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Posted Sep 18, 2012 01:26:16 PM.

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Gas price watcher Dan McTeague joins us. Tony Rodgers with the Hunters and Anglers Federation talks about lead bullets. Rick Mercer joins us to talk about his new season of the Rick Mercer Report and his new book. Quebec students join us to talk about their tour through Nova Scotia.

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