In Hour 1, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of Agri-Food Analytics at Dalhousie University, joins Todd to discuss how buying Canadian is a matter of pride for shoppers and an opportunity for major grocery chains. Joe Aversa, associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, shares how the gift card industry is booming, and so is related fraud and organized crime. A chat with Steve Murphy. In Hour 2, Todd opens the phone for the Open Hour. In Hour 3, Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch discusses how incoming Prime Minister Mark Carney's team says he has placed his assets into a blind trust and is working with the conflict of interest commissioner ahead of being sworn in as prime minister. Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shares a new poll that shows eight-in-10 Canadians oppose MP pay raises. Tariffs chat with Moshe Lander, an economist from Montreal's Concordia University.
