The Green Zone: Riders' Jeremy O'Day preparing for 2025
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O'Day discusses Trevor Harris and changes to be made to get the Riders back to the Grey Cup.
8:30 – The Saskatchewan Government tabled its budget Monday, but COVID means things look very different this year. Finance Minister Donna Harpauer joins Gormley to go over all the details.
LIVE: Donna Harpauer, Saskatchewan Finance Minister.
9:00 – The Hour of Big Stories…open session
10:00 – The Saskatchewan Government’s 2020/21 budget is sitting at a $2.4B deficit, largely due to the pandemic. $700M has been allocated for pandemic spending, but the largest shares of the budget’s $16.1B in expenses go to health ($6.18 billion), education ($3.36 billion) and social services ($1.49 billion). How long will it take to dig ourselves out of the COVID-19 financial hole? Is the province spending too much during a big deficit year, or should they be stimulating as much growth as possible? Call 1-877-332-8255 and let us know what you think of the fiscal plan for the upcoming year.
11:00 – Will humans need to be deliberately infected with COVID-19 during our search for a vaccine? Bioethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan says the scientists testing the effectiveness of vaccines on humans may need to employ “challenge studies,” where volunteers are deliberately infected and then given a test vaccine or placebo. Caplan says it may be abhorrent to deliberately infect humans with a pathogen, “but asking volunteers to take risks without pressure or coercion is not exploitation but benefitting from altruism.” Caplan joins Gormley to discuss some of the ethical questions that arise as scientists search for a COVID-19 vaccine.
LIVE: Dr. Arthur Caplan, Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center.
11:30/12:00 – From pineapple on pizza to everything tech producer Brando has ever eaten, some people consider certain combinations of foods to be borderline criminal. Sheri Ebert on Jack FM recently asked what Twitter thought about her “spaghetti pizza,” and one reporter in the CKOM newsroom likes to mix ichiban and Kraft Dinner together (he calls it “ichi-Kraft”). What’s the worst food crime you’ve ever witnessed, and are there any foods you love that others consider food-crimes? Call our food-crime snitch line at 1-877-332-8255 and report the worst offenders!