The Rick Howe Show – 10 AM

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Posted Apr 8, 2014 08:02:04 AM.

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Tuesday April 8, 2014

Parliament Hill reporter Cormac MacSweeney talks to us about the results of the Quebec election and what it means going forward. Pauline Glenn, president of the Grandparents Rights of Nova Scotia Association talks to us about grandparents rights. Columnist and journalist professor Stephen Kimber weighs in on the aftermath of the nurses dispute. We discuss political ethics with Mount Allison professor Bradley Walters.

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