How was your long weekend and what did you learn about how to enjoy it? Plus this question -- who does the most house work in your home? A tweet in Japan sets off some pretty good table talk.
Celebrating the 100th episode of "the bridge" including the last 45 as "daily" on COVID-19, we spend this weekend's special on your Big Ideas for how to use this opportunity to change Canada for the good.
Watching a U.S. Congressional committee hearing today on a fired whistleblower got me thinking about consensus and whether we can at least see it during a national crisis. Maybe. And yet another vaccine update.
You see this picture? Can you name this lake named after a former Canadian prime minister? It's the first in our series of "Big Projects" that the country should consider when COVID-19 is behind us.
If you know me you know I Iove airplanes and airliners - so not surprisingly I'm worried about the future for both. And vaccines -- what's the latest?
Plus, my list of things eight weeks at home have taught me about myself.
Another week of really smart letters from many of you that I get the pleasure of reading for everyone's benefit.
But first, is there actually serious talk in Ottawa about an election? Beware.
After two days of special podcasts on topics other than COVID-19 it's back to that matter at hand.
Looking for lessons in crisis leadership? Look no further than 1933.
Seventy five years on, and why the Dutch never forget.
We're into May now, and your letters keep on coming. My favourite pod of the week!
News on the movement of PPE, Questions for you about school, And a deeply personal story that had me thinking a lot today.
A new way to thank our front line heroes -- by taking to the skies. Plus, the promised feature interview on whether COVID-19 has given us reason to redefine our relationship with the United States.
And will you ever get on an airliner again -- the difficult decisions ahead for the world's airlines. And how will the planet handle the virus when it hits the poorest countries in the world?
Hockey Night in Podcastland -- a "bridge daily" special which shows just what a jock I am! Joined by my friends John Shannon and Gord Miller.
Another mailbag of great thoughts, comments and questions from you!
She does it again ... straight talk from Angela Merkel. We should all take note. Plus Saskatchewan outlines its reopen plan, and a feature interview on how the charities we depend on are in deep trouble because of the virus crisis.
Is she the Poet Laureate of a 1869 cholera pandemic, the 1918 "Spanish flu" or Covid-19? That and thoughts About Returning To School. Plus what is it about "testing, testing, testing" that we still don't get?
A story of how small our world is will start tonight's podcast, and then a special interview on a very different issue that will affect us all. I'm joined by Heather Reisman who runs the Indigo retail chain with about 200 stores across the country. They're all in lockdown but when they and thousands of other stores finally reopen there's a lot at stake and Heather gives us a glimpse into the decisions that are being made right now.
The tragedy in Nova Scotia gives us pause for a moment before we continue our focus on the virus. Tonight, some thoughts on where the virus came from, and a feature interview on how the media has done and is doing its job.
I love your emails and there were lots of good ones again this week.
Tonight the inside story of a busy research lab in Saskatoon and its part of a world wide race to stop a killer. These people are heroes too.
A lot of people are trying to predict the future these days convinced that what we are witnessing now will change everything about the way we live. Tonight a special discussion about that with someone who studies forecasting, journalist and author Dan Gardner.
Half of the country's Covid-19 deaths have happened in long term care facilities exposing a serious problem in the way Canada cares for its elderly. Will this disaster force change? That's the primary focus tonight, but we'll also make room for some hope and a smile.
Some leaders, including Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump, are appearing almost daily during the COVID-19 crisis. Others from countries around the world are appearing a lot less. What's appropriate and what do past crises tell us about past practice?
You never fail me with your great emails and the weekends are for you! Stay healthy, stay safe and stay at home.
One of the first major studies of how we are reacting to the Covid-19 crisis sheds some interesting light on how we may be changing our attitudes towards the role of government. One of the study's main analysts is our guest tonight - Bruce Anderson, the chair of Abacus Data.
We've all been looking at new and constructive ways to pass the isolation time. Who would have thought Albert Speer could pass along something useful? And its time to thank another profession -- think #ThankASeafarer
We are all sending our prayers to the London hospital where British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in intensive care fighting COVID-19. Some thoughts about the British prime minister tonight. And also, foreign trained health care workers -- should they be hired to help fight the virus?
