Bill Kelly Show: Recent Episodes
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Bill Kelly has over 30 years of broadcast experience. He pushes beyond the headlines, and has a unique perspective on politics and daily stories making headlines.
GUEST: Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science with St. Thomas University
What happens if you are over 65 and dismissed: what happens with severance? GUEST: Howard Levitt, senior partner of Levitt Sheikh, employment and labour lawyers with offices in Toronto and Hamilton; He practices employment law in eight provinces, and is the author of six books.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Trudeau under fire for housing crisis response · Poilievre aims to rebuild a ‘broken’ Canada · Poilievre’s party embracing language of mainstream conspiracy theories · And more GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Professor at the Faculty of Management with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: · What’s behind calls for a Biden impeachment inquiry? · Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting breach · And more… GUEST: Reggire Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News - BILL’s FINAL COMMENTARY
The Bill Kelly Podcast: Topics Include: · Poilievre’s foreign policy · Some are livid with Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle · PM Trudeau’s new role as a single dad · And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Professor at the Faculty of Management with Dalhousie University - More than half of Canadians (56 per cent) see the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as “old and antiquated,” according to a recent Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News. GUEST: Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Polling - Topics Include:
The decision regarding trump & the protective order the special counsel is seeking
Trumps challengers are now stepping up and talking out against him (including DeSantis admitting Biden won)
Polling shows trump is still on top
And more…
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast with guest host Shiona Thompson: Doug Ford may not be too happy about a report that’s about to be released publicly; the auditor general’s report. It’s said to be a close look at the Greenbelt development plan. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill. - The unemployment rate ticked up for a third month in a row. What’s that going to mean as far as the soft landing is concerned? How will it impact the coming Bank of Canada rate announcement? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. - The CAA has a report saying about half of us think speeding is a big problem on our roads. Only half? GUEST: Michael Stewart, community relations consultant, Government and Community Relations for CAA SCO.
The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Walmart confirmed in an email to the Star that it has included security tags on items like fresh beef since 2019 to discourage theft. Could more metal security tags soon be hiding in our food? From self-checkout cameras to receipt-checking and off-duty police, increased theft prevention practices can be upsetting for customers, experts say. . Before 2020, rates of shoplifting had been increasing for six years, with larger increases in 2018 and 2019. From 2010 to 2019, the rate of shoplifting incidents jumped 39 per cent. GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author - United States President Joe Biden has cast the conflict between the western world and its competitors as a clash between “democracies and autocracies”. This masks the American desire for power and the complex realities of creating democracy. Democracy is supposed to base a state’s legitimacy in its accountability to its people. It supports people’s freedoms and human rights. What these ideals mean in practice and how to achieve them are difficult questions. But it’s clear the U.S. is no longer a credible champion for, or exemplar of, democracy. In fact, it has a long history of overthrowing and undermining democracies abroad. GUEST: Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science with St. Thomas University - There’s a theory backed by research that says our Western musical scale is tuned incorrectly. Middle A on a piano keyboard–and thus ever other standard middle A on every instrument–is standardized at 440 Hz. That’s wrong. Mathematical ratios related to tuning, something first discovered by Pythagoras, say that the “natural” frequency of middle A should be 432 Hz. That seems like a tiny difference–it’s almost an A-flat versus a contemporary natural A–but the effect on the human brain is apparently huge. GUEST: Alan Cross, Host, The Ongoing History of New Music, Canada’s longest running radio documentary
The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: While a new tentative deal many have been reached between the two sides involved in a labour dispute impacting thousands of B.C. port workers, experts say Canada may not have seen the last of strikes this year. From the B.C. port strike to the recent Greater Toronto Area Metro workers’ strike to the writers’ strike in the U.S., rising costs of living, high corporate profits and dissatisfaction among workers may all be contributing to collective action across sectors. GUEST: Dr. Simon Black, Associate Professor of Labour Studies with Brock University - The National Institutes of Health is beginning a handful of studies to test possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition that afflicts millions. Monday’s announcement from the NIH’s US$1.15 billion RECOVER project comes amid frustration from patients who’ve struggled for months or even years with sometimes-disabling health problems — with no proven treatments and only a smattering of rigorous studies to test potential ones. GUEST: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Professor in the Department of Medicine with McMaster University and the Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health - Will there be an influx of reality TV because of the writers/actors strike? GUEST: Bill Brioux, television critic and author
GUEST: Alex Piccini Manager of Government Relations for the Ontario Home Builders Association
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: A fresh set of Health Canada regulations that require warning labels on individual cigarettes is set to come into effect Tuesday. The move, announced earlier this year, makes Canada the first country in the world to take that step in the ongoing effort to help smokers kick the habit and deter potential puffers from picking it up. GUEST: Dr. Robert Schwartz, Executive Director of the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit and Professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto - School boards will soon be expected to do a lot more sharing — from exactly what teachers are learning on professional development days, to the number of students attending classes at least 90 per cent of the time. As part of Bill 98, the Better Schools and Students Outcomes Act, which passed before the summer break — and amid tense negotiations that continue with all of the province’s teacher unions — the government is mandating that boards post details of educators’ PD activities to the ministry as well as parents, starting this fall. GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation - Canada leaves the FIFA Women's World Cup early and shell-shocked. And, in some cases, in tears. The Olympic champion Canadians were put to the sword Monday in a shocking, lopsided 4-0 loss to Australia. GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The next election, whenever it occurs, is shaping up to be a change moment. The incumbent government is almost eight years old, Justin Trudeau has been the Leader of the Liberals for more than a decade, and the sense of voter fatigue is palpable. People across income brackets are worried about their financial futures. Many feel that the country is not moving in the right direction – or, in other words, they are not convinced that the Liberals have the right economic plan, nor are they sure that the government cares enough about the affordability crisis. And while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre remains a polarizing figure, his party is still polling well ahead of the other parties. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Professor at the Faculty of Management with Dalhousie University - Insiders say Doug Ford threw himself into two losing byelection campaigns. Are those losses a sign of things to come? GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: · Judge orders hearing on Trump’s motion · Trump calling Biden names · No silver lining in slavery · And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: The number of Ontarians concerned about auto theft has increased, according to CAA Insurance. The survey found 47 per cent of respondents are concerned about auto theft. Of that number, 57 per cent of individuals in the Toronto and Greater Toronto Area are concerned. ALSO: Police Investigate after 3 luxury vehicles stolen from dealership GUEST: Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, Manager of Media Relations with Ontario Provincial Police - Premier Doug Ford may be sailing along this summer, but storm clouds are forming for his Progressive Conservatives, a new Abacus Data poll suggests. GUEST: David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data - Topics Include: · Randy Meisner passes · Bill Wyman confirmed on Rolling Stones’ next album · Mick Jaggers 80th · And more… GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor at Durham College and the Harris Institute for Music
The Bill Kelly Podcast: how much is AI's performance and learning influenced by its core developer? GUEST: Carmi Levy, Technology analyst & journalist - With the rampant spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, Canadian students would benefit from extra lessons in BS detection. GUEST: Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law & Policy Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health. Research Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta - Large global suppliers are driving costs higher for Loblaw Companies Ltd., the firm said as it released earnings for the second quarter that showed profits up despite lower gross margins. One of the company's largest vendors submitted price increases totalling 50 per cent, or a quarter-billion dollars, said Dufresne. He added that prices for meat, fruit and vegetables rose in the mid-single-digits while centre-of-store prices were up in the double-digits. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Over the past weekend alone, eight emergency rooms in Ontario were forced to temporarily close or reduce services because they don’t have the staff to run them. The closures have become so commonplace that this government had to issue a protocol for hospitals to follow when they are forced to close. It’s shameful and it’s inexcusable. The government shouldn’t need a protocol to patch the holes in a crumbling healthcare system. What our hospitals – and our healthcare workers – need is a government that sees the value in public healthcare. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - NDP MPP Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain) met with parents to talk solutions that could help children who are aging (or have already aged) out of the pediatric care system. GUEST: Steffanie Bjorgan is Executive Director and Founder of Red Roof Retreat - In the coming weeks and months, the phrase “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon”—the rebranding of the old, loaded term “UFO”—is going to enter the popular lexicon as Congress begins a series of unprecedented public hearings on the topic. GUEST: Chris Rutkowski, Ufologist and Science Writer
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: “This is no way to live,” said Andrew Robbins, a Hamilton man who cannot make ends meet on disability payments, and would rather die. Hamilton Centre MPP Sarah Jama says she is getting more and more calls from people with disabilities living in poverty who are asking for medical assistance in dying. GUEST: Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University - Regardless of where the dust settles on Canada’s tumultuous battle with Big Tech, the nation’s news industry won’t find stability until its playing field is levelled. That means ending the CBC’s ability to sell advertising in all of its forms and turning it into a pure play public broadcaster and online news organization. GUEST: Peter Menzies is a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, past editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald and former vice-chair of the CRTC - Twitter has officially rebranded to "X" after owner Elon Musk changed its iconic bird logo Monday, marking the latest major shift since his takeover of the social media platform. The website Twitter.com remained live and branding on the app version of the platform did not appear to change as of early Monday. Twitter’s world-renowned bird logo was transformed into an X, however. GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: How can workers protect themselves from losing their jobs to AI (Artificial Intelligence)? GUEST: Dr. Nita Chhinzer, Associate Professor of Leadership & Organizational Management with the University of Guelph - Magic Mushrooms have been touted as a benefit for those with mood disorders and some want them sold in shops like Cannabis. However, those with mood disorders are often already on Rx medications for things like anxiety, depression or sleep problems. Where are we on studies about the efficacy of Psilocybin? Are there any studies about interactions with Rx? GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO of Quanta Consulting Inc - Health Canada is recommending a 7th booster for Covid this fall. Where are we on the spread of the latest variant? What is the latest variant? Related topic: Australia is in its flu season now and it seems to be hitting children particularly hard..What about our flu season to come. GUEST: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Tenured Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University and Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity with the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Paul Bernardo transfer was ‘sound’ · Trudeau’s imminent cabinet shuffle · And more… GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - Russia pounded Ukraine’s southern cities with drones and missiles for a third consecutive night Thursday, keeping Odesa in the Kremlin’s crosshairs after a bitter dispute over the end of a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to send grain through the key Black Sea port. The strikes killed at least two people in Odesa. In Mykolaiv, a city close to the Black Sea, at least 19 people were injured, including a child, Ukrainian officials said. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - The sports-betting industry continues to thrive in Ontario but not nearly as well as online casinos in the province. On Wednesday, iGaming Ontario (iGO) released its report for the first full quarter of the 2023-24 fiscal year (April 1-June 30). It revealed a record total gaming revenue of $545 million, compared to $162 million over the same period last year. GUEST: Steve McAllister, Editor-in-Chief of Gaming News Canada
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Justin Trudeau’s newly shuffled front bench is expected to hold its summer retreat on Aug. 21-23 in Charlottetown, P.E.I., according to several Liberal sources. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Vice President with Crestview Strategies - Now that pharmacists can prescribe, what are some of the pros and cons? And can we tell if it’s helping with backlogs? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for TVO - Canada looked relaxed at training Wednesday ahead of its FIFA Women's World Cup opener against Nigeria, although several players appeared to be working at their own pace. Midfielder Jessie Fleming was mostly a spectator in the portion of the morning practice open to the media at a local soccer club. And forwards Deanne Rose and Nichelle Prince, who are both returning from Achilles injuries, worked out on their own under the direction of a trainer. GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star, The Guardian, and The Irish Examiner
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: At a time when skeptics are questioning Canada's plan to ramp up immigration, a new report argues the country needs to welcome a lot more newcomers to counter-balance its aging demographic. A Desjardins report released Monday analyzes how much population growth among working-age Canadians is necessary to maintain the old-age dependency ratio, which refers to the ratio between 15 to 64-year-olds and those aged 65 and older. GUEST: Randall Bartlett Senior Director of Canadian Economics for Desjardins - The Canadian government says a ban on arms sales to Turkey was imposed “for important reasons” – and remains intact today – but refuses to divulge whether it’s in talks with Ankara about lifting it. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - Discussions on healthcare in Canada typically revolve around spending and who pays. The people’s actual needs for healthcare and support get less attention and even less action. Yet far too many Canadians lack access to timely primary care and experience long wait times for services; planning is inadequate for the surging needs of the population of older seniors and, among other issues, the fundamental one of optimizing population health, or addressing mental health and addiction, have never received adequate attention. So what is the roadmap to reform in Canada’s healthcare system? GUEST: Don Drummond is a Stauffer-Dunning Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: We get into copyright law and why some much needed copyright reform is long overdue. GUEST: Hugh Stephens is the author of the forthcoming book entitled ‘In Defence of Copyright’, and an executive fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. - Some discussions about the future of the RCMP going on in Ottawa these days given the scrutiny they’ve seen. GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, former CSIS analyst. - We shed some light on MPP Sara Jama’s appearance at an anti-police, anti-Israel rally. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer. - And Minimum wage workers across Canada can’t keep up with the price of rent. GUEST: David Macdonald, Senior Economist with The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
GUEST: Dr. Jason Walker is an Associate Professor and Senate Vice Chair at the University of Canada West
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: As China increases its reach in diaspora communities, Chinese Canadian politicians in Vancouver are the focus of Chinese state interference in Canadian politics. GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Topics include: · Who can beat Doug Ford? · Ford says Hamilton need to build it’s “fair share” of homes on the Greenbelt · And more…. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: · The money race · Latest on RFK Jr, Trump, Biden & DeSantis · And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Ford says AG’S Greenbelt probe not within her scope · Trudeau says BoC rate hike is bad news · Ottawa could help with healthcare · And more…. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - The Bank of Canada is still pushing a two percent inflation rate – But why? And must so many suffer to get there? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - Mercenaries of the Wagner Group are completing the handover of their weapons to the Russian military, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday, a move that follows the private army's brief rebellion last month that challenged the Kremlin's authority. The disarming of Wagner reflects efforts by authorities to defuse the threat it posed and also appears to herald an end to the mercenary group's operations on the battlefield in Ukraine. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: It’s great to see the PM getting the message — but Canada is still terribly late to the party. We won’t completely fulfil the Latvian commitment until 2026. This also means that Canada’s peacekeeping efforts in other parts of the world, such as Haiti, will be curtailed. After years of neglect, our military simply doesn’t have the troop strength to support in all the places where it is sorely needed. So why is Trudeau finally getting Canada’s act together on NATO? GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path - Public safety is top of mind for the country’s provincial and territorial leaders who say Canadians “cannot afford to wait” on bail reform and they themselves are “deeply disappointed” that legislation addressing their concerns has not yet passed. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Pierre Poilievre took off his glasses slipped on a white t-shirt. Will Canadians respond to his makeover? GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University
GUEST: Gideon Forman, Climate Change and Transportation Policy Analyst with The David Suzuki Foundation
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: A showdown is underway between America’s tech giants Facebook and Google and Canada because Ottawa is finally going to force them to pay for copyrighted content produced by Canadian media companies that they have stolen for decades. Bill C-18 is Ottawa’s version of what Australia pulled off in 2021, which has been very successful. The controversy has drawn out critics who have attacked the media’s right to have an opinion about its own self-interest and future. GUEST: Diane Francis, Editor at Large with the National Post - The United States, Britain and global allies prepared to unveil new security assurances for Ukraine at a NATO summit on Wednesday, designed to protect the country from future attacks while Kyiv strives towards membership of the alliance. The prospect of long-term protection from members of the world’s most powerful military bloc comes a day after President Volodymry Zelensky decried as “absurd” NATO’s refusal to offer an invite or timetable for Ukraine’s entry into the alliance. GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto - What does the latest Bank of Canada interest rate hike mean for struggling Canadians? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario is working toward filling all of the province’s quickly growing electricity needs with emissions-free sources, including a plan to secure new renewable generation, but isn’t quite ready to commit to a moratorium on natural gas. Energy Minister Todd Smith announced Monday a strategy to prepare the grid for 2030 to 2050 — the Independent Electricity System Operator projects Ontario’s electricity demand could double by mid-century — and next steps involve looking for new wind, solar and hydroelectric power. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - While the Ontario government says it's on track to hit it’s target of 30,000 new long-term care beds by 2028, a CBC News analysis of government records found several of the homes that plan to expand with taxpayer support are run by operators with repeated violations or poor outcomes through the pandemic. Minister of Long-Term Care Paul Calandra says he is confident that homes will be compliant with new accountability and oversight tools introduced in their legislation, the Fixing Long Term Care Act, which came into effect in April 2022. GUEST: Amit Arya, Lecturer, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto and an Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Palliative Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University - We’re still months away from the beginning of budget talks at city hall yet some councillors are already warning of massive increases looming for Hamilton taxpayers next year. How massive? GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Ukraine looks at Trudeau to [play key role in NATO membership · NATO summit · Over half of Canadian want to replace Trudeau & Poilievre · And more! GUEST: Dr. Lorui Turnbull, Professor at the Faculty of Management with Dalhousie University - Canada’s unemployment rate rose in June despite a substantial rebound in job gains, Statistics Canada said Friday, which economists say sends “mixed” signals to the Bank of Canada ahead of a hotly anticipated interest rate decision next week. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - Topics Include: · Western intel officials hunt for signs of Wagner and nuclear warheads in Belarus ahead of NATO · Third party presidential bid · And more! GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Bruce McCulloch of The Kids in the Hall presents the next generation of Canadian sketch comedy with an all-out, boundary-pushing expedition to the edge of decency. Starring Isabella Campbell, Shane Cunningham (co-creator), and Jillian Smart, with music and theme by Executive Producer Max Kerman (Arkells). GUEST: Shane Cunningham, Co-Creator and Actor in ‘The Dessert
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Foreign interference · Gov’t to suspend advertising on Meta platforms · Grocery Rebate · And more… GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - RCMP officers have arrested two people and charged one with three terrorism offences in a first-of-its-kind case. The Mounties charged Patrick Gordon Macdonald, a 26-year-old Ottawa man, with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and commission of an offence for terrorist group (wilful promotion of hatred). What kind of precedent does it set? GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, former CSIS analyst - Ukraine and Russia accused each other Wednesday of planning to attack one of the world's largest nuclear power plants, but neither side provided evidence to support their claims of an imminent threat to the facility in southeastern Ukraine that is occupied by Russian troops. ALSO: Xi Jinping personally warned Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Podcast: Ontario plans a massive expansion of the Bruce Power nuclear plant on Lake Huron, almost doubling its capacity by adding up to 4,800 megawatts of electricity production — enough to power almost five million homes. It would be the first major new construction of nuclear reactors in more than three decades and is rekindling debate over emission-free atomic power and its radioactive waste versus renewables like solar and wind power as the world decarbonizes in the fight against climate change. GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy - Stellantis and LG Energy Solution have reached a new deal with the federal and Ontario governments for as much as $15-billion in subsidies for their electric-vehicle battery factory in Windsor, bringing an end to a months-long saga in which the companies halted construction on the project while they pushed for greater financial backing. The agreement was announced by Stellantis late Wednesday afternoon through a press release. It was subsequently confirmed by Ottawa in a statement issued by Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Construction of the plant will resume immediately, according to Stellantis. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - A report about a conference in Toronto on Sikh terrorism was posted in May on the website of a now defunct Canadian-based think tank. The problem? There’s no evidence the Star could find that the conference took place or that the listed speakers even exist. But multiple Indian news outlets picked up the report, treating it as news. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser said in June that India is among the top sources of foreign interference in Canada, but experts say authorities have let India’s activities fly “under the radar” and that it’s time they paid closer attention to disinformation linked to Indian sources. Canada is home to the world’s largest Sikh diaspora. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: In a volatile world, François-Philippe Champagne is making the case for boring — selling Canada, one deal at a time. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Vice President with Crestview Strategies - Canada is almost certainly headed toward some kind of inquiry into foreign interference in its democracy. But if its focus is solely on China or Russia and other state actors, it won’t be tackling the potentially far more troubling forces that proved so disruptive to Canada during last year’s convoy protest. Is the country ready to take that dark dive into foreign interference — the non-China variety? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - To honor Canada Day, we discuss the Rolling Stone’s definitive rundown of the greatest Canadian artists in the history of pop music. Is every single significant Canadian musician on here? Nope, and people aren’t happy about it. GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor at Durham College and the Harris Institute for Music
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Conservatives edge ahead of Liberals in voter support · Trudeau boxed in from calling early election · Harassment complaints in House of commons · And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Canada’s inflation rate is one of the lowest among G7 countries, after a considerable drop in May — just in time, some fear, for another rate hike by the Bank of Canada in July. Which begs the question: if inflation is falling, does bank governor Tiff Macklem really need to push rates higher? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - Topics Include: · Prosecutors prepared to hit Trump · Biden to visit Europe · July 4th · And more…. GUEST Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: We get a rundown of what’s going on (or not going on) in Parliament. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill. - Hate crime is on the rise, and according to Michael Kempa, intimidation on campuses like the incident we saw at the University of Waterloo yesterday are more common. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - A look into Toronto sports with our good friend Jordan Armenise. GUEST: Jordan Armenise, Producer for the Bill Kelly Show, former Sports Reporter - And with smokey conditions being on the forecast, we need to find a better way to measure the smoke in the air. Canada DOES have one… just that Ontario’s not using it. GUEST: Kent Moore, Vice-Principal of Research and a Professor of Atmospheric Physics with the University of Toronto.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: We’ve had a lot of discussion here in Ontario for a while on a variety of issues. The question that rises is “Who has the Premiere’s Ear?”. The answer is lobbyists. GUEST: Isaac Callan, Journalist for Global News. - In Federal politics, the Prime Minister said yesterday that there WILL be an inquiry into foreign interference… but only after there’s a buy-in from all opposition leaders. GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. - An interesting idea for cannabis stores! Well, I say “Interesting”, it’s what most business do anyways, it’s let them advertise their products in the front window. GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc. - Cdn homeowners are struggling these days with rocketing interest rates. GUEST: Brian Hogben, Broker for Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: There’ve been lots of meetings recently in Hamilton Town Hall about the encampment situation. Lots of concerns voiced, lots of solutions thrown around, but what was accomplished? We get a recap of last night’s passionate meeting for you. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer. - Food prices as high as they are, it’s more expensive than ever for a simple grocery trip. There may be a solution according to a new government report. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. - Food prices are up, but so are building costs… and homeowners are struggling as a result. GUEST: Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario. - And the Ontario government has launched a new program to recruit more truckers. It’s purpose? To get more women into the industry. GUEST: Jonathan Blackham, Director, Policy & Public Affairs for the Canadian Trucking Alliance.
Guest: Dr. Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
One of the most effective fighting units Russia fielded in Ukraine saw their leader march on Moscow. Where does this leave Russia and what kind state does it leave the Putin regime going forward? Guest: Dr. Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto - Despite successful men’s and women’s teams, Soccer Canada is staring down the barrel of financial turmoil. Guest: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport, University of Guelph - It would appear that months before changes to Ontario’s Greenbelt were announced, Doug Ford already knew what he wanted to do with it. Guest: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What happened in Russia this past weekend? It seems as if the Wagner Group, the mercenary group, were marching on Moscow. Did anybody see this coming? GUEST: Robert Huebert, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. - What happened in Russia this past weekend? It seems as if the Wagner Group, the mercenary group, were marching on Moscow. Did anybody see this coming? We get word on the ground in Ukraine. GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen. - The upcoming Toronto Mayoral election is approaching. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer. - TiCats are still looking for a win in 2023. What’s happening? And what do they need to do to claim their first victory for the season? GUEST: John Salavantis, Analyst with the Ticats Audio Network and former coach with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
GUEST: Robert Huebert, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Police services board had their meeting on the troubling report that shows the Black community overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents. GUEST: Frank Bergen, Hamilton Police Chief. - An op-ed from Colette Brin: “Canadians are losing their appetite for news – and trusting it less” GUEST: Colette Brin, Director of the Center for Media Studies at Laval University. - Let’s talk Ticats with Rick Zamperin before tonight’s game against Montreal. GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton and CHML Sports Director.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: A United Group of opposition MPs are calling for an overhaul of federal access to information systems. GUEST: Kevin Walby is an Associate Professor and former Chancellor's Research Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at University of Winnipeg. - We get into the lingering aftereffects of the Cdn wildfires and whether we’ll finally wake up and do something about climate change. GUEST: Andrew Enns, Executive Vice-President of Central Canada for Leger. - And the numbers after the byelection results, the Conservatives might start asking themselves if Poilievre’s approach is turning away voters. GUEST: Susan Delacourt, National Columnist with The Toronto Star.
GUEST: David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we talk about how the relationship has changed, and improved, between corporate Canada and her Indigenous communities? Guest: Heather Exner-Pirot, Senior Policy Analyst, Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Is government spending a major contributor to inflation? Guest: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University - How will Justin Trudeau be remembered? Brian Mulroney thinks it'll be his "leadership" that stands out rather than "the trash and the rumours". Guest: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant, Crestview Strategies
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Without support and action, the affordability of housing will deteriorate even further than it already has. Guest: Bob Dugan, Chief Economist for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Hamilton's Sports Hall of Fame now has a home in the Eva Rothwell Centre! Guest: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport and Founder of Fox40 International - For a country that's being investigated for foreign interference, China is seeing a pretty decent amount of trade with Canada that seems to be on an upswing. Guest: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Trudeau’s government seems to be in trouble as we come into the Federal Byelections. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University. - The Bell Media mass layoffs is going to have major ramifications both in the short term… as well as the long term. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer and former News Director for CHCH. - And Ontario is looking to expand “strong mayor” powers to 26 more cities, including Hamilton. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Lot’s going on in the political scene both federally and provincially. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill. - Meanwhile I saw a disturbing yet unsurprising headline in the Toronto Star, we’ll talk about that with the author Bruce Arthur. GUEST: Bruce Arthur, Journalist for the Toronto Star - There’s a new Beatles song coming out, made with the help of AI. GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor with both the Harris Institute for Music and Durham College, and Host of Lou's Control Radio show Wednesdays on 93.3 CFMU
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Bonnie Crombie officially registering her campaign for the Ontario Liberal Leadership. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Doug Ford’s time as Ontario premier have shown a lot… and not a lot of it is looked at fondly. GUEST: Mark Winfield, Political Scientist and Professor of Environmental Studies with York University. - with Inflation on the rise, an Op-Ed in the Toronto Star by our guest Armine Yalnizyan makes the excellent point that workers don’t need to lose jobs in the process. GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: RCMP confirmed their investigation into foreign interference for quite some time! Would’ve been nice if they told us that. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Ontario government has set aside $22 billion in “excess funds” for emergencies… there’s some questions about what that money SHOULD be going to. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - And while it’s not a done deal yet, the Ottawa Senators are getting bought by a Hamilton billionaire, Michael Andlauer. GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton and CHML Sports
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Boy it’s an action news day, a drone strike in Moscow with everyone pointing fingers, and meanwhile Ukraine keeps making gains in their counter offensive against Russia. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University. - Let’s talk Ontario Politics. The Liberal Party is looking for a new leader, and there’s critism on the Conservative front towards Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie. GUEST: Andrew Perez is a senior consultant at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and volunteer for the Ontario Liberal Party. - The topic of “toxic partisanship” within Canadian politics. According to The Hill Times, Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, said that a certain level of toxicity on both the right and left has always been present in Canadian politics, but it has become more visible because of social media and the 24-hour news cycle.. GUEST: Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Polling - What is the “15-minute city”? And is it key to solving Canada’s housing crisis? GUEST: Christopher Alexander, President of RE/MAX Canada
GUEST: Andrew Perez is a senior consultant at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and volunteer for the Ontario Liberal Party.
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Let’s talk about Foreign Interference, especially post David Johnston’s resignation last Friday due to what he called a “highly partisan atmosphere”. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Fmr U.S. President Donald Trump, set to be arraigned tomorrow in Federal Court on 37 charges related to national security. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News - Trudeau spent the weekend in Ukraine in a surprise visit where he addressed the Ukrainian Parliament, had a number of different discussions with President Zelenskyy, and reaffirmed and made some new commitments to Canada’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine War. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network. - How about that historic win in the Canadian Open with Nick Taylor? GUEST: Lukas Weese, Associate Editor of news with The Athletic.
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Nobody questions the severity of Bernardo’s horrific crimes, but these political leaders ignore the law that determines how CSC administers sentences. Simply put, the law says that the classification of prisoners relates to the prisoner’s behaviour and risk in the penitentiary, not the public’s or politicians’ views about how, or how much, prisoners should be punished. GUEST: Anthony Doob is a professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Toronto - Could a new national news media policy save Canadian journalism? GUEST: Peter Menzies is a National Newspaper Award-winning journalist, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, past editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald and former vice-chair of the CRTC - Relentless wildfires have devoured 3.3 million hectares of land across Canada so far this year — roughly 10 times the normal average for the season. What kind of health concerns should we be concerned about? GUEST: Matthew Adams, Assistant Professor and GIS Program Director of Geography, Geomatics and Environment with the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: It is understandable that most of the discussion of David Johnston’s report on foreign interference has focused on his recommendation to not hold a public inquiry. Yet his conclusion that there are “serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government” deserves much more scrutiny. For Canadians, this finding – along with revelations that ministers sometimes do not have access to classified systems in their offices, that binders of intelligence may be going unread, and that, even when intelligence is addressed, policymakers may simply not understand what is being presented to them – should be alarming. So how can Canada’s policymakers and security agencies work better together? GUEST: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University - Canadian troops in Latvia are grappling with a gear and equipment shortage that’s starting to get embarrassing. GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University - The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is the primary financial backer of LIV Golf, have announced a treaty and potential merger, ending two years of civil war in professional golf. GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · O’Toole says CSIS outlined voter suppression and misinformation campaign against him by China · Calls for Johnston to step down · Singh says he won’t force election until confidence is restored · And more…. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Under pressure from farmers, Premier Doug Ford's government is considering backing off from proposals that would allow more housing to be built on Ontario's dwindling farmland, CBC News has learned. Leaders of a range of farming and agricultural groups met with senior government officials last week to raise their concerns about proposed changes to provincial land-use policy that Ford and his ministers have said will spur new home construction. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Group responsible for white nationalist stickering campaign has more than 1,000 followers on its main social-media channel GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator
Topics Include: electric vehicles, Google maps updates, Alexa technology & more!GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:With reports of hospital emergency rooms under strain and cases of flu, RSV and COVID-19 spiking across Canada, health care has surpassed inflation as the top national issue of concern. What’s being done to solve those problems?GUEST: Cliff van der Linden, Director of the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University and CEO of Vox Pop Labs-In Abacus’s latest national survey completed on November 30th, they asked Canadians about their plans for holiday gatherings. Comparing there results to last year; Canadians are significantly more comfortable celebrating with family and friends this holiday season.GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data-Premier Doug Ford says auditor general Bonnie Lysyk should “stay in her lane” and audit government spending, not run undercover sting operations at casinos that rankle police.GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer-U.S. citizens are flocking to buy recreational properties in Canada following Ottawa’s announcement of a two-year ban that will prohibit the purchase of residential property by non-Canadians.Around 75 per cent of U.S. citizens living in border states who currently own recreational property — a ski chalet or cottage, for example — in Canada made their purchase after the two-year foreign buyer ban was announced in April, according to a new Royal LePage survey.GUEST: Pauline Aunger, Broker with Royal LePage
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk released her annual report Wednesday. We discuss some of the highlights like, highway projects, auto insurance and more! GUEST: Peter Tabuns, Interim Leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Toronto-Danforth - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that while he's "not looking for a fight" with Alberta, the federal government is not taking anything off the table when it comes to how it may respond to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's new 'sovereignty act.' GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - Few events capture the attention of the globe like the Men’s FIFA World Cup — in 2018, the event boasted a viewership of 3.5 billion people. Yet, despite the enormous popularity of the World Cup, host cities and countries invsriably lose money on the event itself, with FIFA capturing most of the profits despite its non-profit status. GUEST: David Roberts, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor with the University of Toronto
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Provincial politicians are asking the Integrity Commissioner and Auditor General to launch investigations into a massive land swap deal that would see eleven portions of the Greenbelt handed over to developers to construct new residential neighbourhoods. On Monday, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner sent a letter to the Integrity Commissioner asking for whether Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Steve Clark broke the MPP Integrity act and whether developers were given advance notice of the impending decision. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - Canada's economy expanded slightly in September, with the country's gross domestic product growing by 0.7 per cent during the third quarter. Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that exports in goods producing industries led the way during the quarter, offsetting service sector output that was essentially flat. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - One-third of Canada’s mandatory minimum prison sentences have been repealed after a bill passed by the Senate. But will this bill lessen the incarceration crisis? GUEST: Kim Pate, Senator for Ontario
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario passed a housing bill Monday intended to spur development, but critics say it will lead to higher property taxes, weaken conservation authority powers, and not actually make homes more affordable. The new law is just one move among many in a flurry of recent housing changes from the Progressive Conservative government, including plans to open some areas of the protected Greenbelt land to development and allowing the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to pass bylaws with just one-third council support. GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal - The next bank of Canada rate hike is scheduled for December 7th, but is the Bank overshooting with its hikes? GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - The bankruptcy of Stellantis’s Jeep joint venture in China could spell trouble for other global automakers whose output has plunged over the past five years in the world’s largest car market, as domestic players rapidly overtake. GUEST: David Adams, President & CEO of the Global Automakers of Canada - Ottawa can help repair frosty relations with New Delhi by cracking down on diasporic funding of the Sikh independence movement that is seeking to create a sovereign homeland known as Khalistan, India’s new envoy to Canada says. Sanjay Kumar Verma told The Globe and Mail that India has long been concerned that some segments of the Sikh community in Canada are offering support and money to secessionists who want to separate Punjab from India. Punjab is an Indian state where the Sikh religion is the majority. GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Trudeau offers scathing assessment of police during occupation · Trudeau says he made the right call to use the Emergencies Act · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - On Thursday, Ontario's labour minister signed a new immigration deal with the federal government that's been a long time coming. The federal government has unique immigration agreements with each province intended to address specific provincial needs. The old deal expired on Thursday. McNaughton had been negotiating with federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, and his predecessor Marco Mendicino, for some time. The new one, which McNaughton repeatedly called "historic" in an interview with QP Briefing, "will allow Ontario to tackle the labour shortage head-on, by using immigration as a major economic tool," he said. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include:
Democrats prepare to pass the torch
Kevin McCarthy could face a floor fight for speaker
Growing shadow campaign to defend Biden from House Republicans
And more!
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Topics Include: Welcome back, Elon Musk & Twitter, China claims it's got the first world kerosene powered engine & more! GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to close out the Public Order Emergencies Commission hearings today, when he’ll testify about his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear out the “Freedom Convoy” protests earlier this year. The hearings have been underway for weeks and have heard from dozens of witnesses as part of its duty to analyze Trudeau’s justification for invoking the controversial legislation earlier this year. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - David Detomasi joined the show to discuss an op-ed piece that he wrote in the Conversation called “Canada should focus on building ties with countries that share its values — but tread carefully”. GUEST: Dr. David Detomasi, Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow In International Business with Queen's University - The King, as the Leafs and two generations of their fans knew him so well, is gone. Ravaged by the onset of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Salming died at 71 on Thursday in Sweden, the club announced in a joint statement with his family. GUEST: Mike Stubbs, Host of London Live on 980 CFPL and London Knights play-by-play announcer
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Ontario education workers to vote on new deal · Ontario NDP leadership race deadline nears · Bill 39 · And more… GUEST: Alan Hale, Queen’s Park Today - Bill 39 is called the Better Municipal Governance Act. Apparently, what the Progressive Conservative government considers good governance is allowing the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to push through their own local laws with only one-third support of council. A power virtually unheard of on any elected body from student council to the federal government, it was the recent request of re-elected Toronto Mayor John Tory. GUEST: Jeff Burch, NDP MPP Niagara Centre, Opposition Critic for Municipal Affairs - In the wake of news that three Ontario children's hospitals have cancelled surgeries, dozens of parents are sharing their stories about how the onslaught of viruses this fall has affected their families, and question whether enough is being done to address the "crisis" in care. GUEST: Sara L Austin, CEO, Children First Canada
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s housing minister is defending his government’s plan to eliminate and reduce development charges even as municipalities warn the province its approach could significantly increase property taxes. GUEST: Marianne Meed Ward, Mayor, City of Burlington - The second trial for Peter Khill, the Binbrook man charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an Indigenous man continues today. Both the defense and the crown agree that 29-year-old Jonathan Styres was shot dead in the driveway of Peter Khill's Binbrook home at about 3am on February 4th, 2016 - and that it was Khill who fired his shotgun at Styres GUEST: Lisa Polewski, reporter, 900CHML - We continue the conversation with defense lawyer, Ar Goldkind on Khill trail. GUEST: Ari Goldkind, Toronto defence lawyer - The Bank Of Canada estimates half of Canadian homeowners who took out a variable-rate mortgage with fixed payments have already hit their trigger rate. Hitting a trigger rate means a mortgage holder is no longer paying down any principal on their loan and is only covering interest — a key point that can prompt the lender to force a homeowner to make additional payments. GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Podcast: The Emergencies Act Inquiry is wrapping up this week. What have we learned so far? & What can we expect next? GUEST: Susan Delacourt, columnist, Toronto Star - The Ontario Health Coalition has officially launched a constitutional challenge against the province’s controversial Bill 7. The law allows some discharged elderly hospital patients to be forced into long-term care homes they did not choose in Ontario. Guests: Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition & Graham Webb of Advocacy Centre for the Elderly - The Ontario government recently proposed a new bill, the More Homes Built Faster Act, or Bill 23. This bill contains some positive elements, like the removal of duplicate plan approval requirements and adding measures aimed at increasing urban density and housing mix. However, Bill 23 also proposes weakening or eliminating many housing development regulations, such as site plan controls, that protect us and our natural environment from the negative effects of poorly built development. If implemented as tabled, the bill will severely disrupt the province’s environmental housing regulations. GUEST: Luna Kirfan, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo - Eight per cent of vaccinated people with COVID infections that don’t require hospitalization end up with long COVID, with each subsequent infection repeating the risk. COVID increases the risk of cardiovascular and other health problems, enough to cause a stark rise in excess deaths and to shorten life expectancy. In 2020, when adult intensive care units were at risk of being overwhelmed, we wore masks and accepted restrictions. With pediatric intensive care now at risk, will leaders follow the evidence and tell us to mask up? GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Trudeau outside of Canada for series of International summits · Canadas relations with China · Emergencies Act Inquiry · And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Union leaders in Ontario have called off a strike by education workers, giving parents a last-minute reprieve. The decision to cancel a province-wide walkout by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) workers came after weekend talks between the union and Ontario’s provincial government. In an update posted to Twitter, CUPE’s bargaining team said it had reached a tentative agreement that it will take to its membership. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News - Topics Include: · Nancy Pelosi will not run for leadership post · Democrats concede to GOP rep. Lauren Boebert · Justice Alito denies allegations of leaked 2014 case · And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Shiona peaks through the windows of Queen's Park looking at the situation with CUPE, and needed improvements to the Ontario health care system. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader, Ontario Green Party. - The Canadian Institute for Health Information released a report surrounding the ongoing effects of the pandmeic on the healthcare system. Showing the "impacts on supply, distribution and migration of health workforce." GUEST: Kate Parson, Program Lead, Health Workforce Information, CIHI - The Grey Cup is right around the corner and Shiona gets some analysis and predictions from a friend of the show. GUEST: Josh Smith, Reporter for 3 Down Nation in Hamilton.
The Bill Kelly Podcast with guest host Shiona Thompson CUPE has signaled a strike for Monday following unsuccessful negotiations with the Provincial Government. Shiona gets the government perspective. GUEST: Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education for Ontario. Continuing CUPE talks, from the union's side. GUEST: Mark Hancock, National President, CUPE. The term organized crime conjures a certain image in your head, but far from Vito Corleone the criminal underworld has had a major shift in the past decades. Shiona dives in further. GUEST: Stephen Metelsky, Professor at Mohawk College, Author of “Undercover”, columnist, and former police sergeant. Chinese President Xi Jingping confronted and summarily dressed down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 Summit over Trudeau sharing details of a conversation between the two. Jingping ended the conversation with what commentators consider a veiled threat. What does this mean for Canada on the world stage, and our relationship with China? GUEST: Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, an Adjunct Professor at Temple University Japan, in Tokyo.
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: All across Ontario people have banded together for a century or more to build up our local public hospitals. We have volunteered, fundraised and donated from our pay cheques because these are vital services for our communities. The Ford government’s plan would dismantle our local public hospitals, taking the profitable services out to for-profit corporations, robbing them of desperately needed staff and funding. We must force the Ford government to address the crisis and take urgent action to support our local PUBLIC hospitals.
GUEST: Natalie Mehra, executive director, Ontario Health Coalition
Former President Donald Trump, aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms, announced Tuesday night that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Tickets to Taylor Swift's upcoming tour went on sale Tuesday — but Ticketmaster crashed almost immediately, making it impossible for many fans to buy tickets and sending thousands of Swifties into all-out pandemonium. GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist I Music Commentator I Shameless Idealist
An Oakville high school teacher who made headlines around the world for wearing large prosthetic breasts to class is not likely to be subject to a dress code when on the job, according to a school board review. Images of the Oakville Trafalgar High staffer went viral on social media in September, prompting a dress code review from the Halton District School Board (HDSB), which revealed results to board members at a meeting Wednesday night. GUEST: Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Levitt Sheikh
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ontario government is expecting economic growth and job creation to slow considerably in 2023 and 2024 as the province navigates global headwinds like sticky inflation and high interest rates. Short-term uncertainty was the key theme of Ontario's 2022 fall economic statement, which was tabled in the legislature Monday by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Founder of the Queen’s Park Observer - An Oakville high school teacher who made headlines around the world for wearing large prosthetic breasts to class is not likely to be subject to a dress code when on the job, according to a school board review. Images of the Oakville Trafalgar High staffer went viral on social media in September, prompting a dress code review from the Halton District School Board (HDSB), which revealed results to board members at a meeting Wednesday night. GUEST: Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Howard Levitt - Hamilton's living wage has been recalculated to be $19.05, the Ontario Living Wage Network and its local partners announced Monday, a 10.8 per cent increase since the last calculation in 2021. The current minimum wage set by the provincial government is $15.50. GUEST: Tom Cooper, Director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction. - How much more can the streaming music business grow? GUEST: Alan Cross, Host of the Ongoing History of New Music
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Ontario's chief medical officer of health is "strongly recommending" that Ontarians wear masks in all indoor public settings, including in schools and in childcare settings, but stopped short of recommending a return to a mask mandate in the province. GUEST: Dr. Anna Banerji (ban-er-ji), O.Ont MD MPH FRCPC DTM&H, Faculty Lead, Indigenous and Refugee Health, Post MD Education, Faculty of Medicine, , University of Toronto - Elon Musk has unleashed chaos at Twitter in the few short weeks since he took the helm of the company, and experts say lawsuits, regulatory intervention and ultimate financial collapse could be on the horizon. The billionaire has let his decision making play out on a public stage from the start, tweeting about new policies before promptly reversing them and polling users about features like verification. Experts say this back-and-forth style of leading such a large company is unprecedented, and could spell trouble for Twitter’s future, as advertisers flee the disordered platform and regulators discuss potential investigations. GUEST: Carmi Levy Technology Analyst & Journalist - Topics Include:
U.S. Midterm results
Democrates keep Senate
And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Warnings continue to come in across Ontario, as the triple threat of influenza, COVID-19 and RSV continue to slam our hospitals. Is it time to bring back to mask mandate? GUEST: Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Staff Physician, General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto - Canada's low unemployment rate is not sustainable and is contributing to decades-high inflation, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said during a speech in downtown Toronto Thursday. Speaking before students and researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University, the governor said the Canadian labour market needs to be rebalanced to stabilize inflation. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University - Topics Include:
Ontario government introduce grade 6 Holacaust education
Ontario education strike
Ontario Greenbelt proposal to cut land for hmes
And more….
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
Canadians are buying less expensive food, stockpiling food and even eating less to cope with food prices as inflation soars, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by Nanos Research on behalf of CTV News, asked more than 1,000 Canadians if their household had used a cost-saving option in the past month in response to the price of food. GUEST: Janet Music, Research Program Coordinator at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: A new Maru Public Opinion survey released finds that in the raging dispute and brinksmanship over a new contract, the union representing Ontario’s union representing education workers, including education assistants, custodians, and librarians, has a majority (59%) of support compared to a minority (41%) who side with the provincial government. However, the survey, conducted after both the union and the government agreed to put down their strike, and legislative hammers, reveals no other clear-cut verdict for either party on many elements of the dispute as they return to the negotiating table. GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion - Premier Doug Ford has no regrets about using the “notwithstanding clause” in controversial legislation with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, insisting it helped both sides come “to their senses” and return to bargaining. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - U-S President Joe Biden says Democrats did far better in this week's midterm elections than anyone predicted. GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University - The U.S. and Canadian economies are in a similar situation and financial markets have given the federal government’s fall economic statement a passing grade. So why is the Canadian dollar trading in the low-70s against the U.S. dollar? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Conservatives are calling on the government to come up with a “robust plan” to counter China’s alleged foreign interference in Canada, following a Global News report that Canadian intelligence officials have warned of covert activity by Beijing during the 2019 election campaign. What do we need to do to protect ourselves better? GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Premier Ford says his government is back at the bargaining table with the union representing 55,000 education-support workers and has an “improved offer” for CUPE’s lowest paid employees. The two sides decided to return to mediator-led negotiations on Monday after agreeing to end the escalating war that led to a two-day walk-out, the historic use of the notwithstanding clause, and threats of a general strike by several Canadian unions. Schools reopened on Tuesday, after CUPE members returned to their posts backed by a promise from Premier Ford that Bill 28 would be repealed “in its entirety.” GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - We discuss the main takeaways from the 2022-midterm elections. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: It’s only been a few days since Premier Doug Ford invoked the notwithstanding clause to try to prevent a strike by education workers. Even so, much ink has been spilled over what a terrible idea it is. How it undermines a fundamental right. How it damages the rule of law. How it weakens democracy. How it punishes the lowest-paid education workers even though the government is running a substantial surplus. All of these things are true. But here’s another thing that’s true: undermining collective bargaining rights is bad for business. And in a year characterized by inflation and volatility, Ford has injected even more economic uncertainty into every single unionized sector. GUEST: Jen Hassum, Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute - Topics Include:
Notwithstanding clause
Freeland’s Balancing Act
And more…
GUEST: Dr, Loru Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
Topics Include:
Thing that can change after midterms
What’s at stake today?
Republicans plan for majority
And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include:
Labour board hearing concludes
Poll suggest most Ontarians blame Ford for school closures
And more….
GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer
The populist radical right has been on the rise for some time, with candidates and parties on the far-right fringe of the political spectrum reaching new heights across the world. So why is the ideology of the “New Right” so dangerous? GUEST: Johannes Steizinger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University - The Ontario government has decided to override Hamilton’s decision not to expand urban boundaries. It will now compel the city to do so, something Housing Min Steve Clark has been threatening to do for months. What’s the impact on Hamilton? GUEST: Luca Bucci, CEO of the Ontario Home Builders Association
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Scott Radley: A historic and controversial bill that will outlaw a proposed strike and impose a contract on education workers has been passed by the Ford government. The vote was marked by cries and heckles hurled by union members seated in — and escorted from — the public gallery. The law was introduced to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on Monday in response to a threat of strike action from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents some 55,000 Ontario education workers. ALSO: Trudeau to Ford – use of notwithstanding clause is wrong GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - Canada is ready to weather the harsh winter winds cooling the global economy, despite being set for “significantly weaker growth,” according to the government’s fall economic statement on Thursday. The update from Chrystia Freeland, the Liberal finance minister and deputy prime minister, keeps the government’s fiscal “powder dry,” reserving major spending items for the next federal budget in the spring. But it contains a few targeted measures such as boosts for low-wage workers and student loan interest relief to support Canadians struggling with inflation and interest rates. GUEST: Karina Gould, MP for Burlington, Minister of Families, Children & Social Development- - Emergencies Act Inquiry topics Include: · How did money flow to convoy protesters · Investigation into police officers leaking information · So far, nothing to support using the Emergencies Acy · And more….. GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s National Security program, and former CSIS analyst
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Tempers flared in the Ontario Legislature on Wednesday during the ongoing debate on Premier Doug Ford’s attempted use of the controversial notwithstanding clause to try and block Friday’s planned education workers’ strike. The outcome lead to 18 NDP MPP’s being kicked out of legislature. GUEST: Bhutila Karpoche, MPP for Parkdale-High Park, Critic Early Childhood Development, GTA Issues and Childcare. She was one of the 16 MPPs booted yesterday - Things are escalating in the labour dispute between the Ford Government and it's 55 thousand educations workers represented by CUPE. OP-SUE now says if there is a strike in the morning, it's eight thousand education workers will be on the picket lines in solidarity. GUEST: Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education - The “triple threat” of a bad flu season, COVID-19 and the resurgence of a childhood viral illness is putting a strain on the health system, Ontario’s top doctor said Wednesday,with a decision on masking recommendations possibly coming in a couple of weeks. GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University University - Three criminal laws that were passed by the Stephen Harper government have now been struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada. The trend's latest casualty came Friday, when the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a 2011 change to the Criminal Code that required sex offenders to be automatically added to the National Sex Offender Registry — a lifelong designation for anyone convicted of two sex offences or more. Why are they unraveling? GUEST: Jeff Manishen, Criminal Lawyer, Ross & McBride/ Former Crown Attorney
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver an update on federal finances Thursday in the fall economic statement, as anticipation builds for how Ottawa plans to cope with an impending slowdown. The fiscal update, to be presented in the House of Commons, will also share the government’s outlook for an economy facing high inflation and staring down a potential recession in the coming months. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - A new chapter of the Public Order Emergency Commission's public hearings began on Tuesday, as the national inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act began hearing directly from "Freedom Convoy" protest organizers. GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of Trusting the News in a Digital Age - Trudeau is questioning Ford’s use of the notwithstanding clause, calling the move “wrong”. What exactly in the notwithstanding clause and why is it rarely used? GUEST: Alison Braley-Rattai, Associate Professor of Labour Studies, Brock University
Will Bill C-22, the proposed Canada Disability Benefit Act, Be a Trick or Treat? House of Commons Public Hearings Started Monday, but will the AODA Alliance Ever Get to Make a Presentation? GUEST: David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: There’s a nice tradition at Queen’s Park that, when a former member of the legislature dies, current members gather in the house to pay tribute. On Tuesday the house was nearly full —as members gathered to pay tribute to someone first elected in 1959 as the member for Peel. That 29-year-old MPP eventually became the second-longest serving premier in Ontario history, with a list of accomplishments that could sink a ship. That MPP’s name was Bill Davis. What has Doug Ford learned from his predecessor? GUEST: Steve Paikin, Host of ‘The Agenda’ on TVO - A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. How are local school boards handling the proposed walkout? GUEST: Karen Brown, President of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) - Micheal joined the show to discuss the conclusion of the policing collapse in Ottawa under the weight of the Freedom Convoy. He also discusses what we need to watch out for next as the inquiry moves to question the convoy leadership. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Key moments from Peter Soley testimony · Trudeau & federal healthcare deals · Poilievre snubs Parliament Hill media · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University Will Musk fight disinformation on Twitter now that he owns it or contribute to it? GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Topics Include: · Pelosi attack · Midterm election vote · And more,… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet tabled a motion in parliament to officially separate Canada from the British Monarchy, going as far to say that his sworn oath to His Royal Highness the King of England was insincere. Blanchet's motion opens the door for a constitutional re-write, and should not be taken lightly. GUEST: Peter McNally, Professor Emeritus with School of Information and the Director of History with the McGill Project at McGill University, McGill’s “Royal Watcher”
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Ontario's budget deficit has been balanced, but government services and health care remain underfunded. GUEST: Sheila Block, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation released its report on Hamilton's real estate market. GUEST: Anthony Passarelli, Senior Analyst for the Hamilton, Halton and Peel Regions with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Ottawa Police Service's intelligence was dubious at best, politically-biased at worst says Luke Lebrun. GUEST: Luke Lebrun, Editor of Press Progress - Piece in the Narwhal titled "Doug Ford is gutting Ontario conservation authorities" GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal, - How important is US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken's, visit to Canada? GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
Canada will provide $970 million in financing to develop a grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR), a new nuclear technology touted as a key part of the country's plans to reduce emissions. The nuclear power project, which is being developed by utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in Darlington, will be the first commercial grid-scale SMR in the Group of Seven wealthy nations (G7), according to the minister's spokesperson. Is this the way of the future? GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson: Canada will provide $970 million in financing to develop a grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR), a new nuclear technology touted as a key part of the country's plans to reduce emissions. The nuclear power project, which is being developed by utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) in Darlington, will be the first commercial grid-scale SMR in the Group of Seven wealthy nations (G7), according to the minister's spokesperson. Is this the way of the future? GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy - The Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate by half of a percentage point today and said rates will need to rise further to clamp down on decades-high inflation. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is legally challenging a request that he testify under oath before the Emergencies Act Inquiry — saying it would be “inconsistent” with parliamentary privilege to force him and his minister Sylvia Jones to appear. It’s the latest push from Ford to reject the commission’s attempts to have him speak before them after commission officials say the premier rebuffed multiple requests to speak with the inquiry dating back to Sept. 19. Why is he refusing to testify? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson: New battery-manufacturing plant announcements are coming so fast and furious that newswire Reuters have taken to running a continuous update of all the facilities being planned to manufacture EVs and their batteries around the world. Is the EV revolution passing Canada’s auto manufacturing sector by? GUEST: David Booth, Automotive Columnist and Senior Writer for Postmedia - Following the alarming decline in student math results across the province, the Ontario government announced payouts to parents to help overcome the learning gap. Is this the best way to invest in our schools and students after the pandemic? GUEST: Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives - Have school board elections become a ‘culture war’? GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator
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Topics Include:
Trudeau & Poilievre neck and neck in polling
Emergency Act Inquiry continued
Canada must remain ‘fiscally responsible’ as recession fears grow
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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
Candidates hoping to land at city hall are making last-ditch efforts to win over Hamilton voters in the dying days of an increasingly close — and sometimes nasty — election campaign. Seven seats around the council horseshoe are up for grabs with incumbents opting not to run again. That includes an open mayoral race with three main rivals looking for the electoral edge to secure the chain of office. Who may end up on top? GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer Topics Include:
Trump issued Jan 6 subpoena
Prospect of recession looms
Biden plans to run again in 2024
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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland issued a warning to Canadians Wednesday — the coming months won't be pretty as rising interest rates slow a once red-hot economy and force some people out of their jobs. The Bank of Canada's recent rate hikes to tame sky-high inflation will increase borrowing costs for businesses and consumers alike, which will send shockwaves throughout the economy, Freeland said. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - If you think you’re shivering now, just wait until the shock of your next heating bill sets in. Enbridge Gas Inc., which serves approximately 75 per cent of Ontario residents, adjusts its prices every three months, and on Oct. 1, a new rate increase kicked in after the Ontario Energy Board approved a hike of five to 10 per cent. That comes on top of a rate hike in July of between 18 to 23 per cent. Some households will be paying $500 more than last year. Commodity prices are double what they were this time last year. GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office last month with hopes and promises of reinvigorating the British economy and putting it on the path to long-term success. It didn’t go to plan. Instead, Truss’ tenure was scarred by turmoil as her economic policies threatened the country’s financial stability, driving the pound to record lows, sparking chaos on bond markets and increasing mortgage costs for millions of people. Why was her tenure so short, and what happens now? GUEST: Peter McNally, Professor Emeritus with School of Information and the Director of History with the McGill Project at McGill University, McGill’s “Royal Watcher”
The municipal election is Monday. Where do the candidates stand? GUEST: Connie Smith, Former Anchor for CHCH News
- Ottawa publicly signed a multi million dollar deal with Nokia. Does this favourable deal send a message to China? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
- CUPE negotiations have broken down ahead of the strike deadline. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News
At the Emergencies Act Inquiry, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has made some troubling statements about a lack of support from both the federal and provincial governments. “Show me the mounties” the transcript reads. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - A new report from CanAge has found exponentially increasing cases of dementia in Canada and that Canada is woefully unprepared for treating such. GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge - An Edmonton man has been sentenced to 20 years in US prison for recruiting ISIS members, sending them off to fight. From our guest: “Another Edmontonian was given 29 yrs, but not for terrorism, for running over a cop and 4 others back in 2017, despite having an ISIS flag in his vehicle (discussed at length in my book The Peaceable Kingdom)” GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Former CSIS analyst and author of “The Peaceable Kingdom: A history of terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the present”
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: With the second week of testimony at the Public Emergency Order Commission getting underway, the time is right to note that, for all that we might see and learn in the weeks to come, it seems certain that some important questions — some important failures — will not be answered or properly scrutinized. We deserve a review of how the Ontario government handled the convoy crisis - but will we ever get one? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO, - Canada's biggest grocery chain is freezing prices on all its No Name products for the next three months. Is this just a PR strategy or are they actually trying to help Canadians? GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - Chrystia Freeland is already thinking about what comes next, after Russia eventually backs out of Ukraine. She wants Canada and its allies to move toward a NATO-like arrangements for economics, where we deal with like-minded trading partners, reject countries led by unscrupulous dictators, woo those in between and come to the defence of any of our friends under attack. GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star
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Emergencies Act Inquiry
Canada sends equipment to Haiti
Danielle Smith
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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
Google Canada commissioned Abacus Data to design and execute a national public opinion survey exploring perceptions and views about Bill C-18, the Online News Act and to gauge public reaction to Google’s concerns about the Bill. The survey was conducted with 2,207 Canadian adults from August 19 to 26, 2022. GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, former director of Journalism at the University of Toronto, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”? - Topics Include:
Trump issues response to January 6th hearing
Biden waits for Congress to return before taking action on Saudi relationship
Obama to campaign for Democrats in Georgia and Michigan in final weeks
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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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What did we learn from day one of testimony in the Emergencies Act inquiry? GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice - Abacus Data Surveys: · Public Stress About Inflation Is High, but Not Rising Much · COVID Anxiety Low, Vaccine Hesitancy Up A Notch GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut. They alleged the right-wing radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats. Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has clarified a widely condemned comment she made that people who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine are the “most discriminated-against group” of her lifetime – though she stopped short of a retraction or an apology. What repercussions can her comments have on her leadership? GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he did not speak directly with Russian President Putin before tweeting out a Twitter poll with a highly criticized proposal for a “peace” plan for Russia and Ukraine, following a report from Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer that he had done so. GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence, as the two countries try countering growing threats from China and Russia. What kind of implications can this alliance create? GUEST: Stephen M. Saideman, Paterson Chair of International Affairs at Carleton University, and Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Hockey Canada’s CEO and entire board of directors will leave the organization after facing fierce criticism for its handling of alleged sexual assaults. The national organization announced the departures in a statement on Tuesday after hearing months of calls for leadership changes within the body, and seeing its major sponsors walk away over the past week. Now that changes have been made, how can new leadership win the confidence of Canadians back? GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro (PEG-OH-RAWR-OH), Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport - Canadians deserve to know whether imposing the Emergencies Act was indeed a justified action of last resort. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Does it matter that Ontario is about to build a bunch of new fossil-fuel-fired power plants? Does it matter that they might be the last ones this province ever builds? Those are, fundamentally, the questions we’re left with after last week’s announcement that the province will commission a substantial expansion of natural-gas-fired electrical power — at the same time as it’s making a genuinely impressive investment in electricity-storage projects, marking a fundamental shift in the design of Ontario’s power system. GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Poilievre taking Conservatives in a good direction · Trudeau tops Poilievre for preferred PM, says Nanos · Hybrid model of parliament · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - When the Trudeau government imposed sanctions earlier this month against a handful of Iranian individuals and entities for gross human rights violations such as the killing of Mahsa Amini, there was great concern that this represented the summation of the federal response to Iran’s egregious behaviour. Why didn’t Canada designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization? GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst - Topics Include: · Trump comments about George H.W. Bush · Biden has a big oil problem · Marijuana move could change lives · And more… GUEST: Reggir Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
GUEST: Ingrid Muschta, Director Special Projects & Innovation with the Ontario Disability Employment Network
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Municipal election focus · Secrecy in Hamilton city hall · Sewergate & Red Hill valley inquiry · More… GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Wayne Eyre, told MPs that Russia and China consider themselves to be at war with the West and Canada must rise to meet this challenge. Eyre was meeting with MPs at the Commons standing committee on national security to talk about the threat Russia poses to Canada. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University - If an election were to be held today, the Conservative Party would win more seats than the Liberals, the latest seat projections from Nanos Research show. In the last two federal elections, the Conservatives edged out the Liberals on the popular vote but failed to win the most seats, allowing Justin Trudeau to form consecutive minority governments. GUEST: Nik Nanos, Founder and President of Nanos Research
No one expected it this quickly, but Loblaw has deployed its first driverless truck on Ontario roads. Will this help ease the supply chain constraints we have experienced? GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author - Will Hamilton's council candidates have a tough time making the transition from activists to politicians? GUEST: Justin Chandler, Journalist with TVO - MARKETING IMPACT: Tim Hortons will drop support for men’s hockey, but will support youth, women and paralympic hockey. GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be called to testify at hearings into the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end anti-mandate protests earlier this year. The Public Order Emergency Commission, led by former Ontario Superior Court justice Paul Rouleau, is scheduled to begin hearings next week, with the mandate to assess the government’s use of the Act for the first time since it became law in 1988. When it comes to convoy matters, what was done right and what can we learn from in the future? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Topics Include: · Hockey Quebec cuts ties with Hockey Canada · Hockey Canada sought to change public narrative on sexual assault · Hockey Canada board members defend leaders · And more… GUEST: MacIntosh Ross, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Western University - With high inflation and rising interest rates, a new survey has found nearly one in five Canadians say they're putting off buying a home. The online survey, conducted by Royal LePage and Leger, included 1,565 Canadians. Of those who were surveyed, 19 per cent said the cost-of-living pressures and higher interest rates led them to either postpone or prioritize purchasing a home since the start of 2022. GUEST: Mike Heddle, Hamilton based Broker with Royal LePage State Realty
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Support staff in Ontario schools have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a strike should negotiations with the province and boards falter. Of the 45,433 support staff who voted, 43,821 said they were in favour of job action — a 96.5 per cent approval rate. No job action is planned at this point, and talks between the two sides continue this Thursday and Friday. GUEST: Laura Walton, President of Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU-CSCSO) and Educational Assistant - Questions about how prepared the region and the rest of the country actually are to cope with what is already an onslaught of natural disasters poised to worsen as the seas warm up further and the ice cap melts. The federal government is leading national discussions on climate adaptation, emergency response, the adequacy of insurance and proper infrastructure, and it hopes to release a strategy by the end of the year. Meanwhile, it’s busy adding in some short-term commitments. Sluggish progress on confronting climate change has left our infrastructure vulnerable. How is Ottawa’s neglect going to affect us nationally? GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star - Ontario CUPE education workers vote in favor of strike mandate Continued… GUEST: Stephen Lecce, Ontario Education Minister - Several years after Hockey Canada began using player registration fees to build a large financial reserve known as the National Equity Fund to cover sexual assault claims and other lawsuits, it channelled a significant portion of that money into a second multimillion-dollar fund for similar purposes. Known as the Participants Legacy Trust Fund, the reserve was created by the organization and its members with more than $7.1-million from the National Equity Fund. The money was earmarked “for matters including but not limited to sexual abuse,” according to Hockey Canada documents obtained by The Globe and Mail. GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include:
O’Toole says he could have beaten Trudeau if it wasn’t for COVID
Ottawa neglects some of Canadas problems – we’re paying the price
Jagmeet Sing matures into NDP leader
Green Part cancels first round of leadership voting
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GUEST: Dr, Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
Ukraine is formally applying for a fast-track membership to the NATO military alliance, but experts say it will likely take years for the country to actually become a member. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Topics Include:
Damage done by Hurricane Ian in Florida
Biden to visit Florida & Puerto Rico
Big week in Trump’s delay legal strategy
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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
How should Canadians honour Truth and Reconciliation Day? GUEST: Dr. Ken Coates, Canada Research Chair with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Senior Fellow of Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues with the Macdonald Laurier Institute. - Mayor Fred Eisenberger retires from politics after this next month's election, but he still makes time in his schedule to hold the monthly town hall to answer questions about Hamilton's new milestones and projects. GUEST: Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger - Negative workplace culture leads to three times less productivity than positive environment GUEST: Paula Allen, Senior Vice President of Research & Wellbeing at LifeWorks
LiONS LAIR 2022: Winners Podcast: Boardball is a new sport that aims to lower the barriers to playing volleyball by reducing the extensive setup required so that you can play anytime and anywhere. Instead of needing a traditional court, volleyball net, and large group of people, all that is needed to play Boardball is a board, a volleyball, and 4 people. The game is competitive, dynamic, and provides a more accessible way for people to use their bump-set-spike skills GUEST: Amanda Nguyen, Co-Founder of Boardball & Winner of LiONS LAIR - Most physicians and healthcare practitioners receive no data about their practice or patient outcomes. Current data feedback systems are piecemeal and not informed by evidence. Hospitals want to provide their practitioners with the support they need to deliver, maintain and improve their quality of care yet do not have the expertise to do so. The LLIF MD dashboard fulfills these market needs by using patient-care data with a focus on practitioner- centric data analytics. These analytics inform physicians about their care, anonymously index their practice relative to their local peers and index participating hospitals relative to one another. These create practice and educational insights for practitioners and system-level performance insights for clinical departments and hospitals. Llif Healthcare is built on a foundation of medical research that is well established and partly derived by its Founder. Through research, the lived experience of being a healthcare practitioner and the insights cleaned as an agent of system change, the LLIF MD Dashboard is the first step in revolutionizing medical practice in a data- rich era. Not only does this work have the potential to change how practitioners provide care, but it also equally can fundamentally change medical training in the foreseeable future. GUEST: Shawn Mondoux, Founder and CEO of LLIF Healthcare, and Second Place winner ~ Chirp is a venture-backed MedTech start-up developing a wall-mounted device that uses ambient sensors to remotely monitor the wellbeing of aging adults. It’s unobtrusive and low- effort for the care recipient and tracks their mobility, detects visitors, and looks for emergency events such as calls for help. Chirp has none of the inconvenience of wearable personal emergency response devices and is less invasive than camera monitoring. GUEST: Justin Schorn, CEO of Chirp and Third Place winner
LiONS LAIR Podcast Part 2: Investor point of view: long game GUEST: Jamie Harsevoort, CEO at Launchit Ventures GUEST: Julie Ellis, Speaker, Author, Leadership Coach and 'Investor Lion' ~ Gala Recap GUEST: Connie Smith, MC of LiONS LAIR GUEST: David Carter, Executive Director of the Innovation Factory
LiONS LIAR Podcast Part 1 Value & Benefits of LiONS LAIR GUEST: Mike Marini, Marketing Coordinator with the City of Hamilton GUEST: David Wright of Cassio Capital Advisors Inc. ~ Pillar of Business Sponsors GUEST: Alex Ross is with Gowling WLG, also a Lawyer, Registered Canadian Patent Agent and Legal Lion GUEST: Aaron Gillespie, Partner with KPMG and 'Financial Lion' ~ Importance of entrepreneurship in economy GUEST: Shann McGrail, CEO of Haltech Region Innovation Centre GUEST: Karen Linseman, Director of Operations with the Innovation Factory
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According to a new Angus Reid poll, the ascension of Pierre Poilievre has given the Conservative Party an uptick in vote popularity. But, is it too soon to make conclusions? GUEST: Clifton van der Linden, Director of the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University - In China, the high-profile TV drama In The Name Of The People has become a smash hit. In that show, Chinese agents enter the U.S. posing as businessmen so they can repatriate a factory manager who had fled abroad with huge ill-gotten wealth. But a new study by the European non-governmental agency Safeguard Defenders suggests that there might be some truth to the fiction. According to the NGO, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau has established more than 50 “overseas police service centres” in cities around the world – including three publicly documented ones in Toronto, home to Canada’s largest Chinese diaspora. GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - The trophy awarded to Canada’s athlete of the year is getting a new name. The award was named after Lou Marsh, a former football player and NHL referee who spent more than 40 years working in the Toronto Star’s sports department in a variety of different roles. Questions have been raised in recent years over whether the honour should be renamed because of some of the racist language used in Marsh’s writing. The Toronto Star is taking public submissions on a new name for the trophy, and a committee is set to choose a replacement before the 2022 award is handed out in December. GUEST: Mark Hebscher, Longtime Sports Broadcaster, Author & Host of the ‘Hebsy on Sports’ podcast
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include:
U.S warnings against Putin’s nuclear threats marks sober moment
Ukrainians in occupied territory forced to vote in ‘referendums'
Russian military recruiter shot amid fear if Ukraine call-up
And more….
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
Ottawa is demanding answers from the Ford government after Ontario removed limits on profit-making by daycare owners who receive federal funding under the national plan to build a $10-a-day child-care system. GUEST: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow with the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with U of T - The clock is ticking on Canada’s climate targets and the federal government will have to come up with an answer to the Biden administration’s recent climate package or risk falling behind in the clean energy boom, according to one of the leaders of North America’s largest pipeline company. GUEST: Michael Manjuris, Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management with Toronto Metropolitan University
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Topics Include: · Vaccine Mandates on Canada’s boarder: ArriveCAN · Federal Polling · Trudeau & Poilievre playing nice….for now · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - In April of 2022, over 10,000 Canadians signed a House of Commons petition calling on the federal government to include nuclear energy within the Green Bond Framework. It was the second most popular economy and finance petition to go before the 44th Parliament. Green bonds are a vital tool being advanced to finance our clean energy transition. At present, the government’s Green Bond Framework explicitly excludes nuclear energy, lumping it alongside sin stocks like arms manufacturing, tobacco, alcohol and gambling. Given the urgency of acting on climate change, it is imperative for this vital funding mechanism to include all proven decarbonization tools and nuclear energy in particular. GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal - Topics Include: · U.S Warns of “consequences” if Russia uses nuclear wapons · 2024 election struggles for Biden · Is this the end of the road for Trump? · And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
AGS Zephyr Inc., a privately-owned early-stage Ontario-based company, specializing in air purification, has developed novel air filtration systems that focus on providing discreet, segmented zones for safer indoor congregation of customers and employees when engaged in dining and meetings. Our Personal Zone Air Purification System (PZAP), establishes a discrete filtered zone, adding a further layer of safety of improved air quality for people, thereby reducing industrial productivity losses due to sick days as well as improving wellness benefits to all stakeholders. GUEST: Sam Alesio, Co-Founder of AGS Zephyr
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Topics Include: · Trudeau vs. Poilievre · Marit Stiles first candidate to enter Ontario NDP Leadership · Trudeau offends million belting out Bohemian Rhapsody · And more….. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer. - The federal government is giving new funding to continue the development of an automated tool for finding and flagging terrorist content online. In a press released issued Tuesday evening, the public safety department detailed a $1.9-million, three-year investment in funding “to combat online terrorist and violent extremist content.” Is it money well spend and well it be effective? GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst - Marit Stiles, the current education critic for Ontario’s New Democrats, became the first candidate to launch a bid to lead the party Thursday, saying she’s focused on taking down the Progressive Conservative government. Stiles, a former school trustee, has represented the Toronto riding of Davenport since 2018 and said she wants to lead the Ontario NDP to advocate for the hardworking people of the province. GUEST: Marit Styles, MPP for Davenport and Education Critic for Ontario’s Official Opposition
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What effect does misinformation have on our society when it comes from notable Canadians? GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Donald Trump was sued for fraud on Wednesday by New York state's attorney general, who for more than three years has been conducting a civil investigation into the former U.S. president's business practices, court records showed. A copy of the complaint was not immediately available. The lawsuit was filed in a New York state court in Manhattan. GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question’ Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It. - As you start planning your Thanksgiving feast, spare a thought for the millions of Canadians who are planning their meals around what foods they can’t buy, or how many meals to cut to make ends meet. Almost six million people were food insecure last year in Canada. More than a third of them were in Ontario, where 16 per cent, or one in six households, struggle with food insecurity. Is it going to get worse? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Pierre Poilievre brought his core leadership campaign themes to the floor of the House of Commons on Tuesday, using his first Question Period as Leader of the Official Opposition to criticize the Liberals on inflation and the fact that many Canadians can’t afford a place to live. Anticipating that line of attack, the Liberals countered by introducing two pieces of legislation to implement the government’s recently announced $4.6-billion affordability plan. The package includes a doubling of the GST credit, a boost in rental supports and an interim dental care plan for uninsured parents with children under 12. The government says the programs are targeted at those most in need and will not contribute to inflation. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Inflation might be edging a bit lower, but it sure doesn’t feel like it at the grocery store. Statistics Canada announced Tuesday morning that the Consumer Price Index rose by 7.0 per cent in August, compared to a year earlier. That’s down from 7.6 per cent in July, and lower than the 7.2 per cent most economists had expected. In June, inflation had jumped to a 39-year high of 8.1 per cent. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a visit to Canada last month in what must be seen as an effort to prod us into taking our Arctic security more seriously. What has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and how should Canada respond? GUEST: Heather Exner-Pirot is a senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in New York to attend the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly from Sept. 20-22. Trudeau’s office issued a statement on Saturday saying he will attend the opening of the session’s High-Level General Debate on Tuesday, noting he will highlight Canada’s ongoing work to tackle the global food security crisis that has followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto - While parents can't get ahead of all the technology their teens might use, experts say they can offer help by teaching them media literacy — and early on. As the exposure to controversial — and increasingly harmful — views about masculinity, the objectification of women and the LGBT community has these same experts raising concern about how extremist, far-right groups are using TikTok, YouTube and other social media apps in a drip campaign to slowly radicalize vulnerable teens and young men. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - What are some of the key moments that came out of the Queens funeral yesterday? GUEST: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport and Chairman of Fox 40
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Topics Include:
How Poilievre is winning new support among young and diverse voters
Trudeau meets U.K’s Liz Truss & other world leaders
Canadian MP’s see threats to democracy
And more…
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
What are the main challenges for people like Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan and the West’s in the hostage negotiations with dictators like Putin? GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Topics Include:
Trumps financial documents
Abortion Poll: Trump boosts midterm prospects for democrats
Migrants dropped off near Kamala Harris’s home
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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Koble is a digital health startup on a mission to improve the health and well-being of parents, globally. The Koble app provides expectant and new parents a masterclass-like experience, helping them feel prepared and supported during the earliest stages of parenthood. With Koble, parents can access live and on-demand sessions with 13+ types of perinatal experts, and unlimited 1:1 chat with a full-spectrum doula- all at their fingertips. GUEST: Swati Matta, Founder & CEO of Koble
Boardball is a new sport that aims to lower the barriers to playing volleyball by reducing the extensive setup required so that you can play anytime and anywhere. Instead of needing a traditional court, volleyball net, and large group of people, all that is needed to play Boardball is a board, a volleyball, and 4 people. The game is competitive, dynamic, and provides a more accessible way for people to use their bump-set-spike skills. GUEST: Amanda Nguyen, Co-Founder of Boardball
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Should we be worried about Pierre Poilievre’s depiction of mainstream media and the subsequent backlash from his online supporters?
Ontario spending billions more this year
Bill 12 wage-cap faces court challenge this week
And more
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised China’s “balanced position” on the Ukraine war, though he conceded Beijing had “questions and concerns” over the invasion, in what appeared to be a veiled admission of their diverging views over the protracted military assault. Putin made the comments when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in person for the first time since the invasion at a regional summit in Uzbekistan, days after Russia suffered a series of major military setback in Ukraine. Russian troops are retreating en mass, having lost more territory in a week than they captured in five months. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - It started to look as though the Green Party of Canada might claw its way out of the rabbit hole it dug when Annamie Paul, one of its top assets — and the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to lead a federal political party in Canada — was essentially chased out of its ranks. In the latest news, a misgendering incident during a Zoom event reveals just how hopelessly deranged the party has become, consumed by the most toxic tendencies of modern progressive movements. How did a zoom meeting propel Canada’s green party into another meltdown? GUEST: Peggy Mash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected available May 2022
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario hospitals will be able to temporarily enroll elderly patients in long-term care homes they did not choose within a 70-kilometre radius from their preferred facility in Southern Ontario – and a 150-kilometre radius in Northern Ontario – while charging those who refuse to leave a $400-a-day fee. The new details come from a government statement, released on Wednesday, summarizing just-filed regulations meant to give force to the government’s new health care legislation, known as Bill 7. The province says the legislation, fast-tracked through the legislature last month, is needed to free up hospital beds and address the overcrowding in its buckling health care system. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Right-wing extremism is becoming increasingly mainstream, with the COVID-19 pandemic serving as an accelerant to that process, Canadian and international experts warned Tuesday. Experts also emphasized that with right-wing extremists organizing across borders through the internet, efforts to combat such extremism must also be international in nature. GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst - Should LIV Golf player’s be able to play at the Ryder Cup? Joe Callaghan joins us to discuss The debate. GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian
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The Trudeau-Poilievre showdown begins as Canada, like many countries around the world, struggles with decades-high inflation that has followed the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But are these leaders letting the dislike for each other get in the way of what’s right for Canadians? GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist - Groups representing thousands of public sector employees will be going up against the Ontario government in court this week as the two sides argue over a law that has capped wages for workers. The groups are challenging the constitutionality of Bill 124, a law passed in 2019 that limits wage increases at one per cent per year for Ontario Public Service employees as well as broader public sector workers, including nurses and teachers. The provisions of the bill were to be in effect for three years as new contracts were negotiated, and the Tories had said it was a time-limited approach to help eliminate the deficit. Critics have long called for the bill to be repealed, saying it has contributed to a severe nursing shortage. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - Ontario’s courts have ruled that Colleges COVID-19 vaccine mandates are very legal and enforceable. What could this entail? GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Pierre Poilievre’s landslide win of the Conservative Party of Canada leadership demonstrates not only his well-run campaign but suggests a newly unified party and an appealing platform. Poilievre’s victory is striking for its uniformity and scope. Winning the first-ballot support of more than two-thirds of Conservative Party memebers, the candidate received a plurality of votes in 330 of Canada’s 338 federal ridings. So what could his leadership mean for the parties future? GUEST: Sam Routley, PhD Student of Political Science with Western University - Ontario is rolling out Omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccines, starting with residents considered the most vulnerable, including those aged 70 and older, long-term care residents and health-care workers. The province said bivalent vaccine appointments could be booked as of Monday morning through its online booking system, with the first appointments also available the same day. What’s a bivalent vaccine and why should people take them? GUEST: Hermona Kuluberhan is an Ottawa-based writer currently completing a master’s in journalism at Carleton University - Economists say Canada’s real problem is not job losses, it’s actually the rush of Canadians retiring. What could this mean for our economy and how can we fix it fast? GUEST: David Macdonald, Senior Economist with The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Poilievre wins Conservative leadership · What will his team look like? · Challenges facing his party · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after surging Ukrainian forces threatened to encircle the area in a shock advance. The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Moscow’s worst defeat since its troops were forced back from the capital Kyiv in March, and could prove a decisive turning point in the six-month-old-war, with thousands of Russian soldiers abandoning ammunition stockpiles and equipment as they fled. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Topics Include: · The Queen’s Funeral – Biden & Trump · Inflation talk · Proposed candidates to serve as special master in Mar-a-Lago doc’s · And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
Celebrating and analyzing the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II after her passing yesterday. GUEST: Peter McNally, Professor Emeritus with School of Information and the Director of History with the McGill Project at McGill University, McGill’s “Royal Watcher” GUEST: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport - A staggering 57% of parents polled in the study "Barriers & Bridges in Canadian Learning" say they are worried their child is falling behind academically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its after effects. Parents also admitted to being intimidated by their child’s math homework, perhaps unsurprisingly. GUEST: Jennifer Lee, Chief Growth Officer at Photomath - European Union energy ministers meet today to discuss measures to curb energy prices which have skyrocketed in recent years, particularly the last few months. GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s minister of health has told the province’s nursing college to go ahead with regulatory changes that could get thousands more internationally trained nurses into practice more quickly. This sounds like a step in the right direction, but what else needs to be done? GUEST: Dr. Claudette Holloway, President of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario - Ontario’s health care system is in crisis. Our government’s latest response? Extreme measures that will only worsen the lives of frail elders and people with disabilities, and their families, in the form of Bill 7: the more Beds, Better Care Act. But forcing our elderly into long-term care homes is not the solution. GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Lead with Kensington Gardens Long Term Care Home, Toronto and faculty at McMaster University - Canada's major telecommunications companies have signed on to a formal agreement that could stave off the worst effects of a major outage such as the one that hit the Rogers network in July, the federal government announced Wednesday. As part of the deal, the major carriers have agreed to support and assist their competitors during any future major network outages so customers can still make calls, access 911 emergency services and conduct business transactions. How much can we rely on this signed deal? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Liberal cabinet began three days of meetings in Vancouver today to hash out the government's fall playbook, with the rising cost of living and the state of the economy topping the agenda as Parliament prepares for the return of MPs. GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - On the Labour Day weekend, a devastating series of attacks resulting in deaths and others injured instantly made the James Smith Cree Nation internationally famous. In the coming days, as journalists delve into the backgrounds of the suspects and the dynamics surrounding the incomprehensible events, any characterization of this atrocity as a meme for Indigenous dysfunction would be, frankly, inaccurate. As we have tragically seen in recent years – in towns from Portapique, N.S. to Uvalde, Tex. – the disease of mass killings has nothing to do with a community’s ethnicity. The traumatized Indigenous community in Saskatchewan deserves better than this. GUEST: Dr. Ken Coates, Canada Research Chair with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Senior Fellow of Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Top 10 threats to childhood are putting the lives of 8 million kids at risk. New report from child advocates calls for urgent action as kids go back to school. GUEST: Stephanie Mitton, Government Relations Advisor for Children First Canada
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Conservative lead widens
What will Trudeau do when angry farmers descend on Ottawa?
Why does Poilievre appeal to young Canadians?
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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
The European energy crisis continues to intensify as Russia shuts down a key gas pipeline. Should Canada, and could Canada do more to help? GUEST: Bob Rae, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations - Topics Include:
Judge granted Trump’s request for a special master to review the documents seized froMar-a-Lago
Trump rally in Pennsylvania
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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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DOJ filings accuse Donald Trump of obstructing their investigation into the documents he was hiding at Mar-a-Lago. Could this blow the lid off the whole operation? And was there a whistleblower involved? GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question’ Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It. - Ontario’s controversial long term care bill, which would see hospital patients transferred to long term care homes possibly far from their families, passed without public input. Out of Ottawa there was a cabinet shuffle, and a suggestion for a rent-to-own plan to ease the housing crisis. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer. - Uyghur Muslims have faced grievous crimes against humanity, says a new UN report. Across 45 pages it details the arbitrary detention of the Uyghur, (and other Muslim) population in China for, what Chinese officials classify as, “re-education camps.” The CCP ardently deny the findings of the report and fought to prevent its release. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
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Russia has instituted what they insist is a temporary freeze on the Nord Stream pipeline feeding Germany their gas. German officials say the shut down, for technical maintenance, makes no logical sense. How should we take this move within the context of the war on Ukraine? GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto - 325 First Nations are seeking to subpoena Justin Trudeau to testify in a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the residential schooling GUEST: Dr. Ken Coates, Canada Research Chair with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Senior Fellow of Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Doug Ford's PC government has spent a considerable amount of money keeping mandate letters a secret from the public. GUEST: James Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression with the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: There's a small cabinet shuffle this morning in Ottawa. What were the results? GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - The Canadian government is invoking for the second time in less than a year a 1977 treaty that will force the American government to negotiate over the fate of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced the invocation of the treaty in a statement on Monday, pointing to the “significant” impact shutting down the pipeline would carry for Canadian jobs and bills. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Canadian sport is in crisis. Reports of misconduct are making headlines with troubling regularity. Many sports federations under the purview of Sport Canada appear saturated with harassment, bullying and abuse. So how can we start addressing and changing athlete abuse in Canadian sports? GUEST: MacIntosh Ross, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Western University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario has basically lifted all its COVID-era public-health measures; the pandemic is essentially over, in an official sense, judging by how Ontario is handling it. An exception is the regulation that permits patients to be sent from a hospital to a long-term-care home, even against their will, or else be hit with heavy financial penalties. Are the already frail and vulnerable going to be the only people asked to make sacrifices to keep our system functioning? Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO - An organized campaign of hate is trying to silence women in journalism and they’re sounding the alarm to find a way to stop these online attacks! GUEST: Brent Joly, President of The Canadian Association of Journalists - Ukrainian troops bolstered by stepped-up Western military aid launched a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the south on Monday as Russian forces shelled residential areas of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv. Moscow acknowledged a new offensive had been launched but said it had failed and the Ukrainians had suffered significant casualties. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Freeland responds to harassment · Trudeau douses excitement over East Coast gas exports · Russian invasion spurred NATO involvement in Canada’s Artic · And more GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - The FBI told a judge that there was “probable cause to believe” that classified national security materials were improperly taken to “unauthorized” locations at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, and that a search would also likely find “evidence of obstruction,” according to a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit released Friday. GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News - Michael Melling, the vice-president of news at Bell Media, is taking a leave effective immediately, after two weeks of tumult around his role in the dismissal of marquee anchor Lisa LaFlamme. This as the head of Bell Media's parent company says the decision to end Lisa LaFlamme's contract had nothing to do with her age, gender or grey hair. ALSO: In an open letter, prominent Canadians call on Bell to ‘make things right’ for LaFlamme and the public GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, former director of Journalism at the University of Toronto, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
This year, LiONS LAIR celebrates its 12th anniversary as Hamilton's leading pitch competition that brings together innovation and entrepreneurship. Here is one of the top 8 finalists: Musicology: a video conference platform with the lowest latency around allowing for all frequencies of music to be heard which an important aspect is to teaching music online. GUEST: Rebecca Featherstone, Founder & CEO of Musicology and Lions Lair finalist
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Topics Include: · Ont. gov’t plans to bypass public hearing for long-term care bill · Bed shortages could see seniors moved long distances · Ford gov’t insists Ontario needs ‘strong mayors’ to build more housing · And more! GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer -
Abacus Data completed a national survey of 1,500 Canadian adults from July 11 to 17, 2022. WHICH IS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE – CANADA OR THE US? While 1 in every 10 Canadians think it would be better to live in the US, everyone else thinks Canada is the better place to be. This feeling is pretty consistent across all regions of the country. To the extent that there are subgroups of the population that are more doubtful that Canada is better, these are men under 45, Conservative and People’s Party voters, and those who have not been vaccinated for Covid-19. GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data - The prime minister and party leaders have too much power and it needs to be diminished to improve democratic accountability in Canada’s Parliament, says one veteran Conservative MP. Michael Chong, the long-serving MP for the Ontario riding of Wellington-Halton Hills, is proposing a trio of reforms to increase the influence of individual members in the House of Commons. GUEST: Michael Chong, Conservative MP for Wellington—Halton Hills and Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls from Ukraine to cancel a permit allowing turbines repaired in Montreal to be sent back to a Russian energy giant as a three-day visit from Germany’s leader gets underway. What should Canada do? GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
Ontario’s plan to replace electricity generation when an aging nuclear plant closes in 2025 has critics saying the province didn’t get the memo on the growing dangers of climate change. Of six new contracts announced by the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) on Tuesday, four are for power to be generated by burning natural gas, while the other two — for wind and energy storage — account for less than 10 per cent of the 764 megawatts under contract. GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s plan to replace electricity generation when an aging nuclear plant closes in 2025 has critics saying the province didn’t get the memo on the growing dangers of climate change. Of six new contracts announced by the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) on Tuesday, four are for power to be generated by burning natural gas, while the other two — for wind and energy storage — account for less than 10 per cent of the 764 megawatts under contract.
GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
Port delays, storage issues, rail capacity and a trucker shortage have all played a part in strain on the supply chain. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel or our consumers going to continue paying the price? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Last week's reveal that the dismissal of beloved former CTV journalist Lisa LaFlamme from Bell Media was potentially related to her grey tresses has drawn a ton of criticism and debate. Now, Dove Canada has strangely issued its two cents. In an attempt to back LaFlamme, who over the pandemic decided to not colour her hair anymore, Dove Canada released a new campaign; half dragging Bell and half promoting their company.
GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: As Canada’s health care system continues to experience significant pressures, the federal government has appointed a new national chief nursing officer, reinstating a position that aims to bring more input from nurses to federal health-care policy discussions and decision-making. Leigh Chapman has been named to the position, a 20-year nursing veteran who has worked in leadership positions in critical care, home and community care, harm reduction and has held positions in academia, research, regulation, professional practice and administration.
GUEST: Dr. James Tiessen, Director of Health Administration & Community Care and Associate Professor with Toronto Metropolitan University
Canada’s domestic spy agency warned the government in October that the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan could increase the risk of religiously motivated extremism. Will Afghanistan become a ‘safe haven’ for extremists globally?
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
At the start of 2019, IWG gathered the opinions of more than 15,000 business people across over 100 nations. They asked them about the key drivers for flexible working, how it’s being used by international businesses, and what perceived obstacles to introducing and increasing it still remain. The results show there’s a major power shift towards the employee – they now have more input on how they work, and where they work. And businesses that understand this see boosted productivity, higher talent retention, and greater agility.
GUEST: Wayne Berger, CEO of the Americas for International Workplace Group
GUEST: Michelle Eaton, Vice President of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The premiers of the Maritimes and Ontario say a "Team Canada" approach is needed to help the health-care crisis….but yesterday’s summit was big on talk and low on immediate solutions. What needs to happen to help curve this crisis?
GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his German counterpart, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, appeared to pour cold water on the idea of shipping Canadian natural gas to Europe when asked about the proposal Monday. ALSO: Will Canada boost LNG exports amid German concerns?
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
A plan that would see the PGA Tour stage 18 tournaments with 60 players and $20 million purses was one idea discussed among an elite group of players, including Tiger Woods, at a meeting earlier this week in advance of the BMW Championship.
GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian
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Topics Include: · Parliamentarians back Canadian delegations to Taiwan · Conservative MPs unsure ‘which Poilievre they will get’ · Singh’s credibility on the line if Liberals fail to deliver on dental care · And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls from Ukraine to cancel a permit allowing turbines repaired in Montreal to be sent back to a Russian energy giant as a three-day visit from Germany’s leader gets underway. What should Canada do? GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Topics Include: · DeSantis hits the road to help GOP hopefuls · Takeaways from Mar-a-Lago search documents hearing · Trump investigation eases 2024 election doubts · And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
A Hamilton-based infectious disease expert is suggesting Canada and local health agencies should make a larger push to promote the immunization against polio amid a recent rise in detection of the virus among western countries.
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to fund more private clinic surgeries in bid to stabilize healthcare
Nursing collge proposes to temporarily register international nurses
Ontario’s offer to education workers
And more…
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer.
The Ottawa convoy occupation served as a breeding ground for “violent extremists” looking to recruit and radicalize convoy supporters, according to a newly disclosed internal intelligence report from a Canadian counterterrorism organization. The threat assessment, prepared by Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assesment Centre (ITAC), is marked “for official use only” and was obtained by PressProgress through access-to-information. GUEST: Luke Lebrun, Editor of Press Progress - Ontario is planning to deal with a crisis plaguing hospitals by boosting the number of surgeries done at existing private-sector clinics, attracting 6,000 more health care workers and legislating new powers to move elderly patients awaiting long-term care into homes that are not of their choosing. The measures, outlined in an 18-page second phase of Ontario’s “Plan to Stay Open” unveiled on Thursday by Health Minister Sylvia Jones, drew praise from some in the health care system but criticism from opposition politicians and advocates for long-term care residents, who warned that the plan would harm vulnerable seniors. GUEST: Bill VanGorder, Chief Operation Officer, CARP
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: On Aug. 24, Ukraine will be observing the six-month mark since Russia invaded, as well as the 31st year of independence. Although Ukrainians are expected to mark the anniversary of gaining independence from the Soviet Union in a celebratory fashion, the continuing war and threat of attacks will likely temper the day over concerns that Russia will launch long-range missiles onto Ukrainian towns and cities. Sadly, Canada – the first Western country to recognize Ukraine as an independent country in 1991 – will be largely absent during the celebrations in Ukraine this year. Is Canada falling short on it’s promises to assist Ukraine? GUEST: Michael Bociurkiw, Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council and global affairs analyst - Recap of announcement from Health Minister Sylvia Jones and LTC Minister Paul Calandra GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News Toronto - Canadian farmers have long fought off crop and livestock threats from diseases and pests. Now add to that the growing threat of cyber-attacks, as producers in Canada and abroad adopt more on-farm smart technologies. So says a University of Guelph computer scientist whose lab is the only Canadian university research centre investigating an increasing number of cyber-attacks on farm networks. Besides helping farmers fight off hackers, Dr. Ali Dehghantanha hopes his pioneering research helps to arm producers in preventing such attacks and spurs governments to develop data security standards for the agricultural sector. Full article HERE. GUEST: Dr. Ali Dehghantanh (day-gawn-tawn), Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence at the University of Guelph - A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds a majority of Canadians (58%) say sexual harassment and sexual assault are a major problem in youth hockey, while another 17 per cent feel this is a problem, but a minor one. Those closest to the sport share this view. More than half (56%) of Canadians with a connection to youth hockey, whether current or past, see sexual misconduct in hockey culture as a major issue. Among this group, women of all ages are more likely to perceive a major problem compared to men in their same generational bracket. Men younger than 35 are least likely to agree. GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro (PEG-OH-RAWR-OH), Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport
Canada is keen on accessing a pot of money for critical minerals in the soon-to-be-signed climate bill. Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University joins us to discuss what this could mean for Canada. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Spending on temporary agency nurses has soared by millions of dollars at some of Ontario’s largest hospitals grappling with severe staffing shortages, with one that paid over 550 per cent more in its last fiscal year compared to pre-pandemic years. Ontario’s health worker staffing crisis has prompted ballooning wait times in hospitals, forcing some to cancel surgeries or even temporarily shutter emergency departments. Could this bankrupt the health care sector? GUEST: Morgan Hoffarth, Former president of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) - Canada is keen on accessing a pot of money for critical minerals in the soon-to-be-signed climate bill. Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University joins us to discuss what this could mean for Canada. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - After the Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump's lifelong grift is nearing its final act. Across America his power is fading — and he knows it Is this finally the end all be all for Trump? GUEST: Brian Karem, Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question"
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Premier Doug Ford is promising municipal leaders across the province that their powers “will be expanded” in line with the new strong-mayor authority for Toronto and Ottawa. Speaking to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa, Ford touted his bill that is designed to expedite housing construction in the province’s two largest cities. Will the act harm local democracy? GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today - With inflation on the rise and central banks poised to increase rates to fight it, there’s one major question Canadians are asking about the state of our economy: Will there be a recession, and what would it look like? GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - One of the most recognizable journalists in Canada announced Monday that her contract had been ended by her employer of more than three decades. Lisa LaFkamme, who has been chief anchor and senior editor at CTV National News, delivered her latest news not from behind the desk where she has long been a fixture, but in a video posted to social media. Former and current CTV News employees who spoke to the Star expressed dismay at LaFlamme’s ouster, with some in particular describing a “culture of fear” in the newsroom driven by staff cuts and management they said has at times reacted negatively to being challenged. GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Possible breakthrough with protesters night before Emergencies Act was invoked · Trudeau & Scholz to sign agreement exploring hydrogen fuel · And more….
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
As the election for a new Conservative leader looms, there is still divisions within the party right now. The Centre Ice Conservatives conference took place the other day. What about unity for the party and how difficult is that going to be?
GUEST: Dr. Jack Mintz, Distinguished Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute and President's Fellow of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
Topics Include: · Reaction & strategy being developed in Trump raid · House passes Democrats’ health care & climate bill · And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: · Healthcare crisis · Throne speech deviates little from pre-election budget · Private sector talk · And more… GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - A controversial organization operating out of a historic Ottawa church has set up what it calls a "private security force," saying it was necessary because police weren't responding to its concerns quickly enough. The United People of Canada (TUPC) said it has identified people it claims have committed crimes targeting the group, and is prepared to "ensure the rule of law is upheld within our lawful authority," according to William Komer, one of its directors. GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst - For much of the last few years, watching the price of lumber has been painful for anyone working on their home. Lately though, the cost has come sliding down alongside many other commodities — yet another sign that rampant inflation could be coming to an end or at the very least, offer some reprieve for those struggling with the soaring cost of living. GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s health minister is not ruling out privatization as the government looks at ways to deal with a major staff shortage straining hospitals across the province. Sylvia Jones said the government is considering many ideas in an effort to keep emergency departments from closing. Should we be concerned? GUEST: Clement Nocos, Director of Policy with the Broadbent Institute - He was a man who wrote the music and performed at the concerts — the wild, manic wonderful concerts — that many people, especially Hamiltonians, milestoned their lives around (and still do). In short, Gord Lewis brought people energy and joy, joy with a rough exterior perhaps — I mean, we’re talking punk icons Teenage Head here — but joy nonetheless. GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor at the Harris Institute for Music - Social media users deliberately attempting to silence journalists and others with messages of hate has become a norm that is threatening democracy. Is it time for regulation? GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Facing the twin challenges of soaring inflation and an overburdened health-care system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Doug Ford’s government warns “there are no easy solutions.” Is this their way of pushing the province into a private healthcare system? GUEST: Sandy Shaw, MPP for Hamilton West Ancaster Dundas with the Ontario NDP, Former NDP Finance Critic - Emma McIntosh, a reporter for The Narwhal joins us to fact-check some of the promises made by the Ford Government. GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal - Already the second-most-commonly used substance in Canada, Cannabis usage went up following its legalization and then again during the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. And the combination of increased usage and higher concentrations of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is leading to more people getting addicted to cannabis, according to a new study. It was long thought that, unlike many other drugs, one could not get addicted to cannabis — but that’s not the case. GUEST: Dr. Antony Chum, Canada Research Chair and Professor with the School of Kinesiology & Health Science at York University
Daniel Safayeni joins the show to discuss how Ontario can bolster its prosperity. Guest: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to present a vision today for what he hopes to accomplish with a new term of government, as well as reintroduce this year’s budget. A throne speech will outline the Progressive Conservative government’s agenda, followed by the reintroduction of the budget, which is expected to be largely unchanged from when it was introduced but not passed in the spring before the election. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - Masks will not be mandatory in Ontario schools this September, the province's Education Ministry says. The ministry said most health and safety requirements for the upcoming school year will remain unchanged from the end of the 2021-22 school year, which includes the voluntary use of masks. GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University - New labour force data from Statistics Canada confirm that Canada’s economy is already slowing down sharply as a result of aggressive interest rate increases begun by the Bank of Canada in March. With the U.S. economy (Canada’s largest trading partner) already in technical recession (with two consecutive quarters of real GDP contraction), and monthly GDP data showing no growth since May, this new report adds to worries that Canada’s economy is heading into recession as well. GUEST: Jim Stanford, Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Did Canada abandon Ukrainians
CPC Leadership race
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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
The automotive industry is in the midst of the largest transition in its history as global carmakers pour tens of billions of dollars into electric vehicle technology, zero-collision technology and autonomous driving technology. This week on Down to Business, Peter Frise, a professor of mechanical, automotive and materials engineering at the University of Windsor, explains how this is likely to change consumers’ relationship to vehicles. Frise praised Canada’s federal and provincial governments for putting up money to entice auto and battery makers to build new plants here, which he contends will anchor the industry and create jobs for decades to come. But he acknowledged that there will be a cascade of impacts up and down the supply chain, from parts manufacturers to assembly. GUEST: Dr. Peter Frise, Director, Centre for Automotive Research and Education, University of Windsor - Topics Include:
Biden build back better
Top democratic donors disenchanted with Biden
Indiana 1st states to approve abortion ban
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Jean Charest took on absentee candidates in the final Conservative leadership debate, declaring that showing up for such events is a show of respect for the party members who will choose the new leader. The former Quebec premier did not directly name Pierre Poilievre, seen as a front-runner, or Leslyn Lewis who were, respectively, in Regina and Prince Edward Island. Both had said they would not participate in the debate over concerns about its format and that they preferred to engage with members. The other two candidates – Ontario MP Scott Aitchison and Roman Baber, a former Progressive Conservative member of the Ontario legislature – avoided the issue of the missing candidates. GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University - Why has Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit angered China? GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Premier Doug Ford is once again calling on the federal government for financial support in the face of a growing hospital staffing crisis that has seen some Ontario hospitals close their doors in recent weeks. But, what is he doing provincially? GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today
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Another auto-theft crime ring was uncovered in Hamilton, and charges have been laid. Among those charged were employees of Service Ontario
GUEST: Lorraine Sommerfeld, Auto Writer with Post Media, Motherlode column in the Hamilton Spectator
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Abacus Data’s new study reveals how millions of Canadians report having had COVID-19.
Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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EV tax credits are back in the news south of the border as the Buy American tax credits for electric vehicles have been removed from the budget in a compromise between Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer. Good news for Canada? Shiona finds out
GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association
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Tens of thousands of nurses are currently sitting on the sidelines as hospital emergency rooms in Ontario near the brink of closure due to staffing shortages.
That’s because this pool of about 26,000 nurses in Ontario is internationally educated, according to the most recent report from the province’s Office of the Fairness Commission.
GUEST: Dr. Claudette Holloway, President of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
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- Major companies including Unilever, McDonalds and Kimberly-Clark have made products more expensive to cope with higher costs amid rising inflation
- Walmart said rising prices on fuel and gas forcing shoppers to spend less in store
- The rising cost of products for companies is being passed on to the customers
GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author
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Ontario Provincial Police say “bragging rights and Instagram likes” are a large part of why the number of street racing incidents continues to rise.
OPP held a news conference in Mississauga on Monday with representatives from the Toronto Police Service, Peel Regional Police and York Regional Police where they provided an update on their joint efforts to combat street racing and stunt driving, dubbed Project Buccaneer.
GUEST: Kerry Schmidt, Manager of Media Relations, Corporate Communications and Strategy Bureau with Ontario Provincial Police
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We regularly hear now from people aside from Putin (for example former prime minister and president Dmitri Medvedev) about the meaning of the war, the catastrophic consequences that await Ukraine and the West, and so forth. This is a sign that Putin is losing control
GUEST: Aurel Braun,Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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After five months of campaigning, the outcome of the third Conservative Party leadership campaign in six years looms over the horizon. What is the latest ?
ALSO: Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper endorses Pierre Poilievre for party leader
GUEST:Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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European Union governments agreed Tuesday to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, although the measure contains exemptions for some countries.
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
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The state of global aviation has been a mess in recent months as pandemic-related travel restrictions have eased and the subsequent demand for flights has put a tremendous strain on airlines and airports. For Canadian flyers, the situation may actually get worse after the summer travel season.
ALSO: Toronto’s airport is now worst in the world for delays
GUEST: John Gradek is a Faculty Lecturer in the School of Continuing Studies, and Coordinator of the Supply Chain and Operations Management and Integrated Aviation Management programs at McGill University
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The Pentagon is officially opening a UFO investigations office as US government gets serious about ‘alien-sightings’.
GUEST: Chris Rutkowski, Ufologist and Science Writer
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The Ontario government has released a plan to help students catch up following two years of interrupted learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The plan focuses primarily on getting students back in the classroom for a "full school experience,” however the Progressive Conservatives say they will also “enable the option of remote learning” for parents who feel it’s the best option for their child.
GUEST: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow with the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education w U of T
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It was a scene that, until it happened, was almost impossible to imagine. The Holy Father delivered an apology in a First Nation community, surrounded by the same Indigenous language, regalia, culture and ceremony the Catholic Church had once intentionally – and often brutally – attempted to eradicate.
Was the apology enough?
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director of the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University
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Hockey Canada releases plan to combat 'toxic' culture ahead of parliamentary hearings
Can the plan be done, and if so how?
GUEST: Kristi Allain, Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life, and an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas University
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A new CIBC survey finds Canadians are hoping to enjoy summer but most (80 per cent) are concerned about the impact of rising inflation on their ability to enjoy themselves this summer season.
Canadians expect to spend approximately $1,900 this year on summer activities, which is an increase of $400 from 2021, and most of those who expect to increase their spend (76 per cent) name inflation as the leading cause.
GUEST: Nicholas Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics with Toronto Metropolitan University
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Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.
Francis kissed the hand of a residential school survivor as he was greeted at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport by Indigenous representatives, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, an Inuk who is Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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People in Ontario are calling out Doug Ford's government as several long-term care homes in the province are still without air conditioning, while severe heat warnings are in effect in many cities.
GUEST: Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos, Co-Founder of Canadians4LTC Standards and a Professor at Ontario Tech University
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Urban areas are the hot spots of global warming. Extreme heat, alongside flooding and wildfire, is a key risk to the health and well-being of Canadians. Urgent action is required NOW to manage risk and avoid worsening impacts – and ultimately FATALITIES – resulting from rising heat. The ‘Irreversible Extreme Heat’ guide presents practical actions that Canadians can undertake to reduce risks in relation to extreme heat.
GUEST: Dr. Blair Feltmate, Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo
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The 2003 Canadian world junior team is also under a cloud of suspicion — and a Halifax police investigation — as the pressure ramps up on members of the 2018 squad facing a newly reopened and separate police probe into allegations of sexual assault.
ALSO: St-Onge suspends funding to GymCan until it signs with safe sport office
GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport
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GUEST: Megan Walker, Board member and former executive director of the London Abused Women's Centre
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Topics Include: CPC Leadership debate Campaign promises Poilievre skipping debate And more
GUEST: Jean Charest, Leaderships Candidate for the Federal Conservative Party
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The fate of this season’s crop came down to one mid-January evening, when a bitter cold blanket fell across Niagara.
Grapevines covered on Westcott Vineyards with thermal blankets survived, but for other parts of the Jordan Station vineyard, there was “quite a bit of bud damage” said owner Carolyn Hurst. It saw its crop load reduced by 50 or 60 per cent for the year, and lost about 25 per cent of its grapevines altogether.
GUEST: Aaron Dobbin, President of the Wine Growers of Ontario
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In a defensive back and forth between that lasted well into the fourth quarter, it was the BC Lions who would prevail over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to claim a win in the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader.
GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton & CHML Sports Director and Host of ‘The Fifth Quarter’
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Thing we still don’t know about the Jerry Dias investigation in the wake of the leaked report.
GUEST: Rosa Saba, Business reporter for the Toronto Star
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Municipal Affairs minister Steve Clark says the 'strong mayor' plan is about building affordable housing. When asked how the new powers would speed up building the premier said "I don't remember about affordable housing."
GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News Toronto
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Hundreds of Hells Angels members from across the country are expected to gather in Durham Region this weekend and police say they are prepared for the event.
Deputy Chief Dean Bertrim of the Durham Regional Police Service was among several officials who held a press conference Monday morning explaining to the public what could be expected.
GUEST:Stephen Metelsky, Author, Organized crime expert,and a Professor Criminal Psychology at both Mohawk College and Queen’s University
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Netflix Inc. will ask customers in five Latin America countries to pay a fee if they want to use their account in an additional home, a test the company hopes will curb password sharing and generate additional revenue from the many people using borrowed accounts.
Customers in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic will be asked to pay an extra fee if they use an account for more than two weeks outside of their primary residence. The additional home will cost 219 pesos ($1.70) in Argentina and $2.99 in the other countries.
ALSO: Arkell's Update
GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and Music Commentator
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GUEST: Colleen Fuller, Health and Drug Policy Researcher
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Bargaining began Monday between the Ontario government and a major education union, the first in a series of talks scheduled with labour groups in the sector before contracts for teachers and other school workers expire at the end of August.
GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
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A NASA forecast model used by scientist Tamitha Skov anticipates a solar flare hitting the Earth on 19 July 2022. that “could cause interference in radio and GPS signals.”
ALSO: Extreme heat sears parts of Europe, with UK seeing third-hottest day on record
GUEST: Kent Moore, Vice-Principal of Research and a Professor of Atmospheric Physics with the University of Toronto
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Hockey Canada topics Include: How Hockey Canada used registration fees to build a fund to cover sexual-assault claims· Trudeau rips Hockey Canada leadership over sex assault fund· Lawyers for players linked to alleged sexual assault to give NHL videos, text messages And more
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
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The Canadian Forces will create a new group to focus on the growing importance of space to military operations and the country’s security.
The idea of establishing a Canadian Space Division has been circulating at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa since 2019, but it is now expected to be in place by September.
GUEST: David Pugliese, Journalist with the Ottawa Citizen
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is ordering Rogers to explain in detail what caused last week's network outage, how it affected emergency services and what the company plans to do to compensate customers.
In a letter addressed to Ted Woodhead, Rogers' senior vice president of regulatory affairs, the CRTC chided Rogers for not being fully transparent with its customers.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Villa Italia executive director Pat Mostacci, former chair of Festitalia, is accused of being the architect of a seven-year-long fraud and embezzlement plot
How did an identity theft scheme funnel $1.2 million out of Hamilton’s Villa Italia retirement home?
GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator
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In the Northwest Territories, more than half of the members of the legislative assembly are women.
In British Columbia, that number is 43 per cent.
This didn’t happen by fluke; in both regions, efforts to boost the number of women elected were deliberate, and recruiting initiatives continue — something experts say is key to ensuring diversity among politicians at all levels.
So how do we get more women into politics?
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of “Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected” available May 2022
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Dane Evans threw a three-yard touchdown to Tim White with 19 seconds to play, leading the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to their first victory of the season, 25-23 over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday night.
For a moment late in the fourth quarter, it appeared the Ticats’ season opening losing streak would reach five games after Evans fumbled the football deep in Hamilton territory and Ottawa’s Laurenzo Mauldin recovered it at the one-yard line.
GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton & CHML Sports Director
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Activism for First Nations without clean water programs.
GUEST: Jeff Burnett, Development & Strategy at Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation
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Recapping this week in Hamiltonian, Ontarian, and Canadian politics from Andrea Horwath’s rumoured mayoral bid for Hamilton, to Justin Trudeau’s apparent divisiveness amongst Canadians.
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer.
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Fully vaccinated air travellers must now submit to mandatory rapid COVID-19 testing at Canadian airports. Are we working backward?
GUEST: Karina Gould, MP for Burlington, Minister of Families, Children & Social Development
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We keep hearing good news about Canada’s job market, increased wages and record low unemployment to the point that employers are desperate for new workers. We also keep hearing that a recession is looming. Which is the truth? Are they mutually exclusive?
GUEST: Mark Agnew, VP of Policy for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
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Rising interest rates will see another round of affordability issues for Canadians, but Bill’s first guest argues that this is the only solid plan to keep the economy in check… recession or no.
GUEST: Philip Cross, Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada
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The Provinces are asking Ottawa for more money for healthcare to bring the contribution ratio closer to the 50:50 that it used to be. Is it that simple?
GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO
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The Toronto Blue Jays axed manager Charlie Montoyo.
GUEST: Josh Goldberg, Baseball Journalist for TheScore
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The Assembly of First Nations is undergoing a “Quiet Revolution,” so says our guest, in light of RoseAnne Archibald of Taykwa Tagamou Nation’s reinstating as President of the AFN. Salaries, financial transactions, and federal money all are under review following Archibald’s unceremonious ousting as President over claims of harassment.
GUEST: Diane Francis, Editor at Large with the National Post
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Continuing with the January 6th Committee hearings, the committee acquired encrypted communications between the Proud Boys and Donald Trump’s associates.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question"
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The Canadian Medical Association made an appearance at the meeting of Canada’s Premiers in Victoria, as they discussed how to fix Canada’s crumbling healthcare system.
GUEST: Dr. Katherine Smart, President of the Canadian Medical Association
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GUEST: Brian Hogben, Broker for Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”
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Canada’s Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said he has tasked Canada’s major telecommunications networks with establishing a formal agreement to mitigate the damage of future outages.
Following a closed-door meeting with the CEO of Rogers and the heads of other telecommunications service providers on Monday, Champagne told reporters he’s given the group 60 days to consider emergency roaming, mutual assistance during outages, and building out a communication protocol to better inform the public and authorities of any emergencies.
Is it time to open up the market to other companies?
GUEST:Daniel Tsai, Lecturer of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto
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Canadian premiers presenting a united front in Victoria, as they demanded more health-care funding from Ottawa. How important is this funding to help the staffing crisis?
GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
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Why is it better for the health of the sport if The Open winner is not from the breakaway LIV Golf Series?
GUEST:Garry McKay, Journalist for Pro Shop Magazine and Hamilton Spectator. Past president and secretary/treasurer of Golf Journalists Association of Canada
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Guest: Michelle Eaton, Vice President of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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Topics Include: Rogers Outage Need for more telecommunications in Canada Patrick Brown update And more…
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing nations failed to find common ground Friday over Russia’s war in Ukraine and how to deal with its global impacts, leaving prospects for future cooperation in the forum uncertain.
GUEST: Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Director of the Indo-Pacific Program and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute
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Topics Include: Some Democrats frustrated with Biden Steve Bannon willing to testify in Jan. 6th hearing Will Trump run in 2024 And more…
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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GUEST: Andrew Perez is a Toronto-based public-affairs professional, freelance writer, and political activist. He volunteered on the Ontario Liberal Party’s central campaign team during the 2022 Ontario election
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The soap opera continues as Patrick Brown is trying to appeal the decision by the federal Conservative party to disqualify him from the contest to be its next leader. What does this mean for the leadership race?
GUEST:Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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Natural gas is the hottest commodity in the world right now. It’s a key driver of global inflation, posting price jumps that are extreme even by the standards of today’s turbulent markets — some 700 per cent in Europe since the start of last year, pushing the continent to the brink of recession. It’s at the heart of a dawning era of confrontation between the great powers, one so intense that in capitals across the West, plans to fight climate change are getting relegated to the back-burner.
In short, natural gas now rivals oil as the fuel that shapes geopolitics. And there isn’t enough of it to go around.
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
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A private group that is trying to bring the 2030 Commonwealth Games to Hamilton has officially submitted its proposal to the federal and provincial governments.
That confirmation came from Hamilton 2030 Commonwealth Bid Corporation spokesman Lou Frapporti, as he appeared before city councillors on Monday.
GUEST: Rich Gelder, President of the Hamilton Olympic Club and former candidate for Hamilton City Council
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Patrick Brown has been disqualification from running in the federal Conservative leadership race. How did this happen and was it done to ensure Poilievre becomes the new leader?
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected, available May 2022
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Canada became the first country to ratify Finland and Sweden's accession protocols to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday.
The move follows NATO leaders officially inviting the two nations to join the alliance during a summit in Madrid last week, and brings the two countries a step closer to becoming full NATO members.
GUEST:Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is being urged to extend an emergency measure that gives employees access to three days of paid sick leave amid new concerns of a rising wave of COVID-19 in the province.
The provincial Worker Income Protection Benefit program, first introduced in April 2021 during the Delta-driven wave of COVID-19 and extended amid the Omicron stage of the pandemic, is slated to end on July 31. There has been no formal indication from the Progressive Conservative government on whether the measure will be extended.
GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Lead with Kensington Gardens Long Term Care and Assistant Clinical Professor with McMaster University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
According to a pair of surveys done by the Bank of Canada, Canadians are worried inflation will stay high for the long term. How does this effect consumer confidence?
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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Russia declared victory in Luhansk but Ukraine captured tanks and regains territory elsewhere. Now that Putin’s captured Luhansk, what is his plan?
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Topics Include: July 4th holiday tragedy Gun laws & violence January 6th hearings And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Poilievre marches with anti-mandate protester PM’s Canada Day Message Canada’s Most Popular Former Prime Minister Poll And more…
GUEST: Dr. Lory Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Why could Canada be paying for the economic war against Russia for a long time to come?
Heather writes about it in the Toronto Star….Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star
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Dispelling the myths around the benefits of drug price controls.
GUEST: Richard C. Owens is a Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
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“Freedom” groups protesting pandemic public-health measures are at it again. Should we be concerned about the movement gathering for Canada day at Parliament hill?
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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The Ontario NDP has named a longtime Toronto MPP as its interim leader and has postponed its decision on setting a date for party members to choose a replacement for former leader Andrea Horwath.
The New Democrats' provincial council met Tuesday evening and chose Peter Tabuns to serve as the party's interim leader, following Horwath's election night resignation.
GUEST: Peter Tabuns, Interim Leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Toronto-Danforth
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Air Canada is planning to reduce its flights in July and August, according to a statement from the company’s president, as the airline continues to deal with “customer service shortfalls.”
Travel was inconvenient before Air Canada’s announcement, so how much worse can it get?
ALSO: Germany hopes to import LNG from Canada to speed transition away from Russian fuel
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
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On Tuesday, Ms. Hutchinson, 26, described what she saw and heard that day to the U.S. House of Representatives committee that is investigating what happened and the threat it posed to the U.S. system of governance.
Her testimony gave new shape to the dalliance with anti-democratic rebellion that marked Mr. Trump’s final days in office, describing a chaos and fear inside the White House that mirrored the storming of barricades less than three kilometres away.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question
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What is Canada’s role as NATO embarks on the greatest overhaul since the Cold War?
GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute
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A conspiracy influencer based in British Columbia, has proclaimed herself the “Queen of Canada”. How is Romana Didulo influence harming her subjects?
GUEST: Christine Sarteschi, Associate Professor of Social Work & Criminology with Chatham University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
In the wake of the ongoing freedom movement, are Canadians becoming flag-phobic?
GUEST: Derek Foster, Associate Professor in Brock University’s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film with Brock University
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The Amstor shopping mall has for years been the modest commercial heart of Kremenchuk, the place where residents of this quiet mid-sized city in central Ukraine came to buy everything from cheap electronics to fresh fish. It was where teenagers went to hang out on weekends.
By Monday evening, Amstor was a smouldering mess after it was struck by a pair of Russian missiles. At least 16 people were killed, a number that was expected to continue to rise as an unknown number of shoppers were believed to be buried beneath the wreckage of the shopping centre’s roof, which collapsed on top of them as they tried to escape the blazing mall.
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen
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The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says that Ontario’s housing is among the least affordable in the country right now, competing with British Columbia for the top spot — and that it’s likely to get worse unless major new policy changes occur at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. In order to try to restore housing prices to the level of affordability last seen around 2003-04 (meaning a home price of around $500,000), Ontario would need to, by 2030, build 1.85 million homes above and beyond what’s already planned — a substantially larger number than the 1.5 million target recommended by Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force Report.
GUEST: Aled Ab Iorwerth, Deputy Chief Economist for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
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Topics Include: Conservative MP’s free to attend “freedom” protests Former Tory Senate leader worried about the future of the party Steps to strengthen oversight of the RCMP And more….
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Three weeks after winning his second election, Premier Doug Ford unveiled his new cabinet on Friday morning — though it largely leaves some of his most trusted ministers from the previous government in their existing posts. There are few enough changes that it’s tempting to speculate that Ford might not have bothered with a cabinet shuffle at all if Christine Elliott, his former health minister and deputy premier, hadn’t forced the issue by choosing not to run again.
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies (liberal strategist)
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How is the world reacting to the U.S abortion ruling?
Reggie is in Nashville following the Roe story.
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include:Adam's special announcement, New feature on Apple watch, Google is listening, Fitbits new sleep assessment & more.
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Premier Doug Ford unveils his new cabinet today. John Best of the Bay Observer joins the show to discuss who’s in and out and the biggest concerns facing the new cabinet moving forward.
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
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With enough support, could Ukraine finally defeat Russia?
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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The Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades.
The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the measure, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in the country. The bill will next go to the House for a vote before it can be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Will it pass in the House of Representatives and are they finally listening to the calls for control?
GUEST: Jason Opal, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies with McGill University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
There has been plenty of post-election chatter about the future of the Ontario NDP and Liberals, but what about the Ontario Green Party. Is it time for them to look at new possibilities?
GUEST: Steve Paikin, Host of ‘The Agenda’ on TVO
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Canadian authorities are preparing for the imminent return of the anti-vaccine convoy, warning that increasingly violent rhetoric from extremist groups aligned with the movement could pose a threat to politicians, police, and civilians.
On Wednesday, these anti-vaccine groups kicked off a summer of planned protest with an event inside Canada’s Parliament buildings in Ottawa, supported by sitting Members of Parliament. Outside those buildings is where the so-called “freedom convoy” took over Canada’s capital for several weeks this past winter, setting off similar movements across the globe.
Protests planned for Canada Day, July 1, already have Canadian policing agencies worried, according to an intelligence assessment shared with VICE World News.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist
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RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki pressed the Mounties to disclose the weapons used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting to help advance the Liberal government’s gun-control legislation, the public inquiry into the April, 2020, killings was told.
The Mass Casualty Commission released supporting documents and notes Tuesday involving a conversation between Commissioner Lucki and RCMP officers overseeing the Nova Scotia investigation into the murder of 22 people by a lone gunman.
GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail
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GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
There was no stopping Doug Ford’s re-election juggernaut.
But over the next four years, the populist premier will face roadblocks of his own making.
On the campaign trail, he stuck to his road map of promising all things to all people to keep on the path to power. Now, he is just as likely to fritter away that hard-won mandate.
Campaigning and governing are different skill sets. As Ford prepares to unveil a new cabinet Friday, he will be judged by his own post-pandemic promises.
How does he plan on taming the worst inflation in over 40 years?
GUEST: Michael Veall Professor and Academic Director of the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre with McMaster University
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Statistics Canada says the annual inflation rate skyrocketed to its highest level in nearly 40 years in May, fueled by soaring gas prices.
The agency says its consumer price index in May rose 7.7 per cent compared with a year ago, its largest increase since January 1983 when it gained 8.2 per cent and up from a 6.8 per cent increase in April this year.
What does the federal government need to do to help Canadians fight inflation?
GUEST: David Macdonald, Senior Economist with The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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U.S. state election officials on Tuesday recounted how supporters of Donald Trump threatened, insulted and harassed them, sometimes turning up at their homes, after they refused to help the former president overturn his 2020 election defeat.
The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters heard how a flood of calls and emails paralyzed operations of the Arizona House of Representatives speaker’s office.
The committee shifted its focus on Tuesday to the Republican’s pressuring of state officials as he sought to remain in the White House despite losing the November 2020 presidential election.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question"
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Virtual House of commons Canada investing billions to modernize North American defenses PC Federal leadership & more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Reaction to Mayor Fred Eisenberger not seeking re-election, will she run for Mayor of Hamilton?
GUEST: Andrea Horwath, MPP for Hamilton Centre and former NDP Leader
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The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) says the province is facing an increase in the rate of farmland loss as urban sprawl swallows up land previously used for growing.
The farmer-led organization called on municipal governments and the province Saturday to better protect farmland and food production when planning new developments to ease the housing crisis.
GUEST: Drew Spoelstra, Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture
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The results of the 2022 Ontario Provincial election were a devastating setback for the New Democrats, involving a loss of votes, seats and support among important demographic groups.
As the Ontario NDP party try to gain more support, what are their main challenges?
GUEST: Sam Routley, PhD Student of Political Science with Western University
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GUEST: Mike Walker, Former Hamilton Tiger-Cats Defensive tackle and 1986 Grey cup champion, 2022 CFL Hall of Fame inductee
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Folding phones are the future, metaverse isn't going away, Tesla cybertruck & more.
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ottawa unveils billions to help Canadians battered by inflation Niagara Falls MPP joins list of those considering leadership of Ontario NDP Eisenberger says he’ll make an announcement Monday Bob Bratina runs again for Hamilton mayor And more…
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
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The federal government is poised to amend the Criminal Code provision on the use of a controversial defence known as self-induced extreme intoxication following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling last month.
Justice Minister David Lametti put a bill on notice on Wednesday night to amend the law. That means the soonest the government could table the amendment in the House of Commons would be Friday.
What exactly does this mean?
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
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Timothy Caulfield has spent the pandemic battling bunk science and lies.
The course of COVID-19 has seen more Canadians spiral into the realm of conspiracy theories and it’s kept the misinformation expert busy.
So busy, he says, he felt he didn’t have time to really delve into one, particular conspiracy theory that was gaining traction: the racist lie that there is a co-ordinated effort to replace white people with immigrants, in what is known as the Great Replacement theory.
GUEST: Tim Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and a Professor with the Faculty of Law and School of Public Health at the University of Alberta
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For the second time in four years, the Hamilton Bulldogs are the alphas of the Ontario Hockey League. They have punched their ticket to the Memorial Cup.
Avery Hayes had a hat trick and Mason McTavish scored two goals as Hamilton beat the Windsor Spitfires 6-1 Wednesday night at FirstOntario Centre to win the OHL Championship in seven games.
GUEST: Steve Staios, President and General Manager of the Hamilton Bulldogs
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Border communities in Canada are calling on the federal government to drop the ArriveCan mobile application at the land border, which they say will prevent Americans from visiting their friendly neighbour to the north during the peak tourism season.
GUEST: Jim Diodati, Mayor of Niagara Falls
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New polling suggests Liberal and New Democrat voters think Jean Charest or Patrick Brown would make the best leader of the federal Conservative party.
The data released by the research firm Leger is based on an online survey it did of 1,528 Canadian adults last weekend using computer-assisted web interviewing technology.
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected - Available May 2022
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
The Canadian government is dropping the requirement that domestic and outbound international travelers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, effective June 20. However, all re-entry requirements will remain in effect, and all passengers will continue to have to wear face masks.
Is it time to move on from the pandemic?
GUEST: Dr. Brian D. Lichty, Associate Professor in Pathology and Molecular Medicine with the McMaster Immunology Research Centre
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For the first time in more than a decade, Ontario’s NDP will have a new face leading the party at Queen’s Park after MPPs selected a interim leader to take over the reins from Andrea Horwath.
A senior NDP source confirmed to Global News the party’s caucus decided to recommend Peter Tabuns, a long time MPP, as interim leader.
GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer
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A bear market, rising interest rates and other financial worries is giving new worries for those who have invested in cryptocurrency.
How has the crypto crash exposed the lies hiding behind the sector?
GUEST: Mark Yamada, President & CEO of PUR Investing Inc
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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says it was "unacceptable" that a Canadian representative attended an event hosted at the Russian Embassy, and has vowed it won't happen again.
ALSO: New Indo-Pacific Advisory Committee
GUEST: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
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Doug Ford hasn’t even named a new cabinet, fresh off his majority election victory, and one of the biggest challenges his new government will face is already staring him down.
Four of the five major education unions have taken the first step to start bargaining, ahead of their contracts expiring on Aug. 31.
GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
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North American equities tumbled on Monday, with the S&P 500 confirming it is in a bear market, as fears grow that the expected aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve would push the economy into a recession.
Should we be worried?
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ottawa’s move to halt random COVID-19 testing for Canada’s airports Brown says he won’t run for the Conservatives if Poilievre wins Charest accuses Poilievre campaign of inflating membership numbers And more….
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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The pain at the pump continues as gas prices reached record levels on Saturday. How much more can Canadians take?
ALSO: Pipelines unclogged, but Canadian crude now faces U.S. Gulf Coast glut
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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The House Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol will hold its second hearing today starting at 10AM ET. The panel is expected to provide evidence that former President Donald Trump was scheming to overturn President Biden’s victory, despite being told there was no voter fraud that could have tipped the 2020 Election. Two more hearings are scheduled for this week one on Wednesday at 10AM ET and the other on Thursday at 1PM ET.
ALSO: Bipartisan group of senators announce agreement on gun control
GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Online shopping, universal USB charger, Apple update & FIDO Feature, EVs& more.
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: How Doug Ford won the election Ford preps for Cabinet selection Who will be the new NDP leader? And more….
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
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Inflation is at a 30-year high. Borrowing costs are rising. Supply chains are still disrupted. A war without apparent end is raging in Europe.
The auto-industry powerhouse of the southern Ontario manufacturing sector, and the industry worldwide, are spending record amounts of money reinventing themselves for the electric vehicle (EV) revolution.
They are doing so at a time of rising costs for scarce raw materials, higher interest payments on corporate debt, and inflation’s negative impact on consumer sentiment.
Which begs the question, are the automakers spending too much too soon on the EV revolution?
GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association
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The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Donald Trump‘s effort to overturn the 2020 election opened Thursday’s prime-time hearing declaring the attack an “attempted coup” that put “two and half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.”
what are the key takeaways from last nights hearing?
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has begun the process of selecting his new inner circle of cabinet ministers as his government prepares to potentially recall the legislature for a brief summer sitting in order to pass the 2022-23 provincial budget.
Insiders with the Progressive Conservative party have been given a 10-day timeline for Ford’s team to select a new cabinet before the Premier’s Executive Council is sworn in by Ontario Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Dowdswell.
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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Heather Scoffield joins us to discuss her latest op-ed in the Toronto start titled: “Justin Trudeau’s progressive values are great, but they won’t help guarantee economic prosperity on their own.”
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star
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Two more major champions are reportedly defecting from the PGA Tour to the new LIV Golf Invitational Series.
They might not be the last high-profile golfers to join the breakaway circuit being fronted by two-time Open Championship winner Greg Norman and financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
What do we know so far about LIV Golf?
GUEST: Greg Brady, Host of Toronto Today 5:30-9am on AM 640 Toronto
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t saying whether he supports President Joe Biden’s decision to exclude Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from this week’s Summit of the Americas.
Trudeau acknowledges that some of the countries in the Western Hemisphere are “less like-minded” than others.
But he says they all share a number of urgent issues, such as migration pressures, climate change and recovering fully from the COVID-19 pandemic.
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
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A new survey has found that Canadians are feeling stressed from soaring inflation, particularly from higher grocery prices.
The FP Canada Financial Stress Index survey says that 38 per cent of respondents cite money as being the biggest source of stress for the fifth time in eight years, nearly twice as much as personal health, work or relationships.
GUEST: Eddie Sheppard, Vice President of Insights with Leger
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Why is Pierre Poilievre and some other Conservative leadership candidates flirting with a World Economic Forum conspiracy theory linked to the ‘Freedom Convoy’?
Full article HERE.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist
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GUEST: Michelle Eaton, VP of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
In the wake of a mass shooting or terrorist attack there is inevitably a lot of commentary on why this happened, what it means, and how we can stop the next one before it occurs. ‘Experts’ tell us they have a plan/model/algorithm which, if used, can provide our protectors with ways to identify and forestall these violent actors. But do they really have such a plan? Have a listen as Borealis’ Phil Gurski weighs on on this issue.
Full article HERE.
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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The Canada men's national team went on strike on Sunday, forcing a friendly with Panama to be called off.
The team's refusal to play revolves around a dispute with the country's football association, Canada Soccer.
Canada have qualified for the 2022 World Cup, only the second time they have reached the men's finals.
The players released a letter accusing Canada Soccer of "disrespecting" the team in relation to negotiations around World Cup prize money.
GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Sports Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the actions of Chinese pilots toward Canadian planes taking part in a United Nations mission "irresponsible and provocative."
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Trudeau condemned the actions of China toward Canadian planes that were taking part in a multilateral UN mission over the Pacific Ocean to enforce sanctions against North Korea.
GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
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Bill enlists the help of Dr. Lori Turnbull to take a look at the gun control debate here in Canada and if a national handgun ban would accomplish the goals we're told it would. Together they tackle this topic and more.
Guest: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Mass shootings and gun control are two of the top stories in the US with seemingly no end in sight for either. Reggie Cecchini joins the show to give an inside line on what's happening just south of the border.
Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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An ardent liberal has words for his party after their very poor showing in the recent Ontario election. Vito Sgro joins the show to share his thoughts on what happened to the party and where it needs to go.
Guest: Vito Sgro, Chartered Professional Accountant, former Mayoral candidate in 2018, and Liberal Candidate for Flamborough-Glanbrook in the 2021 election
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Tim Hortons app is under the scrutiny of privacy, starlink Satellite Systems, new feature coming in a Tesla, hack of the week & more.
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GUEST: Malcolm Kelly, Author and former journalist
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ontario Progressive Conservatives win another majority government NDP remain official opposition Steven Del Duca & Andrea Horwath resign And more….
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
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Voter turnout at a record low: 43.41%, over 58% of Ontarians didn't vote.
How accurate was the polling vs. results?
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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A Ukrainian MP pleads with the West to follow through on promises of support as this weekend marks 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Is Ukrainian support fading ?
GUEST: Diane Francis, Editor at Large with the National Post
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
It’s election day, but many Ontarians feel the election is already settled and that could lead to low turnout due to the lack of interest.
Could that turn the tables?
Why is it important for everyone to go out and vote?
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of “Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected” available now.
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Topics Include: The West must help Ukraine end Russia’s Black Sea blockade Russian forces reach centre of key Ukrainian city; U.S. to send precision rockets to Kyiv And more
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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I refuse to grow complacent even as our government refuses to do anything about the number of mass shootings in this country.
According to CNN, Tuesday's shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, marks at least the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. Other news services say it's only the 27th.
I haven't gotten jaded or cynical about mass shootings — but it's getting harder
Read to full article HERE.
ALSO:Brian's new book “Free the Press The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It” is available now
GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question”
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The Bill Kelly Podcast:
We can safely predict that the Liberal Party will improve its standing in the Ontario Legislature after the June 2 election. But that may not save its leader, Steven Del Duca. And the party itself could be in serious trouble.
Pretty much everyone agrees that Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will form the next government. So what does the future look like for the other two main parties?
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies (liberal strategist
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According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, in one year of the pandemic, Canada lost 40 news outlets and 1,200 permanent jobs in media.
This is an issue that Canadians of all political leanings seem to agree upon. The poll found that no matter their age, where they lived, or their federal voting intention, respondents believe in the importance of local news.
According to the poll, a majority of Canadians believe it’s important that their local news outlets survive and think web giants should share revenue with media organizations.
GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age
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Wanting a proper work-life balance, especially for those working from home due to the pandemic, is easier said than done. How can we address those concerns?
GUEST: Steven Logan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
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The Canadian Armed Forces has failed to stamp out sexual misconduct and should permanently move the prosecution of criminal code sexual offences to the civilian system and turn over harassment complaints to the human rights commission, a report by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour says.
Ms. Arbour also calls on Ottawa to review the future of Canada’s military colleges, and appoint an external monitor to track the progress of her report’s recommendations. It is the third report in seven years to give the federal government similar suggestions to address the military’s toxic culture and widespread sexual misconduct. The other two were also written by retired justices of the top court.
GUEST: Walter Callaghan, PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology with the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto
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The federal government is moving to freeze the sale of handguns in Canada as part of its latest effort to reform the country’s gun laws.
The freeze could be implemented as early as this fall, and would prevent the purchase, sale, transfer or importation of handguns, though individuals who already legally own handguns could still use them.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist
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The maelstrom of headlines and daily chaos has kept our exhausted brains from registering what this government is doing beneath the waves — they are destroying this province, Lorraine Sommerfeld writes.
She joined us to discuss her latest Op-ed piece in the Hamilton Spector.
Read the article HERE.
GUEST: Lorraine Summerfield, Author and Columnist with The Hamilton Spectator
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This June, the album "School's Out" celebrates its 50th anniversary. Dennis Dunaway is a founding member & original bass guitarist for Alice Cooper. He wrote some of the band’s most notable hits including ‘School’s Out. Dennis joins the show to discuss the history of the band and the song
GUEST: Dennis Dunaway, Founding member & original bass guitarist for Alice Cooper
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Topics Include: Bill 96 Could Canada’s gun laws change soon? The Liberal-NDP deal And more….
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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The continuing surge in consumer prices has forced central banks to pivot abruptly in recent months from attempting to stimulate the economy to trying to cool it down. It’s also forcing central bankers to do some soul-searching.
The Bank of Canada, like many central banks overseeing advanced economies, was slow to start raising rates, even as it became clear that high inflation was not going to be a temporary blip. That now looks like a costly error. It has dented central bank credibility and forced policy makers to slam on the brakes, upending financial and housing markets and increasing the likelihood of a recession.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Topics Include: Gun rights Latest out of Texas Election angle And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: John Deere has moved one step closer to be fully autonomous farming, Googles ai-powered interview warm up, Fitness data & more.
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GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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The Bank of Canada will hike its overnight rate by 50 basis points on June 1, according to all 30 economists polled by Reuters, who see interest rates at least a half-point higher by year-end than predicted just one month ago.
GUEST: Brian Hogben, Principal and Owner of Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”,
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Last week of election COVID-19 not on candidates minds 3 Ontario political parties pledge to end for-profit long-term care And more…
GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer
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The year got off to a terrifying start with the invasion of Ukraine, a democracy, by Russia, an authoritarian regime, just a year after the US Capitol was stormed by those who wanted to prevent the peaceful transition of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. In Hungary, just a few weeks ago, autocrat Viktor Orbán was comfortably re-elected, despite every opposing party uniting forces as a coalition to try and defeat him.
These events, and many more, raise the question; is democracy on the decline globally? Objectively, the answer is clearly yes. But does Canadian public perception match this reality and do people think it matters to their lives?
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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The CFL and the CFL Players’ Association have reached a new tentative collective bargaining agreement, per sources.
The new deal includes a ratification bonus worth approximately $1.25 million, up from the $1 million the league offered late Monday evening. It is subject to a player vote from the union membership.
GUEST: Justin Dunk, Founder of 3 Down Nation
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Conservative leadership candidates attacked their opponents’ ethics during the only official French-language debate, with Jean Charest, Pierre Poilievre and Patrick Brown highlighting past controversies, while also sparring over how to tackle the cost of living and protect the French language.
Was there any winners or losers?
GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
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Texas Gun Laws: 4 gun reform policies that advocates say could reduce violence Beto O'Rourke confronts Gov. Abbott on shooting Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school Gunman posted on social media about the attack & more
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Ontario's election is now one week away. How are the party leaders doing heading into the home stretch?
GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today
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GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
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The federal government announced that it has assembled almost $100 million in military aid for Ukraine — Canada's biggest single donation of military equipment to the country since the start of Russia's invasion.
The $98 million donation will include 20,000 155mm artillery shells — NATO's standard artillery shell — fuses and charge bags, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday.
Is it enough and what took them so long?
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Canada has become complacent and neglectful of national security and urgently needs to revamp its thinking to counter Russia’s aggression, China’s growing influence and the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada and the United States, according to a major new report.
ALSO: Gunman kills 19 children in Texas elementary school shooting
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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A “terrible tragedy” is unfolding across Canada, where 5.8 million people are living in food insecurity, says Maple Leaf Foods chief executive Michael McCain.
They do not have adequate access to food due to financial constraints, and the total has increased steadily over the past 15 years. That figure dropped slightly at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak with the rollout of government pandemic benefits, but is again on the rise, according to Statistics Canada.
GUEST: Mike von Massow, OAC Chair in Food System Leadership and an Associate Professor in Food Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Conservative party memberships soar as deadline looms in leadership race Poilievre shills conspiracy theories to sell memberships Trudeau attends Kamloops ceremony marking 1 year anniversary of unmarked graves And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that appears to have been caused by sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe.
Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emergencies department, told the Associated Press that the leading theory to explain the spread of the disease was sexual transmission at raves held in Spain and Belgium. Monkeypox has not previously triggered widespread outbreaks beyond Africa, where it is endemic in animals.
Should we be concerned?
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University
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Topics Include: U.S. would use force to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion, Biden says Biden hails Japanese PM 2022 midterms Biden’s approval drops And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Improvements to Google Maps, appliances skyrocketing your energy bill, ZTE and Huawei getting banned in Canada.
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Doug Ford and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have been artfully dodging the press and public by refusing interviews and appearances in what Steve Paikin calls a “peek-a-boo election campaign.”
GUEST: Steve Paikin, Host of ‘The Agenda’ on TVO
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After years of pressure from cyber security experts, the Canadian government has banned the use of Huawei and ZTE equipment in 5G infrastructure.
GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
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How are the mid-term election primaries going in the United States? What are the effects it will have on the elections at the end of the year?
GUEST: Brian J. Karem Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question",
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast with guest host Shiona Thompson:
Polling trends and predictions post Ontario leaders debate.
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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Op Ed in The Conversation 4 ways Doug Ford has changed the province’s politics
GUEST: Mark Winfield, author of the Op Ed. Political Scientist and Professor of Environmental Studies with York University.
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A new study from American computer software security giant McAfee found “almost all parents worldwide recognize their role as their child’s online protector but reveals gap between intent and effort.” Link to the press release by McAfee.
GUEST: Sachin Puri, Vice President of Marketing at McAfee
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Polling trends and predictions post Ontario leaders debate.
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrived Tuesday in St. John's, N.L., to begin a three-day Canadian tour that will largely focus on reconciliation with Indigenous people.
Does this effort mean anything?
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director of the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University
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Economists are predicting that Canadian home prices will fall as much as 20 per cent this year as higher interest rates begin to hit the country’s booming real estate market.
Mortgage rates are expected to climb again as the Bank of Canada aggressively hikes interest rates to deal with runaway inflation. Economists expect higher borrowing costs will lead to a significant price drop in some of the hottest markets.
GUEST: Lou Piriano, President of the Realtor Association of Hamilton/Burlington
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The leaders of Ontario’s four main political parties faced off on Monday night, debating a series of topics including healthcare, affordability and the environment.
PC Leader Doug Ford and Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca clashed several times during the debate, exchanging jibes over their respective government records. Ford has been premier since 2018, while Del Duca sat in previous Liberal cabinets.
GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today
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A racist ideology seeping from the internet's fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Most of the victims were Black.
Ideas from the "great replacement theory" filled a racist screed supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old accused of targeting Black people in Saturday's rampage. Authorities were still working to confirm its authenticity.
So what is the great replacement theory?
GUEST: Dr. David Hofmann, Associate Professor of Sociology with the University of New Brunswick and a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS)
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Google, one of the web giants at the heart of the federal government’s online news bill, says the legislation could lower the quality of journalism in Canada, contributing to a worrying spread of misinformation online.
GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Conservative Leadership candidates Abortion rights Brown says he’ll bring new Canadians to Conservative Party And more…
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Several grassroots New Democrats say they’re gearing up to throw out longtime Leader ANDREA HORWATH if she doesn’t deliver on June 2.
Queen’s Park Observer spoke with seven NDP sources — including current and former members, staff and organizers — who say there’s an organized grassroots push in the works to pressure Horwath to step down if she fails to form government, or worse, loses the Official Opposition status they managed to secure with 40 seats in 2018. The sources were granted anonymity in order to speak candidly and because they fear repercussions.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer
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Topics Include: 10 dead in mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket Finland to apply to join NATO leaders Republicans and Democrats alike go after Mastriano in Pennsylvania governor’s race
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: iPods update, RBC is helping children understand the value of money, a mini drone called pixieand more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Latest in Ukraine/Russia war: Putin says West is triggering a global economic crisis Russia threatens to retaliate as Finland seeks NATO membership ‘without delay’ Canada boosting NATO military role And more
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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A group of Canadian gymnasts has launched a class-action lawsuit against Gymnastics Canada and six affiliated provincial organizations, alleging the sport’s governing bodies turned a blind eye to years of physical, sexual and psychological abuse by coaches and other officials.
The proposed class action, filed Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court, alleges that Gymnastics Canada presided over an abusive culture in which athletes were subjected to inappropriate and sexualized touching from coaches, pushed into dangerous eating disorders and regularly subjected to threats and humiliation.
GUEST: Dr. Carla Edwards, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences with McMaster University and High-Performance Mental Health Advisor for both Swimming Canada & Cycling Canada
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Brayden Point scored at 18:04 of overtime as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Thursday to force a seventh and deciding game in their first-round playoff series.
GUEST: Nick Alberga, Freelance Hockey Analyst and Broadcaster
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Mayor's Town Hall with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger
Topic include: Road safety, Big changed could be in story for Main Street, council votes to support ban on hate symbols and more.
GUEST: Mayor Fred Eisenberger
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Throughout its tenure, the PC government has undergone significant changes in policy, appearance and general tone. A 2018 populist movement has seemingly shifted to the moderate PC coalition of old.
So what does Ford’s shift to the center say about the longevity of populism?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Sam Routley, PhD Student of Political Science with Western University
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The six candidates for the Conservative leadership squared off in Edmonton Wednesday night in a debate that showcased their differing visions for the future of the party, and also what they’re currently watching on Netflix?
GUEST: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent, Global News
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The United States Senate failed to pass a bill guaranteeing abortion rights across the country, leaving the fate of Roe v. Wade once again at serious risk of being overturned.
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Efforts to remove content online is essentially ‘Whack-a-Mole’. New items are posted as quickly – or even more quickly – than old items are removed. Do we really want to play this game with terrorists?
What do we do with online extremism?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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GUEST: David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontario's with Disability Act Alliance
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Health-care, housing and highways were the major topics Ontario’s main political party leaders sparred over on Tuesday as they squared off for the first time during the campaign in a debate about northern issues.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath — joined on stage for the first time by Green party Leader Mike Schreiner — offered their own solutions for the northern region and attacked each other over their records and vision for the province’s future.
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected available May 2022
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The 2022 election could possibly be the most important for Ontario’s environment in modern era, and its impact may echo for generations to come.
This government’s environmental credentials, notably its recent investments in “greening” the steel sector and in electric vehicle manufacturing, have figured prominently in its messages.
This focus comes as something of a surprise to those familiar with the Ford government’s record on environmental issues, which has moved the province’s approach to environmental problems backwards by half a century or more.
Read the full Op-ed In the Conversation HERE.
GUEST: Mark Winfield, Political Scientist and Professor of Environmental Studies with York University
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Russia pummelled the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments as Ukraine’s foreign minister appeared to suggest the country could expand its war aims.
With the war now in its 11th week and Kyiv bogging down Russian forces and even staging a counteroffensive, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba seemed to indicate that the country could go beyond merely pushing Russia back to areas it or its allies held on the day of the Feb. 24 invasion.
GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University
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GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Who has the strongest message so far and why?
Liberals: Ontario can be a place to grow, if we make the right choices.
PC: Only Doug Ford and the Ontario PC’s will get it done.
NDP: They broke it, we fix it
Greens: Our Green vision for Ontario focuses on three pillars – Jobs, People, Pleanet
GUEST: Dr. Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Ryerson University
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Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country's biggest patriotic holiday Monday without a major new battlefield success in Ukraine to boast of, as the war ground on through its 11th week with the Kremlin's forces making little or no progress in their offensive.
While Western analysts in recent weeks had widely expected Putin to use the holiday to trumpet some kind of victory in Ukraine or announce an escalation, he did neither. Instead, he sought to justify the war again as a necessary response to what he portrayed as a hostile Ukraine.
ALSO: Russian satellite TV shows a Ukraine message: 'blood on your hands'
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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In every Ontario election poll that's publicly available, the number one concern of voters is the rising cost of living. What realistic actions can be taken by the government to lower those costs?
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Trudeau makes an unannounced visit to Ukraine and re-opened the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv Poilievre, Charest trade barbs in Conservative leadership’s first unofficial debate Where the Ontario leaders are on the campaign trail And more….
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Leah joins Bill to discuss April's job numbers with a focus on working women and mothers!
GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Topics Include: Biden blasts Roe v Wade draft First lady Jill Biden makes unannounced trip to Ukraine Senate will vote on abortion bill next week And more…
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Netflix password sharing, drones, and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ontario’s election: PCs open campaign with 7 point lead Campaign platforms CPC leadership debate
GUEST: John Best, President, The Bay Observer
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Last Saturday, President Biden paid tribute to journalists at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.
The dinner was quite the event. It celebrated journalism instead of calling us "fake news" and featured a president who is willing to sit and take a few jokes at his expense instead of one who refused to attend and instead hid out in the White House and called us "the enemy of the people."
But what about free speech? Sure, the night celebrated it — but it almost feels like we're celebrating the passing of a relative we loved from afar.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question’ Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It.
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Like a boogeyman to scare children, stagflation is rolled out every now and again by economic prognosticators to warn of how awful things can get if we're bad. Perhaps that's why many economists don't seem to be taking the threat seriously.
Similar to the response after warning of inflation in 2022, most financial commentators have been saying that the threat of stagflation — an unusual combination of a stagnant economy and steady inflation — is small.
But U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not seem as confident this week as he has been in the past.
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is again vowing to protect abortion rights in Canada, but the Liberals have not yet acted on several commitments made on the issue in last year’s election, such as new rules on access to the service, or provided a timeline on their implementation.
Since the bombshell Monday report that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn abortion rights, Liberal cabinet ministers have been quick to state their support for a person’s right to choose an abortion and access the health care service.
ALSO: Ford vows to keep Ontario abortion law ‘exactly the same’
GUEST: Dr. Gail Robinson, Author and Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynecology with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
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Russian rockets hit dozens of targets across Ukraine on Tuesday in a fierce intensification of the war that appeared aimed at cutting off Ukraine’s supply of weapons from NATO countries.
The strikes included three in Lviv and the surrounding area, where missiles damaged three power substations and knocked out electricity in parts of the city, according to mayor Andrei Sadovy. Two pumping stations were also hit and trains heading into Lviv were stopped. Ukrainian Railways said the substations were part of the railway station’s infrastructure.
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen in Lviv
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Election Campaign Topics: Ontario Liberals pledge to build, repair schools w/ $10 billion by cancelling highway 413 Public funding for catholic schools LTC platform Liberals promise to cut all transit fares to $1 until 2024 And more
GUEST: Stephen Del Duca, Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
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What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity. The book—which tells the untold story behind the now infamous WE Charity Scandal—is written by lawyer and former WE Charity board member, Tawfiq Rangwala. He joined us on the Bill Kelly Show to discuss.
GUEST: Tawfiq Rangwala, Author of this book and former WE Charity board member
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
A U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion revealing that a majority of justices are in favour of striking down the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling is putting activists in Canada on high alert.
Carolyn Egan is a spokesperson for the Ontario Coalition for Abortion. While strong pro-choice sentiment exists across Canada, she said, activists should continue to guard against the potential erosion of abortion rights that might surface as a result of the impending decision in the U.S.
ALSO: Could abortion be criminalized in Canada? & Conservatives told not to comment!
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
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Energy ministers from European Union countries gathered to seek common ground on a Russian oil ban that’s expected to be part of the next round of sanctions against Russia’s war in Ukraine. In the U.S., officials are pledging more support to Ukraine’s military, including a massive $33-billion US military aid package awaiting congressional approval.
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Progressive Conservatives Pull Away from the Pack as Official Race Gets Underway says IPSOS Poll.
GUEST: Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs
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Stellantis will spend $2.8 billion (CAD $3.6 billion) to increase production of electric vehicles at two of its Canadian plants, the company said on Monday. The funding is a portion of the $35.5 Billion Stellantis dedicated to electric vehicles and new software over the next year in its push to move away from internal combustion engines and be carbon net zero by 2038.
But will this investment help make the vehicles more affordable for Canadians?
GUEST: Muhammed Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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Topics Include: Ukraine needs more weapons from Canada First civilian evacuated from Mariupol steel plant White House says no “proxy war”. And more
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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More than 15,000 residential construction workers are on strike over compensation and workers’ rights. It’s being called the biggest strike in the sector in 20 years, which could delay the construction of highrise and low-rise homes in the GTA.
On Sunday, workers in the GTA and other parts of Ontario covered by the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 183 went on strike. According to a press release from the local, workers in highrise forming, self-levelling flooring, house framing, tile installation, rail installation, and carpet and hardwood installation rejected their proposed settlements after asking for compensation increases to help offset the rising cost of living.
GUEST: Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Rolling Thunder protest in Ottawa Connection between Freedom Convoy & the Rolling Thunder Convoy Inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act CPC Leadership race Kicking off the provincial election campaigns And more…..
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Ontario party leaders were busy Saturday holding campaign events as the official start of the election period drew closer.
In Etobicoke, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford unveiled his campaign bus, the "Yes Express." The NDP also unveiled its election campaign bus, and Horwath introduced her party's 92-page election platform that included accelerated pharmacare, a freeze on income tax for some residents and hiring tens of thousands of health-care and education workers.
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University
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Topics Include: Pelosi visits Kyiv Civilians escape Mariupol Return to White House Correspondents dinner And more….
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Artificial Intelligence, smart technology, the metaverse and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:
Ottawa is bracing for the arrival of another convoy of protesters this weekend, just four months after the so-called “Freedom Convoy” began a weeks-long blockade of the capital’s downtown core.
The “Rolling Thunder Ottawa” event will see hundreds of bikers and other demonstrators march through downtown streets and stage several rallies on Parliament Hill starting Friday evening.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist
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Health Canada has given Canadian Blood Services the green light to lift specific restrictions on blood donations from men who have sex with men.
The federal regulator said in a news release Thursday it has now authorized a request from Canadian Blood Services to lift the restrictions around screening questions for men who have sex with men that banned them from donating blood for three months.
The move officially greenlights a policy change by the blood service that officials said is expected by Sept. 30, 2022.
Guest: Nathan Lachowsky, Research Director at CBRC and PhD Associate Professor, School of Public Health & Social Policy, Faculty of Human & Social Development, University of Victoria
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We didn’t really need the census to tell us that a rapidly aging workforce is a challenge.
The 2021 survey of Canada’s population released Wednesday shows us in stark terms that never before has our workforce been so old, and that dynamic is picking up steam.
Statistics Canada says 22 per cent of us are between the ages of 55 and 64, on the cusp of retirement — the highest proportion ever. For every 100 people in that age group, there were just 81 people aged 15 to 24, gearing up to take their places in the workforce.
With the slow train of aging coming at us, a solid combination of incentives, flexibility, technology and workplace culture could be a persuasive formula to offset the pressure.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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Mayor's Town Hall with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger
Topic include: Red Hill Valley Parkway inquiry, road safety, split vote by council NOT to end the vaccine mandate which could mean 500 staff will be let go, and more.
GUEST: Mayor Fred Eisenberger
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With the coming provincial budget and election, politicians and advocacy groups are outlining their respective priorities.
It’s an election — there will be mudslinging, gimmicky promises, and sometimes lofty or untested policy concepts without a price tag. So, what do businesses want?
It’s simple: Predictability. Rocco Rossi joins us to explain.
GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:
As the COVID-19 pandemic response slows, health units are now shifting focus to the School Immunization Catch-Up Program for students.
Typically, vaccinations are offered in school, but there was little opportunity to do so in the past two years.
The health unit says roughly half of the region's student population are behind on Hep B, HPV and meningococcal vaccines.
GUEST: Dr. Timothy Sly, Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus with the School of Population and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Ordering at your local Freshii may look a little different next time you stop in at the healthy fast-food alternative. The Toronto-based company has launched “Percy” a virtual cashier who takes your order and payment.
The virtual cashier is a SaaS technology platform which the company says is aimed at helping the restaurant industry grapple with its biggest crisis ever – staffing shortages. But some of those employees hired virtually appear to be working from Central America and the move is being criticized by labour groups.
GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author
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Ontario's Green Party is promising to tackle housing affordability by implementing a 20 per cent tax on domestic buyers who own multiple properties as part of its provincial election platform.
GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph
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Calling the warehousing of seniors in long-term care homes “one of the greatest mistakes” of the last century, Ontario’s Liberals are pledging a multibillion-dollar shift to caring for the elderly in their own homes as long as possible.
The $2-billion “home-care-first” plan would provide more supports to seniors who could move on to smaller, more-homestyle facilities when they need higher levels of care, Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca said in an interview Monday.
GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Co-Founder of Doctors For Justice in Long Term Care and Palliative Care Physician
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Russia accused NATO of creating a serious risk of nuclear war by arming Ukraine in a proxy battle as Washington and its allies met on Tuesday to pledge the heavy weapons Kyiv needs to achieve victory.
U.S. officials have shifted emphasis this week from speaking mainly about helping Ukraine defend itself to bolder talk of a Ukrainian victory delivering a blow to Russia’s ability to threaten its neighbors.
They have approved shipments of hundreds of millions of dollars in arms, including artillery and drones they held back from sending in earlier phases of the war.
GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University
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Despite the highly publicized blockades at Ontario’s Ambassador Bridge and Coutts crossing in Alberta, cross-border trade in Ontario and Alberta was up 16 per cent in February, compared to the same month last year, according to data from Statistics Canada.
And while some businesses were impacted by the blockades, the trade figures also raise questions about the government’s use of the Emergencies Act – a decision, in part, justified by “threats to (Canada’s) economic security” brought about by the blockades.
GUEST: Stewart Trew, Senior researcher and Director of the CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project
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Voter psychology: why are negative emotions the factor that seems to motivate the biggest turnaround?
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights at Abacus Data
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Health care and pocketbook matters dominate the top five issues that Ontarians say will help them determine how to cast their ballots in the upcoming provincial election, a new Ipsos poll has found.
ALSO: Key promises in the Ontario NDP’s 2022 election platform
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected….available May 2022
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The federal government has officially called for an independent public inquiry into its use of the Emergencies Act during the blockades and protests earlier this year.
GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Full Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of the book “ Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time”
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David is a part of a large three year project looking at hateful conduct in the Canadian military. He joins us to discuss the widespread systemic racism in the Canadian Armed Forces.
GUEST: Dr. David Hofmann, Associate Professor of Sociology with the University of New Brunswick and a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS)
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Topics Include: Canadians have now been added to Russia's "stop list" Conservatives peddle disinformation CPC Candidates stay clear of Ford And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Amid Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, nations have started re-evaluating their security policies. Sweden and Finland, for example, are clamouring to join NATO in the face of Russian aggression.
The war is a visible manifestation of the return of great power. Both Russia and China are carving out what they see as their natural spheres of interest.
In a world where co-operation has given way to competition and conflict, how will Canada approach the prospect of war?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Dr. Paul T. Mitchell is a professor of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College
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Inflation, the Emergencies Act and Pierre Poilievre are all contributing to Canadians’ nervousness about where they keep their cash
Read Heather Scoffield full Op-ed HERE.
GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star
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With Russian President Vladimir Putin claiming victory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, experts say the battle marks a critical turning point in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"For Russia, this would be the first major city that they have taken after 50 plus days of hard fighting," retired Maj.-Gen. David Fraser, a former commander of NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, told CTV's Your Morning on Thursday.
Russia has hoped to carve out a land bridge between itself and Crimea, the southeastern Ukrainian peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014. Fraser calls Mariupol "an important place for the Russians because it's the last piece of the puzzle they need for the land bridge between Crimea and Russia."
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Topics include: New one pedal driving system, social distancing from social media, Apple watch 8 and more!
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Topics Include: Pedestrian and traffic safety Hamilton Police and community agencies partner for new intervention team (HPS) are quashing the validity of a viral social media post insinuating a serial killer is targeting women in the city as well as in Halton and Niagara regions. more
GUEST: Town Hall with Police Chief Frank Bergen
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Weekly Ontario Political Roundup: Ipsos Poll: Provincial election race tightens Doug Ford’s pre-election promises Ontario Liberals pledge action on anti-racism Ford fires back at Liberals proposed handgun ban More
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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Buying a clunker has never been more stressful. Why? The pandemic boosted demand for cars. And at the same time, it helped spur a vehicle shortage by setting off a domino effect of supply-chain issues. That supply/demand combination has pushed the market to boom like never before: the average price of a used car has shot up 48% in the last year.
This week, The New Reality explores the wild ride of used cars sales – and how long this trend is likely to continue.
GUEST: Mike Drolet, Toronto Correspondent for Global National
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Gearing up for the CPC leadership race, Canadians know what to expect from Polievre and Charest but what about Dr. Leslyn Lewis, MP for Haldimand-Norfolk County?
GUEST: Leslyn Lewis, Candidate for CPC Leadership and Member of Parliament for Haldimand-Norfolk
Canada’s inflation rate reached 6.7% in March, up from 5.7% in February for a new three-decade high. Canadian consumers expected to make drastic spending cuts as prices skyrocket with stagnating wages. Is Canada headed nose first into a recession?
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University.
Housing affordability is at the forefront of Canadian minds with seemingly no end in sight. In extraordinary situations like this people look for every solution, and a piece in The Conversation suggests that co-operative housing may be the answer for Canadians.
GUEST: Margaret Kohn, Professor of political theory at the University of Toronto.
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The decision to end the federal mask mandate in the United States -- came with no warning, leaving millions caught off guard. It's facing criticism from some public health experts, and praise from people tired of mandates.
Should Canada follow suit?
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University
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Canada will send heavy artillery weapons to Ukraine as its land battle with Russia intensifies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday, calling Kyiv’s resistance to Moscow’s military assault a struggle for liberty and democracy.
He said Ukraine had requested heavy artillery because it matches the phase of the war that Kyiv is in now as Russia redoubles its efforts to secure eastern Ukraine.
Is Canada’s reply enough, and what took them so long?
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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The Canadian real estate industry is gearing up to fight Ottawa’s plan to ban a common home selling practice known as blind bidding.
The Liberal Party’s April 7 budget proposed to end blind bidding, in which competing buyers in a multiple-bid situation do not know what others are offering to pay for a home.
It has taken some of the blame for out-of-control competition during the pandemic’s real estate boom. Winning bids could sometimes be hundreds of thousands of dollars above the next highest offer.
But Canada’s national real estate association and other powerful industry groups oppose the federal plan, saying that ending blind bidding would not bring down prices and would deprive homeowners of the choice of how they want to sell their homes. Most sellers prefer blind bidding because they believe it can get them a higher price.
GUEST: Tim Hudak, CEO of OREA, Former Conservative Party leader of Ontario
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Topics Include: Everyone is using the word “Freedom” in this Conservative leadership race Patrick Browns pitch for selling Conservative party memberships more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Russian forces launched missile attacks on the western city of Lviv and pounded a multitude of other targets across Ukraine on Monday in what appeared to be an intensified bid to grind down the country’s defences ahead of an all-out assault on the east.
At least seven people were reported killed in Lviv, where plumes of black smoke rose over a city that has seen only sporadic attacks during almost two months of war and has become a haven for civilians fleeing the fighting elsewhere.
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen in Lviv
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Weekly US Politics: US NATO face new dilemma on Ukraine aid Biden requires US-made steel & iron for infrastructure CDC mask mandate for travelers Will Joe Biden travel to Ukraine?
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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Topics include: Cybertruck update, Elon Musk, the Hack of the week, the DeLorean EV and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ontario NDP and Liberal leaders are jockeying over who is best placed to stop Doug Ford from winning a second term as premier NDP not a choice on June 12th Doug Ford’s election strategy And more
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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Strict COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities across China are dragging down the world’s second-largest economy, threatening key growth targets and causing international knock-on effects at a time of worldwide instability.
Parts of Shanghai have been closed for more than two weeks now, with residents unable to leave their homes for any reason. Many have reported running out of food and other goods amid a supply chain crunch, as well as struggling to access non-COVID medical care – even for life-threatening conditions.
In a time of world instability, how is this lockdown causing a global ripple effect?
GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
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How hard is it to change people’s minds when it comes to vaccine willingness? Dr. Parminder Raina joins us to discuss the new study from McGill and McMaster and Universities.
GUEST: Dr. Parminder Raina, Professor in the Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University and the scientific director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging
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What are the economic consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine?
GUEST: Dan Ciuriak, Fellow-in-Residence with the C.D. Howe Institute
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Legers latest North American Tracker explored Canadians’ perspectives on the budget, including whether they think it is a step in the right or wrong direction, their perspectives on the amounts allocated to certain federal budget initiatives and more.
GUEST: Dave Scholz, Executive VP of Leger
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Does Canada have the labour pipeline to sustain recent EV investment?
GUEST: Jayson Myers, CEO of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he wants to make it easier for more Canadians to drive electric vehicles and he isn't ruling out nuclear power as a cleaner source of energy.
GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy
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GUEST: Adam Chambers, Conservative Deputy Shadow Minister of Finance
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Is Pierre Poilievre trumpifying the conservative movement? Does Jean Charest's idea of the CPC still exist? And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health says the sixth wave of COVID-19 could put 600 people in his province’s intensive-care units – more than triple the current number – and last another month-and-a-half, clouding the coming provincial election campaign.
Kieran Moore made the comments on Monday as he announced plans to distribute more antiviral drugs to combat COVID-19. He had not addressed reporters in a month, despite the sharply rising infections and hospital admissions that have followed Ontario’s move to lift mask rules and public-health restrictions in March.
Despite his grim predictions, Dr. Moore offered few new moves to combat the virus’s march, other than strongly recommending the wearing of masks in public indoor spaces. He dismissed calls for a return to mandatory masking in schools, saying children remained at low risk for severe disease, and that only two children were currently in ICUs.
GUEST: Allison Smith, Founder of Queen's Park Today
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Over a month into the invasion of Ukraine, Western sanctions are starting to have an impact on Russia’s economy, experts say.
Russia’s gross domestic product is estimated to shrink by 15 per cent by the end of the year, according to the International Institute of Finance.
If levels drop to this level, Russia will see its greatest recession since 1992, according to data from the World Bank. This would also be twice as severe as the 2009 recession.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Statistics Canada released a new report showing a 5.3% unemployment rate, the lowest they have reported since tracking unemployment in 1976. 73,000 jobs were added in March alone with the main driver being women over 55. Unequivocally good news, right? Except there are a few caveats to consider such as the oft low-paying gig economy, and some statistical oversight by StatsCan which brings the real unemployment rate to 7.2%.
GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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Russia has appointed a new General to lead their assault on Ukraine. Known for his brutal military record, Gen. Alexander Dvornikov is the so-called "Butcher of Syria." This move has military experts concerned that Putin is ready to keep the invasion going for months more, if not longer.
GUEST: Felix Light, Reporter for CBS News Radio in Istanbul
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Bill has a check of the goings-on in the United States including senators disrespecting the new Supreme Court appointee Justic Ketanji Brown, COVID concerns returning to states like Philadelphia where a mask mandate may be reinstated, President Biden’s attempt to legislate “ghost guns,” dropping numbers for the Democratic Party, and more warnings about Russia’s effect on US democracy.
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Medication through contact lenses, Amazon announcement, iPhone SOS, Vacuman is hiring and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Weekly look at politics w/ a general budget overview: Federal budget 2022 highlights: What you need to know about housing, defence and climate spending Canada needs $100B more annually to reach net-zero goal 4 things that will affect your pocketbook and more
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s says the federal budget was a “mixed bag”. President and CEO, Perrin Beatty joins the show to explain the statement he released yesterday.
ALSO: Canadian military budget will grow by $8B as policy review seeks to reset defence vision
GUEST: Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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The United Nations General Assembly suspended Russia from its human rights body on Thursday over the war in Ukraine, forcing Moscow to quit the body.
The vote to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council comes several weeks after the country invaded Ukraine, and just days after reports of a massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, just outside of Kyiv.
The vote count was 93 in favour of the resolution, 24 against and 58 abstentions.
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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As the Liberals prepare yet another pandemic-era federal budget, they need to figure out a way to balance promises targeting the rising cost of living with the volatility of an uncertain world, experts are warning.
Now three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than a month into Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, those risks are profound.
At the same time, the federal Liberals are also being pressed to both spend more on social programs such as dental care, child care and health care transfers, while also needing to build out the financial room to respond to whatever the next crisis will be.
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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As the U.S. rolls out a new wave of financial sanctions against Russia, some Americans seem to be very disconnected to the global impact of the war. Brian J. Karem, Political Commentator for CNN joins us to discuss his latest article in salon.com
Read the article HERE.
ALSO:Brian's new book “Free the Press The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It” is available now
GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question”
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There has been a recent outpouring of calls to make sport safer. Athletes are writing testimonials and letters across many sports over allegations of abuse, maltreatment and harm.
What needs to happen in the sport system to make this cultural shift?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Dr. Laura Misener is the Director of the School of Kinesiology at Western University
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Prominent Canadian conductor and artistic director Boris Brott has been killed in an alleged hit-and-run in Hamilton, Ont. on Tuesday.
Tributes began pouring in after Brott was identified as the victim fatally struck in the initial collision.
Brott was 78 and according to the OCM, leaves behind his wife, Ardyth, and three children Ben, Alexandra, and David.
GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor at the Harris Institute for Music, Longtime Hamilton Music Promoter
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What’s the relationship between Concussions and the risk of delayed neurodegenerative disease ie AD, PD and of course CTE. Dr. Carmela Tartaglia joins the Bill Kelly show to discuss that and more.
GUEST: Dr. Carmela Tartaglia, Marion and Gerald Soloway Chair in Brain Injury and Concussion Research and Co-director of the Memory Clinic with Toronto Western Hospital
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Ontario’s move in 2018 to raise the minimum wage reduced the racialized wage gap, particularly for women, amid rising employment, according to a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
When the $14-per-hour minimum wage was implemented in 2018, business lobbyists made dire predictions that it would lead to massive job losses. That simply didn’t happen. In fact, far from being a “job-killer,” wages grew in Ontario while total employment increased by 1.7 per cent in 2018 and by 2.8 per cent in 2019, according to the new report.
ALSO: Ontario promises October minimum wage increase to $15.50
GUEST: Sheila Block, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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A former U.S. Marine has been accused of raping and beating an American woman in Western Ukraine.
Ryan Michael Burke, 38, is being sought by Ukrainian and Polish police after the woman reported the alleged assault to authorities. The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her privacy, had traveled from the United States to Lviv, Ukraine, to volunteer as a medical worker.
ALSO: As atrocities in Bucha stir global horror, some Ukrainian refugees return home to Kyiv region
& What is it like helping civilians in a warzone?
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen in Lviv
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Outspoken Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased a giant stake in Twitter that makes him the largest outside shareholder in the social media stock, not long after criticizing the company for what he said was its failure to uphold the tenets of free speech.
GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
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At this year’s Grammy Awards, young artists like rappers Lil Nas X and Doja Cat and singer-songwriters Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo vied for top honors,
But could any of them compete with the Beatles?
The real point is that older music — not just the Beatles but anything released from the ‘50s all the way up to a few years ago — is gaining ground in an industry once defined by a Top 40 mindset of listening to the hottest new releases.
GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and Music Commentator
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Is Pierre Poilievre’s campaign attracting a different type of Conservative? NATO wants Canada to double military spending The 2022 Budget And more…
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Ukraine said on Saturday it had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.
As Russian troops regrouped for battles in east Ukraine, towns surrounding Kyiv bore scars of five weeks of fighting. Dead civilians laid scattered over streets, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russian forces of leaving behind mines.
ALSO: Can Russia’s Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?
GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University
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Topics Include: Biden cites economic gains Biden’s scotus nominee goes to a vote in committee tomorrow Biden rebuffed as US relations with Saudi Arabia and UAE hit new low
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: autonomous vehicles, This week in robot news, possible solar power station in space, Google Chrome updateand more!
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When the Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in two years earlier this month, it sent an unmistakable message to borrowers that the era of cheap money was coming to an end.
While economists expect the bank to gradually raise its rate another half-dozen times or so this year, there's a growing sense that the bank may need to start moving faster and more dramatically than anticipated to rein in inflation, which is already at its highest level in a generation.
GUEST: Brian Hogben, Principal and Owner of Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”
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Discount retailer Dollarama Inc .announced on Wednesday that price tags up to $5 will begin appearing on its store shelves in the coming year. Until now, Dollarama’s highest price point was $4.
GUEST: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include: Ontario opposition wants government to share plans for handling rising COVID cases Ontario staying the course on lifting mask mandates Provinces Science Advisory Table to be folded into Public Health Ontario And more
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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The President signed an executive order Thursday securing production of critical minerals used in high-capacity batteries, in a bid to reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese supply. He also touted tighter energy-efficiency standards for home appliances and billions of dollars of spending to retrofit older buildings.
Mr. Biden has already rejected calls from Republicans that he reverse his moratorium on new drilling leases on federal land and from Canada that he rescind his cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. The White House has said that it is looking only for short-term supplies, not to build long-term oil and gas infrastructure.
ALSO: Russians leave Chornobyl as fighting rages elsewhere
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Pope Francis has delivered a formal apology for the grave harm caused by Canada’s harrowing residential school system.
In a livestreamed audience with more than 170 Indigenous survivors, elders, knowledge keepers, youth and community leaders on Friday, he said he was “deeply grieved” by stories of abuse, hardship and discrimination he heard throughout the week.
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director at the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University
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The Liberal government’s deal with the NDP to keep them in power until 2025 comes with promises of a pair of health programs that estimates indicate could cost $13 billion combined per year.
While nothing is announced, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) costed the NDP’s pharmacare plan during the 2021 election at about $11 billion per year.
How much could the government’s new pharmacare and dental promises cost?
GUEST: Colleen Fuller, Health and Drug Policy Researcher
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Premier Doug Ford’s government has laid out a four-year plan to address Ontario’s housing crisis, including a slate of changes to municipal planning rules.
But the legislation tabled by Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark on Wednesday failed to implement many of the 55 recommendation his own Housing Affordability Task Force released in February.
Clark conceded that “perhaps the recommendations were a bit too bold for some communities,” forcing the Progressive Conservatives, who face voters in the June 2 election, to be more collaborative.
GUEST: Michael Collins-Williams, Chief Executive Officer of the West End Home Builders’ Association
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Latest on the Vatican trip by the Canadian indigenous delegation.
GUEST: Crystal Goomansingh, Europe Bureau Chief for Global News
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Canada is heading towards a potential sixth COVID-19 wave, experts say, as cases and hospitalizations have started to creep back up again across the country.
While average daily case counts have levelled off nationally, there continues to be regional variability across the country with several jurisdictions reporting increases, said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer in her latest weekly update on Friday.
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Tenured Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University and Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity with the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
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As the war in Ukraine drags on, Russian tankers carrying crude oil and petroleum products are increasingly disappearing from tracking systems. Where is all the oil going?
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
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Topics Include: Ontario announces plan for future pandemics Cracking down on foreign real-estate Doug Ford’s plan to tackle home prices is coming Ontario permanently keeping speed limits on some highway sections at 110km/h And more
GUEST: Allison Smith, Founder of Queen's Park Today
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Russia announced Tuesday it will significantly scale back military operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, as the outlines of a possible deal to end the grinding war came into view at the latest round of talks.
The announcement was met with skepticism from the U.S. and others.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia cannot be trusted. Although the signals from the talks are “positive,” they ”can’t silence explosions of Russian shells,” he said in a video address.
Ukraine will continue negotiations, he said, but officials do not trust the word of the country that continues “fighting to destroy us.”
GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University
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The federal government will present a new budget on April 7, 2022.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the date of the budget during question period on March 29, in keeping with tradition. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, expectations are high about the vision the budget will offer to Canadians about the path ahead.
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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The province of Ontario and the federal government have signed a $13.2-billion agreement to lower the cost of child care in the province to an average of $10 a day by September 2025.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the joint announcement during a press conference in Brampton, Ont., on Monday.
GUEST: Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce
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Topics Include: State of the CPC Appeal to Canadians Direction of the party if elected What he thinks needs addressing And more
GUEST: Jean Charest, Leaderships Candidate for the Federal Conservative Party
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The Governments of Ontario and Canada reached a childcare agreement. This is important for businesses and something the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has repeatedly called for. At a time when labour shortages are having a significant impact on businesses, this is a watershed moment for women, families, and the economy.
Women’s participation in the labour market is a precondition to our economic recovery and future prosperity. While childcare had been a challenge for Ontario families long before the pandemic, the crisis had disproportionate impacts on women who took on most of the unpaid care that became necessary as schools and daycares closed.
GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy, Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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Topics Include: Ukraine and Russia’s latest Depiction of Lviv by some journalists And more
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen in Lviv
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Canada’s defence spending has been under fire recently for falling below the 2% of GDP mark that the NATO pledge requests. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called the target “arbitrary” and pointed out that the NDP do not think that this increase in defence spending is the right approach. All this as pressure mounts on Canada to increase deployment in Eastern Europe amidst the war on Ukraine.
GUEST: Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the Federal NDP
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Ontario has finally signed on to the $10 a day childcare deal with the federal government. The signature comes as Ontario’s provincial election looms on the horizon. Supposedly, Ford withholding his approval has increased the pledge from the federal government. This and more with Bill’s next guest.
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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At the crest of the provincial election, Ontario’s political parties are gearing up with new slogans and their platforms. The Ontario Liberals have their new “Plan for Economic Dignity” and the Progressive Conservatives have their GET IT DONE slogan. Will the plan by the Liberals help claw them out of their 3rd place spot? How effective is a simple slogan like GET IT DONE?
GUEST: Dr. Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Ryerson University
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The Canadian Taxpayer's Federation is calling on the federal government to repeal the carbon tax to help alleviate the financial burdens facing Canadians.
GUEST: Jay Goldberg, Interim Ontario Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Latvia insists on Canada bolstering defences on the Baltic front, which raises the NATO spending issues again. As well Britain and Canada are putting together a post-Brexit trade deal.
GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail
Putin is insisting that certain Asian countries pay for their Russian gas in Rubles.
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
Did you stay up late to watch the World Cup qualifiers? Sorry if you did as a fan of Canada.
GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Sports Journalist for The Toronto Star and The Guardian
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
NATO Topics Include: NATO expects to increase battlegroups in Eastern Europe Ukraine needs more humanitarian aid, military gear, Trudeau tells EU leaders US formally declares Russian military has committed war crimes in Ukraine West cranks up costs for Russia as war enters second month
GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University
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Instead of COVID rules being mandatory, they are now recommendations. It means that individuals are now expected to keep track of how much the virus is spreading, whether it’s straining the health-care system and know the level of risk to themselves and those around them.
So many Ontarians are stuck asking themselves…..to mask or not to mask?
GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and an Assistant Professor with McMaster University
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Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, says its former president Jerry Dias accepted $50,000 from a third party supplier of COVID-19 rapid tests, in violation of the union’s code of ethics.
The update from high-ranking union officials follows revelations of an external investigation into Unifor’s long-time leader due to an internal complaint.
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
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Surging inflation has a growing number of Canadians concerned they won’t be able to stretch their dollars far enough to keep food on the table, according to the latest polling from Ipsos.
In a survey conducted exclusively for Global News from March 11-16, Ipsos found that six in 10 Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their families.
GUEST: Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has kicked off a whirlwind trip to Brussels, and will address the European Parliament later today on his second visit to the continent this month.
Trudeau’s speech is set to stress the importance of countries on both sides of the Atlantic working together to defend democracy in the face of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Full Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of the book “States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies”
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The federal Liberal-NDP accord jolting the national political scene also has Queen’s Park abuzz.
With an Ontario election just 10 weeks away, all three major political parties are trying to assess the impact on their own chances.
Speaking for Premier Doug Ford, Progressive Conservative government house leader Paul Calandra warned Tuesday that past provincial Liberal-NDP agreements — in 1985 and 2013 — led to “high debt, high taxes.”
But Calandra, noting Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have worked well together during the past two pandemic years, conceded political stability in Ottawa is not a bad thing for Queen’s Park.
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University
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One month of war, still defiant. With its government still standing and its outnumbered troops battling Russian forces to bloody stalemates in multiple places, Ukraine is scarred, wounded, mourning its dead but far from beaten as it braces for a second month of bombing, combat, casualties and resistance.
On Feb 24th, when Russia unleashed it’s Ukraine invasion force in Europe’s biggest offensive since World War II and brandished the prospect of nuclear escalation if the West intervened, a lightning-swift toppling of Ukraine’s democratically elected government seemed possible.
But with Wednesday marking four full weeks of fighting, Russia is instead bogged down in an increasingly costly, uncertain and grinding military campaign, with untold numbers of dead, no immediate end in sight, and encircled by western sanctions biting hard on its economy and currency.
GUEST: Brain J. Karem, Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question"
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Globe & Mail journalist, Matthew Best is in the city of Lviv and he reports on the latest from Ukraine and Russia.
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen in Lviv
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The Liberal government has reached an informal deal with the NDP to stay in power until 2025, in exchange for a pledge to act on dental care, pharmacare and other key issues advocated by New Democrats.
The deal, which is tentative and still requires the approval of the NDP caucus, would not give the New Democrats any cabinet seats, according to two sources.
ALSO: Canada’s spy agencies have held back information from Parliament’s watchdogs
GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News
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For three weeks this winter, a so-called “Freedom Convoy” delivered thousands of demonstrators into downtown Ottawa, turning them into an occupying force that snarled daily life in the nation’s capital and dominated the national conversation.
But who were the demonstrators, really — and what were they after?
Many of them positioned the protest as a fight against vaccination mandates for cross-border truckers. Others saw it as a campaign against pandemic restrictions more broadly. No doubt the occupation was many things to many people. But for several of its organizers, the protest was the culmination of years of work, their best chance yet to coalesce a movement around their preferred conspiracy theories and a violent anti-government ideology.
Read to full article HERE.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist
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Soaring gasoline prices and vulnerability in oil supply have convinced three in five Canadians that it's time to buy an electric vehicle and more than half say they "will never buy a gas-powered vehicle again," finds a new poll by KPMG in Canada. Almost a third (30 per cent) regret not having bought an EV already.
GUEST: Peter Hatges, National Automotive Sector Leader at KPMG in Canada
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Weekly National Round Up: UN peacekeeping force should be on the ground in Ukraine, says former Canadian ambassador Rising oil prices may give Liberals extra spending for next budget Zalensky says if Ukraine was a NATO member, a war wouldn’t have started Doug Ford heads to Washington for trade mission And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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CALLS: The mask mandate ends today in Ontario. Will you keep wearing a mask and why?
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Weekly U.S Political Round Up: Biden’s European trip will display western unity, but could be light on action to stop Putin Zalensky ready for negotiations with Putin, but if it fails, it could mean World War 3 And more
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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Returning to class after so many lockdowns, teachers and parents have noticed a lack of maturity in students. How behind in maturation are they? What can parents do to help?
GUEST: Dr. Jean Clinton, Panel Member, is a Clinical Professor in the division of Child Psychiatry at McMaster University and a Staff member with McMaster Children’s Hospital
We take a peek into what next week's NATO leaders summit may hold, as well as insight into the "no" given to Ukraine's request for a No-Fly-Zone around its borders.
GUEST: Stephen M. Saideman, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University & Director of the Canadian Defence & Security Network
The term "binding interest arbitration" will soon be in your lexicon as the OPSEU strike that was supposed to commence today has been cancelled.
GUEST: Heather Giardine-Tuck, President OPSEU Local 240 and Professor of Communication and Global Studies, Mohawk College
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:
Soon, most travellers entering Canada will not have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test.
As of April 1, the federal government will be lifting the pre-arrival COVID-19 testing requirement at the border for fully vaccinated travellers.
Passengers may still be subjected to random PCR testing at the airport, and travellers will still have to use the ArriveCAN app to enter their proof of vaccination and other required information.
GUEST: Frederic Dimanche, Director of the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Ryerson University
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Vaccines have proved to be essential in the fight against COVID and preventing severe illness and death. But like Basu, a growing group of Canadians is suffering from vaccine fatigue, wondering what more will be needed to remain protected from the virus. So is a fourth dose necessary? Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla recently said yes. But as governments confront the question of whether to recommend another booster, some experts say the evidence is not yet in.
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Tenured Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University and Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity with the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
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The economic cost of Russia’s assault on Ukraine was fully exposed on Wednesday as Vladimir Putin’s sanctions-ravaged government teetered on the brink of its first international debt default since the Bolshevik Revolution.
Moscow was due to pay $117-million in interest on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds it had sold back in 2013. But the limits it now faces making payments, and talk from the Kremlin that it might pay in rubles – triggering a default anyway – meant even veteran investors were left guessing at what might happen.
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate, Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
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Misinformation & reasoning with someone who’s “gone down the rabbit hole”. Can a person be deprogrammed from a cult? Can someone be deprogrammed from what they read and believe from the internet?
GUEST: Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto
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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis, along with ongoing climate-related disasters, have exposed structural weaknesses across domestic and international supply chains, threatening Canada’s economic and national security, and business competitiveness. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) released its Policy Primer: Supply Chain Disruptions and Delays to provide a snapshot of the issues along with short and long-term recommendations for the provincial and federal governments.
GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made direct pleas to Canada to further assist his country in its fight against the ongoing Russian attacks during his straightforward and emotional address to Parliament on Tuesday.
Appearing virtually, donning an army green sweater with a Ukrainian flag off to one side in his frame, Zelensky implored members of the House of Commons and Senate as well as the top officials and special guests present to witness his remarks for further urgent assistance.
ALSO: Justin Trudeau among 313 Canadians banned from Russia
GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
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Recently, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced the expansion of private hospitals in Ontario. Missed this? So did many of us, possibly because of the words she selected: “we can let independent health facilities operate private hospitals.”
That offhand reference to “independent health facilities” sounds a whole lot better than this:
“We will award public funds to private, for-profit hospitals and clinics, knowing that these private facilities are associated with worse care, higher costs and more deaths.”
But if she’d said that, Elliott might have been asked about the Private Hospitals Act, which banned new private hospitals in Ontario in 1973. Or about the Canada Health Act, which bans extra billing for necessary services which is, nonetheless, regularly violated in private clinics.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Physician and a Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at Toronto General Hospital
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine edged closer to central Kyiv as a series of strikes hit a residential neighborhood Tuesday, while the leaders of three European Union countries planned a bold visit to Ukraine’s capital and the number of people the war has driven from the country passed 3 million.
Matthew Best is in Lviv and can paint a picture of the trip, some of the folks coming to fight, and the general atmosphere.
GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen
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Two Polls: Canada's Mental Health Crisis and Young Canadian Adults Americans and their views on replacing Russian Oil with Canadian Oil
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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Recent media reporting about the hospitality industry has been dominated by stories about mass resignations and workers leaving for white-collar jobs.
Many sources cite a combination of low wages, instability and lack of a decent working environment as factors pushing workers out of restaurants and into better paying, more secure jobs.
While repeated pandemic lockdowns and closures have pushed workers to find jobs in different sectors, this version of the story ignores that one in four restaurant workers are and that border closures over the past two years have meant that many potential immigrants have not been able to enter Canada
GUEST: Maggie Perzyna, Senior Researcher with the CERC Migration Program at Ryerson University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include:
- Trudeau caps Europe trip with more sanctions against Russian oligarchs
- The West braces for what Putin might do next
- Patrick Brown launches Conservative Party leadership bid
- Peter MacKay won’t seek Conservative leadership
- And more….CPC
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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School boards in Ontario are “expected” to follow the province’s plan to lift mask mandates on March 21, the provincial government says, despite concerns from some boards.
Earlier this week, chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore announced a plan to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions in Ontario, including the mask mandate in many public settings and schools after March break.
ALSO: Parents with kids under age five feel ‘left behind’ with ending of mask mandates
GUEST: Karen Brown, President of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO)
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Biden is facing demands for America to do more for Ukraine – but he’s also determined to avoid being the US president who started a third world war. How should he tackle Russia’s invasion?
ALSO: Why are US gas prices soaring when America barely uses Russian oil?
GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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The Bill Kelly Podcast:
Based on his recent policy decisions and politics, what does Doug Ford’s re-election platform look like?
ALSO: Early impressions of Charest comments & Leger Poll on CPC leadership race
GUEST: Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago — shelling several major cities, hampering efforts to evacuate and causing the deaths of at least 400 civilians so far — India has abstained on every United Nations vote condemning Russia's actions. These include votes at the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the UN Human Rights Council and at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
India's stance invoked the opprobrium of the overwhelming majority of its allies in NATO countries, including the U.S., with whom it has been forging a deeper strategic alliance in recent years, bolstered by their common concern over increased Chinese incursion into the Indo-Pacific region.
India's need for Russian arms to defend itself is the main reason India refused to vote against Russia at the UN, says Srinath Raghavan, professor of political science at Ashoka University in Gurgaon, India.
GUEST: Dr. Anita Singh,Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University
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Canadian workers have spoken: they don’t want to return to the office full time, and they’ll move on if their employer orders them to.
A recent Amazon Business survey of 1,595 Canadian office workers found flexibility is increasingly important, to the point that two in five said they would look for a more flexible job if mandated to come back in person full time.
And if a prospective employer mandated full-time in-person work, more than half would be less likely to accept a job offer.
GUEST: Silvia Gonzalez-Zamora, Partner with KPMG Canada
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Yesterday the Ontario government announced an end to masking on March 21st. Critics, such as Bill's guest, say yesterday's announcement is "...not supported by science right now because it's just too early."
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto
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The world is moving at a breakneck pace, from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine and it is testing our psychological limits as we largely just have to sit back and watch as it happens. How can you manage these anxieties? Our guest has some tips and tricks to keep you serene.
GUEST: Dr. Marisa Young, Associate Professor and Acting Director of the McMaster University Institute of Health Equity
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The Ontario Liberals launched a logo redesign and it has not been well received. Is it just a case of the wrong shade of red? Or is there something more to this strategy in the lead-up to the election?
GUEST: Dr. Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Ryerson University
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Climate change continues to be our largest existential threat and the Suzuki Foundation is doing all it can for outreach and education for youth. Leading up to the Ontario election, the foundation is launching a series of workshops on college campuses, organizing a rally at Queen's Park, and creating a young persons' voting guide for youth to understand where the candidates and parties stand on climate issues.
GUEST: Gideon Forman, Climate Change and Transportation Policy Analyst with The David Suzuki Foundation
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The latest on the war in Ukraine. A lot of chatter surrounding what Biden may or may not do with cryptocurrency, where China's unwavering support of Russia will bring them, and the oligarchs directly hit by Canadian sanctions.
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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New Maru Public Opinion Poll: With gas prices set to soar on Thursday, half (48%) of all drivers are mulling over a fully electric-powered or hybrid (electricity/gas) vehicle for their next four-wheel purchase.
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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The race for CPC leader is heating up, so Bill and his guest examine the strategy of who may win the race and what that may do to help or hinder their election chances.
GUEST:Muhammad Ali,Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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The price of gas starting at crude is soaring sky high in Canada but no, it is not the federal carbon tax or provincial gas taxes. Or so says Bill's guest.
GUEST: Randy Robinson, Ontario Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Canada's political landscape is currently full of strong women: Chrystia Freeland, Anita Anand, Melanie Joly, Karina Gould to name a few. There is still work to be done to equalize but Bill takes a step back to celebrate the progress made.
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide To Getting Elected available May 2022
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The representation of women in media is a dicey subject and at the top in Hollywood has started to make real headway, but it is TikTok that is currently absorbing young girls the most. Bill's guest shares her view on whether the democratization of online video is positive for these children.
GUEST: Shauna Pomerantz, Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University
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Global News headline: "Ontario offering nurses up to $5,000 as job retention incentive." Some say Doug Ford is looking to buy up nursing votes after his dismal policy around nursing wages.
GUEST: Morgan Hoffarth, President of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
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We all know the jokes about women's hockey and the WNBA, but our final guest caps off our International Women's Day podcast with examples of female athletic excellence.
GUEST: Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, CEO of Canadian Women & Sport
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Looking at our government’s current moves on the war in Ukraine. The PM has meetings set for Monday in London with the prime ministers of Britain and the Netherlands, as he discusses efforts to curb Russian aggression in Ukraine. International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan in Geneva to meet with the UN to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Sajjan plans to head to Eastern Europe after those talks. Foreign affairs minister, Melanie Joly, has been meeting with NATO counterparts to co-ordinate response to Russian invasion of Ukraine.
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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The Walrus published an in-depth piece about the “Sewergate” scandal, covering the environmental, political, and engineering angles of the ordeal. The author of the piece, Nathan Whitlock, joins Bill.
GUEST: Nathan Whitlock, Freelance Journalist for the NY Times, Globe and Mail and The Walrus.
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Is the Griner arrest a sign of things to come from Russia? Will this turn into a case of hostage diplomacy a la the two Michaels for the US? Where do we draw the line on sanctions vs Russian athletes?
GUEST: Bruce Kidd, Former Olympian and Professor Emeritus in Sport & Public Policy at the University of Toronto
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With the NHL trade deadline looming over the horizon, Bill has a friendly chat full of speculation of the possibilities for the Maple Leafs.
GUEST: John Matisz National Hockey Writer for The Score
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Uber getting into the ticket booking game, Elon Musk dipping his toes into video games, the pain of changing light fixtures and more!
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Analysis of Russia's military strategy and the state of their war equipment.
GUEST: Jeff McCausland, Military expert for CBS News Radio.
The average price of a home in Hamilton has topped $1 million. Where does the market go from here?
GUEST: Lou Piriano, President of the Realtor Association of Hamilton/Burlington
Normally it is "catfishing" that one has to look out for on dating apps, but now organized crime is making its way into that space with what are called "pig-butchering" scams.
GUEST: Carlo Handy Charles, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Geography with McMaster University and a Research Fellow at the Convergence Migrations Institute (Paris)
He has stepped down from the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and now he wants to be your mayor. We speak with Keanin Loomis about his mayoral bid.
GUEST: Keanin Loomis, Outgoing President and CEO of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Vladimir Putin’s latest war of aggression against Ukraine is entering its second week. But while Ukrainians are the ones heroically standing as the vanguards of democracy against authoritarianism, we must make no mistake: Putin has in fact declared war on much more than Ukrainian democracy.
This war, the largest and most devastating in Europe since the end of the Second World War, represents an assault on democracy itself. It is an attack on the rules-based international order that rejects the approach of “might is right” and is essential for maintaining democracy, freedom, human rights, and prosperity.
Thus, the choice before us is clear: do we pay the price for defending democracy now, or do we continue to allow authoritarianism to prevail, and ultimately pay a much higher price later?
We must do all that we can today, to support Ukraine in its fight against authoritarianism. And though we have made the case for a need for a stronger approach to Russia for many years now, we are less alone than ever in making this case.
Click HERE for the full article.
GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute
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The results of a survey released today by Maru Public Opinion finds Canadians in near unanimity (91%) standing with the people of Ukraine in full opposition to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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Gas prices are expected to rise by as much as 10 cents a litre by the weekend, according to an industry expert.
This would continue to establish new records for the price of gas across the province.
Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy says Russia’s attack on Ukraine is playing a major part, with sanctions being placed on Russia causing prices to rise, as that country is the world’s third-largest oil producer.
ALSO: Ford, Horwath clash over gas prices during question period at Ontario legislature
GUEST: Michael Manjuris, Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management with Ryerson University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Canada will expand its Russia sanctions to target more Putin-friendly oligarchs and businesses, but Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland warns Canadians there will be an economic price for these punitive measures in support of Ukraine.
“I have to be honest with Canadians that there could be some collateral damage in Canada,” Ms. Freeland told reporters Tuesday.
She said she discussed this possibility with Group of Seven finance ministers Tuesday. “We said in order to be really be effective, in order to really have an impact, we are going to have to be prepared for there to be some adverse consequences for our own economies.”
GUEST: Tina J. Park, Junior Fellow with the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Tuesday, offering to play a role in ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as Beijing faces international criticism for appearing to stand by Moscow after the start of the invasion.
Mr. Wang said that the situation in Ukraine “has changed dramatically,” according to state broadcaster CCTV.
“China deplores the outbreak of conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and is extremely concerned about the harm to civilians,” he said. “China’s basic position on the Ukraine issue is open, transparent and consistent.
ALSO: China's response; China-Russia partnership
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed in his first state of the union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus pandemic.
Biden declared that he and all members of Congress, whatever political differences there may be, were joined "with an unwavering resolve that freedom will always triumph over tyranny." He asked the lawmakers crowding the House chamber to salute Ukrainians as he began his speech, and they stood and cheered.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem,Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question”
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Ontario’s proof of vaccination against COVID-19 system has come to an end and capacity limits have been dropped as of Tuesday.
The government said the two public health measures would be lifted as part of its reopening plan as the province inches closer to returning to life before the global pandemic began in March 2020.
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni (YOU-knee), Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine proceeds with breathtaking pace, a key question is how much support Vladimir Putin can count on at home.
On the surface, it appears that the Russian President has the firm backing of the Kremlin elite, composed mainly of bona fide hard-liners who have enthusiastically endorsed his claim that Russia had no choice but to defend itself against the “Nazi, genocidal” government of Ukraine. And given that Mr. Putin’s popularity surged after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, many expect that ordinary Russians, known for their patriotism, will again rally around their leader.
But Mr. Putin may have actually set himself up for potential challenges to his leadership. As Russian political commentator Andrei Piontkovsky tweeted: “The paradox of this war for Russia is that the greater its ‘military successes,’ the more catastrophic its political results will be.”
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Amy Knight, Author of numerous pieces on Russian politics and history
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Many have called the scale of the sanctions “unprecedented," but let’s be clear: The price Russia has paid for its invasion of Ukraine amounts to economic penalties against two large financial institutions, dozens of smaller Russian entities and some of Putin’s known associates, so far.
The U.S. is now preparing sanctions on Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the EU has said it will freeze Putin's assets.
But how effective are such sanctions? The simple answer is, not very.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
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Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply "irreversible" according to the UN's latest assessment.
But the authors of a new report say that there is still a brief window of time to avoid the very worst.
GUEST: Kent Moore, Vice-Principal of Research and a Professor of Atmospheric Physics with the University of Toronto
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include:
- Canada to send additional $25M worth of protective gear to Ukraine
- Canada closes airspace to Russia
- Delegations from Ukraine & Russia agree to meet
- Why India abstained on UN vote against Russia
- And more
What is the overall global reaction to the political action or inaction in Ukraine? Does it go far enough? Can Canada do more?
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Canada and key Western allies say they are taking steps to block some Russian banks from accessing the SWIFT international payment system, in a move designed to bolster earlier punitive actions against Moscow for its ongoing military assault on Ukraine.
After cutting Russia off from SWIFT, what else can the west do further to hurt Russia? Seize buying oil?
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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What kind of downtown Hamilton do we want? What kind do we need? These are exciting and challenging questions for those of us who care deeply about the core of our city.
They are far from easy. We have vast potential, more than we have seen downtown in a generation. But we also have daunting challenges, among them: How do we develop the sort of downtown that is equally appealing to tourists and local residents, but is at the same time inclusive to a broad range of folks, including those who live at the fringes?
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: 3 G is coming to an end, Hack of the week, a new cellphone on the market, Etihad Stadium in the metaverse and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topics Include:
- Reaction to Canada’s sanctions and the role Canada will play moving forward.
- Why isn’t the West imposing harsher sanctions against Russia?
- Why isn’t Canada sanctioning Vladimir Putin directly?
GUEST: Steve Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail
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How will misinformation and intelligence play a role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
GUEST: Stephanie Carvin,Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
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Ontario’s mask mandate will likely be lifted in schools when it is removed for most public spaces, the province’s top doctor says.
Dr. Kieran Moore made the comment during his weekly COVID-19 update Thursday, but noted that masking requirements will remain in place “for the time being.”
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
The highways out of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities were jammed with traffic on Thursday, as thousands of Ukrainians fled their homes in the first hours after a Russian invasion of their country began.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital were awakened by a series of early morning missile and air strikes, followed by the belated sound of an air raid siren. Attacks were reported on cities across the country, with airports and military bases – along with the Black Sea port of Odessa – appearing to be the main target in the first wave.
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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How does one fully measure the impact of a protest, either in dollars or in sense?
In the case of the Ottawa occupation, it’s hard to calculate but critically important to learn from. Because, in the age of discontent, we can expect more frequent and costly work stoppages that make us all pay, regardless of our sympathy or antipathy for the protest’s cause.
How much money was lost, and who paid?
My estimate is that about $11 million a day was lost in wages of the workers who were in this position, who would normally be coming in to work in the blockaded area from throughout the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
Read to full op-ed HERE.
GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is revoking the Emergencies Act after 10 days that have seen police crack down to clear out hundreds of demonstrators with the so-called “Freedom Convoy” who had encamped in the nation’s capital for three weeks.
Trudeau made the announcement to end the use of the emergency powers at a press conference on Wednesday.
GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Full Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of the book “States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies”
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Hybrid work is here to stay and if done right, it could usher Canada into a new era of equity and flexibility in the labour market that could strengthen the economy. But it would be a mistake to assume those benefits will happen on their own, and employers will need government support, according to a new report from Deloitte Canada.
How can employers do hybrid work the right way?
GUEST: Stephen Harrington, Partner with Deloitte Canada
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After months of blistering inflation, economists and investors are betting the Bank of Canada will start raising interest rates on March 2, kicking off a brisk rate hike cycle that could see borrowing costs return to pre-COVID-19 levels or surpass them some time next year.
GUEST: Brian Hogben, Principal and Owner of Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”*
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One of the most visible organizers behind the protests against COVID-19 restrictions and the Liberal government near Parliament Hill was denied bail Tuesday.
An Ontario court judge said she believed there was a substantial likelihood Tamara Lich would commit offences if released.
Another key organizer, Patrick King, was in court for a bail hearing, where a woman who acknowledged she had only met him four weeks ago offered to be a surety, pledging half the value of her Alberta home to guarantee his bail.
The Crown argued for King's continued detention, and the court is slated to rule on the matter Friday.
ALSO: Andrew joins Bill Kelly to discuss the public misconceptions about ‘freezing accounts’
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
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Topics Include:
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Implications of new sanctions
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Who is Jean Charest and why would MPs urge him to run for CPC leadership?
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GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
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In early February, while police were unable to bring an end to the illegal occupation of Canada’s capital city, some officers were financially contributing to the protest.
A Torstar investigation has found at least a dozen Ontario police officers are named on a leaked list of donations to the “Freedom Convoy” that shut down downtown Ottawa for more than three weeks.
How did this report came together and what are the implications moving forward?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Journalist with The St Catharine's Standard and the Toronto Star Investigations Team
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Topics Include:
- Was the Beijing Olympics a success or a failure?
- Russia-Ukraine & China connection
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
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Weekly Political Round Up:
- Police clear the occupation….where do we go from here.
- Reaction to Trudeau’s comments on Monday
- Reaction to the Emergencies Act vote
- And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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What is the state of journalism after much harassment in Ottawa and many targeting the mainstream media as part of the Ottawa Occupation?
ALSO: many Canadians publicly unsubscribed from the New York Times this weekend for what they’re calling inaccurate depiction of the Ottawa occupation. What can we learn about the state of journalism after the Ottawa occupation?
GUEST: Jeffery Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has recognized the independence of two separatist regions in southeastern Ukraine and dispatched Russian troops into the breakaway areas, escalating the crisis between Moscow and Kyiv and increasing the prospects of a full-scale invasion.
Mr. Putin made the announcement and signed the recognition documents at the end of a 40-minute televised address on Monday, most of which was delivered in anger, lamenting the end of the Soviet Union and the loss of territories such as Ukraine that once were part of the Russian empire.
ALSO: Why Ukraine fears a canal that once flowed into Crimea could be a key target in a new Russian attack
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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Have the changes in policing and security in Ottawa over the past few days been effective?
-arresting organizers
-freezing bank accounts
-fencing off areas
-Major organizer Pat King has apparently left
ALSO: Will the occupation end this weekend?
GUEST: Phul Gurski,President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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- The debate on the Trudeau government's decision to use the Emergency Measures Act has been postponed due to police activity.
- Candice Bergen’s Op-ed: Trudeau's sledgehammer tactics to deal with protest must be rejected
- Ottawa Police arrest several protestors
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University
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Mike joins Bill to discuss the biggest stories from the Beijing Olympics (since Monday) and a preview of what’s coming up this weekend
GUEST: Mike Arsenault, Reporter for Global News
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Chief’s Townhall with Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
Topics include: Hamilton Police in Ottawa, Charges made for protestors, What's the next step? and more.
GUEST: Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
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Latest from Ottawa:
- Ottawa's new interim police chief has told city council that officers will clear the streets of people protesting the government and COVID restrictions in the next few days.
- Convoy protests a ‘threat to our democracy’ Trudeau tells premiers in letter
- And more
GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News
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As opposition parties dug into their formal opposition to the Liberal government’s Emergencies Act, debates took an ugly turn in question period as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau indirectly linked a Jewish MP to Nazi supporters.
Comments directed to Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman were made during a heated exchange in which she compared his “positive, optimistic, hopeful vision of public life” in 2015 with recent negative comments made toward truck convoy supporters.
This prompted the Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, to remind all MPs, including the prime minister, “to use words that are not inflammatory in the House.”
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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Inflation hit a new three-decade high in January, heaping more pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time since the pandemic started.
The consumer price index rose 5.1 per cent in January from a year earlier, accelerating from December’s pace of 4.8 per cent and marking the first time since 1991 that inflation has surpassed 5 per cent, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. It was the 10th consecutive month that inflation has exceeded the Bank of Canada’s target range of 1 per cent to 3 per cent.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has resigned after being roundly criticized for his force’s failure to control and end a blockade of the capital city that has continued for more than two weeks.
Mr. Sloly left the service Tuesday on the 19th day of protests that have forced businesses to close, left residents feeling intimidated and as local politicians say the city has been abandoned by police. Ottawa is now under three states of emergency invoked by the municipal, provincial and federal governments.
What went wrong with Sloly?
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist (Macleans, Globe and Mail, The Guardian)
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Fully vaccinated travellers entering Canada will no longer have to take a pre-arrival molecular test — such as a PCR — as of Feb. 28, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Tuesday.
Travellers will still be required to take a pre-arrival test, but they can instead opt for an authorized rapid antigen test taken no more than one day before their scheduled flight or arrival at the land border.
Antigen tests are typically cheaper than a molecular test and can provide results within minutes.
GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and an Assistant Professor with McMaster University
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford spoke Tuesday about his government’s plan to remove the province’s proof of vaccination requirement in two weeks and said it’s time to “get on with our lives.”
Ford made the remarks in response to a reporter’s question at an unrelated announcement in Hamilton.
Is Doug Ford recklessly undermining vaccine confidence with his change in tone during Tuesday’s announcement on lifting restrictions?
ALSO: Doug Ford acknowledges division in his family over COVID-19 rules
GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide To Getting Elected available May 2022
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The federal government took the unprecedented step on Monday of invoking the Emergencies Act to deal with the ongoing convoy occupation in Ottawa and blockades that have affected border crossings across the country.
Although passed in 1988 as a replacement to the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act has never been used before.
So what does it do?
GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Full Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of the book “States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies”
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It’s not about you; it’s about Canada: that’s the message that should echo in the mind of every Tory as they vote for a new leader.
Too many Conservatives regard their party as a place to indulge their deeply held, perfectly legitimate, but boutique causes: climate-policy skepticism, lifting automatic gun restrictions, opposing abortion and so forth.
Moreover, party spokespeople focus on issues of narrow interest, like taxes, deficits and waste, unable to produce a coherent vision of the positive things government is for in a country that believes in the common good.
The Tories have thus made their party an electoral liability. Yet the official Opposition‘s duty and responsibility is to offer a credible alternative to the government of the day. When Tories fail, they condemn Canadians to re-elect a government that few people actually want.
GUEST: Brian Lee Crowley is the Founder and Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. His most recent book is “Gardeners vs. Designers: Understanding the Great Fault Line in Canadian Politics
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A new Maru Public Opinion Poll on how Canadians feel about Relaxed Community COVID Restrictions.
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
- Police continue to clear Ambassador Bridge
- What’s going on with Ottawa Police? Severe under policing?
- Two Counter terrorism members arrested for partaking in convoy
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Tensions over Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine are entering a potentially decisive week, with the U.S. warning an invasion may be imminent and President Vladimir Putin accusing America of failing to meet his demands.
ALSO: Canada pulls troops out of Ukraine in strong signal of imminent Russian invasion
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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Canada scored another snowboarding medal on Day 9 of the Beijing Olympics, while the men’s hockey team’s first matchup with the United States ended in disappointment.
Mike discusses what you may have missed over the weekend.
GUEST: Mike Arsenault, Reporter for Global News
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology in Europe, the carbon footprint of surfing the web, use of drones in Ontario's medical field, and the newly announced Grillbot.
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Automakers in Ontario had to halt production because the Windsor border blockade has cut off their necessary supplies. The economic implications could be huge. Will this affect trade negotiation with the US in the near future?
GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association.
What additional legal action, on top of suspending funds, should or could the Premier have taken? Today’s announcement at 10:30am saw a State of Emergency enacted by the premier. What can that do legally? What COULD he have done to this point without the SOE? Ie: tickets, fines, suspending licenses, etc?
GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.
Justin Trudeau is reportedly going to meet with US President Biden to discuss an end to the US/Canada border blockades.
GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News.
There’s a fairly big football game going on this weekend if you didn’t know. What are the betting odds and trends for this Sunday? Johnny has those and a preview of the Super Bowl.
GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race & Sportsbook Operations w DraftKings.
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We are now into Day 13 of the “Freedom Convoy,” which has turned into an occupation. Let me be clear: the capital city of Canada’s downtown is under occupation by a band of white supremacists. And it wasn’t difficult for them to do.
It’s the Canadian way to put our heads in the sand, pretend it’s not happening, roll out the toxic positivity of denial, and be shocked when the chickens come home to roost. We did this to ourselves because we weren’t vigilant about the dangers of white supremacy.
Read to full Op-ed HERE.
GUEST: Erica Ifill, Columnist for The Hill Times
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The response to the “freedom convoy” offers a glimpse into the underbelly of the criminal justice system. The enforcement of law and order involves significant degrees of discretion. The favourable or unfavourable discretionary use of power goes beyond policing — it exists throughout the judicial system.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Temitope Oriola, Associate Professor with the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Alberta
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If Ontario ever signs a deal with the feds for early learning and child care, we know parents will save money, kids will get better care and, when supply expands, the economy will benefit from having more people earning and spending more.
While not disputing those benefits, some commentators are saying the federal deal is bad for business, as it aims to transition our current model of grab-it-where-you-can care to a system that provides more reliable licensed public and non-profit child care in a neighbourhood near you.
Is this evolution bad for business?
GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
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For Justin Trudeau, the occupation of the national capital represents the greatest challenge to the legitimacy of the federal government in a generation. This is the October Crisis, revisited.
For a week and a half, the Freedom Convoy has paralyzed the downtown. Ottawa cannot handle “the insurrection.” On Sunday, the mayor confirmed the city had lost control and declared a state of emergency.
So far, the mayhem has been mostly confined to the Parliamentary Precinct. So far, this is a very Canadian version of an attempted coup – – slow, restrained, amorphous – which has generated a very Canadian response of ambiguity and acquiescence. As befuddled authorities scoff and scold, militants dig in.
Click HERE to read the full article.
Many have been critical of Justin Trudeau’s leadership…what does he need to do to move forward?
GUEST: Andrew Cohen, Journalist & Professor at Carleton University and the author of “Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History”
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Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s fridged capital for days, and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the country’s vaccine requirements.
The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.
It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.
5G & QAnon: How have conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s trucker protests?
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist for Maclean’s and The Guardian
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The Ambassador Bridge is the latest target of protesters opposing pandemic restrictions, cutting off a key trade route between the United States and Canada and threatening supply chains for a significant part of the country.
Demonstrators sympathetic to the days-long anti-government occupation in Ottawa started using trucks to jam traffic on the bridge from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit on Monday.
What is the economic impact of the protests at the Ambassador bridge?
GUEST: Michael Manjuris, Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management with Ryerson University
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A new study from McMaster University reveals Canadians true feelings towards truckers convoy.
GUEST: Clifton van der Linden, Director of the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University
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As the race to replace Erin O'Toole as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada gets underway - who’s in, who’s out and who else could join the race?
ALSO: Analysis of a Red Tory vs Blue Tory
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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News media has faced heightened criticism from right-leaning politicians as a trucker convoy rolls into Ottawa, but one former conservative strategist says it’s an example of a long-standing tactic.
Tim Powers, the chair of Summa Strategies, told Global News that criticizing the media is “part of normal strategic practice” for conservative politicians, particularly when they feel like they’re in trouble.
Protestor vitriol towards ‘MSM’ - mainstream media. Where does it come from?
GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
- Ottawa declares state of emergency which is now over/Toronto clears streets after 1 day
- Are Foreign Governments taking notes on what’s happening, and or, are they a part of this?
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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Topics Include:
- Do we need stronger leadership from the Prime Minister and the Premier of Ontario right now amid protests?
- Conservatives continue to side with protestors
- Conservative leadership race
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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The energy relationship between the two countries is deeply embedded and lucrative. Some might even find it surprising: business with the enemy. Every year, Russia pays Ukraine’s US$2 billion in so-called “transit fees” for the ability to transport its product through Ukrainian pipelines. Ukraine doesn’t use that oil and gas. But much of the rest of Europe does. The European Union gets about a third of its natural gas from Russia. And about a third of that passes through Ukraine.
Amid the intensifying standoff between Russia and Ukraine, there is growing fear Putin could turn off the taps, and choke off supply to Europe, which has been standing by Ukraine diplomatically and militarily through NATO, as Russia reinforces its border with more than a 100,000 troops.
ALSO: New satellite images show advanced Russian military deployments in Belarus
GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Tesla update, An Apple watch saved a man, Peloton launches a $90 forearm worn heart rate monitor with LED indicators and more!
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GUEST: Duane Ward, 2x World Series Champion and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and incoming member of Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Weekly Political Roundup:
- Convoy coming to Toronto
- Ottawa Protests
- CPC Leadership
- And more
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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It’s been a crisis long in the making. Now, as we head into the third year of a global pandemic, Ontario’s nurses are barely holding on.
Across Canada, nurses are leaving their jobs in droves, citing burnout, inadequate pay, dangerous conditions and more. With COVID cases anticipated to climb as Ontario reopens, Premier Doug Ford sat down with Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) president Cathryn Hoy Thursday to discuss solutions.
GUEST: Morgan Hoffarth, President of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
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Two out of three (68%) interviewed in our latest nationwide poll feel they have “very little in common with how the protestors in Ottawa see things”, while 32% say they “have a lot in common.”
Those who are more likely to feel aligned with the protestors are People’s Party voters (82%), Green Party voters (57%), and Conservative Party voters (46%). Large majorities of Liberal (75%), NDP (77%), and BQ (81%) voters say they have little in common with the protestors.
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data
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Many have been critical of the Ottawa Police and their lack of inaction during the protests. What should Toronto Police do differently when the convoy arrives here?
GUEST: Dan Horner Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Criminology with Ryerson University
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Erin O’Toole told the Conservative caucus Monday night that there were two paths before them.
On Wednesday, they chose one that didn’t include him in the lead.
Conservative MPs voted decisively Feb. 2 to plunge the party into its third leadership contest since Stephen Harper stepped down in 2015. In the end, it wasn’t close – with 73 MPs voting to remove O’Toole, and just 45 lining up to support him.
What happened, where does the party go from here, who is running and who will win the next CPC leadership?
GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies
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Much of the current debate about inflation focuses on how Canada is doing relative to other countries, especially the U.S. Unfortunately, many people, including economists, are quick to simply compare the consumer price index (CPI) in the two countries. The latest readings were 7.0 per cent in the U.S. versus 4.8 per cent here, which suggests inflation is less of a problem for us. But this ignores how the CPI (and many other statistics) differ among national statistical agencies.
GUEST: Philip Cross, Munk Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada
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New Ontario Chamber report highlights sectors dampened by labour shortages, supply chain issues
GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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The U.S. South is becoming an increasingly important lumber supplier in North America, bolstered by Canadian companies gaining easy access to forests and the side benefit of escaping U.S. tariffs on softwood.
The U.S. Lumber Coalition says punitive tariffs against lumber producers in Canada since 2017 are the reason production has ramped up in the United States. But industry experts in Canada say higher output south of the border has much more to do with the availability of timber supplies than duty rates against Canadian producers.
GUEST: Liz Kovach, President of the Western Retail Lumber Association
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Mayor's Town Hall with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger
Topic include: Encampments, Snow Removal, Calls and more.
GUEST: Mayor Fred Eisenberger
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
As anti-vaccine mandate protesters continue to gum up downtown Ottawa, many are wondering how long police will let the protesters stay — and how they might eventually move them out.
While many residents have been calling for an end to the noise and disruption caused by raucous demonstrations, observers are calling on authorities to avoid public displays of force.
The protest, now into its fifth day, started in opposition to the federal government's vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers. It has since expanded into a movement against broader public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, including provincial mandates.
GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News
A number of Conservative MPs rallied behind Erin O'Toole Tuesday, saying he should stay on as leader even as some of his caucus colleagues mobilize to oust him.
Speaking briefly to reporters on Parliament Hill, the party's deputy leader Candice Bergen said she's not interested in taking over as interim leader if O'Toole gets the boot after a planned vote today at the Conservative caucus meeting.
MPs opposed to O'Toole's leadership have collected enough signatures — 35 so far — to hold a secret ballot on his future.
A vote by 50 per cent plus one of the 119 sitting Conservative MPs calling on O'Toole to step down would force him to make way for an interim leader immediately. Sources tell CBC News that O'Toole's caucus opponents believe they have the necessary votes, with at least 60 MPs agreeing that he has to go.
If O’Toole is voted out, do we think Doug Ford is planning to run for the CPC Leadership?
GUEST: Stephanie Chouinard, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College
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Brian Flores has sued the NFL and three teams – the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants -- alleging discrimination regarding his interview processes with Denver and New York and his firing last month by Miami.
The 58-page lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday and seeks class-action status.
Flores alleges that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross attempted to incentivize him to "tank," or purposely lose games, shortly after he was hired in 2019, with Ross allegedly offering Flores $100,000 for every loss that season. Flores says that as the team won games late in the season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier told him Ross was "mad" that the on-field success was "compromising [the team's] draft position."
GUEST: Dr. Richard Norman, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Future of Sport Research Lab at Ryerson University
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GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Co-Founder of Doctors For Justice in Long Term Care and Palliative Care Physician
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Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is a dead man walking. At publication time, thirty-five MPs have signed a letter asking for a caucus leadership review vote, possibly as soon as this Wednesday’s caucus meeting. According to the Globe and Mail, sources claim that they have at least 63 of 119 Conservative members who will vote O’Toole out. That is, if he doesn’t pull the trigger himself, and call a vote, or just call it quits.
The Conservatives need to take a long hard look at themselves, what they stand for, who’s leading their parade, and whose company they want to keep!
GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and a Lecturer with the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University
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A look at the new Ontario modeling that will be released at 9am today.
What’s next for Ontario?
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto
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David’s Expertise: Hate groups, extremism, far right and anti-government movements in Canada
Many Canadians are standing in Ottawa as part of the Trucker’s Convoy’ protest. But do they know who they are standing with?
What do we know about the far-right leaders that have infiltrated the ‘Truckers Convoy’ and what are the possible outcomes of this protest knowing their history?
GUEST: Dr. David Hofmann, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick and a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS)
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
- Reax to the Trucking protest
- O’Toole’s Conservative MPs siding with truckers' convoy
- Resumption of Parliament
- And more
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Amid the frequent closures that have put pressure on staffing, food supply chains and limited revenue to keep doors open, what is the outlook for the restaurant industry in 2022?
GUEST: Mohamad Fakih, Owner and Founder of Paramount Fine Foods
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The United States and Russia are squaring off at the U.N. Security Council over Ukraine, with Washington calling Moscow’s actions a threat to international peace and security, while a Kremlin envoy ridiculed Monday’s meeting as a “PR stunt.”
The session kicks off more high-level diplomacy this week, although talks between the U.S. and Russia have so far failed to ease tensions in the crisis. Russia has massed an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, stoking fears in the West of an invasion.
Russia denies it intends to launch an attack but demanded that NATO promise never to allow Ukraine to join the alliance, halt the deployment of NATO weapons near Russian borders, and roll back its forces from Eastern Europe. NATO and the U.S. call those demands impossible.
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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Dr. Tyler Black meticulously refutes the work of a group of MD's that have consistently minimized COVID and have recently started a new organizing effort called #urgencyofnormal.
GUEST: Dr. Tyler Black, Suicidologist and Psychiatrist with the University of British Columbia
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: flying cars, all-electric camper and RV, Smart assistants, Hacking and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Weekly Political round up:
- 2022 Trucker Convoy
- Conservatives post-election report
- And more
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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The New Reality team takes you inside a place that cameras haven’t ventured this pandemic — COVID rehabilitation hospitals. What happens to patients when they leave acute care hospitals but can’t go home? TNR gained exclusive access, as the specialized teams care for patients who were discharged from scarce acute care hospital beds but are still too sick to go home. People who are relearning the most basic skills… walking.. eating… breathing. Carolyn Jarvis introduces us to these invisible hospitals and the patients who, over six months, allowed us to follow their journeys - as they fight to get home.
COVID REHABILITATION HOSPITALS airs Saturday at 8:00pm on Global National
GUEST: Carolyn Jarvis, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Global News
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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have parted ways with wide receiver Brandon Banks.
In a statement on Thursday, the Canadian Football League squad’s president and head coach Orlondo Steinauer said the decision to move away from each other was “mutual.”
“It has been extremely difficult to write this. I’ve been a part of the CFL for over 20 years, and when I think of dynamic and impactful players, Brandon Banks is at the top of the list,” Steinauer said.
Banks signed a one-year contract with the Cats in 2021.
The 34-year-old played eight seasons with Hamilton, 2019 being his best.
GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton and The FIfth Quarter
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Ontario is close to a child-care deal with the federal government, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday, as his province remained the only jurisdiction without a deal with Ottawa for $10-a-day child care.
What’s taking them so long?
GUEST: Karina Gould, MP for Burlington and Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
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What are the best ways to keep Canada’s food supply strong while the cost of food is outpacing inflation? And is the shortage really being caused by the truck convoys?
GUEST:Mike von Massow, OAC Chair in Food System Leadership and an Associate Professor in Food Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday the extension of Operation UNIFIER for three years, and the deployment of 60 more troops to Ukraine in the coming days.
Trudeau made the announcement following a cabinet meeting, alongside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, and Defence Minister Anita Anand.
ALSO: Canada will not send Ukraine weapons but boost cyber support, training mission
GUEST: Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University
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The association that represents registered nurses in Ontario is blasting a move by the province to invite internationally trained nurses to do the work of personal support workers while not giving them credit for the practical work experience required by the College of Nurses of Ontario.
The memo ---- sent out by the Ministries of Long-term care and Health on Jan. 17 to long-term care licensees — says the move is in response to staff shortages due to COVID-19-related absences or isolation requirements. It states that select internationally trained nurses (IENs) who are applicants to the college will be eligible to work in long-term care facilities — but as personal support workers (PSWs) or unregulated care providers.
In its program guide, the ministry also states that the work won't count towards IENs' college requirements to show evidence of practice.
GUEST: Morgan Hoffarth, President of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
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Ontario has launched a new Crown agency for skilled trades services.
Skilled Trades Ontario replaces the Ontario College of Trades and will be used to promote the trades and develop training standards.
GUEST:Monty McNaughton, Ontario Labour Minister
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Three years after the Progressive Conservatives scrapped a program they falsely labelled a ‘carbon tax,’ businesses that lost money on emissions credits — including global giant Koch Industries — have filed legal actions against the government
GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal
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The Bank of Canada is keeping its key interest rate target on hold at 0.25 per cent, but warning it won't stay there for much longer.
The trendsetting rate has been at its rock-bottom level since March 2020 during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the economy went into a downturn and three million jobs were lost.
The central bank said Wednesday the rebound since then and especially over the last few months has been stronger than it anticipated.
GUEST: Brian Hogben, Principal and Owner of Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps
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More than 300 Ontario schools reported staff and student absences of more than 30 per cent by the end of last week, after students returned for in-person learning following the latest pandemic-related shutdown.
But the data includes all absences, not just those that might be related to COVID-19, making it tough to gauge the impact of the Omicron variant on Ontario’s school system now that the province is no longer publicly reporting cases in schools.
ALSO: Hamilton’s six schools with highest absenteeism rates
GUEST: Dawn Danko, Chair of the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford met Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders.
The talks came after the premier and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark hosted a virtual housing summit recently with big-city mayors. Clark said Sunday’s meeting was an “opportunity to collaborate and co-ordinate” with smaller, rural, northern and remote municipalities on how the government can address the housing supply crisis.
GUEST: Robin Jones, Mayor of the village of Westport in eastern Ontario and Chair of the Rural Ontario Municipal Association
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet is weighing whether to ship small weapons like firearms and ammunition to Ukraine at the three-day virtual retreat underway now, sources tell Global News.
ALSO: Non-essential Canadians advised to leave Ukraine amid growing tensions with Russia
GUEST: Amanda Connolly, Journalist for Global News
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The ECHL acted swiftly on Sunday, suspending defenceman Jacob Panetta indefinitely pending a hearing, for an apparent racist gesture toward opponent and fellow Canadian Jordan Subban of the South Carolina Stingrays during Saturday night's game.
ALSO: A new survey by the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) on hazing & abuse in major-junior hockey shows 41% of CHL families believe there is discrimination within the CHL but only 16% of team GMs believe this is true.
GUEST: Dr. Richard Norman, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Future of Sport Research Lab at Ryerson University
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Canada’s immigration system for high-skilled workers is severely backlogged and even amidst a labour shortage, the government is pausing new invitations because the department simply can’t process them quickly enough, according to a briefing document.
Immigration lawyer Steven Meurrens obtained the document through access to information and provided it to the National Post. In the memo, department officials outline that “an estimated 76,000” applicants are in the inventory for federal high-skilled worker applications, which is more than what the government needs to meet targets all the way out to 2023.
GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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After a week of diplomacy fails between Russia and the U.S amid mass build-up of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine, where does Canada stand?
ALSO: Conservatives defy Erin O’Toole by siding with critical senator
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Much has been made of late on social media and in the mainstream media, about trucker protests that are in the works. Truckers are rightfully upset about a vaccine mandate that was clumsily applied to cross-border essential workers, including the professional drivers who’ve been keeping us supplied throughout the pandemic.
But such protests rarely deliver results, aside from angering the motoring public and casting shade on our industry. We will report on significant events that disrupt our industry and your businesses, but do nothing to support this form of protest.
One disturbing trend is the amount of money being thrown at recent attempts to bring commerce to a halt. One initiative raised more than $900,000 via GoFundMe in less than a week.
Read the full article HERE.
GUEST: James Menzies, Editor of Today's Trucking and TruckNews.CA
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Apple airtags, iRobot vacuum Roomba update, online surveillance advertising, Smart goggles and more!
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Weekly Political round up:
- Ford lifting restrictions
- Inflation hitting a 30-year high
- Trudeau's trucking mandate
- Feds insist on testing double/triple vaccinated travelers in spite of needed a test to get on the plane
- New Angus polling shows the Ontario NDP ahead?
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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A now-former chamber of commerce head is set to join the race to become Hamilton’s next mayor.
Keanin Loomis, 46, resigned his post with the chamber after nine years as chief operating officer on Wednesday and revealed he’ll be stepping up to run for mayor in the next civic election on Oct. 24.
Who is next to run? Bob Bratina? and what will Fred do?
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fending off calls for his resignation with a vigorous defence of his handling of the pandemic and a plan to remove almost all COVID-19 restrictions in England next week.
Mr. Johnson has been under increasing pressure to step down over revelations that he and his staff repeatedly broke lockdown rules by holding a series of parties in his Downing Street office in 2020 and 2021. The pressure intensified Wednesday after one Conservative MP defected to the Labour Party and senior Tory MP David Davis bluntly told Mr. Johnson: “In the name of God, go.”
ALSO: Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus
GUEST: Sam Fazeli, Director of Research with Bloomberg Intelligence
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The family of American singer Meat Loaf said their “hearts are broken” as they announced his death at the age of 74.
A post on his official Facebook page said the rocker, who became a global star with hits like Bat Out Of Hell and I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), died with his wife Deborah at his side,
It added that his daughters, Pearl and Amanda, “and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours”.
GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Member of The Hamilton Music Advisory Team and an Instructor at the Harris Institute for Music
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Chief’s Townhall with Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
Topic include: It’s Lincoln Alexander Day, Police Budget & Diversity and more.
GUEST: Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
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Ontario is planning to ease COVID-19 restrictions on indoor restaurant dining, gyms, movie theatres and more on Jan. 31, allowing them to open at 50 per cent customer capacity with masking protocols and proof of vaccination, sources told the Star.
The date, a week from Monday, will mark almost four weeks since Premier Doug Ford ordered venues closed on Jan. 5 to quell the Omicron variant, which has sent new COVID-19 infection levels off the charts and filled hospitals with record numbers of patients.
Do the current restrictions in Ontario match the data? Or are we just being less honest with our data?
ALSO: Ontario health minister says Omicron cases expected to peak this month
GUEST: Dr. Tara Moriarty, Head of an Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory at the University of Toronto-
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Ontario's largest communities will get new funding to help speed up development approvals, Premier Doug Ford announced as he hosted a housing summit Wednesday, but the municipal leaders he met with say much stronger action is needed.
Ford said his goal for the virtual meeting with big city mayors and regional chairs was to come up with concrete ways to allow more families to buy a home.
GUEST: Michael-Collins-Williams, Chief Executive Officer of the West End Home Builders’ Association
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The economy no longer works for the benefit of most people. And if the economy doesn’t function, nothing else will. Without a strong economy, we won’t be able to pay for social programs like health and education, and we won’t be able to take care of our elderly, the frailest and most vulnerable among us, or the poor and the homeless.
What is most troubling about the failure of our economy is the Great Divide that now exists in terms of income. The rich are getting richer, the middle class is shrinking, and the poor among us are growing in number, with few opportunities to rise up out of poverty. Overall living standards for most Canadians are declining, and have been for several decades now. As a result, a growing number of people are struggling to make ends meet.
ALSO: Canada's annual inflation rate highest since 1991
GUEST: Frank Stronach, Founder of Magna International Inc.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province is set to make an announcement later this week about reducing COVID-19 restrictions.
Ontario has been in a modified Step 2 of COVID-19 restrictions since Jan. 5, closing restaurants, gyms and other businesses, introducing capacity restrictions and limits on gatherings. The measures are scheduled to remain in effect until at least Jan. 26.
Dr. Kieran Moore, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said Monday that he was “starting to have much more hope” that the spread of the Omicron variant was slowing. But he said the decision to lift restrictions was a government one.
Is it too soon to loosen restrictions?
ALSO: Cabinet is set to have its regularly scheduled meeting today. Dr Kieran Moore said the gov’t will have new data on the spread, and staffing levels in hospitals.
GUEST: Allison Smith, Founder of Queen's Park Today
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The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce’s Board Chair, Louis Grilli, has accepted the resignation of President and CEO, Keanin Loomis, which will be effective March 4, 2022.
Keanin joins Bill to discuss his next steps.
GUEST: Keanin Loomis, President of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
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Brian's new book “Free The Press: The Death Of American Journalism and How To Revive It” was released this past Saturday, Jan. 15th
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GUEST: Brian J. Karem,Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question".
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GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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Canada’s busiest airport and largest airlines are calling on the federal government to drop its arrival testing rule for vaccinated air travellers, as some of the country’s leading health experts also question the policy’s value.
Air Canada, WestJet and Toronto Pearson airport issued a joint letter on Monday to the federal and Ontario governments, calling on them to ditch the arrival test that is required on top of a vaccination mandate and prearrival negative COVID-19 test.
A growing number of physicians and public-health experts also say the rule should be revisited because it is out of step with Canada’s overall approach to COVID-19 and diverts critical lab resources to asymptomatic people with less need.
GUEST: Beth Potter, President of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada
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Canadian special force operators have been deployed to Ukraine amid rising tensions between the NATO military alliance and Russia, Global News has learned.
The deployment of a small contingent from the Canadian Special Operations Regiment comes as diplomatic talks aimed at staving off an armed conflict in Ukraine have faltered, and an estimated 100,000 Russian troops remain camped on Ukraine’s border.
Sources told Global News that the Canadian special operations presence is part of an attempt by NATO allies to deter Russian aggression in Ukraine, and to identify ways to assist the Ukrainian government.
GUEST: Aurel Braun,Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Health Canada has approved Pfizer's COVID-19 therapeutic for use in adults 18 and older, paving the way for the distribution of a potentially lifesaving drug at a time when the country's hospitals are overwhelmed.
Pfizer's Paxlovid is an oral antiviral treatment prescribed by a doctor and administered in pill form. It is designed to help the body fight off the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reduce symptoms from an infection and shorten the period of illness.
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Topic 1: What has Ontario done to make schools safer during the two-week virtual learning?
Topic 2: What is Dr. Moore’s actual opinion on child vaccination? And why the vacillation?
Topic 3: What has changed in the Ontario COVID data to facilitate a return to class?
GUEST: Dr. Kieran Moore, Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Province of Ontario
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The Ontario governments housing affordability summit is on Wednesday, Jan. 19th, what will be accomplished? Tim is a part of the task force and will be there.
ALSO: Royal LePage: Spring housing market poised for continued price growth following double-digit gains in fourth quarter
GUEST: Tim Hudak, CEO of OREA, Former Conservative Party leader of Ontario
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A COVID-19 vaccine mandate for truckers crossing into Canada from the United States is now in effect, raising worries about future disruptions to the supply chain as the pandemic drags on.
As of Saturday, Canadian truckers must be fully vaccinated if they want to avoid quarantine and a pre-arrival molecular test, while unvaccinated American big-riggers are to be turned back at the border.
Trucking industry groups accused the Canadian government of sparking confusion after the Canada Border Services Agency suggested earlier this week that Ottawa was backtracking on the rules, only to have that information refuted the next day.
GUEST: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport
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Topics include: Tesla hack, Apple users better save their pennies, Canada mandates automatic headlights, CES showand more!
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Global Affairs is proposing a multibillion-dollar Indo-Pacific strategy that would shift Canada’s reliance away from China by diversifying trade and investment in Asia, the Pacific Rim and beyond while boosting security and international assistance contributions to the region.
The federal plan, which is costed at $3.5-billion over five years, has been circulated within the top levels of the bureaucracy over the past few weeks, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the proposals.
GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Distinguished Senior Fellow with Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
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Businesses are calling on the Ontario government to announce if establishments shuttered under the latest pandemic restrictions will be allowed to reopen Jan. 26, but the province’s top doctor said Thursday he can’t guarantee that date.
Ontario Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Rocco Rossi said in a statement that now that the province has said schools will return on Monday, it’s time to provide clarity for businesses.
GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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Weekly Ontario Political round up:
- Doug Ford government's polling shows shifting views of Ontario's COVID-19 response
- parents won't be notified of all school outbreaks but data on absentee rates will be available
- Doug Ford says no to taxing the unvaxxed
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GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) launched Glory From Anywhere, its 2022 Olympic Winter Games campaign, on Monday.
The campaign, which includes a 60-second film, available in English and French, will feature on national television, print, digital, social media and out-of-home placements. It features eight athletes who embody what it means to Be Olympic and inspire the people around them to pursue what is possible.
GUEST: Catriona Le May Doan, Chef de Mission for the 2022 Beijing Olympics and double Olympic champion speed skater
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The Ontario government says parents will only be notified of a potential COVID-19 outbreak when approximately 30 per cent of staff and students in the school are absent but data on absentee rates will be available to the public before that threshold is met.
Students in Ontario will return to in-person classes on Jan. 17 following nearly two weeks of remote learning due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
When student and staff absenteeism in an individual school reaches approximately 30 per cent from its baseline, it will trigger the principal to notify local health officials, the government said Wednesday.
ALSO: students, staff to each get 2 rapid COVID tests when schools restart in person
GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph
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Should we let people govern themselves and just ‘open up’ like our neighbors in the U.S?
GUEST: Dr. Kerry Bowman, Bioethicist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine with the University of Toronto
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As the semiconductor shortage drags on, manufacturers are opting to deliver cars without some of the features that those chips power. It’s things they figure you won’t miss or care about, which of course makes me ask why they had them in there to start with. When power windows started popping up in the “fancy” cars of my youth, my father had only one thing to say. “One more damned thing to break,” he growled, and my father was not wrong.
Read the full article HERE
ALSO: Parallel parking temporarily removed from G-class licence to clear backlog
GUEST: Lorraine Summerfield, Author and Auto Columnist with The Spec and Driving.Ca
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GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University
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The results of a national survey released today by Maru Public Opinion finds that a majority (60%) of Canadians support some type of fine that could amount to a healthcare surcharge for those who choose to remain unvaccinated. The release of the results arrived as Quebec Premier François Legault announced that the province would be imposing a health tax on Quebecers who refuse to get their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks.
ALSO: Maru Public Opinion finds four-in-ten (38%) Canadians who admit to knowing someone in their family or circle of friends who have contracted the COVID-19 virus in the last ten days.
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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In early December, emergency room staff at Bluewater Health in Sarnia, Ont., began seeing a troubling change in patients coming to the hospital with serious COVID-19 symptoms. Unlike during earlier waves, multiple people were showing up at once. Sometimes entire families came in, all sick, likely with the newly identified Omicron variant of the virus.
Now, the hospital’s intensive-care unit is at capacity, with 70 per cent of patients there as a result of COVID-19 infections. About 90 per cent of the COVID-19 patients in the ICU are unvaccinated, chief of staff Michel Haddad said in an interview this week. Among the hospital’s entire population of COVID-19 patients, both inside and outside the ICU, two-thirds are unvaccinated.
In the past two weeks, the number of COVID-19 patients admitted to Bluewater has quadrupled. Meanwhile, a significant chunk of the staff – nearly five times the typical number – is on sick leave, in many cases because of Omicron. This has forced others to work double shifts and postpone holidays.
GUEST: Carly Weeks, Health Reporter for the Globe and Mail
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On January 11th, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said the Canada-U.S. relationship is at its lowest point in decades — a development that threatens to stall Canada's growth and derail some sectors of the economy.
Speaking at a virtual event with Nova Scotia chambers of commerce, O'Toole said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has done little to stop the U.S. from pursuing punitive policies. O'Toole pointed to a list of grievances, including recent hikes to softwood lumber tariffs and an ongoing dispute over P.E.I. potatoes.
What is the state of CAN/US relations?
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Do requirements by The College of Nurses of Ontario need reform to address the nursing shortage? One doctor says they do based on her experience.
GUEST: Dr. Mariana Bueno, Research Fellow with The Hospital for Sick Children
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Just three days into 2022, Ontarians were greeted by the sight of Premier Ford intoning that the new wave of the pandemic is like “nothing we’ve ever seen” and that a “tsunami” of cases is about to swamp the province’s health-care system.
But, Ford had the math three weeks ago, when the Ontario Science Table reported that it had tracked 30 cases of Omicron per million inhabitants as of Dec. 10. That’s 450 cases for a province of 15 million people. By then, the world knew that Omicron cases double every two to three days.
So why did Ford not bite the bullet before Christmas? The only answer, in this election year, is politics. Instead of hurting businesses at one of the busiest times of the year, as well as earning the ire of the anti-lockdown crowd, he chose to hurt millions of other people.
GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and VP of the Canadian Centre for the Purpose of the Corporation
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Students and teachers in Ontario will heading back to the classroom as scheduled on Monday January 17th.
The province said while students and teachers pivoted to online learning, officials would work to deploy non-fit-tested N95 respirators for education and child-care staff, high quality three-ply masks cloth masks for students, and additional HEPA filters for classrooms.
GUEST: Karen Brown, President of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO)
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday advised against travel to Canada because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases.
The CDC elevated its travel recommendation to "Level Four: Very High" for Canada, telling Americans they should avoid travel to its northern neighbour. The CDC currently lists about 80 destinations worldwide at Level Four. It also raised the island of Curaçao to Level Four on Monday.
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News
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From cities struggling to keep enough emergency responders on duty to staffing shortages hampering the Canadian food supply chain, the rapid spread of the Omicron variant is hampering the ability of public services to operate at full capacity across Canada.
The sudden surge of infections has spurred some government officials to begin developing contingency plans.
Why doesn't the government make it easier for international frontline workers?
ALSO: Some hospitals are bringing back unvaccinated staff (Niagara) how do we navigate this staffing crisis ethically?
GUEST: Dr. Nancy Walton, Director of the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing & Associate Dean of Ryerson University and Deputy Chair of the Health Canada Research Ethics Board
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Surging COVID-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant have forced many economists to reconsider their predictions for the Canadian economy in 2022, but it’s not the only shock that could throw a wrench into forecasts.
Economists at Capital Economics say COVID-19 is just one of five potential unknowns that could disrupt their forecasts for this year.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a vaccine mandate for international truckers despite increasing pressure from critics who say it will exacerbate driver shortages and drive up the price of goods imported from the United States.
Canada will require all truckers entering from the United States to show proof of vaccination starting on Saturday as part of its fight against COVID-19.
That could force some 16,000, or 10%, of cross-border drivers off the roads, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimates. The government estimates 5% of drivers will be impacted, according to a government source.
GUEST: Stephen Laskowski, President of The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA)
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Topics include: Instagram and Facebook scams, sad day for blackberry, new Android phone, Apple became a 3 trillion-dollar companyand more!
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As the Omicron variant surges, lockdowns are once again the rule for most Canadians, while in most parts of the United States restrictions are few.
We are about to witness the effects of two very different approaches to managing the fifth pandemic wave.
While Canadians, despite grumbles and howls, acquiesce in more weeks of lockdown, in the United States, “the tide of opinion is such that no politician seems to be able to do anything close to a lockdown,” he observed. Two countries, two systems, two cultures.
GUEST: Jon Allen, Former Canadian diplomat and Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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Weekly Ontario Political round up:
- Did Doug Ford bungle the pandemic response?
- Why did Ford flip-flop on closing schools?
- Does Canada’s healthcare system work?
- & more
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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Matthew Walker was apologetic. “I don’t want to seem puritanical here,” the British scientist said on one of the newest episodes of his popular sleep podcast, in which he explained the ways in which alcohol does a number on sleep, including by tripping the sympathetic nervous system’s fight-or-flight switch. Sleep becomes more fragile, more “littered with fragmented awakenings,” said Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
When broken down by the liver and kidneys, alcohol’s byproducts also mess with REM sleep, or dream sleep, and without sufficient dream sleep we’re left more anxious, more emotionally unstable and less sharp, mentally.
GUEST: Dr. Sheryl Green, Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University
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GUEST: David Hopkins, President of The Fifteen Group
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
We have scheduled provincial and municipal elections two months apart. And we may have a federal election at any time because Parliament is in a precarious minority situation. Elections are a time of great democratic renewal, but they are also a time of polarizing partisanship as each side tries to win the hearts and minds of voters.
Concern for the pandemic will be exacerbated by the rhetoric of division and hyperbole during the electoral periods ahead. It will seem as if the centre isn’t holding, but that is only the appearance of chaos. In fact our democracy will prevail and be strengthened by the process ahead.
GUEST: John Best, Founder of the Bay Observer
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A month away, what is the state of the Beijing Olympics?
Should Canada send athletes to Beijing?
GUEST: Dr. Angela Schneider, Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University, Silver medal rower, coxed fours, 1984 Olympics
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How do we move forward with the unvaccinated in society? Australia denies Djokovic entry to their country, but in Canada the thought of denying healthcare to unvaccinated people is unthinkable? We are denying healthcare to people who need surgeries by delaying them. Where do we draw the line as a society?
GUEST: Timothy Caulfield, Professor at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy
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The federal government has unveiled its $40-billion agreement in principle to provide compensation to First Nations children and their families harmed by an underfunded child welfare system and establish long-term reform.
As a result of the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history, Ottawa will provide $20 billion to children on reserve and in the Yukon who were unnecessarily removed from their homes between April 1, 1991 and March 31, 2022. This extends to their parents and caregivers. Compensation will also be provided to those impacted by the narrow definition of Jordan’s Principle between Dec. 12, 2007 and Nov. 2, 2017.
"This is the largest settlement in Canadian history, but no amount of money can reverse the harms experienced by First Nations children," said Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller. "However, historic injustices require historic reparations."
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director at the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University
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Across Ontario, educators, parents and students were left scrambling to prepare for a return to class Wednesday, after the winter break. As a result of surging COVID-19 cases, in-person learning, which the province last week assured Ontarians would resume, has been paused.
On Monday, Premier Doug Ford warned that Ontario faces “a tsunami of new cases in the days and weeks ahead” and ordered that schools switch to online learning until at least Jan. 17.
The about-face frustrated many educators and families who are calling on the province to use the next two weeks to ensure a safe reopening for schools. Among the demands of some parents and teachers’ unions are measures such
GUEST: Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Violence Prevention in Schools, and a Full Professor in Counseling Psychology at the University of Ottawa
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If you want to rent a cottage this summer, industry experts say you better start looking now. Or do you?
GUEST: Heather Bayer, CEO of Cottage Link Rental Management
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Ray was 19 at the time and responding to noise complaints about the sound coming from the roof of Apple studios.
GUEST: Ray Dagg, Former London bobbie and cop that broke up the last Beatles performance ever
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The Bill Kelly Show w/ Guest Host Scott Radley:
The Ontario government has issued several new COVID-19 public health measures that includes moving schools online, closures and capacity limits for businesses as the province struggles to contain the spread of Omicron.
Students and staff will not be returning to in-person learning this week. Schools will switch to remote learning starting on Wednesday for at least two weeks.
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto
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Last year started out hopeful with the emergence of COVID-19 vaccines, but quickly proved to be a challenging year for governments and communities worldwide.
Still in the midst of the pandemic, 2022 will bring about a host of significant political issues and events that will impact communities, both locally and globally. Lori and Scott discuss some of the major events that will dominate the news cycles this year.
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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The mood in Canadian homes seems to have shifted from surviving a single societal cataclysm into a new normal that, spending-wise, looks pretty much like the pre-pandemic old normal.
A solid 89 per cent of Canadians are worried about inflation and the rising costs of goods and services.
A slim majority expect their household’s financial situation to stay roughly the same over 2022, and fewer than one in five expect it to improve.
Younger adults, in the 18 to 34 age range, are more inclined to say they will do something expensive than people older than 55, a result that mirrors their general optimism, according to the poll.
GUEST: Dave Scholz, Executive VP of Leger
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The Bill Kelly Show w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:
What was it like to be a female politician in 2021? In a word: challenging
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University
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Dr. Kieran Moore, CMOH of Health, will make an announcement today at 3:00pm. What guidance do we need to hear from them?
ALSO: Ontarians waiting on back-to-school plan amid unprecedented COVID spread
GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Co-Founder of Doctors For Justice in Long Term Care and Palliative Care Physician
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What sparkling wines should you be serving on New Year’s Eve?
GUEST: Heidi Howse, Blogger ‘The Wine Student’
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The Bill Kelly Show w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:
U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop.
The decision also was driven by a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, propelled by the omicron variant.
ALSO: Omicron infection may enhance immunity against Delta variant, study suggests
GUEST: Dr. Rodney Rohde, Professor and Chair of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the College of Health Professions with Texas State University
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Ontario health officials are looking at new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on shortened COVID-19 isolation and quarantine periods.
Ontario chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore was set to hold a press briefing Tuesday afternoon to provide an update on contact tracing and COVID-19 testing in the province, but his update was postponed.
Moore will now provide an update sometime later this week.
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University
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Colin chats with Shiona about his life as a Canadian musician during the COVID era and what’s next for him in 2022
GUEST: Colin James, Canadian Musician
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Looking back at the turbulent year for both Doug Ford in Ontario and Justin Trudeau federally.
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
The year in review: How Digital Media changed the news landscape.
GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?
A look back on the tumultuous year that businesses have had in Ontario.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
The music industry did its best to stay afloat with very few in-person events. As well the Beatles documentary "Get Back" made a huge splash, Springsteen sold his catalogue and so much more,
GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Member of The Hamilton Music Advisory Team and an Instructor at the Harris Institute for Music
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: the mask that measures the quality of the air you're breathing, the self-sanitizing fridge, innovations in the EV market and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland sought to make a clear delineation between the Canadian and American approach to fighting the fifth wave of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters about Ottawa’s response to the recent surge of Omicron cases, Freeland was asked to explain why the White House is reassuring Americans that holiday gatherings are safe if vaccinated, and that the variant is not a cause for panic, while the Canadian government is urging people to stay home and reduce contacts.
Freeland’s answer left many Canadians asking more questions. What opportunities did the government miss, and what should they have done?
GUEST: Andrew Brander, Vice President of Crestview Strategies
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The federal government is promising to spend close to $880 million over the next four years to build about 65,000 new charging stations for electric or fuel cell-powered passenger vehicles.
But an industry group representing some of Canada's biggest automakers says Canada needs to be building millions of stations.
Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association, said a national electric-charging network needs years of careful planning to ensure the charging stations are available when and where people need them. He says new models and more supply would solve only one piece of the electric transition, because if the charging networks don't keep pace, people aren't going to make the switch.
GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association
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Ontario businesses affected by recent public health measures can apply for rebates on property taxes and energy costs, the government announced Wednesday amid warnings some companies were on the brink of collapse due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.
The federal government, meanwhile, said it was expanding eligibility for its $300-per-week worker benefit program. Instead of applying only to those who lost work due to lockdowns, it will now apply in regions where business capacity has been capped at 50 per cent to directly affected workers who’ve lost half or more of their income.
GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce
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Ontario is preparing to change its approach to COVID-19 testing and contact tracing as the Omicron variant strains resources, with the province’s top doctor saying residents may soon have to take on more responsibility when it comes to notifying others of exposure.
Dr. Kieran Moore said Tuesday that Ontario is on track to have more COVID-19 cases than at any point in the pandemic. The exponential growth means people may face long waits for tests and should be prepared to tell their own personal contacts and workplaces about a positive test result, he said.
Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released a statement ahead of Ontario’s COVID-19 update. She joins us to discuss her proposal to help blunt the Omicron Wave and get people through it.
GUEST: Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition, Ontario NDP
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The NHL and NHL Players' Association have come to an agreement to not participate in the 2022 Winter Olympic men's hockey tournament in Beijing.
"The National Hockey League respects and admires the desire of NHL Players to represent their countries and participate in a 'best on best' tournament. Accordingly, we have waited as long as possible to make this decision while exploring every available option to enable our Players to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement.
ALSO: Canadian woman playing a starring role in sports history & other top sports stories for 2021
GUEST: Greg Brady, Host of Toronto Today 5:30-9am on 640 Toronto
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Millennials make up the majority of working age Canadians. They are increasingly taking leadership roles on teams and in organizations. They are the largest block of voters in the Canadian electorate, and a soon to be published book chapter says they were instrumental in all three election wins for Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party.
But - are older millennials much different than younger ones?
GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of research and insights at Abacus Data
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
As concerns over the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 mount, Canadians across the country are signing up for booster doses to increase their protection against the virus.
Studies are still underway to better understand the Omicron variant, with preliminary data slowly rolling in from Africa, where the strain was first detected.
Based on what we know, what is the importance of the booster against Omicron?
ALSO: Moderna says booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine should protect against Omicron
GUEST: Dr. Brian D. Lichty, Associate Professor in Pathology and Molecular Medicine with the McMaster Immunology Research Centre
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A wave of show cancellations is rippling through Toronto’s theatre district and beyond as Ontario production companies contend with a rise in covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant.
Mirvish Productions announced Sunday that the North American premiere of its eagerly anticipated Tom Stoppard play “Leopoldstadt” in early 2022 was being pulled from the schedule at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
In Ottawa, plans to bring the acclaimed “Hamilton” musical to the National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall on Jan. 4 have been postponed until July 12.
What is the future of live music? Can it survive another long stretch of restrictions?
GUEST: Erin Benjamin, President and CEO of the Canadian Live Music Association
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O’Regan participated in a series of meetings with the Canadian American Business Council and the Business Council for International Understanding. Embargoed until after the meeting: – he will also be meeting with his US counterpart, Secretary Walsh.
Minister O’ Regan will reiterate the government’s concerns with the discriminatory provisions of the electric vehicle tax credits as proposed in the Build Back Better Act, which violates the U.S. obligations under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
GUEST: Seamus O’Regan Jr, Minister of Labour
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday “no decision” has been made yet on what will happen with schools in the new year.
Ford made the comment during a press conference Friday afternoon, where the government announced new measures in a bid to slow the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
Teachers and education workers say they need rapid tests to slow the spread of Omicron.
What else do schools need to make sure they’re as safe as possible?
GUEST: Martha Hradowy,Vice President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
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In the fall of 2015, someone in the federal government decided to drop a multimillion-dollar residential school compensation case against Catholic Church groups.
CBC News recently reached out to more than a dozen current or former ministers and senior bureaucrats. Several admit they likely have relevant documents but refused to share them.
That includes both current Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller and Bernard Valcourt, who served as minister of aboriginal affairs and northern development in the Conservative government from February 2013 until his defeat in the October 2015 federal election, won by the Liberals
Advocates say survivors, their families and the public have a right to these documents immediately. They say it's the latest slap in the face to survivors by the federal government, the courts and the Catholic Church.
GUEST: David Taylor, A lawyer representing the First Nations in this case
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Roughly a quarter (23 per cent) of Canadians working exclusively at physical workplaces said their working lives have worsened since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, according to LifeWorks Inc.’s latest mental-health index.
The survey — which was conducted between Nov. 9 and Nov. 22, 2021 and prior to the spread of the Omicron variant — found these respondents also reported a mental-health score of negative 21.1, more than 11 points below the national average of negative 10. While the national average was up slightly from last month's mental-health score of negative 10.2, it marks the 20th consecutive month that Canadians reported a negative mental-health score.
GUEST: Paula Allen, Senior Vice President of Research & Wellbeing at LifeWorks
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
A year-in-review Town Hall with Hamilton's mayor. Hamilton's response to the Omicron threat, what you can do to slow the spread, and Q&A with listeners.
GUEST: Mayor Fred Eisenberger
The new modelling suggests that Omircron's spread requires a "circuit breaker" to prevent overloading Ontario's ICUs by early January. The Ontario Science Advisory Table states that increased booster shots are not enough to slow the spread.
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto.
With people scrambling for booster shots and rapid tests across the province, has the Ford Government left pharmacies unprepared with their announcement Thursday?
GUEST: Justin Bates, CEO of the Ontario Pharmacist
The NHL is facing overwhelming COVID outbreaks, and they are implementing new protocols from now through to January.
GUEST: Nick Alberga Freelance Hockey Analyst and Broadcaster.
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: The Metaverse in your back-to-work life, 2022 the last year for passwords (says Adam), UV sanitation and more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Ontario is giving its COVID-19 booster program a shot in the arm, allowing everyone 18 and up to get a third vaccination as of Monday and slashing the time between doses.
ALSO: free rapid tests at the LCBO as well as changes to capacity by 50% to NHL, OHL and NBA games
What makes Omicron different from other variants?
GUEST: Dr. DaSantila Golemi-Kotra, Microbiologist at York University
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The Ontario Housing Summit has been postponed, but the issue isn’t going away
What needs to be addressed regionally in order to solve the province’s housing crisis?
GUEST: Kevin Crigger, President of the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board
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The federal government is reimposing its advisory against all non-essential international travel as it tries to stop the growth of the Omicron variant, but it stopped short of imposing more significant restrictions that were also under consideration.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced the new travel advisory on Wednesday, just 10 days before Christmas and as airports were expecting December to be the busiest month yet since the start of the pandemic.
GUEST: Abigail Bimman, Ottawa Correspondent for Global News
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Ontario is now the lone province without a $10-a-day child care deal with Ottawa, as New Brunswick announced such an agreement on Monday.
However, talks between Ontario and Ottawa are progressing well, both sides say – although it’s unclear whether the major impasse over billions of dollars in funding for the country’s largest province will be resolved before the end of the year.
GUEST: Karina Gould, MP for Burlington and Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
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Unvaccinated family members will be prevented from entering long-term care homes in Ontario as the province enhances the COVID-19 protocols to prevent the Omicron variant from triggering another wave of outbreaks in an already fragile sector.
The Ministry of Long-Term Care is blanketing the sector with new rules this week that would impact visitors and staff alike, regardless of their vaccine status, limiting who can enter a nursing home ahead of the holidays.
The temporary measures will go into effect on Dec. 17.
GUEST: Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos, Co-Founder of Canadians4LTC Standards and a Professor at Ontario Tech University
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Ottawa’s bottom line is benefitting from billions in new tax revenue since the April budget, with the Liberal government opting to divert about half of that substantial gain toward new spending, the fall fiscal update shows.
Funding related to COVID-19 makes up a large part of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s latest fiscal plan, which outlines nearly $30-billion for recent and future pandemic measures, including $4.5-billion for responding in the event that new measures are required to fight the Omicron variant.
The new variant is fueling fears of another round of lockdowns, and inflation is running near two-decade highs. This appears to have persuaded the government to delay acting on measures that were promised in the recent Liberal Party election platform.
GUEST: Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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The federal government is readying new travel rules that could be announced as early as today (Wednesday December 15), after Justin Trudeau met with the premiers to chart a response to the escalation in COVID-19 cases, increasingly driven by the Omicron variant.
The Prime Minister held a call with his provincial and territorial counterparts to brief them on options Ottawa is weighing to make travel more difficult. He was also expected to urge premiers to ramp up their booster campaigns and consider tightening public-health restrictions.
GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for both the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Defence Minister Anita Anand says successive Canadian governments have failed to dedicate the time, money and effort needed to stamp out the “scourge” of sexual misconduct in the Canadian military.
Survivors and victims of military sexual misconduct received a historic and long-awaited apology on Monday from Anand, as well as from Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and Jody Thomas, deputy minister of the Department of National Defence.
More than 7,600 people watched the apology livestream on Facebook, which comes after a year in which the Canadian military has been forced to confront what experts have called a “crisis” of sexual misconduct within its ranks, particularly senior leaders.
ALSO: Opposition pressing Liberals to address inflation ahead of fiscal update
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada would 'align' its own electric-vehicle incentives with those south of the border if Canadian-built cars and trucks could be made eligible for proposed U.S. tax credits.
Trudeau says the two countries have been building cars together for more than 50 years -- an alliance threatened by President Joe Biden's efforts to boost sales of vehicles made in the U.S. with union labour.
GUEST: Noah Frey, PhD Student of Political Science at McMaster University
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Police in Niagara Falls charged Marineland in an investigation where it’s alleged the theme park used animals for a park performance without authorization.
Niagara Regional Police (NRPS) say the probe started in October and is tied to a summer display that investigators believe violated the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act.
GUEST: Camille Labchuk, a Lawyer & Executive Director of Animal Justice
Ottawa has announced plans to hold a national summit early next year to examine the country’s supply chain and seek ways to deal with the bottlenecks and other problems facing the system.
Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says the meeting will bring together industry, shippers and organizations that run critical infrastructure.
The issues have been compounded by the storms and mudslides in B.C. that cut key rail and highway routes between the Port of Vancouver and the rest of the country.
GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Zach Collaros’ 13-yard TD strike to Darvin Adams in overtime earned the Winnipeg Blue Bombers a thrilling 33-25 Grey Cup win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on a windy Sunday night.
Bill Kelly and Justin Dunk recap the game and analysis the results.
GUEST: Justin Dunk, Founder of 3 Down Nation, and Sports Anchor for CHCH News
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Ontario will offer all adults who are six months past their second dose a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine starting Jan. 4, the province said Friday as it scrapped plans to lift its vaccine certificate and announced a crackdown on fake medical exemptions.
The moves, announced by Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott and Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore, come as infections in the province rose rapidly amid projections that a new more contagious variant could see cases skyrocket in just weeks.
Should boosters be offered sooner?
ALSO: Ontario needs new pandemic response strategy as Omicron COVID-19 variant makes inroads: experts
GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University
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A recent poll finds that a majority of Ontarians feel that the provincial government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly faltered.
A survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, a non-partisan public opinion research organization, concludes that Canadians appear to be increasingly disappointed in their provincial leaders in wake of variants of concern rapidly impacting the severity of a third wave.
While at least half of respondents in Manitoba and Saskatchewan said they’re concerned with their premiers response, 65 per cent of Ontarians and 75 per cent of those polled in Alberta said their leader or their provincial government is poorly handling the pandemic.
Also: New poll shows majority of Canadians are ready to live with COVID-19
GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion
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It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!
Topics include: Hack of the week, a suicide pod, Alexa update, an ice cube that doesn't meltand more!
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Weekly roundup of politics!
- Can the Liberals pass the two remain priority bills
- O’Toole maintains Bill 21 is a provincial debate
- Doug Ford defends approach on provincial rapid testing access
- Integrity commissioner clears Ford of conflict of interest over Bradford Bypass
- & more
GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill
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Why are people still sick? To try and answer that question and find out who is more likely to suffer from long COVID – The New Reality spoke with leading experts in the field. As researchers try to unravel the mystery of who is getting sick and how to treat those suffering from long COVID.
GUEST: Krysia Collyer, Journalist with Global News
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Premier Doug Ford has tapped Jerry Dias, Canada’s most powerful private-sector union leader, to help Ontario fight American policies that threaten Ontario’s auto industry.
Dias, the president of Unifor, will lead the province’s push to try to thwart U.S. President Joe Biden’s protectionist moves that favour American-built electric vehicles.
The veteran unionist, who advised the federal Liberal government during negotiations on the 2019 USMCA free trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico, will serve as the unpaid chair of the new Premier’s Council on U.S. Trade and Industry Competitiveness.
GUEST: Jerry Dias, Unifor National President
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Global News has learned the Ontario government plans to announce changes to the province’s proof of COVID-19 vaccination system on Friday.
Two high-ranking government officials confirmed details in stories first reported by the Toronto Sun and CBC News, which indicate that the provincial government plans to make the QR code receipt the only means of showing proof of vaccination.
The original vaccination receipts, which have been susceptible to fraud, would no longer be accepted.
GUEST: Matthew Bingley, Reporter for Global News in Toronto
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Chief’s Townhall with Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
Topic include: Encampments, Holiday ride programs, Sundays TiCats game and more.
GUEST: Hamilton Police Chief Frank Bergen
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The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Canada will not send any official representatives to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February as part of a growing diplomatic boycott by allies over China’s record of human rights abuses.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on Wednesday after facing several days of questions over whether Canada would stand with allies that have already announced similar plans.
What took them so long and how is Beijing going to retaliate?
GUEST: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University
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Joe Biden's big summit this week is not going to save the world for democracy.
But it will offer a glimpse into just how much the current government in the United States — and even Canada — is spooked by the real prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Once upon a time, a U.S.-led summit on democracy would revolve around ways to export American-style values to shakier, less democratic nations abroad. But that was before the siege on Capitol Hill, which vividly demonstrated that democracy denial is now a real, ongoing domestic problem for the United States
Events since then, even with a new president in the White House, have only heightened worries about the health of the U.S. democracy. Over the past month, alarm bells have been sounding more regularly in the U.S. media about all the efforts under way to align the electoral system and voting rights for a Trump victory in 2024.
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GUEST: Susan Delacourt, National Columnist with The Toronto Star
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Canada's central bank has sent a warning that increases in the cost of living would continue into next year, but signalled it wasn't yet prepared to pull its key lever to rein in inflation.
The annual pace of inflation in October rose to 4.7 per cent, a pandemic-era high and the fastest year-over-year gain in the consumer price index in 18 years.
The Bank of Canada said high inflation rates will continue through the first half of next year, but should by the second half of 2022 fall back to its comfort zone of between one and three per cent.
GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University
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President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the West would impose “strong economic and other measures” on Russia if it invades Ukraine, while Putin demanded guarantees that NATO would not expand farther eastward.
The two leaders held two hours of virtual talks on Ukraine and other disputes in a video call about U.S.-Russian relations, which have sunk to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War more than three decades ago, as Russia masses tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine’s border.
GUEST: Brian J. Karem,Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question",
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Ontario’s COVID-19 science advisory table has released new projections that indicate cases are rising substantially, even without Omicron, and that vaccinating young children and increased public health measures are key to flattening the curve.
Vaccinations and reduced contacts are needed to keep pressure off the province’s hospitals. But so far, is not recommending any provincewide restrictions.
What do we know about the Omicron variant?
ALSO: Do we need more access to testing?
GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto
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As Canada's spy agency warns that China's efforts to distort the news and influence media outlets in Canada "have become normalized," critics are renewing calls for Ottawa to take a far tougher approach to foreign media interference.
The warning is contained in briefing documents drafted for Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director David Vigneault in preparation for a meeting he had with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year.
That meeting focused on the rise of foreign interference in Canada — something CSIS says has become "more sophisticated, frequent, and insidious."
GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Director of the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst
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If you see your favourite bottle of New Year’s bubbly or that special single malt you’ve been eyeing for your uncle for Christmas on the shelves, you might want to grab it now.
The LCBO, like almost every other retailer, says it’s been affected by supply chain woes caused by the global pandemic.
Those liquor shortages have been driving sales to local wineries.
GUEST: Aaron Dobbin, President of the Wine Growers of Ontario
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Importance of sponsoring the CHML Christmas Tree of Hope
ALSO: Leggat will be celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2022.
Text DONATE 30333 to make a $5 or $25 donation
GUEST: Luke Brown, CEO of Leggat
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Dominic Barton, a strong advocate for increased trade with China during his term as ambassador, is stepping down amidst growing pressure from the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden for Ottawa to take a tougher stance with Beijing, foreign policy and national security experts said.
Barton, who was appointed by the Trudeau government in September 2019, announced his resignation Monday, citing his success “working to secure the release” of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor as the fulfillment of a priority mission handed to him by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
ALSO: Canada should join diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics says O’Toole
GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University
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Are the new Canadian travel restrictions clear? Do travelers know what is expected of them? Are airports concerned with the impact of Omicron during the busy travel season? We saw what happened with the land border - no one knew what to do.
ALSO: Most Canadians support strong travel restrictions amid Omicron COVID-19 variant: Poll
GUEST: Daniel-Robert Gooch, President of the Canadian Airports Council
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The federal government will hand over thousands of previously undisclosed residential school documents to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
In an interview, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said the government has come to the conclusion that continuing to withhold the documents is a breach of Ottawa’s “moral duty” to survivors of the schools.
GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director at the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University
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Merck Canada announced on Monday that it is partnering with Thermo Fisher Scientific to manufacture its COVID-19 antiviral drug in Canada for global distribution in a deal Ottawa hopes will help jump-start the country’s position as a biomanufacturing centre and better secure its supply chain for future public health emergencies.
The existing Thermo Fisher facility in Whitby, Ont. will produce doses of molnupiravir, an investigational drug developed in collaboration with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, for distribution in Canada, the U.K., the European Union, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, pending approvals in those respective regions. The drug is awaiting approval by Health Canada.
GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University
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Americans still have to adhere to rules about pre-departure PCR testing, they must be fully vaccinated and they could be subjected to mandatory testing, however, Canada is not extending new COVID-19 travel restrictions to the United States in spite of the fact there are cases of Omicron in the US.
ALSO: The WHO now vaguely references/criticizes Canada’s travel ban?
GUEST: Dr. Prabhat Jha, Epidemiologist and Founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital
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Opposition MPs are getting ready to review the Liberals’ latest package of pandemic aid and grill Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland myriad economic issues.
The 12-member House of Commons finance committee is scheduled to meet today to move the aid bill closer to a final vote before MPs leave on their holiday break in two weeks’ time.
As part of a compromise to fast-track the legislation, the Liberals agreed to have Freeland sit for at least two hours of questioning before the committee
That gives opposition members a chance to grill Freeland about issues facing the domestic economy and the government’s pandemic response overall.
GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University
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Canada, the United States and Britain should jointly and swiftly provide military support to Ukraine in its standoff with Russia, Ukraine’s Defence Minister says, warning that steps to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading were necessary now because “it will be too late after.”
GUEST: Aurel Braun,Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto
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Canada's tight labour market is forcing many companies to offer regular COVID-19 testing over vaccine mandates, while others are reversing previously announced inoculation requirements even as Omicron variant cases rise.
Airlines, police forces, school boards and even Canada's Big Five banks have also pledged strict mandatory vaccine policies. But following through has proven less straightforward, especially as employers grapple with staffing shortages and workers demand exemptions.
GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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