the idea was floated on Thursday. While the GM of engineering in Surrey says the mayor didn’t talk to him about the canal, but later clarified his position in an email statement to Janet.

Guest: Dianne Watts

Former Mayor of Surrey

 

Chapter 3

Canada has become the first country in the world to ban the import and export of shark fins

That’s Ocean and Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, speaking to reporters.

Canada has become the first G20 country in the world to ban the import and export of shark fins in a move advocates hailed as a major win for preserving ocean populations.

The ban passed in the Senate late Tuesday as part of Bill C-68, which overhauls the Fisheries Act. Canada has outlawed the practice of cutting fins off domestic sharks since 1994, but it did not have legislation to prohibit people from bringing fins into the country.

Guest: Camille Labchuk

Animal rights lawyer and executive director of Animal Justice

 

Chapter 4

Raptors president Masai Ujiri produced ID before altercation with sheriff, police say, but not proper credentials

According to an article in the Globe and Mail, Raptors president Masai Ujiri identified himself to a police officer who was blocking the executive from the on-court celebrations after the Raptors’ historic NBA Finals win last Thursday, police say.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mr. Ujiri told the deputy he was the team’s president and did present NBA identification, after The Globe and Mail described an eyewitness account of the officer being told that Mr. Ujiri was a Raptors executive, moments before the two became embroiled in a shoving match. But according to police, Mr. Ujiri did not have the specific credentials needed to enter the court.

Guest: Robyn Doolittle

Globe and Mail reporter

 

Chapter 5

Tax take from cannabis sales is lower than expected

Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from various taxes on cannabis from last October through the end of March, numbers released Wednesday show.

The provinces took the lion’s share of that money, with $132 million in combined sales tax and excise tax revenue; the federal treasury took in $55 million.

Guest: Robyn Gibbard

Economist with the Conference Board of Canada

 

Chapter 6

Desjardins says info for 2.9M members shared outside of organization

Desjardins Group says the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization.

The Quebec-based financial institution says the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members.   It says the situation is the result of unauthorized and illegal use of its internal data by an employee who has since been fired.

Personal members may have had several pieces of personal information released including their name, date of birth, social insurance number, address, phone number, email address and details about their banking habits. The company says passwords, security questions and personal identification numbers were not compromised.  Desjardins noted the incident was not the result of a cyberattack and that its computer systems were not breached.

Dominic Vogel is Chief Security Strategist for Cyber.SC, a cyber security company that  works with small to midsize businesses to protect them from cyber threats and attacks.

Guest: Dominic Vogel

Chief Strategist, Cyber.SC

 

Chapter 7

BC business owners ask provincial government for more work on climate action

In recent weeks we’ve spoken to business owners who have told of their struggles because of changes being made to protect the environment.

Not all business owners feel that way, though.

A letter has been sent to the BC government, signed by 40 local businesses, asking for the province to take more action to capitalize on green initiatives.

One of the signatories is the Modo Co-Op.

Guest: Patrick NangleCEO, Modo Co-Operative

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @MikeSmythNews's 🔥 question of the day: Doug McCallum has been back on the job for eight months since winning last October's election. How is the Surrey mayor doing so far?

Good job! I approve.
Bad job! I disapprove.

 

Chapter 2

SkyTrains, police forces, and canals: is this the kind of grand vision the City of Surrey needs?

Last week, Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum raised the idea of building a ‘wandering canal’, Venice style, through the city. But Surrey councillors have been keeping quiet since the idea was floated on Thursday. While the GM of engineering in Surrey says the mayor didn’t talk to him about the canal, but later clarified his position in an email statement to Janet.

Guest: Dianne Watts

Former Mayor of Surrey

 

Chapter 3

Canada has become the first country in the world to ban the import and export of shark fins

That’s Ocean and Fisheries Minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, speaking to reporters.

Canada has become the first G20 country in the world to ban the import and export of shark fins in a move advocates hailed as a major win for preserving ocean populations.

The ban passed in the Senate late Tuesday as part of Bill C-68, which overhauls the Fisheries Act. Canada has outlawed the practice of cutting fins off domestic sharks since 1994, but it did not have legislation to prohibit people from bringing fins into the country.

Guest: Camille Labchuk

Animal rights lawyer and executive director of Animal Justice

 

Chapter 4

Raptors president Masai Ujiri produced ID before altercation with sheriff, police say, but not proper credentials

According to an article in the Globe and Mail, Raptors president Masai Ujiri identified himself to a police officer who was blocking the executive from the on-court celebrations after the Raptors’ historic NBA Finals win last Thursday, police say.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mr. Ujiri told the deputy he was the team’s president and did present NBA identification, after The Globe and Mail described an eyewitness account of the officer being told that Mr. Ujiri was a Raptors executive, moments before the two became embroiled in a shoving match. But according to police, Mr. Ujiri did not have the specific credentials needed to enter the court.

Guest: Robyn Doolittle

Globe and Mail reporter

 

Chapter 5

Tax take from cannabis sales is lower than expected

Ottawa and the provinces made $186 million from various taxes on cannabis from last October through the end of March, numbers released Wednesday show.

The provinces took the lion’s share of that money, with $132 million in combined sales tax and excise tax revenue; the federal treasury took in $55 million.

Guest: Robyn Gibbard

Economist with the Conference Board of Canada

 

Chapter 6

Desjardins says info for 2.9M members shared outside of organization

Desjardins Group says the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members has been shared with individuals outside of the organization.

The Quebec-based financial institution says the breach affects 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members.   It says the situation is the result of unauthorized and illegal use of its internal data by an employee who has since been fired.

Personal members may have had several pieces of personal information released including their name, date of birth, social insurance number, address, phone number, email address and details about their banking habits. The company says passwords, security questions and personal identification numbers were not compromised.  Desjardins noted the incident was not the result of a cyberattack and that its computer systems were not breached.

Dominic Vogel is Chief Security Strategist for Cyber.SC, a cyber security company that  works with small to midsize businesses to protect them from cyber threats and attacks.

Guest: Dominic Vogel

Chief Strategist, Cyber.SC

 

Chapter 7

BC business owners ask provincial government for more work on climate action

In recent weeks we’ve spoken to business owners who have told of their struggles because of changes being made to protect the environment.

Not all business owners feel that way, though.

A letter has been sent to the BC government, signed by 40 local businesses, asking for the province to take more action to capitalize on green initiatives.

One of the signatories is the Modo Co-Op.

Guest: Patrick Nangle
CEO, Modo Co-Operative