Show Segments

8:30 – Huawei is running a major campaign in Canada trying to address concerns that Huawei Canada might be used as a spying service by Beijing. The United States issued an executive order aimed at banning Huawei from its networks this week, and National Post columnist Kelly McParland says we should do the same. McParland says Canada absolutely shouldn’t trust China to play by the rules in this case, and notes that Chinese law requires Huawei to comply with intelligence agencies no matter what promises they make. Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who have been detained in China since December, were formally arrested this morning and were charged with conspiring to steal Chinese state secrets. McParland joins Murray now to discuss why Huawi and China shouldn’t be taken at their word.

LIVE: Kelly McParland, columnist for the National Post.

9:00 – Bug’s Day: The HOUR OF RAGE!

10:00 – Saskatchewan passed its new trespassing legislation this month, requiring prior permission from landowners before entering their land to hunt, hike, snowmobile, etc. But is this legislation really about people using the land legitimately, or was the legislation rushed through to appease the groups calling for action on rural crime? Are we headed down the slippery slope towards paid access for hunting in Saskatchewan? Darrell Crabbe, executive director of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation joins Murray to discuss some of the questions around these new laws.

LIVE: Darrell Crabbe, executive director of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation.

11:00 – Scotty the T. Rex is going to be reintroduced to the public Friday at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina. The project to create a plaster cast of the skeleton means Scotty, the world’s largest example of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton, will have her whole body on display instead of just the skull. Adding to the excitement was a national news team from CBS, who visited the museum yesterday to report on the project. To Scotty and all things dinosaur, Murray is joined by Ryan McKellar, paleontologist with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

LIVE: Ryan McKellar, paleontologist and curator with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum.

12:00 – The Caesar is 50 years old today. The all-Canadian cocktail was invented in 1969 at (what is now) the Westin in Calgary by Walter Chell. Simon Hancock is the editor of a collection of stories about the iconic drink, and he joins Murray now to go over some of the funnier moments in the drink’s half-century history and how it became Canada’s de-facto national drink.

LIVE: Simon Hancock, editor of “The Caesar. 50 Years. 50 Stories: Celebrating a Half-Century of Canada’s National Cocktail.”