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8:30 – Health Minister Jim Reiter joins Gormley to discuss the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s 2019 CEO Tour Report, which highlighted a number of significant issues in long-term care facilities around Saskatchewan. Areas of concern included meals, activities, staffing, and infrastructure.
LIVE: Jim Reiter, Saskatchewan Health Minister.
9:00 – A Montreal anti-racism protest demanding justice for a black Minnesota man who died following a police intervention last week degenerated into clashes between police and some demonstrators on Sunday night. The march had made its way through downtown Montreal on Sunday afternoon without incident, but Montreal police declared the gathering illegal about three hours after it began when they say projectiles were thrown at officers who responded with pepper spray and tear gas. Todd van der Heyden is a Canadian journalist and news anchor with CTV News in Toronto. He has a Montreal-based radio show and joins Gormley to talk about the latest regarding protests in Montreal.
LIVE: Todd van der Heyden, CTV Toronto news anchor.
9:15 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
10:00 – Is the debate around gun control about more than guns? A.J. Somerset, author of “Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun,” says guns have transformed from tools into symbols of modern manhood, and are now strongly associated with the political right. Somerset is a gun lover, a former soldier and sport shooter, but doesn’t identify with the gun culture that’s become so central to the debate. Somerset joins Gormley to discuss gun control in Canada, and why the issue has become more about ideology than safety and common sense.
LIVE: A.J. Somerset, journalist, sport shooter, former soldier, author of “Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun”
11:00 – Dan Florizone, former Deputy Minister of Health and Saskatoon Health Region CEO, is calling for reform in long-term care facilities and a move away from the institutional model and towards a more home-based system. Florizone joins Gormley to discuss some of the issues and how they could be prevented in future through long-term care reform.
LIVE: Dan Florizone, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School Exec-in-Residence, former Saskatoon Health Region CEO and former Deputy Minister of Health.
12:00 – How are people in this province feeling about the COVID-19 pandemic and the major restrictions affecting how everyone lives and works? Research director Lang McGilp joins Gormley to discuss the findings from Insightrix’ tenth weekly “Saskatchewan Mental Health Barometer.”
LIVE: Lang McGilp, Research Director for Insightrix Research.