Show Segments

8:30 – Last week the City of Saskatoon announced it had lost $1.04 million to a fraudster impersonating the CFO of Allan Construction. The fraudster asked for a change of banking information, and thanks to the city’s compliance the next contract payment went into the crook’s account. On Monday City Manager Jeff Jorgenson shared some good news – most of the funds had been traced, identified, and locked down by court orders, with $40,000 already returned to the city. Jorgenson joins Gormley now to discuss how the fraud happened and what the city is doing to recover the remainder.

LIVE: Jeff Jorgenson, city manager for Saskatoon.

9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session

10:00 – The Liberal Party of Canada is closing ranks in support of Trudeau after he was found to have broken the Conflict of Interest Act during the SNC-Lavalin scandal. National Post Columnist Kelly McParland says it’s not surprising nobody in the Liberals’ camp seems bothered by the ethics violation, writing that “Liberals need to defend Justin Trudeau because he’s all they’ve got.” While their defence of the PM is unsurprising, McParland says it’s also hypocritical, as they wouldn’t be shrugging off a similar violation had it been committed by Harper. McParland joins John now to discuss the fallout from SNC.

LIVE: Kelly McParland, columnist for the National Post.

11:00 – Health Canada has approved the first-ever safe drug consumption site in Saskatchewan. The proposed site will be operated by AIDS Saskatoon on 20th St. W. in the city’s crime-plagued Pleasant Hill neighbourhood. While the police have offered support for the site and its harm-reduction philosophy, a report to the city’s board of police commissioners called for an “immediate” plea for increased federal and provincial funding to ensure the site is adequately policed. Meanwhile, Alberta’s UCP government is undertaking a review of their own safe injection sites, examining the sites’ social and economic impacts. Do you think Saskatchewan needs safe injection sites, or will they simply become magnets for crime when we should be supporting recovery? Give us a call at 1-877-332-8255 and tell us where you land on the safe injection debate.

12:00 – Canadian military historian Ted Barris has a new book out, exploring the role of combat medics during war, including his own father’s wartime experiences leading up to the Battle of the Bulge. “Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Fire,” recounts the experiences of all types of medics from Vimy Ridge to Iraq and Afghanistan, including stretcher bearers, medical corpsmen, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists, and ambulance drivers. Barris joins John now to talk about the book and the heroism battlefield medics have demonstrated again and again throughout history.

LIVE: Ted Barris, award-winning author of 19 non-fiction books including 12 wartime histories.