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Depression, anxiety, and suicide are dangerously on the rise in our youth, and it could only be getting worse Jun 01, 2021

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Alex talks with Lianne Phillipson, Registered Nutritionist at Sproutright.com, and parent to a teenage daughter suffering from the darkness of depression. Alex and Lianne talk about how it feels watching her daughter slip deeper into depression, and what we need to do as a society to address this issue and tackle it head on.

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Tom Korski - Blacklocks Reporter Check-in - Monday, May 31, 2021 Jun 01, 2021

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It's that time of the week where we take a look past the veil into the stories that don't get the attention they deserve in Ottawa. Alex checks-in with Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter Tom Korski. They talk about why the Ethics Commissioner said Trudeau broke no laws, but also said he never interviewed the PM on his WE Charity investigation, why Natural Resource Minister Seamus O'Regan says he was unaware his own government listed plastic manufacturing as toxic, and why the Privy Council is still trying to conceal their 992,000 pandemic records.

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The Trudeau Foundation is trying to silence sexual harassment allegation May 28, 2021

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Alex talks with Mackenzie Irwin, a Labour & Employment Lawyer at Samfiru & Tumarkin about a $1.25 Million lawsuit against the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where the victim alleges she was sexually harassed by her mentor.

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There has been a dangerous rise in anti-Semitism in Canada, and nobody is talking about it! May 28, 2021

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Alex talks with Shuvaloy Majumdar, Foreign Policy Director and Munk Senior Fellow at the Munk Centre. They talk about the dangerous and disturbing rise in anti-semitism in recent weeks, and how the media is not giving it the attention it needs, and how socially it is not being addressed.

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Vladimir Putin has his eye's set on the Arctic North, what can Canada do about it? May 28, 2021

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Alex talks with Marcus Kolga, Sr. Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, journalist for DisInfo, and all-around expert on all things Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia.
They talk about Putin's recent and aggressive claims to the arctic circle, and what this would mean for not only Canada, but the world.

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New peer reviewed study on COVID-19 vaccines suggests why heart inflammation, blood clots and other dangerous side effects occur May 27, 2021

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Alex talks with Dr. Byram Bridle, an Associate Professor on Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph about new peer-reviewed studies that suggests there may be a reason side effects such as heart inflammation, VITT, and other serious issues may occur in some who have been vaccinated.

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Tom Korski - Blacklocks Reporter Check-In - Wednesday, May 26, 2021 May 27, 2021

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It's that time of the week where we take a look past the veil into the stories that don't get the attention they deserve in Ottawa. Alex checks-in with Managing Editor of Blacklocks Reporter Tom Korski. They talk about Tom's scathing question directed to the Auditor General at her press conference, why the Department of Health has no idea how many opioids are reported stolen from pharmacies across Canada, and why Via Rail says it's business is down 93%.

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Are we creating a generation of problems by keeping our children out of school? May 26, 2021

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Alex talks with Dr. Kwado Kyeremanteng, Palliative Care Physician at the Ottawa Hospital, and Professor at University of Ottawa, he is also the host of the podcast "Solving Healthcare". They talk about how much the children and youth are falling behind socially, mentally, and physically right now because of all the time they are missing in school, and how this problem will only get worse if we don't get them back in soon.

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Belarus forced a jet to land in State-Sponsored Hijacking to arrest 26 year-old journalist May 26, 2021

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Alex talks with Marcus Kolga, Sr. Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the leading Canadian expert on Russian, Central, and Eastern European Issues. They talk about how Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko forced a jet to divert and land in order to arrest a 26-year-old opposition journalist Roman Pratasevich, and what this means to democracy and freedom of the press.

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We still don't know where COVID-19 came from, so why we're we so quick to discount the 'Lab Leak' Theory? May 26, 2021

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Alex talks with Charles Burton, Sr. Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, professor at Brock University specializing in Canada-Sino Relations and Human Rights, and Former Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Bejjing. They talk about the recently disclosed reports from US intelligence agencies that point to fresh evidence that there was a leak a few months before China officially revealed the virus, and how it could help contribute to the theory that the virus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

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