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Regina's city council covered a lot of ground in a three-hour meeting on Wednesday. With all members in attendance, coun...
8:30 – Derek Miller, the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s chief of emergency operations is here to discuss the vaccination numbers for this week, what the ICU situation looks like in the province and vaccine wastage.
LIVE: Derek Miller, Chief – Emergency Operations Centre, Saskatchewan Health Authority.
9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
9:30 – Soon to be 95 years old, Frank Atchison continues to walk from Saskatoon to Regina and he’s about five days ahead of schedule. The World War II Veteran will turn 95 on June 15 and that same day he celebrates 50 years in the Shrine. He is walking in support of the Shrine and Shriners Hospital for Children and the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation. Atchison joins Gormley from the side of the road near Davidson as he continues his trek to Regina.
LIVE: Frank Atchison, walking from Saskatoon to Regina to benefit children’s hospitals.
10:00 – Ottawa has announced another external review of sexual misconduct in the military – just six years after a similar review delivered recommendations that were never fully implemented. Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, who studies gender integration and leadership in the Canadian armed forces during the 1990s, wonders if they are actually going to follow up this time? Duval-Lantoine joins Gormley to discuss what needs to be done to change the culture within the CAF to prevent sexual misconduct.
LIVE: Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
11:00 – There are changes coming to Bill C-10 following a storm of criticism over the bill’s powers to regulate user-generated content on social media sites. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said a new amendment to the bill would protect Canadians’ social media posts from CRTC regulation, but proponents of the bill including Daniel Bernhard with Friends of Canadian Broadcasting say that content was never at any serious risk. Bernhard says the bill needs to go further to protect Canadians from hate and harmful/illegal content, and compel tech giants to pay for Canadian news.
LIVE: Daniel Bernhard, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Executive Director.
11:30 – Law Professor Michael Geist, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ontario, has been one of Canada’s most vocal critics of Bill C-10, saying the Trudeau Liberals have become “the most anti-Internet government in Canadian history.” Geist joins Gormley to share his thoughts on the bill, and why he says the best course of action would be to scrap the bill entirely and start over.
LIVE: Michael Geist, Law Professor at the University of Ottawa & Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.