Murray Wood: Who's scary... and who's scary good?
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week, in a specia...
8:30 – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has indicated he plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit on his first day in office. Dennis McConaghy, a former pipeline executive and author of “Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future,” joins Gormley to discuss the possible cancellation of Keystone XL and what that could mean for Canadian oil.
LIVE: Dennis McConaghy, TransCanada’s former Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development and author of “Breakdown: The Pipeline Debate and the Threat to Canada’s Future.”
9:00 – The Hour of the Big Stories… Open Session
10:00 – Joe Toscano, a former Experience Design Consultant at Google, says banning US President Donald Trump from platforms like Twitter and Facebook will lead to the downfall of the big tech giants. Toscano, who spoke out against social media in the Netflix film ‘The Social Dilemma,’ says banning the president shows that these networks are responsible for the content published on their platforms, and that acting as a publisher opens them up to new regulation under US law. Toscano joins Gormley to tell us more.
LIVE: Joe Toscano, co-founder and CIO of Better Ethics and Consumer Outcomes Network (BEACON), author of ‘Automating Humanity.’
11:00 – A programmer living in California has a unique issue. He owns an encrypted hard drive containing $220M worth of Bitcoin cryptocurrency, but he lost the password and can’t access his fortune. He’s made eight fruitless attempts to unlock the hard drive, but after 10 failures it’ll delete the contents. This got us thinking about passwords and digital security – maybe it’s better to just use “1234” or “password” after all? Have you ever been locked out of something important because you lost or forgot a password? Do you have a system for remembering them all? Call 1-877-332-8255 and let us know!
12:00 – When it comes to lowering high blood pressure, the prescription of choice is usually walking. But a new study from the University of Saskatchewan found that stretching is more effective than walking when it comes to lowering blood pressure, as stretching helps expand blood vessels and improve circulation by reducing stiffness in arteries. Dr. Phil Chilibeck co-authored the study, and he joins Gormley to tell us why stretching might be the key to relieving hypertension.
LIVE: Dr. Phil Chilibeck, U of S professor of kinesiology.
