Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says national unity means all levels of government working together but it doesnt mean provinces letting Ottawa do whatever it wants. She talks to Matt Galloway about pushing back on the carbon tax, pulling Alberta out of the Canada Pension Plan, and why shes hitting the stage with Tucker Carlson. 

Then, criminal cases in Ontario must be tried within 18 months, but staffing shortages and other problems are leading to cases being thrown out when that time is up. Galloway talks to legal experts about what happens when serious cases like sexual assault allegations get thrown out, and protecting public faith in the legal system.

Plus, audiobooks are growing in popularity, but some people question whether listening to a book is the same as reading it. We put that question to psychology professor Dan Willingham, author of The Reading Mind.

And China and the U.S. have agreed on a deal to crack down on the manufacture and export of fentanyl from China, in the hopes of curbing overdose deaths in North America. Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains what it might mean for the toxic drug crisis and U.S.-China relations.