The Best of The Simi Sara Show - tues Feb 12th 2019

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @simisara980's 🔥 question of the day: Jody Wilson-Raybould has quit cabinet, less than a week after reports Justin Trudeau or his staff pressured her to sort a deal to let SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution on corruption claims. Will this hurt the Liberals at election time?

Yes, they’ll lose votes.

No, it won’t matter.

 

Chapter 2

Wilson-Raybould resigns from Trudeau cabinet in wake of SNC-Lavalin scandal

Veterans Affairs Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has quit the federal cabinet and hired a former Supreme Court justice to advise her on what she can say about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Her resignation comes less than a week after The Globe and Mail newspaper reported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his staff pressured her to arrange a deal that would have let the Montreal-based company avoid a criminal prosecution on allegations of corruption and bribery.

Trudeau previously said he'd told Wilson-Raybould that any decision on the subject was hers alone.

Guest: Steven Chase

National correspondent for the Globe and Mail

 

Chapter 3

Senior police investigating money laundering had concerns about sharing information with BCLC and BC government

Documents obtained by Global News reveal concerns that senior police in BC had about sharing information with the BC Lottery Corp. and possibly others in BC’s government, as police mounted massive investigations into organized crime suspects in legal and illegal casinos in 2015. Distrust was building by September 2015, and that was before a series of Richmond raids in mid Oct.ober 2015, targeting an alleged kingpin, Paul King Jin, that according to documents, were compromised.

The story will track back to the start of discussion between BCLC and RCMP about the E-Pirate operation targeting organized crime, and several key meetings leading up to the raids, and an investigation into ‘integrity’ of gaming that has since occurred.

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News investigative reporter

 

Chapter 4

The BC Legislature resumes, marked by the Throne Speech setting out the year’s political agenda

MLAs are doing their best to return to the house today for a throne speech that sets the political agenda for the coming months.

But there’s a dark cloud over the legislature, as the allegations revealed by Darryl Plecas have all three parties searching for answers. Sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz and clerk Craig James have denied any wrongdoing after they were escorted from the legislature last November.

Today’s throne speech will lay out the minority NDP government's priorities for the next session of the legislature, a week before Finance Minister Carole James delivers her next budget.

Guest: Richard Zussman

Global News Online Legislative Reporter

 

Chapter 5

“El Chapo” convicted of drug-trafficking charges

The notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin ``El Chapo'' Guzman has been convicted of drug-trafficking charges at a trial in New York.

The verdict reached on the sixth day of jury deliberations could put the 61-year-old behind bars for the rest of his life in a high-security U.S. prison selected to thwart another one of the escapes that embarrassed his native country.

Guzman broke out of Mexican prisons twice before he was finally recaptured and extradited to the U.S. in 2017.

Federal prosecutors put on more than 50 witnesses over three months detailing how Guzman's Sinaloa cartel amassed billions of dollars importing tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S.

Witnessed detailed assassinations and political payoffs, and how drugs were smuggled using tanker trucks, rail cars and even shipments of canned peppers.

Jeff Lichtman is the defense attorney for Guzman. He says they'll be continuing to fight for him and will be appealing the decision.

Guest: Douglas Century

Journalist and co-author of Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug-Lord

 

Chapter 8

Svend Robinson marks the 25th anniversary of Sue Rodriguez’s death and her battle for the right-to-die

It has been 25 years since Sue Rodriguez became a household name across Canada for her fight to die with dignity. Diagnosed withALS, she wanted to have the right to choose a doctor to help her end her life before the incurable degenerative motor neuron disease paralyzed her body.

One of the people with Rodriguez throughout her fight to change the federal law banning assisted suicide was Svend Robinson. He was initially contacted because of his work as an NDP member of Parliament advocating for right to die legislation to help people with AIDS. He quickly became Rodriguez’s friend as well… and he was with Rodriguez when she chose to end her life.

Rodriguez died Saturday, Feb. 12, 1994 at home after taking a mixture of morphine and secobarbital. She was 43 years old.

Svend Robinson has re-emerged in politics as an NDP candidate in the Burnaby-North Seymour riding. He is in Vancouver today to mark the 25th anniversary of Rodriguez’s death, and to discuss what he perceives as a lack of action from the federal government on the issue of death with dignity for terminally ill Canadians.

Guest: Svend Robinson

NDP federal election candidate in Burnaby North-Seymour

Was a close friend of Sue Rodriguez's and accompanied Sue at her death

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @simisara980's 🔥 question of the day: Jody Wilson-Raybould has quit cabinet, less than a week after reports Justin Trudeau or his staff pressured her to sort a deal to let SNC-Lavalin avoid prosecution on corruption claims. Will this hurt the Liberals at election time?

Yes, they’ll lose votes.
No, it won’t matter.

 

Chapter 2

Wilson-Raybould resigns from Trudeau cabinet in wake of SNC-Lavalin scandal

Veterans Affairs Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has quit the federal cabinet and hired a former Supreme Court justice to advise her on what she can say about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

Her resignation comes less than a week after The Globe and Mail newspaper reported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his staff pressured her to arrange a deal that would have let the Montreal-based company avoid a criminal prosecution on allegations of corruption and bribery.

Trudeau previously said he'd told Wilson-Raybould that any decision on the subject was hers alone.

Guest: Steven Chase

National correspondent for the Globe and Mail

 

Chapter 3

Senior police investigating money laundering had concerns about sharing information with BCLC and BC government

Documents obtained by Global News reveal concerns that senior police in BC had about sharing information with the BC Lottery Corp. and possibly others in BC’s government, as police mounted massive investigations into organized crime suspects in legal and illegal casinos in 2015. Distrust was building by September 2015, and that was before a series of Richmond raids in mid Oct.ober 2015, targeting an alleged kingpin, Paul King Jin, that according to documents, were compromised.

The story will track back to the start of discussion between BCLC and RCMP about the E-Pirate operation targeting organized crime, and several key meetings leading up to the raids, and an investigation into ‘integrity’ of gaming that has since occurred.

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News investigative reporter

 

Chapter 4

The BC Legislature resumes, marked by the Throne Speech setting out the year’s political agenda

MLAs are doing their best to return to the house today for a throne speech that sets the political agenda for the coming months.

But there’s a dark cloud over the legislature, as the allegations revealed by Darryl Plecas have all three parties searching for answers. Sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz and clerk Craig James have denied any wrongdoing after they were escorted from the legislature last November.

Today’s throne speech will lay out the minority NDP government's priorities for the next session of the legislature, a week before Finance Minister Carole James delivers her next budget.

Guest: Richard Zussman

Global News Online Legislative Reporter

 

Chapter 5

“El Chapo” convicted of drug-trafficking charges

The notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin ``El Chapo'' Guzman has been convicted of drug-trafficking charges at a trial in New York.

The verdict reached on the sixth day of jury deliberations could put the 61-year-old behind bars for the rest of his life in a high-security U.S. prison selected to thwart another one of the escapes that embarrassed his native country.

Guzman broke out of Mexican prisons twice before he was finally recaptured and extradited to the U.S. in 2017.

Federal prosecutors put on more than 50 witnesses over three months detailing how Guzman's Sinaloa cartel amassed billions of dollars importing tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S.

Witnessed detailed assassinations and political payoffs, and how drugs were smuggled using tanker trucks, rail cars and even shipments of canned peppers.

Jeff Lichtman is the defense attorney for Guzman. He says they'll be continuing to fight for him and will be appealing the decision.

Guest: Douglas Century

Journalist and co-author of Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug-Lord

 

Chapter 8

Svend Robinson marks the 25th anniversary of Sue Rodriguez’s death and her battle for the right-to-die

It has been 25 years since Sue Rodriguez became a household name across Canada for her fight to die with dignity. Diagnosed withALS, she wanted to have the right to choose a doctor to help her end her life before the incurable degenerative motor neuron disease paralyzed her body.

One of the people with Rodriguez throughout her fight to change the federal law banning assisted suicide was Svend Robinson. He was initially contacted because of his work as an NDP member of Parliament advocating for right to die legislation to help people with AIDS. He quickly became Rodriguez’s friend as well… and he was with Rodriguez when she chose to end her life.

Rodriguez died Saturday, Feb. 12, 1994 at home after taking a mixture of morphine and secobarbital. She was 43 years old.

Svend Robinson has re-emerged in politics as an NDP candidate in the Burnaby-North Seymour riding. He is in Vancouver today to mark the 25th anniversary of Rodriguez’s death, and to discuss what he perceives as a lack of action from the federal government on the issue of death with dignity for terminally ill Canadians.

Guest: Svend Robinson

NDP federal election candidate in Burnaby North-Seymour

Was a close friend of Sue Rodriguez's and accompanied Sue at her death