The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge

Your thoughts, comments and questions and there are lots of them this week.  Special emphasis on your take on electric vehicles, but still lots of other issues as well.

It's potpourri day and lots of good "stuff" to talk about.  An amazing sculpture in the Oval Office and the story behind it.  A new set of global rankings on the fight against Covid with some surprising results.  Why a tweet can sink a career.  The five medical appointments you should not postpone.  All that and more.

Part two of our Smoke, Mirrors and The Truth two-part series on how our personal use of energy is changing.  This week the explosion in "EV's", electric vehicles.Robert Lockhart is an EV hobbyist and he helps Bruce and me navigate the EV story.   We also start SMT with a discussion about vaccines and ask why Canada is so far behind the US in putting vaccines in arms. 

The pandemic has staggered the entertainment business worldwide -- is it starting to find ways to make a comeback? We check in with Stratford, Broadway and Beijing. And Bitcoin, the market numbers are raising interest, excitement and concern.  We try to answer the questions with a guest who has the cred to deal with them.

Last week there were just two, now three, and maybe four within a week.  We're talking vaccines -- and how could that change everything?  Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch is our guest.

Your best answers to the question: What was your favourite Canadian speech quote?  Lots of entries from across the country as well as a special letter opening the program from a listener in Japan.

It's everyone's favourite guessing game -- when will things be normal again?  The Bridge gets into the game today with a pretty good assessment from The Atlantic.  And as this is Thursday, there's a potpourri of "stuff" from drones flying masks into remote islands in Scotland to dating apps demanding your vaccination status and a lot more.

A major international oil company says it has started to decrease oil production and won't be turning back.  Does this signal a major change in the world's dependence on oil? And what does it mean for Canadian oil producers.  The first of a two part Smoke Mirrors and The Truth look at the energy world -- this week oil, and next week electric vehicles.

Great speeches can change the course of history. So, on the heels of a pretty good  Joe Biden speech last night, The Bridge asks today, do you know a Canadian speech that's impacted the country? Plus, Amber Mac drops by to answer your question about the safety of your personal computer during the pandemic. And, what was the worst year in world history? And, would YOU  pay for a sightseeing flight over Chernobyl?  

A lot of indicators suggest things are improving quickly on the Covid front, but does that mean we have turned the corner?  Two of the country's respected infectious disease specialists have their view.  One in Halifax and one in Edmonton.  Plus, is Israel trading vaccines for hostages? And, what would you charge researchers to be deliberately infected?