Day 6

Episode 190: Israel's Iron Dome, Canada's Opioid Crisis and more

Brent Bambury is on vacation this week. Susan Bonner joins us as guest host. Israel's Iron Dome, Canada's Opioid Crisis and more.
The Iron Dome air-defence system fires to intercept a rocket over the city of Ashdod, Israel, on July 8, 2014. Due to recent escalation in the region, the Israeli army started new deployments at the border with the Gaza Strip. In the past three weeks, more then 130 rockets where reportedly fired from Gaza into Israel. (Ilia/Yefimovich/Getty Images)

Brent Bambury is on vacation this week. Susan Bonner joins us as guest host. 

On this week's show:

  • The conflict in the Middle East escalates: Israel under the Iron Dome

  • Canada's growing opioid crisis; an addictions expert evaluates Health Canada's response

  • Sociologist Alice Goffman on her new book,"On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City" 

  • A Day 6 Encore: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson