Show Segments

8:30 a.m. North Korea has agreed to suspend its nuclear and missile tests as the U.S. continues to lead the global push for the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Can North Korea be trusted to make good on its nuclear testing freeze? Elliot Tepper, a distinguished senior fellow with the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, joins Murray to explain.

9:00 a.m. The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session

10:00 a.m. It’s National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week… Heart transplant recipient Harold Sokyrka joins the show to share his story about getting a second chance at life through organ donation.

11:00 a.m. Spring weather has finally arrived and the season of yard and garden work has begun. Rick VanDuyvendyk, owner of Dutch Growers Garden Centre, joins the show to talk about what you can do to get a head start on your yard and garden this season.

12:00 p.m. While a strike has been averted for now, the unions representing rail workers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. say it is only a matter of time before their members walk off the job. Amid an ongoing backlog crisis, what would a rail strike mean for grain farmers? Jeff Nielsen, president of the Grain Growers of Canada, joins Murray to discuss.