<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>AM640 Toronto Radio's The Stafford Show - Highlight of the Day</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Industry veteran Mike Stafford, easily one of the smartest, quick-witted guys on the radio, can be heard Monday to Friday from 10pm-12pm and 1pm - 2pm on AM640 Toronto Radio.</description><itunes:image href="http://www.640toronto.com/Pics/Podcasts/1092/mike_stafford_issue_podcast_300x300.jpg" /><language>en-us</language><copyright>2009</copyright><itunes:author>AM640 Toronto Radio</itunes:author><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:keywords>Mike Stafford, Stafford, AM640 Toronto Radio, AM640 Toronto, AM640, News, Politics, Toronto, Newsmakers</itunes:keywords><webMaster>crtinteractive@corusent.com</webMaster><pubDate>20 Nov 2009 23:57:18 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>20 Nov 2009 23:57:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>1</ttl><item><title>East vs. West (Nov 13)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Which is better: the communities lying East of Toronto or West of Toronto?</description><pubDate>13 Nov 2009 19:57:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(nov_13)__east_vs_west.mp3" length="7158350" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Remembrance Day is Blooming (Nov 11)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike discusses the growing observance of Remembrance Day, and its importance to all Canadians.</description><pubDate>11 Nov 2009 15:58:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(nov_11)_remembrance_day_is_blooming.mp3" length="8762549" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Road Ragin' on Wine &amp;amp; Sambuca (Nov 9)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A 25-year-old woman enters in car-to-car combat with another motorist, and ends up submerged in the Humber River.</description><pubDate>9 Nov 2009 17:46:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(nov_9)_bottled_water_road_rage.mp3" length="4175132" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Check That Cheque (Nov 2)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Some tourist-oriented businesses in Niagara Falls are charging a voluntary tax, called a TIF.</description><pubDate>2 Nov 2009 21:20:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(nov_2)_check_that_cheque.mp3" length="8894321" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Flame on the Plane (Oct 30)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>The Flame was on the Plane During the Rain.</description><pubDate>30 Oct 2009 20:19:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(oct_30)_flame_on_the_plane.mp3" length="1547615" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Bra Flu Mask (Oct 29)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A woman has invented a bra that can be used as a protective flu mask in the even of an immediate swine flu outbreak.</description><pubDate>29 Oct 2009 18:13:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(Oct_29)_bra_flu_mask.mp3" length="3570482" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Mike Stafford's Flu Tips (Oct 29)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike offers his own swine flu (H1N1) tips.</description><pubDate>29 Oct 2009 14:31:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(oct_29)_stafford_flu_tips.mp3" length="6352289" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Do Not Attempt Yourself (Oct 28)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike and listeners disagree with Advertising Standards Canada's decision to ban car advertisements that depict poor driving habits.</description><pubDate>28 Oct 2009 19:31:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(oct_28)_do_not_attempt_yourself.mp3" length="6943178" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Buy Bulk Bubble Wrap (Oct 14)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A few examples in today's school system highlight the increasing trend of children being bubble-wrapped, and the old ways being demolished.</description><pubDate>14 Oct 2009 20:42:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(oct_14)_buy_bulk_bubble_wrap.mp3" length="10393853" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Mike Stafford Returns (Oct 5)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike Stafford returns from his battle with the flu.</description><pubDate>5 Oct 2009 14:19:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(oct_5)_mike_stafford_returns.mp3" length="4481627" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Know Your Limit (Sept 30)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>John Downs, while filling in for Mike Stafford, argues that bartenders shouldn't have to worry about the amount of alcohol they serve to their patrons.</description><pubDate>30 Sep 2009 20:46:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/Know_Your_Limit_(Sept_30).mp3" length="7871420" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Bistro Ban with Downs (Sept 29)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Toronto City Councillor Joe Pantalone is fighting to stop an upscale bistro in his ward from acquiring a liquor licence.</description><pubDate>29 Sep 2009 18:48:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(sept_29)_bistro_ban_with_downs.mp3" length="9355106" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Stafford Improv People Players (Sept 23)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>The Stafford Improv People Players (also referred to as the SIPPs) perform a well-rehearsed skit about the plight of the East Coast fishermen and a sex hotline number.</description><pubDate>23 Sep 2009 16:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/stafford_improv_people_players_(sept_23).mp3" length="4550432" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Kill the Pandas (Sept 22)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Perhaps it IS time to let the Pandas die off?</description><pubDate>22 Sep 2009 19:32:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/(sept_22)_kill_the_pandas.mp3" length="2227742" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Voting and the Dolleriedo (Sept 18)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A postmortem of the by-election in Toronto's St. Paul's riding. Only 25 per cent of the population voted!</description><pubDate>21 Sep 2009 20:53:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/voting_And_the_dolleriedo_(sept_18).mp3" length="7212977" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Stop Taking Showers (Sept 15)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike's warning you to stop taking showers.</description><pubDate>16 Sep 2009 11:24:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/stop_taking_showers_(sept_15).mp3" length="5502026" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>A Shared Experience (Sept 11)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Mike talks about school hazing.</description><pubDate>11 Sep 2009 19:44:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/a_shared_experience_(sept_11).mp3" length="5019557" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>The Future Is Here Now (Sept 9)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A look back at what a 1955 Maclean's Magazine thought the world would be like in 2005.</description><pubDate>9 Sep 2009 16:37:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/the_future_is_here_now_(sept_9).mp3" length="7606625" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Kickboxing Kid (August 25)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx </link><description>A mother in Winnipeg wants to enroll her song in kckboxing to fight against his bully at school. Sensei masters across Canada are upset, claiming that is not the point of learning martial arts. What do you think? Mike talks to callers to find out!</description><pubDate>25 Aug 2009 17:04:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/kickboxing_audio_august_25.mp3" length="7143755" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Nanny Crazy!! (August 24)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx </link><description>Parents are starting to employ 2, sometimes 3 nannies for their children. Has parenting changed? Have we gone nanny crazy?</description><pubDate>24 Aug 2009 16:40:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/audio_august_24.mp3" length="8158733" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>JP Pampena (August 21)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx   </link><description>Baby Calee's father wants access to her trust fund to buy an SUV for their transportation, garnering an outcry from the public and those who donated to the fund. JP Pampena, who represented the family, talks to John about ending his working relationship with the family.</description><pubDate>21 Aug 2009 15:31:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/jp_pampena_interview_august_21.mp3" length="2157712" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Joe Volpe (August 20th)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx   </link><description>Liberal transport critic Joe Volpe joins John on the line to chat about the push for high speed rail.</description><pubDate>20 Aug 2009 15:49:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/volpe2853853184.mp3" length="7427148" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Joe Volpe (August 20th)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx   </link><description>Liberal transport critic Joe Volpe joins John on the line to chat about the push for high speed rail.</description><pubDate>20 Aug 2009 15:49:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/volpe.mp3" length="7427148" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Funding Fertility (August 19)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx </link><description>Quebec is prepared to fund in vitro fertilization - and at an extremely high cost.  Some argue having children is a right, others that the treatment is too expensive and unnatural.   Would you like Ontario to follow suit?  Downs takes your calls...</description><pubDate>19 Aug 2009 16:35:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/ivf.mp3" length="6584363" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Are We Cold?? (August 18)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx   </link><description>A Coors Light Billboard in BC shows a can of Corrs Light Beer, with the words "colder than most people from Toronto"  That hurts....but why do people see us as cold and unfriendly?? Is there any truth to the claim?? John talks to callers to find out!</description><pubDate>18 Aug 2009 17:00:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/toronto_cold_audio_august_18.mp3" length="6084575" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Kids Gone Crazy! (August 17)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx   </link><description>John visited Ikea and noticed lots of kids running around without restaint. Has parenting changed? Can we discipline our children the same way our parents raised us?</description><pubDate>17 Aug 2009 17:11:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/ikea_kids_audio_aug_17.mp3" length="6763868" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Eric Rassbach (August 14)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx </link><description>A Santaria Priest in Texas has won the right to slaughter animals due to his religion. Eric Rassbach, a lawyer with The Becket Fund for Religous Liberty, joins John to discuss the controversial ongoing court battle.</description><pubDate>14 Aug 2009 16:18:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/eric_rassbach_august_14.mp3" length="6547028" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Guidy Mamman - Immigration Lawyer</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>A Canadian woman has been detained in Kenya for 3 months because she did not look like the photo on her passport.  Where has the Canadian government been this whole time?</description><pubDate>13 Aug 2009 19:05:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/guidy_mamman_-_immigration_lawyer.mp3" length="12015572" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Creation Zoo Exhibit (August 12)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows/MikeStafford/Home.aspx</link><description>Tulsa Oklahoma mayoral candidate Anna Falling has made Christianity her platform and wants to put a creationism exhibit in the Tulsa Zoo.  Funny thing is, she's winning.</description><pubDate>12 Aug 2009 19:33:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/creation_zoo_exhibit.mp3" length="15503354" type="audio/mpeg" /></item><item><title>Timmy's Double Take (August 11)</title><link>http://www.640toronto.com/HostsandShows//MikeStafford/Home.aspx </link><description>Tim Horton's sponsored Marriage and Family Day in Rhode Island, a celebration organized by the National Organization of Marriage, which is anti same sex marriage. Tim Horton's quickly pulled the sponsorship when the revelation was made on twitter. Was Tim Horton's justified in withdrawing from the political event...or are they only there to serve coffee?</description><pubDate>11 Aug 2009 18:10:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://emedia.640toronto.com/Podcasts/1092/timmys_audio_august_11.mp3" length="7940642" type="audio/mpeg" /></item></channel></rss>