Rob takes calls and reads some texts to get opinions on the Carbon Tax. 

How do Albertans really feel about the Carbon Tax now that it is out and rolling? Quito Maggi, President and CEO of Mainstreet Research on what their recent poll has found. 

Quito Maggi, president and CEO of Mainstreet Research, discusses the results of a new poll that suggests more than half of Albertans oppose the carbon tax but support the NDP's plan for a coal phase-out.

NASA announced today the discovery of 7 earth sized planets only 40 light years away from us. Joining Rob to add some context to this discovery: Dr. Nathalie Ouellette, research associate at Queen's University in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy.

The locations for 4 safe injection sites in Edmonton have been announced today. Dr. Elaine Hyshka, Dr. Elaine Hyshka Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the U of A joins Rob to chat about what it means going forward. 

Holocaust denial posters at the U of C, Imams seemingly praying for the death of jews, and M103. Michael Mostyn, CEO of B'Nai Brith Canada. 

Douglas Garland, convicted in the first degree murders of Alvin and Kathy Likness and their Grandson Nathan O'Brien has been beaten only days into his sentence. Global news crime reporter Nancy Hixt joins Rob to chat about it.   

What's the real deal with Vitamin D? Is it a miracle cure or are it's effects being exaggerated?  And what can regional vaccination numbers tell us- how is the new Australian policy for vaccination going? Tim Caulfield is the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, Trudeau Fellow and Professor in the Faculty of Law and School of Public Health and the Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. 

Salma Siddiqui, president of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations, chats with Rob Breakenridge about M-103, a motion that calls on MPs to study and find solutions to Islamophobia and systemic racism in Canada.

With Professor Matthew P Harrington, law professor at the University of Montreal.  You can read his column here http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-declaring-montreal-a-sanctuary-city-is-an-expensive-mistake    

Salma Siddiqui, President of the Coalition of Progressive Canadian Muslim Organizations says that being critical of radical Islam is not the same of Islamophobia. You can read her thoughts here: http://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/im-muslim-criticism-political-islam-cant-conflated-islamophobia  

Economists from the University of Colorado have discovered that the first letter of your last name might be holding you back. 

A new organization in Calgary is hoping to ban trophy both in and outside of Canada. 

Playboy magazine reverses position, brings back photographs of naked women after year-long ban. Samir Husni, director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi, joins the show to share his insight. 

Conservative Party Leadership hopeful Michael Chong, talks to Rob about M-103. 

James Fell, columnist for the Chicago Tribune and contributor to AskMen and Men's Health, chats with Rob Breakenridge about his decision to give up drinking for a year. 

Preston Manning says this isn't the first time the right has tried to unite, he outlines an effort in 1966.  You can read his piece here: http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/manning-this-isnt-the-first-time-albertans-have-grappled-with-uniting-the-right  

A study out of Penn State University has shown that the pressures of "fat shaming" can cause people to gain weight. With Researcher Dr. Rebecca Pearl, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry from Penn's Centre for Weight and Eating Disorders. 

AUPE President Guy Smith says, Wage freeze? no thanks!

In 2015 an air quality test painted Red Deer with an alarming brush, pointing to dangerous levels of particulate matter in the air. But Warren Kindzierski, Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the U of A says he's had a look at it again, the findings aren't quite right.  His column here: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/albertas-ndp-politicians-are-determined-to-fix-an-air-quality-problem-but-theres-no-evidence-it-exists

Trevor Tombe, assistant prof of Economics at the U of C and Research Fellow at the School of Public policy has penned a piece outlining what defines the rebound of Alberta's industry.  His piece here http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/its-the-oil-price-stupid/

Michael Kruse from Bad Science Watch is going to be in town this weekend giving a talk at the Centre for Inquiry Calgary. What does he think of the current policies and government's relationship to sound science? More about the event here http://www.cficanada.ca/author/cfi-calgary/    

What if Trump's policies inadvertently cause more illegal immigration? Israel Ortega is a senior writer at Opportunity Lives, you can read his piece on the subject here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-trumps-protectionism-will-cause-more-illegal-immigration/article/2613522    

In their annual report on health the Heart and Stroke Foundation has cautioned against food and drink ads aimed at kids and called for restrictions. Kate Chidester, VP of Health and Research for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. 

How does radicalization happen? And what is the true state of the extreme right in Quebec and Canada? Rob is joined by former neo-nazi skinhead Maxime Fiset. Fiset now studies radicalization and political science at the Universite Laval and consults with the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence in Montreal.