Show Segments

8:30 – Until the federal election Oct. 21, we’ll be holding weekly panel discussions with representatives for the three largest political parties joining John. They’ll discuss the issues of the day, the parties’ platforms, and what’s likely to happen in Saskatchewan and across the nation come election day. This week our topics are climate change and image. Are the parties being realistic in their climate goals and promises? How important is image during this campaign? We’ll find out what our panelists think.

LIVE: Sally Housser, PR consultant and political commentator, former press secretary to NDP leaders Jack Layton and Rachel Notley

LIVE: Evatt Merchant, Saskatchewan lawyer and long-time member of the Liberal Party

LIVE: Fred DeLorey, strategist for the Conservative Party of Canada

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

10:00 – We’ve seen numerous examples of “cancel culture” over the past few years, where a past mistake by a politician or celebrity results in their utter downfall, particularly if their blunder related to race, gender, or sexual orientation. Yet Justin Trudeau has managed to survive two such incidents – the first when he was accused of groping a woman at a beer festival, and the second when photos of Trudeau wearing blackface and brownface emerged during the current election campaign. Writer James Di Fiore says the blackface photos offer an opportunity for both the left and right to re-examine “cancel culture” and start sparing people from suffering for past mistakes, often made decades ago. He says the left clearly needs to revamp its orthodoxy “that requires people with past sins to walk the proverbial plank of cancel culture,” and the right needs to stop trying to turn cancel culture around every time someone on the left is caught up in it.

LIVE: James Di Fiore, publisher and founder of Blackball Media.

11:00 – Hoarding is recognized as a medical disorder, defined as “persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of the actual value… the accumulation of possessions that congests living areas and substantially compromises their intended use… causing clinically significant distress or impairment in social occupation, or other important areas of functioning (including maintaining a safe environment for self and others).” Elaine Birchall’s new book “Conquer the Clutter: Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Overcome Hoarding,” offers tools and support to hoarders, potential hoarders, and those who care about them. According to Birchall, there are 21 million people in North America who hoard, and their accumulation of items sometimes leads to social, legal, and medical issues. She joins John now to discuss the disorder and how hoarding can be overcome.

LIVE: Elaine Birchall, director of Birchall Consulting, founder of the Canadian National Hoarding Coalition, and author of “Conquer the Clutter.”

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