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The Jill Bennett Show

CKNW / Curiouscast

Jill Bennett’s twenty years of experience covering B.C.’s biggest stories as a reporter has developed her insatiable curiosity and keen sense for exposing what is really going on with a story. Jill digs deep, goes behind the headlines and finds out the real impact stories will have on the Lower Mainland. She talks with real people about the issues that matter most to them while keeping us informed, connected and entertained. If you want new information, new angles, and to know what’s happening right

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9:30

Newspaper coverage of HIV

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/12

GUEST: Laura Bisaillon

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10:44

Canadian multiculturalism in the time of Trump

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/12

GUEST: Barbara Perry

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9:40

Getting to Dawson Creek Could be Best Done by Motor Home

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/11

If it weren’t for the 75-year-old Alaskan (ALCAN) Highway, a stretch of road that runs for 2,232 km and offers the ultimate road trip for adventurers looking to experience the North-Eastern regions of BC, Lower Mainlanders would not have linkage to Alaska. Built by US soldiers and Canadian citizens, the road was developed during World War II when the US suddenly joined the armed conflict after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today there is no shortage of pit stops and spectacular sights along

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9:06

The Frequency with which Female Donors can Give Blood...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/11

New guidelines introduced by Canadian Blood Services limiting the number of times female donors can donate in a year has the national agency scrambling to find new donors to make up the difference. The change, implemented in December, was part of tougher guidelines on the amount of hemoglobin or iron required in the blood. The new rules mean that female donors are now required to wait 12 weeks or 84 days between donations, as opposed to the previous eight weeks or 56 days. Nothing has changed for

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8:06

How Steve Bannon’s “Dark Vision” Could Shape the World

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/11

Revolution is not only inevitable, it’s necessary: How Steve Bannon’s dark vision could shape the world Guest: Joe Brean - National Reporter, National Post

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10:05

Governments Must Create New Social Contracts to Avoid...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/11

The head of the government’s economic growth advisory council says governments need to craft “new social contracts” with Canadians to avoid deepening income inequality over time. GUEST: Dominic Barton - Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.

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9:34

Two Thirds of Canadian Companies Feel They are Losing...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/11

In a study of Canadian IT and security workers, the survey results found that: A majority of Canadian companies fear they are losing the war on cyber security threats as cyber-attacks against Canadian companies year-over-year. 41 per cent of respondents indicated their organization had systems in place to deal with APT’s (advanced persistent threats), up from 38 per cent last year. The most frequent compromises continue to be web-borne malware attacks (76%) followed by rootkits (67%). Mobile

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14:55

Election Reform

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/05

GUEST: Nathan Cullen

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10:07

Self-driving cars

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/05

GUEST: Paul Godsmark

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14:06

Jill's Editorial

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/05

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13:35

Being a nomad

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/05

GUEST: Steffani Cameron

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11:26

Uncertainty in the U.S. Means Canada Could Benefit...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/04

The head of Canada's biggest university organization says there's growing evidence that post-U.S. election uncertainty could help boost an important source of cash for the economy: international students. GUEST: Paul Davidson - Universities Canada President

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8:39

Canadians Finally get to Watch American Ads During...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/04

It's a long-standing Canadian Super Bowl tradition: tuning in to the big game, but being shut out from the big-budget, star-studded U.S. commercials. That changes this year as a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy banning the simultaneous substitution of Canadian ads over U.S. ones during the big game comes into play for the first time. GUEST: Michael Geist - Law Professor at the University of Ottawa

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A Look into the Logistics of NAFTA

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/04

U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to renegotiate or entirely rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement has politicians and business owners deeply concerned. With trade in goods and services between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico totalling US$1.3 trillion in 2015, it’s easy to understand why. But for all the strong feelings and intense debate it inspires, economists say NAFTA has had less of an impact on the Canadian economy than many might assume. Here’s why the agreement Trump calls the “worst

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11:37

What Might Americans be Looking for in a Renegotiated...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/04

Wondering what the Americans might want from Canada in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement? Clues might be embedded in a document published by the U.S. government. GUEST: Alan Wolff - Dentons Trade Lawyer

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9:33

A Message to Parents from Their Kids' Daycare: Get...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/02/04

That was the the bold underlined message on the door parents were greeted with last week when they picked their kids up at a Hockley, TX daycare center. “You are picking up your child,” the note reads. “Your child is happy to see you! Are you happy to see your child?? We have seen children trying to hand their parents their work they completed and the parent is on the phone. We have heard a child say ‘Mommy, mommy, mommy…’ and the parent is paying more attention to their phone than their own child

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11:54

Why the BC- Kinder Morgan Revenue Sharing Deal is bad...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/01/28

Almost five years ago, British Columbia announced five “conditions” for its “approval” of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline expansion. The last of the five conditions – that there be a “fair share of benefits” for British Columbians – has now been met, with Kinder Morgan agreeing to pay $500-million to $1-billion over 20 years to the B.C. government. Environmental concerns will be addressed by the 194 specific national and provincial conditions for the project, plus the federal commitment to

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9:00

Victoria Latest Addition to List of Cities with Real...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/01/28

Canada’s housing agency has added Victoria to its list of real estate markets with problems, seeing danger signs in the B.C. capital’s home values. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Thursday that it is maintaining its “red warning” for the country’s real estate market as a whole, with high prices in and around Vancouver and Toronto among its top concerns. GUEST: Eric Bond- Senior Marketing Analyst (Victoria)

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11:06

Canadian Doctors Remove Lungs to Save Woman’s Life in...

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/01/28

In what’s believed to be a world first, Canadian doctors say they were able to save a young mother’s life with a radical procedure — they removed her lungs. GUEST: Dr. Niall Ferguson - Head of Critical Care at the University Health Network

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6:41

The Perceived Benefits of Climate Change

The Jill Bennett Show ·

2017/01/28

Research suggests climate change could increase the number of nice days Canadians enjoy. Most global warming studies have focused on extreme weather or broad-scale averages of temperature and precipitation. But Karin van der Wiel, of Princeton University, says that’s not how people will experience their new circumstances. GUEST: Karin van der Wiel- Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

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