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00:00 - David Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment Canada -- First day of Summer; 10th anniversary of Elie tornado is tomorrow; crazy heat in US Southwest

13:01 - More chat about tornadoes, including Brett's close call at Kingswood

17:40 - What was your favourite book that you had to read in school? That's where we end up. We begin by talking about a cemetery in Salem that is getting renovated, a cemetery that has a link to the Salem Witch Trials. That reminded Greg of the book/play he had to read during school -- The Crucible. Then we had a sidebar about how there was a movie adaptation of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Then we had a sidebar about how Day-Lewis has apparently quit acting. Or has he? THEN we get back to your favourite books in school.

36:29 - Are we hurting our girls? That's the subject of the latest blog post from Fit Communications, on whether or not we are inadvertently creating body image issues for young girls. We're joined by the co-founders of Fit Communications, Andrea Katz and Allison Gervais.

54:40 - One of our favourite young entrepeneurs has won the Manitoba Venture Challenge for 2017 -- Catherine Metrycki from Callia, an online flower shop. She joins us in studio, and we're joined on the phone by Jan Lederman, the CEO of Innovate Manitoba, the organization that runs the Venture Challenge.

72:14 - More of your favourite books from school

83:49 - Snake Oil Gets Twisted giveaway, then, Screech... and the Yukon Toe

90:26 - Julie Buckingham & Richard Cloutier tee up THE NEWS