No fly zone: Riders record four interceptions in win over Argos
Jul 05, 2024
"We are just making the plays we are supposed to make," said Rolan Milligan.
8:30 – Zurich Insurance Group, a Geneva-based financial company, recently made the decision to avoid investment in Canadian oilsands. Cody Battershill, founder of CanadaAction.ca, says they’re the latest financial group to stop investing in Canadian oilsands, pipelines, and crude-by-rail facilities because they’re not consistent with global efforts to fight climate change. He says that’s a mistake as Canadian energy leads the world in innovation and work to reduce their environmental impact, and avoiding Canadian energy will simply reward suppliers like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela while providing no environmental benefit. Battershill joins John now to talk about the companies boycotting Canadian energy investment.
LIVE: Cody Battershill, founder of CanadaAction.ca
9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
10:00 – Saskatoon Police Chief Troy Cooper joins John to discuss local policing issues, including the crime concerns in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood and the police service policy for releasing the names of homicide victims.
LIVE: Troy Cooper, Saskatoon police chief.
11:00 – The Alberta government is set to hold a year-long public inquiry into foreign funding for environmental activism in the province. It’s an issue Canadian writer and researcher Vivian Krause first brought to light by following the money behind anti-oil activism, though she’s received a large amount of backlash against her work. Krause joins John now to talk about the inquiry, her work, and the foreign cash influencing Canada’s environmental policies.
LIVE: Vivian Krause, writer and researcher.