Oil trouble in Alberta, pit bull ban, Alison Azer's fight to get her children back, "birth tourism", and Fort McMurray today

He's known to Canada as Bernard the Roughneck. The 32-year-old long-haired Alberta oil rig roughneck spoke to parliament and made national headlines about how lives are being ruined and dreams shattered in Alberta as the oil patch dries up. Guest: Bernard "The Roughneck" Hancock - Montreal moves forward with its pit bull dog breed ban. Guest: Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of the Humane Society International, Canada - Earlier this week, Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian dual citizen, was freed from the Evin prison in Tehran. Justin Trudeau has been given credit for having been involved, even though Canada has no official relations with Iran. So has the Canadian prime minister done 'anything' to get four Canadian children out of Iran and back to their Canadian mother after their father criminally took them to Iran? 

Guest: Alison Azer - It's called "birth tourism."  Foreigners come to Canada to stay as their pregnancies near term. When they're about to go into labour the women are taken to Vancouver (and other B.C.) hospitals to give birth. The children are automatically Canadian citizens and may become so-called "anchor babies."  

Guests: Kerry Starchuk, lifelong resident of Richmond, BC. She lives next door to a so-called "baby house" where women are lodged until they're about to go into labour Martin Collacott, former Canadian ambassador to Syria and Lebanon and immigration expert

- Stacy and Kevin are two Fort McMurray residents who escaped the hell of the wildfire. Roy asks how their lives have evolved over the past months as they are getting ready to return to Fort Mac, facing a potentially very difficult winter. The 23 foot trailer they bought in Edmonton after the fire was vandalized. And because money was tight, they were repeatedly asked to leave campgrounds where they had been initially welcomed as Fort Mac survivors.   Guests: Stacy and Kevin
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He's known to Canada as Bernard the Roughneck. The 32-year-old long-haired Alberta oil rig roughneck spoke to parliament and made national headlines about how lives are being ruined and dreams shattered in Alberta as the oil patch dries up.

Guest: Bernard "The Roughneck" Hancock

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Montreal moves forward with its pit bull dog breed ban.

Guest: Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of the Humane Society International, Canada

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Earlier this week, Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian dual citizen, was freed from the Evin prison in Tehran. Justin Trudeau has been given credit for having been involved, even though Canada has no official relations with Iran. So has the Canadian prime minister done 'anything' to get four Canadian children out of Iran and back to their Canadian mother after their father criminally took them to Iran? 

Guest: Alison Azer

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It's called "birth tourism."  Foreigners come to Canada to stay as their pregnancies near term. When they're about to go into labour the women are taken to Vancouver (and other B.C.) hospitals to give birth. The children are automatically Canadian citizens and may become so-called "anchor babies."  

Guests: Kerry Starchuk, lifelong resident of Richmond, BC. She lives next door to a so-called "baby house" where women are lodged until they're about to go into labour
Martin Collacott, former Canadian ambassador to Syria and Lebanon and immigration expert

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Stacy and Kevin are two Fort McMurray residents who escaped the hell of the wildfire. Roy asks how their lives have evolved over the past months as they are getting ready to return to Fort Mac, facing a potentially very difficult winter. The 23 foot trailer they bought in Edmonton after the fire was vandalized. And because money was tight, they were repeatedly asked to leave campgrounds where they had been initially welcomed as Fort Mac survivors.  

Guests: Stacy and Kevin

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