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Episode 1507

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  • According to a study, there's a diet that will help you live the longest. Grant Hardy gives us the details.
  • Microsoft unveiled an AI model that understands image content and solves visual puzzles. John Biehler has more on our App Update.
  • Let's get into the Friday Buzz, with Bill Shackleton. 
  • We have our gardening segment with Susan Kerney where we highlight the lovely evening primrose.
  • On the Chatty Bookshelf, Ryan Hooey dives into Colin Kaepernick’s new book, Change The Game.
  • Let’s get to conversation recaps and comment on segments from the past week, on Cut for Time.

Episode 1506

Inside a movie theatre
  • Michael Feir tells us about the 2015 award winning drama Good Omens. 
  • Could using blind narrators could improve the quality of audio description? We discuss this and more with Fern Lulham.
  • We have the Thursday Buzz with Bill Shackleton. 
  • The espresso martini had a moment in 2022 but there’s a new cocktail taking the spotlight in 2023. Mary Mammoliti has more.
  • Markus McCracken is back with us to discuss accessible console gaming. Let's get into the consoles themselves.
  • Plus, on our weekly roundtable, we’re joined by Content Development Specialist, Jim Krysko.

Episode 1505

Poison symbol
  • According to a study, there's a diet that will help you live the longest. Grant Hardy gives us the details.
  • Are Canadians done with streaming services? Greg David joins us to discuss more. 
  • Bill Shackleton joins us for the Wednesday edition of The Buzz. 
  • On our health chat with Leslie DePoe, we’re talking about poison. The fabulously interesting, dangerous, and exceptionally common world of poison.
  • During our employment segment with Kevin Shaw, we get into marketing your entrepreneurial business.

Episode 1504

Various clocks on a wall
  • What is the human-animal bond and how does it impact the practice of vet medicine? We discuss this with Danielle Jongkind.
  • What are some of the unintended consequences of springing ahead one hour every year? We learn more from Frances Wong during our Wellness chat.
  • This coming Sunday marks World Glaucoma Week, and Dr. Larissa Moniz, of Fighting Blindness Canada, is back with us to tell us about this common eye disease and how it can be mitigated. 
  • There’s a big chess tournament taking place in Quebec. Our Montreal Community Reporter, Mathieu Rochette has all the details.
  • On our Parenting segment with Lucia Bellafante, she’s joined by a guest to help illustrate the impact supportive and kind parenting has in a practical sense.

Episode 1503

Jakob Chychrun in an Ottawa uniform
  • Your Phone app recently became more useful. Michael Babcock tells us more during our Tech Talk.
  • Brock Richardson has his sports update and gives us all the details from the NHL trade deadline.
  • Ness Murby: Transcending debuts this Wednesday on AMI-tv. It follows Paralympian Ness Murby as he trains to become the world’s first openly trans man to compete at a Paralympic Games. Ness and his partner Eva join us to discuss more. 
  • BC is trying to make travel more accessible. Our Vancouver Community Reporter, Carol Yaple tells us more.
  • We check in with our friends from CNIB SmartLife. Dave Epstein joins us from Awarewolf Gear, to chat about Awarewolf Gear’s All Terrain Cane.
  • Plus, On Know Your Rights with Danielle McLaughlin, Cara Zwibel joins us to talk about the Rouleau report on the use of the Emergencies Act.