This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. It goes without saying that top of mind this morning is the mass shooting in a small community in B.C.'s Peace Region. And for those traumatized by the mass shooting in La Loche, which just recently marked the ten-year anniversary of that terrible day in 2016, I hope you have m...

Mark McMorris suffering a head injury, Lindsey Vonn breaking her leg, Meryeta O'Dine with a fractured ankle.... Canada is out of curling mixed doubles after multiple straight losses for Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant....a tough start for the Canadian Olympic team. But I do love to watch the winter Olympics. Women's...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. There's a group of retirees in Canada calling on Ottawa to shrink their Old Age Security (OAS) payments. They say they don't need that money and feel it would be better spent on other priorities. Harry Grossmith is one of 11 retirees featured in a new video. It was produced by ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. Okay, I was this many years old when I learned the reason why we have the tradition of watching those furry little weather prognosticators emerge from their burrows. Apparently its tied to medieval Europe, when farmers believed that if hedgehogs emerged from their burrows to ...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. I truly don't know how a family making the average wage of $74,200 can buy any significant amount of meat. We interviewed a chef instructor who suggested buying the more humble cuts of meat. Well, I don't know about you but with the price of hamburger, or a blade roast or ch...

So, you've probably heard about the American casino owner in Vegas who is offering an at par rate for Canadian money for accommodations, drink prices, hotel stays and up to $500 for use in one of his three casinos. He says he just wants to get Canadians to start spending money across the border again. I've gone to th...

Yes, I know. There are much weightier things going on in the world. But I'm going to address the elephant in the workplace. Here's my bugaboo. The workplace kitchen. In our workplace, we don't have someone who is designated as dishwasher, kitchen cleaner. It supposed to be everyone taking responsibility for their...

Based on size in terms of land mass and numbers in terms of population as well as number of personnel in the Canadian Armed Forces, no, Canada cannot defend its borders by itself. That's been long understood. But that is the purpose of NATO. Or it was. in 1949, a dozen countries founded NATO to maintain peace and fr...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. We had a newspoll question earlier this week about mid-winter blues - which coincided with what is dubbed Blue Monday - the third Monday in January. I am among the more than two-thirds of people who say they suffer from feeling less happy at this time of year. If it wasn't for ...

An acquaintance of mine whose husband was in the Canadian Forces and trained on Multis - multi engined planes versus fighter jets or choppers - left the forces to become a pilot for WestJet. She didn't like that - she wanted him to take a desk job because it paid more money. I remember her characterizing it as just a b...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee talk. So, lots of discussion lately about airlines packing people in planes like sardines - all squished together. It's not new. I remember probably 15 years ago, going to Cuba via Sunwing and you could barely move your legs with the seat up in front of you. And it got so much bett...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. A letter has been sent to media, to the SHA, copied to the Premier and Minister of Health, and it's signed by over 200 frontline staff at St. Paul's Hospital which details nearly four dozen violent incidents and safety concerns. The letter states that the incident in November i...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. At this point in its development the "cons" when it comes to AI are significant. There are concerns about cybersecurity threats. Think about it - AI can clone voices and generate fake identities. There are data privacy issues and accuracy or lack thereof, is a big...

This is Vanese Ferguson with Coffee Talk. SOS Prairie Rescue was called out to a rural home in Saskatchewan on January 3rd after an ungodly situation was discovered. A case of hoarding, I don't know if you can even call it that. Horrifying images of not only the circumstances almost three dozen cats were living in bu...