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. 

GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton and CHML Sports Director 

GUEST: Lou Molinaro, Instructor at Durham College and the Harris Institute for Music

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

GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ahead of the auditor general’s report on the greenbelt today – what are some of the implications of her announcement? GUEST: Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager with Environmental Defense - The Competition Bureau is already looking into Meta’s removal of Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram, a spokesperson said the same day a group of news publishers and broadcasters asked for an investigation into the company’s news blocking. GUEST: Kevin Desjardins, President of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters - Canada has little to show for its promises to combat forced labour in China, critics say. In 2021, members of Parliament were among the first in the West to officially condemn Beijing’s repression of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities from China’s Xinjiang province – abuses that include forced labour. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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 

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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: James Harrison, Broker with Mortgages.ca

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

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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 

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia 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

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc

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

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Kayla Andrade, Founder of Ontario Landlords Watch

GUEST: Sara Beyer, Senior policy analyst with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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 

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University.

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

GUEST: Dr. Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurse Association of Ontario

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.

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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.

GUEST: Lisa Coxon, Managing Editor of Wealth Rocket

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

GUEST:  JP Hornick, President of OPSEU/SEFPO

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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.

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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.

GUEST: John Malcolmson, Executive Director of Scleroderma Canada 

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 

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc.

GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal

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: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser says India is among the top sources of foreign interference in Canada, a public designation Ottawa has largely limited to authoritarian states. ALSO: Wildfires in Nova Scotia GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University -  Yasir Naqvi has joined the race to become the next leader of Ontario’s Liberal party. The Ottawa Centre MP and former provincial cabinet minister announced his run Saturday, saying he wanted to vie for the job because he feels “the promise of Ontario is slipping away” amid education and health care cuts made by the Progressive Conservatives. He also singled out soaring housing and grocery costs as issues plaguing the province and its residents. GUEST: Yasir Naqvi, Candidate for the Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party - The federal prison service will review its decision to move notorious killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security facility, but its reason for the controversial transfer remained secret Monday. Leaders from across the political spectrum expressed shock and outage at the Correctional Service of Canada's decision to move the murderer and serial rapist from Millhaven Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary near Kingston, Ont. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Johnston hired crisis communications firm ·        Trudeau continues to stand by Johnston ·        Is Poilievre wasting his chance to become PM? ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - A Chinese warship came within 150 yards of hitting American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon, during a rare joint Canada-U.S. mission sailing through the Taiwan Strait, the latest aggressive military move from Beijing in the South China Sea. ALSO: International priorities GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - Two reports dropped within six weeks of each other revealed deep systemic failures in Canadian policing that go back half a century. Are we ready to act on the policing problem here in Canada? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

GUEST:  Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       MPs vote for David Johnston to resign as rapporteur ·       Singh slams Johnston’s refusal to drop role ·       Breakdown in how intelligence is shared ·       Etc… GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill -  Is it time to abolish the Catholic school system in Ontario? GUEST: Michael Coren, Author and Anglican Cleric - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford have reached a tentative deal with Stellantis to save its Windsor battery factory that could be worth more than $13 billion in subsidies, the Star has learned. That means the French parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Fiat might receive even more Canadian tax dollars than Germany’s Volkswagen is getting to build a similar electric-vehicle “gigafactory” in St. Thomas, near London. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

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"

Op-ed: As a creator of The Greenbelt I can assure you it is no ‘scam’ GUEST: Victor Doyle is a professional planner who led the development of the Greenbelt Plan - Healthcare is on the agenda today, always gonna be the number 1 issue for Canadians these days and especially with the development of the new provincial policy moving towards privatization. Marit Styles, leader of Ontario NDP has concerns GUEST: Marit Styles, Leader of Ontario NDP - There’s a lot of talk between NATO nations about what’s going on in the South China sea. According to our guest however, NATO should tread carefully in this area. GUEST: Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science with St. Thomas University - The threats towards public officials are real. There have been death threats, threats of violence. Lest we forget when Chrystia Freeland was threatened at an Edmonton hotel a few months back. Now the RCMP is responding. And Ottawa plans to boost their funding for a special unit to protect ministers, top bureaucrats and others. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science with St. Thomas University

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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What could the next Liberal leader do to succeed? GUEST: Jaime Watt is the Executive Chairman of Navigator - Ontario’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government has the power to value education by investing in their educators. We’ve known for quite some time that educators have the most significant influence on the outcomes of students. However, since 2019 we’ve witnessed a government that threatens public education. By implementing its education playbook, the PCs weaponize data and ignore research to push irresponsible and misleading policies, while abandoning educators, students, and families to fend for themselves. GUEST: Steven Reid is an assistant professor at Queen’s University and teaches graduate students (master and doctoral) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education w the University of Toronto - As the world races to find effective climate solutions, hydrogen is earning buzz as a potentially low-emitting alternative fuel source.  The promise of hydrogen as a clean fuel source is nothing new — as far back as the 1970s hydrogen was being promised as a "potential pollution-free fuel four our cars." So, what can we expect from clean hydrogen in Canada? GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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: Topics Include: ·       Johnston penned an Op Ed that makes waves ·       Foreign interference in Canada’s election is part of new Cold War ·       And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - The unexpected pick up in Canadian inflation last month — even if it turns out to be a blip — is a fresh reminder that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is facing a more perilous economic policy landscape going forward, with difficult trade-offs on the horizon. With the world entering a period of scarcity, is Canada’s economy on the right track? GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - Topics Include: ·        6 pillars of debt ceiling deal ·        DeSantis has a “lovability” problem ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Peel Region split ·        Foreign Interference ·        Tent cities & housing the homeless ·        And more… GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill -  David Johnston’s astonishing decision — to conclude that Canada does not need an inquiry into Chinese interference in our democracy — will be remembered for what it doesn’t do, not what it does. GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty (3 times) - Farmers in Ontario are rallying to fight a government bill that would loosen the rules around farmland protection in the province, a move farmers say would result in more homes being built on prime agricultural land and could also threaten the very fabric of rural life.  Bill 97 — or the Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act — is aimed at drastically reshaping development rules to address housing affordability and supply in the province.  GUEST: Richard Lyall, President, Residential Construction Council of Ontario.

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario Premier Doug Ford called Bonnie Crombie’s Liberal leadership run a “slap in the face” to the residents of Mississauga. “My first reaction is what took you so long?” Ford said Wednesday while at an unrelated news conference in London Wednesday morning. “She’s been campaigning for five years.” Crombie officially announced Monday that she has formed an exploratory committee to look into running in the Ontario Liberal Party leadership race. It’s the next logical step for the politician, who in early May could be seen rubbing elbows with high-profile politicians and strategists at the Liberal National Convention in Ottawa. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News - It’s easy to see what Volkswagen and Stellantis get out of the billions in subsidies that Canada is dangling in front of them for domestic Battery plants. But what does Canada and Ontario get in return? GUEST: Dr. Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - Special rapporteur David Johnston found in his first report on foreign interference that Canada’s public safety minister does not have access to top-secret emails that national security officials use to share intelligence — including regarding potential threats against MPs. It was just one example of glaring information-sharing problems within the government that Johnston said must be addressed. 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: A public process is required on the issue of foreign interference, special rapporteur David Johnston says, but not in the form of a public inquiry. Instead, Johnston announced Tuesday that he plans to hold "a series of public hearings with Canadians" to shine more light on the "problem of foreign interference" and inform the public and policymakers on the threat it poses, and ways to address it with urgency. GUEST: Will Stewart, Senior Vice President, National Lead, Public Affairs + Advocacy, Hill+Knowlton - Canadians have racked up more household debt than any country in the G7 making the country vulnerable to global economic crises, according to a report released Tuesday by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Aled ab Iorwerth, CMHC’s deputy chief economist, writes in the report that since 2008 Canada’s household debt-to-GDP ratio has been ballooning despite it dropping in the U.S. some 25 per cent over the same period. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Ontario says it will appoint "facilitators" to look at whether cities and towns in six regional governments could become independent, but the heads of at least three of those municipalities say they're not interested in a breakup. The Ontario government announced its plans for other regional municipalities on the same day it tabled legislation to break apart Peel Region and turn Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon into independent cities. In a news release on Thursday, the province said facilitators will look at Durham, Halton, Niagara, Simcoe, Waterloo and York Regions. All six are upper-tier municipalities. GUEST: Jim Diodati, Mayor, City of Niagara Falls.

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Expanded election days ·       David Johnston to reveal if public inquiry is needed on foreign interference ·       And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - May 23, 2023 marks 150 years since a bill passed through Parliament and received Royal Assent establishing the North-West Mounted Police, which would eventually become the RCMP. What began as a 300-person corps in the West has grown into an internationally recognized organization of more than 30,000 people serving Canadians from coast to coast to coast and supporting international policing and peacekeeping activities. But, there’s a belief among some that Canada should dismantle the RCMP in the face of the scandal and criticism that plague the force. Is it time? GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Topics Include: ·        U.S Debt Ceiling ·        DeSantis expected to enter2024 presidential race new week ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Poilievre doubles down on ‘Jail, no bail’ ·        Ontario dissolves Peel Region in 2025 ·        Gas Prices to rise ·        And more…. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - Guelph’s MPP has announced he will be tabling a trio of bills aimed at protecting Ontario’s Greenbelt. At a May 17 news conference at Queen’s Park, provincial Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner announced he will be tabling three private member's bills later that day he says will, “if passed, ensure that the Greenbelt is protected for present and future generations.” GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - There are numerous large and consequential policy decisions the provincial government needs to handle this year — about things like the stifling housing crisis and the need to accommodate substantially larger volumes of immigration, how to repair the damage the pandemic did to our health-care system and other important services, how much public money automakers should get in return for major investments that preserve the manufacturing workforce in southern Ontario. Viewed in that context, the fate of pop cans seems like small change. But in this case, small change would actually be an improvement. GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Last week, Doug Ford called the Greenbelt “a scam”. This obviously isn’t true, so will the Premier finally be honest and tell us why he thinks it needs to change? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for TVO - Canada's spy agency has now been formally directed to investigate and disclose any foreign threats against parliamentarians or their families, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Tuesday, while the Conservative MP targeted by Beijing urged his colleagues to go further. GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Whether it's young kids watching YouTube videos, older ones logging on for games or teens scrolling TikTok, students today encounter all manner of content online and often simply accept it as truth, according to 14-year-old Ainara Alleyne. It's part of why the teen has joined one of a growing wave of initiatives hoping to boost students' digital literacy and critical thinking skills, so they can better distinguish what's what amid the storm of facts and misinformation flying around the chaotic online spaces they're navigating. 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Justice Minister David Lametti tabled new legislation on Tuesday aimed at making it harder for repeat violent offenders to be granted bail, through a handful of targeted Criminal Code reforms. This small package of legislative reform—spanning just seven pages—comes after months of renewed scrutiny on Canada's bail system and calls for the federal government to implement tougher laws, in the face of a series of high-profile cases of violent crimes allegedly committed by individuals who were out on bail. GUEST: David Lametti, Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada -  62% of Canadians expecting to need charitable services in the next six months say they cannot keep up with the cost of living; new data highlights why charities are struggling to keep up with demand GUEST: Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Polling - A bill that aims to enshrine a francophone immigration program into law is heading to the Senate after clearing the House of Commons. GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Chinese election interference is a hot topic in Canada today. Yet, while it is indeed a matter of enormous importance, it is one that must be placed in the context of the new Cold War against the West 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 - The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says three-quarters of its members say they have experienced or witnessed violence against staff members. The union commissioned a survey of its members earlier this year and president Karen Brown says learning is being disrupted due to violence in schools because the system is underfunded and under-resourced. GUEST: Karen Brown, President of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) - Topics Include: ·        Federal gov’t commitment to EV manufacturers ·        precedent for Stellantis ·        Stats Can Inflation rate ·        And more… GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        G-7 Leaders’ summit ·        What Canadians thing a Poilievre led gov’t would do? ·        Nanos tracking ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - As electric vehicles become more common, the resources helping to power the new generation of transportation are becoming increasingly prized.  Lithium — a metal that's a key element in the batteries commonly used in today's EVs — has become an incredibly hot commodity in recent years. According to the United States Geological Survey, global consumption increased by 41 per cent from 2021 to 2022. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Topics Include: ·        Planned Parenthood calls for major judicial reform ·        GOP’s shrinking ·        Latest on Trump election ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

GUEST: Brandon Woodward, Mortgage Agent with Bold Mortgage Group

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Jenni Byrne accuses Liberals of dropping the ball o foreign Interference ·        Survey shows low opinion of China as a Canadian partner ·        OPP deaths ·        And more…. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - Senior staff in the office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford discussed changes to the Greenbelt months before the province opened parts of it to development, documents show. The Narwhal obtained the documents in response to a freedom of information request, but they were heavily redacted. They contain an email and attachment forwarded by one of Ford’s deputy chiefs of staff, Travis Kann, to two other senior staff members in the premier’s office on Aug. 23, 2022.  GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal - A well-known Hamilton philanthropist with a legacy of contributing considerable funding to local health-care institutions has died. Margaret Juravinski died Tuesday at he age of 91, according to a statement from executives at St. Joseph’s Villa Foundation. GUEST: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport and Founder of Fox40 International

GUEST: Dr. Andrew Park, President of the Ontario Medical Association

GUEST: Alex Hemingway, Senior Economist and Public Finance Policy Analyst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The House of Commons has unanimously voted for a parliamentary committee to look into allegations that the Chinese government waged an intimidation campaign against Conservative M-P Michael Chong. The moves comes after both China and Canada have expelled diplomats following a newly surfaced 2021 report by Canada's spy agency, which alleged that a Toronto consular officer sought to intimidate Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong. The Liberals have warned that their decision to expel a diplomat could mean Beijing inflicts economic pain, but University of Ottawa China expert Margaret McCuaig-Johnston says the country seems to be instead warning of further measures if Canada goes beyond its decision to send home diplomat Zhao Wei. GUEST: Eugene Lang, Assistant Professor with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University - Canada was left out of the trilateral defence and security pact known as AUKUS — and a new report by a respected American think-tank says Ottawa must overcome its apparent indifference to the deal or risk being left behind by its allies. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - An internal analysis of dozens of Canada’s most prominent national sports organizations shows the federal government failed to recognize serious governance problems now plaguing several of them. Sport Canada, the federal department that funds these organizations, gave top marks to several that are now under fire for serious problems, including allegations of abuse, sexual assault and financial malfeasance. GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:  Canadian businesses and farmers are once again steeling themselves for retaliation from China as Beijing seeks to punish Canada for expelling a Chinese diplomat, raising the spectre of a trade war at a time when the Canadian and global economies are already vulnerable. GUEST: Michael Manjuris, Professor and Chair of Global Management Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will not adopt a controversial Liberal Party resolution to target disinformation that critics have denounced as potentially dangerous to freedom of the press in Canada.  GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - As one of the biggest changes to how health care is delivered in Ontario for a generation passes its third reading — and advocates raise concerns about widespread privatization — new data shows complaints about improper charges for health care have been relatively rare in recent years. Since the Ford government took power in 2018, around $70,000 in medical fees have been found to violate legislation that outlaws charges for procedures or services that are covered by public insurance. GUEST: Isaac Callan, Journalist for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson: Canada is expelling the Chinese diplomat who allegedly worked with Beijing to target Conservative MP Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement Monday that Zhao Wei, a diplomat at the Chinese consulate in Toronto, has been declared “persona non grata” in Canada. GUEST: Mackenzie Gray, National Reporter for Global News covering Parliament Hill - With the adoption of the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11), the CRTC is sharing its plan for upcoming public consultations to modernize the broadcasting system. The new system will ensure that online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous content and that Canadians have greater opportunities to create and access a variety and diversity of content. The CRTC will be launching a series of public consultations over three phases, with phase one starting in the coming days. The views of all Canadians will be important to help build the new regulatory framework. Everyone who is interested should check out the CRTC's plan and participate in the upcoming consultations. GUEST: Kevin Desjardins, President of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters - The Bank of Canada wants to know what Canadians think about the possibility of a digital loonie. Consultations on what Canadians would like to have included in a digital currency are open online from May 8 until June 19, the Bank of Canada said Monday. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau still has a grip on the Liberal party ·        Clinton & Chretien take shot at Poilievre ·        Foreign interference ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - MP’s return to Queen’s Park today. What’s up for discussion this week? GUEST Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: ·        Deadly Texas mall shooting ·        DeSantis is struggling, why? ·        Trump trying to regain 2016 magic ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

Even if you're not a horse racing fan, this is a show you'll want to watch. GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sportsbook Operations for DraftKings

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: New questions about how the federal government handled a reported Chinese government plot to target MPs are being raised after Conservative MP Michael Chong said Thursday that a 2021 intelligence report on the matter was shared with the prime minister's national security and intelligence adviser. GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - The Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, has garnered the most scrutiny to date. The bill, which passed Parliament last week and has become law, allows the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to require platforms such as Spotify and YouTube to produce and promote Canadian content, as it does for radio and television stations. Bill C-11 will meddle with Canadians’ ability to pick their own content and content creators’ business, in the name of “protecting the economic interests of a niche of Canada’s music and video industries,” according to the Canadian arm of the Internet Society. In a scathing submission, the non-profit group argues that “Bill C-11 seeks to turn the Internet into a mere extension of the Canadian broadcasting system – a dying artifact of 20th Century technologies.” GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice - A "perfect storm" of factors including the 2018 election, inefficient practices and the COVID pandemic has left Ontario's trouble-plagued Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) "fundamentally failing" to provide swift justice, the province's ombudsman says. In a lengthy report published Thursday, Paul Dubé made 61 recommendations to address a backlog of cases at the tribunal that has ballooned to more than 38,000 applications. GUEST: Kayla Andrade, Founder of Ontario Landlords Watch

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty 

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Lead with Kensington Gardens Long Term Care Home, Toronto and faculty at McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Trudeau says he directed Canada's spy agency to share more information with the federal government about threats to members of Parliament in response to reports that the Chinese government was looking to target a Conservative MP's family. But the MP at the centre of the case, Michael Chong, said Trudeau's response raises serious concerns about his grip on intelligence and security matters GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty - The remote-work protections in the tentative agreement between Canada’s largest public sector union and the federal government could ripple into the private sector, one expert says. GUEST: Barry Eidlin, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University - Who made it into the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and music commentator

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: Canada and the United States have agreed to share more information about the smuggling of guns and drugs across their shared border. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Ottawa has signed four new or updated agreements with Washington that allow the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency to exchange more data with partners south of the border. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Rents are skyrocketing across much of Canada, creating an affordability crisis, particularly for young people. And if this Liberal government continues to do nothing – or little – on the housing file, that may become a feature that defines them, and contributes to their political demise – especially because on the other side of the aisle is a Conservative Leader talking about housing as often as he can. Do how can Canada create more affordable rental housing?   GUEST: Mike Moffatt, Senior Director at the Smart Prosperity Institute & Assistant Professor with the Ivey Business School at Western University - A security expert says the theft of more than 20-million dollars worth of gold and other valuables from Toronto Pearson International Airport likely required insider knowledge of the airport and its operations. Peel Regional Police says they are investigating the cargo theft from an airport holding facility after the gold and other items were reported missing. GUEST: Adrian Humphreys, Author and Journalist for the National Post

GUEST: Andrew Perez is a senior consultant at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and volunteered for the Ontario Liberal Party during the 2022 election

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What does the PSAC deal mean for the future of labour in Canada? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - Premier Doug Ford's government is preparing to expand gas-fired power plants in Ontario, a move critics say will make the province's electricity system dirtier and could eventually leave taxpayers on the hook.  The province is currently soliciting bids for additional gas-fired electricity generation, which means either new gas plants get built or existing gas plants get expanded.  GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Ontario is adding new curriculum expectations on mental-health literacy for Grade 10 students and giving teachers more resources for students in Grades 7 and 8. Education Minister Stephen Lecce said the government will also spend $26 million over the next two years to provide mental-health resources to students over the summer, so their support isn’t interrupted by the school break. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has asked his officials to investigate a top-secret CSIS report seen by The Globe and Mail that warns the Chinese government has targeted Canadian MPs behind a parliamentary motion declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs to constitute genocide. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail

GUEST: David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance

GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau stumps for democracy in New York ·        Clinton to join Liberal convention ·        PSAC Deal ·        And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        Ford’s Ontario place ·        $112 Million announced to fix bail system ·        Ford’s next unplanned plan for Ontario ·        And more…. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: ·        Biden says Journalism is not a crime ·        Republicans ramp up attacks on transgender people ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggir Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: As federal parties battle in court to avoid privacy rules for voter data, an overwhelming majority of Canadians want more oversight according to recent polling for Elections Canada. There are virtually no rules and zero oversight into how Canada’s federal political parties collect, store and exploit Canadian voters’ personal information – an increasingly important tool in modern electioneering. GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News - Canada’s largest diversified mining company, Teck Resources, is reportedly baffled that its biggest shareholder, China Investment Corp., was missing in action this week as Teck seeks enough shareholder votes to split the company into two entities, and stave off a hostile US$22.5-billion takeover by Swiss mining and commodities giant Glencore  GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - The Travelers Companies, Inc. announced the results of the 2023 Travelers Canada Distracted Driving Risk Survey. The data revealed that Canadians engage in risky behaviours behind the wheel despite recognizing the associated risks, with nearly one-quarter of respondents acknowledge that multitasking while driving was dangerous but did so anyway. GUEST: Paul Stone, Vice President of Personal Insurance, Sales, Distribution & Marketing at Travelers Canada

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario will eliminate the post-secondary education requirement to become a police officer, expand enrolment for its basic training program and axe tuition fees at the Ontario Police College, the premier said Tuesday. The moves are designed to get more police officers into communities, Doug Ford said. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Ninety per cent of the population in Ontario lives on a peninsula bounded by three of the Great Lakes. Yet wind is basically not part of the discussion of how to power the province…Why? GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO - How can Taiwan teach Canada about fight foreign interference? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

GUEST: Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, CEO of Canadian Women & Sport

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Ontario Place plans ·        Ford’s love of polluting fossil gas ·        And more…. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - After raising the suspicions of both local and global soccer fans when they purchased the club back in 2021, Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have unequivocally proved that they’re passionate football club owners who bought into the game for all the right reasons. Following Saturday’s win against Boreham Wood which saw Wrexham promoted for the first time in 15 years, co-chairman Ryan Reynolds went viral for the incredibly passionate comments he made after the game that illustrated just how thoroughly he’s bought into both the sport and the community. GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The GuardiaN - Topics Include: ·        Biden’s election bid ·        Trump touts’ authoritarian vision for second term ·        Tucker Carlson leaves Fax News ·        And more…. GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau vs. Poilievre ·        Trudeau era: trashing the rich has become political obsession. ·        Public Service Strike ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        VW deal from a provincial scope ·        The bromance between Trudeau and For ·        And more…. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - As the largest public service strike in Canadian history enters its first weekend, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds a majority of Canadians inclined to back more than 155,000 federal public service workers in their asks for wage premiums and the right to work from home, but circumspect over wage increase demands. Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada walked off the job midnight Wednesday seeking a number of wage and benefit enhancements to their contract with the federal government. GUEST: Jon Roe, Research Associate with Angus Reid

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: “As a nation we tend to shy away from extremes,” said our late great Washington ambassador Allan Gotlieb, “As some wit put it, Canadians are like vichyssoise; we are cold, half-French and difficult to stir.” So why is Pierre Poilievre trying to get us so mad? Why does anger seep from his every pore? Why does the Conservative Leader insist on being – to borrow a phrase from former U.S. vice-president Spiro Agnew – our “nattering nabob of negativism?” GUEST: Lawrence Martin, Author and Public Affairs Columnist for the Globe and Mail - Fatal encounters with police are on the rise in Canada. The number of civilians dying in incidents with police when force is used has steadily increased since 2000. This is leaving families and communities with little support or recourse for accountability. GUEST: Andrew Crosby, Postdoctoral fellow, School of Planning, University of Waterloo and co-author of this piece - The federal government will provide Volkswagen with up to $13-billion in production subsidies for the new electric-vehicle battery plant it plans to build in St. Thomas, Ont. – nearly double the estimated $7-billion cost of construction. Ottawa’s backing, which also includes about $700-million in additional support for nearer-term capital costs, is by far the most generous subsidy that Canada has ever provided to an automaker for locating a factory here GUEST: David Adams, President & CEO of the Global Automakers of Canada

GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Local politicians have endorsed a roadmap for creating several hundred new affordable housing units annually in Hamilton, Ont. in order to tackle an ongoing homelessness crisis. The plan is a series of short-term and long-term goals in collaboration with city divisions and community partners through a housing secretariat. The goal is to build some 350 new affordable homes each year for the next decade, while repairing existing units. GUEST: Andrea Horwath, Mayor, City of Hamilton - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told NATO officials privately that Canada will never meet the military alliance’s defence-spending target, according to a leaked secret Pentagon assessment obtained by The Washington Post GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - What are the implications of the Ford Governments funding cuts to the 2023-2024 School Year? GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation - OP ED: "Is the world unraveling? It can feel that way – but Joe Biden still believes" GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Columnist for Salon.com 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

GUEST: Amanda Kelly, Co-Founder of Awake, and an expert in safe & environmental cremation procedures

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: One of two men arrested for allegedly operating a secret police station for China in Manhattan had photographic evidence on his phone of the opening of a similar covert station in Canada, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - Canada’s inflation rate is rapidly cooling this spring, a welcome development for the Bank of Canada as it holds interest rates at their highest levels in more than 15 years in a bid to restore price stability. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - What implications does the U.S Inflation Reduction Act have on Canadian competitiveness? GUEST: Glen Hodgson, Author of this piece for the CD Howe Instittute, and has 36 years of experience in global and Canadian macro-economics, international trade analysis and finance - Canadians are still seeing "elevated" prices at grocery stores in March but by a "lesser extent" than in February. Prices of items like flour, fruit juices and apples remained high in March whereas ham, tomatoes and lettuce saw reductions from February to March 2023. GUEST: Corey Mintz is a Winnipeg-based food reporter and the author of the 2021 book "The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After." 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ford government tabled new legislation that will give itself the power to convert underutilized schools in Ontario into affordable housing or sell off the properties on the open market, in a major overhaul of education policies. The new bill, called the Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, includes sweeping new measures aimed at standardizing the education system to align with “provincial priorities” — which will be set by education minister Stephen Lecce — and to give parents greater say over their children’s education. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) leadership says all workers in a legal strike position will strike Wednesday if they don't reach an agreement by 9 p.m. ET Tuesday. Its bargaining groups — one of about 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers, the other of about 120,000 staff spread across more than 20 departments and agencies — each moved into legal strike positions last week after strike votes. GUEST: Peggy Nash, Chair of the Ted Rogers School of Management Centre for Labour Management Relations and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide To Getting Elected - Envision access to shops, parks, schools, and medical facilities within a 15-minute walk or bike ride! So why are we scared of well-planned communities that don’t worship cars? GUEST: Lorraine Sommerfeld, Columnist for Driving.ca and the Hamilton Spectator

GUEST: Josh Goldberg, Baseball Journalist for TheScore

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Telford testimony ·       Election interference allegation don’ add up says Trudeau’s aid ·       Parliament is back in session ·       And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        Ontario Liberals to announce new leader in December ·        Ford hints at Ontario Science centre ·        Ontario bypasses region of Waterloo planning to open more land for development ·        And more… GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: ·        Growing fears that DeSantis might even be too radical for Republicans ·        Fox News and Dominion trail ·        Trump & Pence compete for ovations at NRA ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ahead of Friday testimony from his chief of staff on foreign election interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he and Katie Telford have talked about the issue "many" times over the years. What do we expect today? GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill - In the 1970s, three quarters of Swedish homes were heated with oil boilers. Today, electric-powered heat pumps have all but replaced oil in single-family homes (most multi-family homes rely on district heating). That has driven greenhouse gas emissions from oil heating of buildings down 95 per cent since 1990, according to the Swedish Energy Agency, said Martin Forsén a Swedish heating industry veteran and president of the European Heat Pump Association. So how did that happen? And are there lessons for Canada's transition away from fossil heating? GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - Could allowing undocumented immigrants to stay and work here in Canada benefit us? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:   Trudeau has been in office for a long time, and in that time he’s been met with scandal after scandal. Why? Well, he believes the political climate has changed. If you ask Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien… it’s probably because of him GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty (3 times) - Yet another provincial Premier out east is concerned about Ottawa’s mishandeling of our contributions to the energy crisis. Obviously it’s important to transition to clean sources of energy, however we have the natural resources such as liquid natural gas that the world has been asking for and Trudeau is saying no. GUEST: Diane Francis, Editor at Large with the National Post - EVs, electric vehicles, are becoming a technology that we are seeing on our roads. Governments are also pushing for technology like EVs hard. But in the war of batteries, who is set to dominate the market? Surprisingly, it’s not Canada. GUEST: Heather Exner-Pirot is a Senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - A recent survey conducted by MADD Canada is showing some troubling numbers, as even in 2023 there are many Canadians who are still driving while impaired. GUEST: Eric Dumschat, Legal Director for MADD Canada.

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty (3 times)

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”

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: The C-E-O and the volunteer board of directors of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation are stepping down because they say their work has been politicized by ongoing allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University - The federal government has announced a range of military, economic and cultural measures to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement in Toronto alongside the visiting Ukrainian P-M. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - For-profit nursing homes in Canada’s largest city are vacating the sector rather than undertaking mandatory upgrades, creating a property sell-off that hinders the Ontario government’s promise of 60,000 new and upgraded beds by 2028. The problem stems from two colliding forces: Toronto’s red-hot real estate market and a looming deadline for outdated homes to comply with design standards requiring single- or double-occupancy rooms. Faced with a choice between significant construction costs or selling their properties to housing developers, many nursing-home owners are opting for the latter. GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO, CanAge

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: On the 10th anniversary of his winning the party leadership, a battered yet battle-tested prime minister is governing in the face of stubborn speculation about his political future. Those close to him say Trudeau remains committed to the political vision that propelled him to office and saved the Liberals from ruin in 2015. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Hackers working with Russia’s spy agency claimed earlier this year to have disrupted operations at a Canadian natural-gas pipeline company, inflicting costly damage on its infrastructure, leaked Pentagon documents say. The Globe and Mail has been unable to independently verify the allegations in the U.S. intelligence documents, the contents of which have also been reported by U.S. media. There is no evidence to date that a natural-gas pipeline company in Canada suffered such an attack, which the Pentagon documents suggest occurred earlier this year. GUEST: Steve Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - In a new push to reach its target of 1.5 million new homes by 2031, Premier Doug Ford’s government is proposing a slew of changes that include allowing municipalities to build faster on undeveloped land — which critics warn will fuel sprawl into farmland. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark said Thursday his wide-ranging measures are intended to provide better protections for tenants and home buyers in a housing crunch of supply and affordability. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

Topics Include: Ford Motor Company has filed patents for a hydrogen combustion engine, Millions of devices are susceptible to being hacked by NUIT, Videotron's acquisition of Freedom Mobile promises to provide a low-cost alternative to the major Canadian telecom providers & more! GUEST: Adam Oldfield w/ Tech Talk

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario says it will invest millions to help deal with the backlog of tribunal cases between tenants and landlords while providing additional measures to protect renters against “renovictions. ALSO: Poll - Majority of Canadians who don’t own a home have ‘given up’ GUEST: Mike Collins-Williams, CEO, West End Home Builders Association - Many times over many years, Premier Ford and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark promised to leave the green space that rings around the Greater Toronto Area untouched. They broke that promise last November by announcing that they were taking 15 chunks of land out of the Greenbelt, setting off a firestorm of public anger in Ontario. The bad news is the government is refusing to release the document. This is a troubling lack of transparency on a matter clearly in the public interest. How can members of the public know whether politicians made the right decision if they don’t have access to the evidence that was used to support that choice? GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal - Major grocery chain CEOs say profit margins are as thin as ever, even as they're raking in record profit. ALSO: Loblaw board says Galen Weston is underpaid, boosts compensation. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: How is Marit Stiles a ‘relative unknown’ in Ontario Politics? How could this affect her party? ALSO: Why are people dissatisfied with the Ford Government? GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide To Getting Elected -  The City of Ottawa failed to protect the rights of its residents when thousands of protesters took over the downtown core last winter, states the second report of the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation. The report, released Monday, makes 25 recommendations it states would help the city rebuild its credibility and ensure another disruptive protest like the three-week-long convoy occupation, which began as a movement against COVID mandates, will never happen again. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Former U.S. President Donald Trump faced a judge in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned on business fraud charges over hush money payments allegedly made to a woman who say they had sexual affairs with him. He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which were outlined in an indictment made public shortly after Trump’s appearance in court. GUEST: Jason Opal, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies with McGill University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: For more than nine months, the Liberal government has been eyeing a package of measures that could be instrumental in safeguarding Canadian democracy from foreign interference instigated by hostile states such as China – but so far has only moved ahead on one item. GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Business sentiment in Canada continues to worsen with companies expecting sales growth to slow over the coming year and inflation to remain elevated until at least 2025, according to the Bank of Canada’s quarterly business survey. At the same time, companies are reporting improvements in labour shortages and other supply constraints, while many expect wages to keep rising quickly. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - NASA announced the crew for Artemis II, which will see astronauts spending up to three weeks on a flyby trip to the moon in 2024. This mission will be the first time in more than 50 years that humans will visit the moon — or leave low Earth orbit — since Apollo 17 in 1972. And a Canadian will be onboard this milestone mission: astronaut Jeremy Hansen. GUEST: Dr. Gordon Osinski, Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Western University

GUEST:  Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Did the budget ay the groundwork for a Liberal-NDO coalition? ·        O’Toole to resign his seat ·        And amore…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - It’s been a hell of a week for Canada’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Is it time to break up the RCMP and create a better and more secure force? GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of this piece on her new Substack - Topics Include: ·        Trump Arraignment ·        Trump’s campaign ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

Topics Include: Vacu-Man is hiring, Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have re-engineered concrete for modern-day applications, Smartphone phishing scams & more! GUEST: Adam Oldfield w/ Tech Talk

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: In the 247 years the American republic has existed, no president had ever been charged with a crime, until now. Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, but so far the charges remain under seal. The investigation centred on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with adult film actress Stormy Daniels. GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to add billions of dollars in new annual spending has some economists worried that Canada is at risk of racking up unsustainable debt — especially if economic growth comes in worse than expected. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - The long-anticipated Mass Casualty Commission’s final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting highlighted significant systemic issues within Canada’s national police force and called for widespread changes. What did we learn form the report? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton 

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy 

GUEST: Jeff Blay, Creative Director of the Creative Guild 

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What happened to Canada’s first self-declared feminist government? The one that promised to help the middle class and those trying to get into it, and delivered? The one that had our backs during the pandemic? After a year of scorching inflation not seen in 40 years, and with the threat of recession looming, we desperately needed that government back in action. This fall, when we thought they’d show up again, Canada’s first female Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said it was time to keep their powder dry. That meant: “we’re not spending.” GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers Merrilee Fullerton was the minister of children, community and social services and an MPP for an Ottawa-area riding until she resigned last Friday. How much blame should she receive for the disasters on her watch? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for TVO - The threat of authoritarian regimes targeting Canada and Japan with information and influence operations will only intensify in the coming years. GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What did the Liberals accomplish in the eyes of Canadians with this budget? GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - What decisions were made in this budget that addressed the biggest concerns for Canadians? GUEST: Karina Gold, MP for Burlington, Minister of Families, Children & Social Development - Do intelligence agencies always get it right? Phil Gurski, joins the show to explain why we should be a little skeptical. 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: Ontario doctors and the organization representing them blasted the provincial government on Saturday for its quietly unveiled plans to end a program that provides health-care services for people without health insurance. The Ontario Medical Association said it first learned of the pending suspension on Friday, issuing a statement saying it received notice from the government that the Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons Program would wind down as of March 31. The Ministry of Health later confirmed the decision and end date. GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University - Canadian Chamber: Federal budget needs a clear strategy for economic growth GUEST: Matthew Holmes, Senior Vice President of Policy & Government Relations with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce - What are Han Dong’s legal options and chances? GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

 The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Biden gives Trudeau chance to claw back control on agenda ·        Key issues tackled from presidential visit ·        Federal budget coming… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Will the liberals survive this budget, or will they use it to die on their own sward? GUEST: David Macdonald, Senior Economist with The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Topics include: ·        Trump’s first 2024 rally ·        Biden’s visit to Canada ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

Topics Include: AI duplicated machine, melting spy robot , Researchers are developing a cloak of invisibility & More! GUEST: Adam Oldfield w/ Tech Talk

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: After the Chinese Communist Party’s 1949 victory in China’s civil war, the question of “Who lost China” rocked Washington. As President Biden makes his first presidential trip to Ottawa this week, he should ask if the next country about which that question will be asked is Canada. 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 -  Ontario is boosting funding for hospitals, pediatric care, mental health and home care as part of its efforts to reform health care in the province. The provincial budget released Thursday detailed an $850 million increase in funding to hospitals — a four per cent boost in base funding — plus $200 million to address health-care staffing shortages across the entire system. GUEST: Peter Bethlanfalvy, Ontario Minister of Finance - As U.S. President Joe Biden visits Canada for the first time since taking office, the results of a new Maru Public Opinion / GZERO poll finds that while Canadians may think less of the improvement of the Canada/U.S. relationship than Americans do today compared to the Trump era five years ago, they near unanimous on one major potential action being a top priority: both Canadians (91%) and Americans (93%) want security and intelligence efforts boosted to stop foreign powers undermining democracy. GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion

GUEST: Dr. Shawn Whatley, Author of ‘When Politics Comes Before Patients — Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing’, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What does the NDP want to see in the Ontario budget today? GUEST: Marit Styles, Leader of the Ontario NDP - Topics Include: ·       Biden urged to raise Canadian bills ·       Canadian defense under the microscope ·       Has Biden been a good friend to Canada? ·       And more…. GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University - A Canadian lawmaker has resigned from the governing Liberal Party caucus after a media report alleged he advised Chinese diplomats to not release two imprisoned Canadians in 2021. Han Dong, the MP representing a district in Toronto, said the report with “unverified and anonymous sources” was false and an attack on his reputation and loyalty to Canada. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has released foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston's mandate, which instructs the former governor general to determine by May 23 whether a public inquiry is necessary. However, Johnston will have months more to dig into the broader issue of shoring up Canada's democracy. GUEST:  Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff has agreed to testify before one of the committees investigating the extent of the Chinese government's interference in Canada's elections — and what the Liberal government knew about it. GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has released foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston's mandate, which instructs the former governor general to determine by May 23 whether a public inquiry is necessary. However, Johnston will have months more to dig into the broader issue of shoring up Canada's democracy. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Ontario’s plans to build housing near a massive national park could be shut down if a new study shows a negative impact on biodiversity and at-risk species, the federal environment minister warned on Tuesday. Steven Guilbeault said the study will be conducted as soon as possible in Rouge National Urban Park in the Greater Toronto Area GUEST: Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment Program Manager for Environmental Defence

GUEST: Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        China’s longstanding effort to meddle in Canadian affairs ·        Will Biden push Canada to boost defense spending? ·        Biden to ask Canadians to stabilize Haiti ·        And more… GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Goalie James Reimer refused to wear a Pride-themed jersey, citing his faith. But what do the Scriptures actually say? GUEST: Michael Coren, Author and Anglican Cleric - Some of the world's largest central banks came together on Sunday to stop a banking crisis from spreading as Swiss authorities persuaded UBS Group AG on Sunday to buy rival Credit Suisse Group AG in a historic deal. UBS will pay 3 billion Swiss francs ($4.4 billion Cdn) for 167-year-old Credit Suisse and assume up to $5.4 billion US ($7.4 billion Cdn) in losses in a deal backed by a massive Swiss guarantee and expected to close by the end of 2023. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST: Mitchell Osak (OH-SACK), CEO Quanta Consulting Inc

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        David Johnston push back ·        On e year anniversary of NDP/Liberal deal ·        Biden visiting Canada ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Is the relationship between CSIS and the federal government broken? Is so, how can it be repaired? GUEST: Stephanie Carvin, Associate Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University US President Joe Biden has welcomed the International Criminal Court's issuing of an arrest warrant against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The ICC accused President Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine - something President Biden said the Russian leader had "clearly" done. The claims focus on the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia since Moscow's invasion in 2022. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Topics Include: ·        Trump could be arrested Tuesday ·        Abortion on the ballot? ·        Biden could ask Canada to stabilize Haiti ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

Aaron Gillespie, Partner at KPMG (Hamilton Branch), specializes in Canadian tax compliance and advisory services.

GUEST: Susan Clairmont, columnist, Hamilton Spectator. - GUEST: Ron Foxcroft, CEO of Fluke Transport, creator of the FOX40 whistle, author of ‘40 Ways of the Fox’, Member of the Order of Canada, former basketball referee. - GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and music commentator. 

GUEST:  Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge 

GUEST:  Michelle Eaton, Vice President of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau names former governor general David Johnston as special Rapporteur ·        Federal budget ·        And more... GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies -   Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives are moving to make it harder to sue the Ontario government.  The PCs plan to repeal and replace the long-standing Ontario Proceedings Against the Crown Act — legislation that, among other things, outlines government liability in cases of misfeasance and negligence. The new law would increase the legal threshold necessary to proceed with civil litigation, including class action lawsuits, against the government. Further, it would considerably limit the instances in which the government could be on the hook for financial compensation to plaintiffs. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - Canada’s housing market showed signs of life in February following a year of cooling off, but experts are watching the typically busy spring season to determine whether the correction has hit its bottom. The Canadian Real Estate Association said Wednesday that while monthly home sales were down 40 per cent from the same month a year earlier in February, sales actually rose 2.3 per cent from January. That was thanks largely to an uptick in activity in the Greater Toronto and Vancouver areas. GUEST: Frank Clayton, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Toronto Metropolitan University

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: OP-ED: Should Jagmeet Singh pull his support for the Liberals? It is up to the opposition parties to take a stand and put the country before the party, and let the dominoes fall where they may.   GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path - The homelessness crisis in Ontario is not just an unfortunate situation. It is the outcome of decades of policy decisions and poor choices made by successive Ontario governments. This is why municipalities are calling on the Government of Ontario to step up and show leadership and accountability in addressing the serious problem it has created. The homelessness crisis is a made-in-Ontario crisis that calls out for intelligent and co-ordinated action on the part of the province. GUEST: Colin Best, President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, and Regional Councillor for Ward 1 in Milton - Canada’s banking regulator is increasing its monitoring of domestic banks’ financial health as the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure ripples through markets, even after U.S. leaders introduced rare measures designed to avoid repeating the run on deposits that toppled the tech-lending leader. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions took control of SVB’s Canadian operations on Sunday, and on Monday the regulator took steps to begin daily check-ins with banks that will enable it to monitor their liquidity, according to two sources with knowledge of the decision. The frequent updates are a precautionary tool last used in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, designed to provide an early warning if any signs of stress emerge. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: New polling shows the majority of Canadians support the federal government calling an independent inquiry into allegations of foreign interference, but still feel the country's electoral system is safe. GUEST: Andrew Enns, Executive Vice-President of Central Canada for Leger - Ontario teachers need to pay attention to the Ford government’s move to allow more private delivery in the public health care system because education could be next, warns the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation - Agencies that run daycares say they're so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10-a-day child care can be delivered to all the kids who will need a spot.  Stories abound of daycare centres running at half capacity, asking parents to take their kids out of care for a day or two a week, or even shutting down operations entirely, all for lack of staff.  The Trudeau government is promising to give all families in Canada access to high quality child care at an average price of $10 per day. Its plan calls for creating 250,000 new child-care spots by 2026.  GUEST: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow with the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with U of T

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Parliamentary committee’s straying beyond poetics ·       Poilievre must do more to win over women voters ·       Conservatives more trusted than Liberals to manage finances ·       And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Ontario legislative member Vincent Ke, has resigned from the PC party following a Global News report of allegations by intelligence sources that Ke was involved in an election interference network directed by China’s consulate in Toronto. Ke, who represents the Toronto-area riding of Don Valley North, denies the allegations.  GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: ·        U.S Federal reserve governors to hold closed-door meeting today ·        Silicon Valley Bank ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge

GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield

In Canada, the notion that no one should have the power to judge themselves is seen in Section 21 of the Conflict of Interest Act. That law reads: “A public office holder shall recuse himself or herself from any discussion, decision, debate or vote on any matter in respect of which he or she would be in a conflict of interest.” The “public office holder,” here, is one Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. The “discussion or debate,” here, is the interference of China in Canada’s federal elections in 2019 and 2021. GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: In Canada, the notion that no one should have the power to judge themselves is seen in Section 21 of the Conflict of Interest Act. That law reads: “A public office holder shall recuse himself or herself from any discussion, decision, debate or vote on any matter in respect of which he or she would be in a conflict of interest.” The “public office holder,” here, is one Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. The “discussion or debate,” here, is the interference of China in Canada’s federal elections in 2019 and 2021. GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty - Is it anti-Semitic to call the existence of Israel into question or to attend rallies with chants like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free?” Members of the Jewish community would say yes, Ontario’s NDP is saying no and defending their candidate in Hamilton Centre. Sarah Jama is the NDP’s candidate of choice to replace Andrea Horwath as the MPP for Hamilton Centre. There’s a very good chance that Jama will soon be representing the NDP stronghold at Queen’s Park but some members of the Jewish community are concerned. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - Canada’s window of opportunity to supply Europe with liquified natural gas (LNG) is quickly closing, warns one expert as the continent reports record levels of imports.  European LNG imports skyrocketed by 63% last year as the continent moved to alleviate its dependence on Russian energy and Canada is missing out big time. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

Trudeau said he was never briefed on the issue, and his security adviser has dismissed it out of hand, but two high-level national security reports before and after the 2019 election suggest they were warned that Chinese government officials were funnelling money to Canadian political candidates. The two intelligence reports, from 2019 and 2022, raise questions about what senior federal officials knew about the alleged funding by a foreign interference network and how seriously the Trudeau government took the warnings. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The gun lobby’s interventions in Canadian politics are not new, but in recent years their rhetoric and tactics have more closely mirrored America’s gun lobby. Are we following in their footsteps? GUEST: Dr. Najma Ahmed is a Canadian trauma surgeon and a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, and founder of Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns - The leaders of Canada's major grocery chains insist that food price inflation is not caused by profit-mongering and that their margins on food-related profits have remained low. The CEOs and presidents of Loblaw Cos. Ltd., Metro Inc. and Empire Co. Ltd. -- which operates chains including Sobeys, Safeway and FreshCo -- appeared Wednesday in front of a parliamentary committee that is studying inflated grocery prices. Their testimony came amid calls from federal politicians, including Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, for the industry to be more transparent about what is driving its record-high profits.  GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - Trudeau said he was never briefed on the issue, and his security adviser has dismissed it out of hand, but two high-level national security reports before and after the 2019 election suggest they were warned that Chinese government officials were funnelling money to Canadian political candidates. The two intelligence reports, from 2019 and 2022, raise questions about what senior federal officials knew about the alleged funding by a foreign interference network and how seriously the Trudeau government took the warnings. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

GUEST: James Harrison, Broker with Mortgages

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario has seen a rising number of complaints about poor quality of care in the health system and an increase in use of force by hospital security, the province’s patient ombudsman found in his annual report released Tuesday. There were more than 3,300 complaints in the 2021-22 year, with most concentrated in the Toronto area and northern Ontario. Patient ombudsman Craig Thompson said many complaints focus on access to care and a lack of adequate staffing. GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University - Canadian opposition parties are welcome to suggest who should serve as the “special rapporteur” charged with overseeing investigations into alleged Chinese interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says. Trudeau made the announcement Tuesday after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on the on the opposition’s calls for a public inquiry, one day after the prime minister announced additional independent probes and reviews into the issue – but not an inquiry. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - The Tallest Poppy, a study led by Dr. Rumeet Billan, reveals the consequences of this silent systemic syndrome and the impact it has on women in the workplace worldwide. The study examines the impact of Tall Poppy Syndrome on the individual and the cost to organizations. GUEST: Dr. Rumeet Billan, Author of the study and CEO of Women of Influence+

GUEST:, Michael Wolfson is a Former Assistant Chief Statistician WITH Statistics Canada and an Adjunct professor in the Faculties of Medicine and law at the University of Ottawa

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: With his government under fire over claims that China meddled in the 2019 and 2021 votes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced multiple investigations into foreign election interference and the appointment of a special rapporteur. GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - There is an old cliché that inflation results from ‘too much money chasing too few goods.’ If the supply of goods and services doesn’t match the purchasing power of people who want to buy them, then prices will be bid up, causing inflation. People with a bit of economics training often smugly assert that this adage somehow explains the inflation currently bedevilling Canadians. Unfortunately, the adage is a truism: it doesn’t provide any insight into what actually sparked an inflationary imbalance, nor how to fix it. GUEST: Jim Stanford, Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work - Have you ever dreamed of giving it all up, leaving it all behind and hitting the road to escape all your responsibilities? It sounds good, doesn’t it? But it also sounds expensive. Or at least, it did sound expensive until now – because now a cruise company is launching a three-year, 130,000-mile, escape-your-daily-life cruise for a relatively affordable $30,000 per person per year. GUEST: Frederic Dimanche, Director of the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Toronto Metropolitan University 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        World watching to see how Canada reacts to election interference scandal ·        House of commons ·        Polievre in Stoney Creek & London ·        And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbill, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - What’s happening at Queen’s Park this week? GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - Topics Include: ·        Ambitions collid as rising Democrats consider higher office ·        Marianne Williamson begins 2024 challenge to Biden ·        Why Trump is clear favorite for 2024 COP nomination ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: Rebecca Swirsky-Foster, Real Agent with RE/MAX Escarpment 

Topics Include: Autonomous vehicles, Netflix trying to get you back, TikTok Ban & more! GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: There is certainly a need for seriousness at this moment. Because whatever China tried to do, it has succeeded in triggering a political and media feeding frenzy that threatens to do some real damage to Canadian democracy, regardless of what the truth might be. How do we get through this unscathed? GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - What do the latest rulings in Ontario and B.C. mean for homeless encampments? GUEST: Justin Chandler, Journalist with TVO - After two devastating election outcomes, the Ontario Liberal Party is once again in the throes of a rebuilding process. The stakes are much higher today than five years ago when the party was reduced to a shell of its former self following 15 years of governing Canada’s largest province under two premiers. The daunting reality is that for the first time since the 1940s — when Liberals finished third in two Ontario elections — the party faces an existential threat. But before the party becomes engrossed in a potentially divisive leadership contest, it must turn inwards to assess its innermost mechanics. GUEST: Andrew Perez is a senior consultant at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and volunteered for the Ontario Liberal Party during the 2022 election

GUEST: Josh Goldberg, Baseball Journalist for TheScore

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ontario Liberal AGM Begins tomorrow in Hamilton. What will be the main talking points? GUEST: Mitzie Hunter, MPP for Scarborough—Guildwood - As reports of alleged Chinese interference in the last two federal elections stack up, one of Canada's highest-ranking intelligence officials told MPs that while Canadians' concerns about foreign meddling are understandable, they should be assured that "the last two federal elections were fair and legitimate." So what have we learned so far? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Loblaws Inc. is picking up lots of controversy on social media again but this time for asking it’s customers to donate to charities tackling food insecurity. GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University

GUEST: Chris Bonnett, Author of the piece for the CD Howe Institute and Principal Consultant with H3 Consulting

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ahead of the 2015 Canadian elections, the Chinese Community Party (CCP) reportedly considered targeting Justin Trudeau, then the Liberal Party’s national leader, to be the recipient of a million-dollar “donation” via the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, named after his father and former prime minister. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) sources told the Globe & Mail, on condition of anonymity, that a commercial attaché at a Chinese consulate in Canada instructed Zhang Bin, a billionaire political adviser to the CCP, to transfer $1 million to the Trudeau Foundation. According to the conversation captured by CSIS, the Chinese government further added that it would reimburse Zhang for the political donation. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - Canada’s largest airport says it will be implementing “hard limits” on the number of flights arriving or departing during March break and peak summer hours in a bid to reduce delays. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA), which operates Toronto Pearson International Airport, said in an email that it will also cap the number of passengers that can arrive internationally or depart to the United States through each terminal in a given hour. The changes will result in flights being rescheduled to keep the number of flights and passengers under the new caps. GUEST: John Gradek is former Air Canada executive and Coordinator of Integrated Aviation Management program at McGill University - The number of women in the workforce has never been higher, leading the economic recovery from the pandemic. Some are calling this a "she-covery." What factors have allowed women to get back into the workforce after the COVID-19 pandemic? GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Chinese interference in Canadian elections - How the Canadian Government is receiving information in this, and if they're taking action - 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. - Topics Include: ·        TikTok banned on all Canadian government devices - How this ban will effect politicians ability to reach young voters - And more... GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Topics Include: ·        Ford government accused Ontario NDP sending a photographer to premier's daughter's wedding - And more... GUEST: Colin D'Mello, Queen's Park Bureau Chief for Global News

GUEST: Cathy Pimentel, Mortgage Agent with Bold Mortgage Group

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Liberals ignored CSIS warning in 2019 Chinese interference ·        Canada needs an inquiry into foreign political meddling ·        And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        Trudeau promises more Leopard tanks for Ukraine ·        Trudeau shuts down heckler during rally for Ukraine on anniversary of war ·        Russia can’t ignore NATO nuclear capability ·        And more… GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - Topics Include: ·        Biden doubts any merit in China’s Russia-Ukraine plan ·        Trump running ·        Pence draws contrast w/ DeSantis on support for Ukraine ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy

GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal

Our guest wrote an op-ed titled "Freedom Convoy exposed Canada's barely functioning federalism." What have we learned? And where was Doug Ford? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. - Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces reached a healthcare deal with the Trudeau government "in principle." Now what does that mean? And what is still to come? GUEST: Dr. James Tiessen, Director of Health Administration & Community Care and Associate Professor with Toronto Metropolitan University - Mining on the moon could be part of Canada's future economy, creating an entire space-based supply chain, so says our guest. GUEST: Heather Exner-Pirot is a senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: According to OCC’s 2023 Ontario Economic Report, labour shortages continue to dominate as a source of concern directly impacting most employers. Yet, the light at the end of the tunnel is unfortunately far away. Baby boomers are retiring, causing additional strain on an already tight labour market. The number of babies born in Canada fell to a nearly 15-year low in 2020. And, while the federal government is making efforts to increase the number of immigrants to Canada, we are far behind, and not using all the tools at our disposal. Ontario continues to face massive labour shortages across a variety of industries. This will intensify organizations’ needs to look at ways to upskill and re-skill their current talent. The workforce of tomorrow will require nimble training options and fewer barriers to labour mobility across Canada and internationally. GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce - It may sound like a circular argument, but the only way to stop inflation is to stop companies from raising prices. And the only way to stop that is to get inflation under control. And that could mean an end to the interest rate hike pause. After Tuesday's latest release of inflation data, warnings from Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem in his testimony to parliament last week offer a stark reminder of how difficult, but how essential, it is to convince the sellers of goods and services to stop raising prices. While overall inflation has eased to 5.9 per cent, that's still high. Groceries are up another 11.4 per cent.  GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - What’s happening with Roxham Road? GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path

GUEST: Richard Lyall, President of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario

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: Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner has rejected an offer from a group of Ontario Liberals to run for that party’s leadership declaring that he is “green for life.” Schreiner, who made history in 2018 as the first Green candidate to earn a seat at Queen’s Park, said he spoke to “thousands of people” over the last three weeks and ultimately decided to stick with his roots. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - Canada's inflation rate slowed to 5.9 per cent in January, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. That number was lower than the 6.2 per cent that economists were expecting. However, the price of groceries continued to accelerate at a faster pace than in December, the statistics agency reported. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - what are the five remote work trends for 2023? GUEST: Michael French, National Director for Robert Half Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Federal government meets threshold to invoke emergencies act ·       Canada to get new electoral map ·       And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Ontario politicians are preparing to return to Queen’s Park for the first time in 2023 for a legislative session that will overhaul the delivery of health care. Meanwhile, the fallout from the province’s decision to allow development in portions of the Greenbelt continue in the background. And the Ontario NDP has a new leader. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Topics Include: ·        China hits back on U.S. allegations ·        Blinken urges speedy accession of Sweden, Finland to NATO ·        Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Research Council Member with the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of “States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies”

In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, our guest argues the case that privatization is not the ultimate enemy in Ontario's healthcare system - the search for profits is. GUEST: Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor with York University and a Fellow with the Royal Society of Canada, - The City of Hamilton recently set up a hotline for public workers, contractors etc to report fraud and waste in municipal spending. So far over $700,000 of untoward spending has been uncovered. As well, Hamilton Centre's by-election has been called now that Andrea Horwath, the previous seated MPP, has resigned. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer. - The Ontario Cannabis Store is trying to lower prices for manufacturers of pot. Will this help the industry? Will consumers see the cost benefit? GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: She retires just before the Public Order Emergency Commission report comes out, why did she choose to step down now? & What will we remember Brenda Lucki by? GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - The federal government will no longer fund research with Chinese military and state security institutions and is urging the provinces and universities to adopt similar national-security measures. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        Ontario's economic and fiscal outlook ·        Healthcare polling ·        Doug Ford’s comments on stag & Doe and John Tory ·        And more….. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Hamilton is no longer Canada’s “preferred candidate” for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, according to the organization trying to secure the national bid for the event. In a letter to the committee trying to secure the bid for the city, Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) cited a failed effort in getting government support as the reason for the dismissal. GUEST: Rich Gelder, President of the Hamilton Olympic Club and former candidate for Hamilton City Council - Members of Parliament have summoned the heads of Canada's largest grocery store chains to answer for rising food prices. On Monday, a House of Commons committee studying food price inflation called on the CEOs and presidents of Loblaw Companies, Metro and Empire Company Limited -- which operates chains including Sobeys, Safeway and FreshCo -- to attend an upcoming meeting. The proposal to hear from the industry leaders came from NDP MP Alistair MacGregor, and it received unanimous support from Liberal, Conservative and Bloc Quebecois MPs on the committee. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Fighting one Cold War was bad enough. Waging two at once would be impossible. This comes as the U.S now faces simultaneous showdowns with China and Russia. GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University

 The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: He’s a politician you’d never suspect of having an office sex scandal. Will this be the outgoing Toronto mayor’s legacy? GUEST: Steve Paikin, Host of ‘The Agenda’ on TVO - Canada's economy added a stunning 150,000 jobs last month. It's the second straight month that jobs numbers blew well past expectations. And it's yet one more data point that challenges the narrative that Canada needs to shed jobs to bring inflation under control. Economic theory tells us that unemployment and inflation are inextricably linked. As unemployment falls and more people work, inflation increases. And as unemployment increases, inflation drops. But that's not what's happening here. GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University - Canada's premiers say the offer from the federal government for 46-billion dollars in additional health-care funding is nowhere near what they asked for...but new money cannot be turned down. They decided to formally accept the prime minister's offer from last week. What are the next steps? GUEST: Michael Wolfson is a Former Assistant Chief Statistician WITH Statistics Canada and an Adjunct professor in the Faculties of Medicine and law at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

GUEST: Richard W. Leblanc, Professor of Governance, Law & Ethics, at York University

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Four shoot downs in one week ·        Trudeau say teams investigating object ·        Premiers will answer to voters if cash injection doesn’t improve health system ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics include: ·       Ford denies wrongdoing over developers attending daughter's wedding & stag and doe ·       John Tory resigning as Toronto mayor GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer   Topics Include: ·        What do we knowabout the unidentified objects? ·        Republicans clash over prosecutors over enforcement of abortion ban ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

Topics Include: Electric air cleaners, Chat GPT, new self-air conditioning tent & more! GUEST: Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast Topics Include: ·        Doug Ford says health-care deal w. Trudeau is ‘very very close’ ·        Smith and Trudeau meet in Ottawa ·        Calls to draft Green’s Mike Schrenier a sign of Liberal arrogance ·        And more…. GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected, available May 2022 - Any federal attempt to unmask Chinese foreign agents must be “culturally sensitive,” Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino (Eglinton—Lawrence, ON) said last night. Legislators have sought passage of a Foreign Agents Registration Act similar to a law enacted by the United States in 1938, according to Blacklock's Reporter. “To deal with threats to national security we need agencies to be inclusive, diverse and culturally sensitive so Canadians can have trust and confidence that as we are taking actions to mitigate against threats to national security they believe we are consistently going to act in the national interest,” said Mendicino. 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. - Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner has cleared Premier Doug Ford of wrongdoing after developers, described as “personal friends” of the premier, attended a stag and doe party for his daughter’s wedding. The revelation comes as the Ford government faces questions about whether developers were given advance notice about the controversial decision to remove lands from the Greenbelt, which the premier denies. How is this appropriate and not a conflict of interest? GUEST: Duff Conacher, Co-Founder of Democracy Watch 

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Canada has been talking about how to streamline access to care using queuing theory for more than 20 years. Centralized wait-lists have been proven to work. So why isn’t Canada using them in health care across the country? GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - Canadian manufacturers are concerned about a promise made by U.S. president Joe Biden in his state of the union speech Tuesday evening, pledging to use only American materials in infrastructure projects. GUEST: Jack Jedwab, President of the Association for Canadian Studies - At the last NATO summit in Madrid, leaders of the Western military alliance ordered the conversion of battle groups in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to full combat brigades with anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 troops each, depending on the availability of equipment. Getting there is proving to be a struggle, according to two recent reports — one from the U.K. House of Commons, the other from a Warsaw-based international affairs think-tank. Since that June NATO summit, journalists have been asking Canadian politicians and military officials when the Canadian-led brigade in Latvia will be created and what it will look like. Their responses have been vague. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network

GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Trudeau government has offered premiers $46.2 billion in new healthcare funding. Is it enough? and will it address Ontario’s needs? GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University - Canadians are having a visceral reaction to the smug corporate power being projected by major supermarket chains amid today’s inflation in food prices. GUEST: Jim Stanford, Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work - The CBC is looking to end its broadcasts on traditional TV and radio in favour of a digital-only strategy, but likely not any time soon. CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait told The Globe and Mail that “in order to remain relevant” CBC will have to shift its programming online at some point. GUEST: Bill Brioux, Television critic and author

Ukraine sowed confusion on Monday about whether its Defence Minister would be replaced, creating doubts about the leadership of its war effort just as it braces for an expected Russian offensive. The questions over Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov were the first public sign of serious disarray in Ukraine’s wartime leadership. A day after announcing that Mr. Reznikov would be sidelined, a top ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to row back, saying no changes would be made this week. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The federal government will propose a decade-long plan to fund and reform the health-care system when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the premiers in Ottawa on Tuesday, according to sources with knowledge of the plan. The federal proposal will see new money flow as soon as the next budget. It will include a top-up to the planned across-the-board increase to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and substantial funding for bilateral agreements with provinces and territories to deal with their specific needs.  GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - What do nurses need and want from this healthcare meeting today? GUEST: Dr. Claudette Holloway, President of the Registered Nurses of Ontario - Ukraine sowed confusion on Monday about whether its Defence Minister would be replaced, creating doubts about the leadership of its war effort just as it braces for an expected Russian offensive. The questions over Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov were the first public sign of serious disarray in Ukraine’s wartime leadership. A day after announcing that Mr. Reznikov would be sidelined, a top ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to row back, saying no changes would be made this week. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Liberals ditch gun law reform ·        Trudeau’s anti-islamophobia siaster reveals a gov’t dangerously out of touch with voters ·        Trudeau adds former McKinsey executive to his hug club ·        And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        bail reform for violent ·        repeat offenders; nixing the gun amendment ·        concerns about MAiD. GUEST: David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada - Topics Include: ·        U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon ·        Biden to lay out contrasts with GOP in state of the union ·       Former Russian president says more U.S. weapons supplied to Ukraine will trigger further retaliatory strikes ·        And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The tide is turning on the so-called Freedom Convoy. New polls suggest more Canadians believe the use of the Emergencies Act by the Federal Government was justified to clear out protesters occupying the capital, compared with polling done before the public inquiry into the use of the Act. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Brantford is posing itself as the new home for the Hamilton Bulldogs, but our guest thinks that team owner Michael Andlauer is not telling the whole truth to the public about the team's fate. GUEST: Jasper Kujavsky, Member of Hamilton Urban Precinct. Arts & Entertainment Group (HUPEG) Mike Schreiner is a popular man right now, current leader of the Ontario Green Party and being courted by the Ontario Liberals to become their leader. The Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May issued a public statement, warning Schreiner to 'think twice' about the offer. GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Parliament is back after a six-week break and the Liberal government is facing aggressive questions from the opposition bench about a number of ethical missteps and the sorry state of Canada's health-care system — two issues that are poised to dominate this spring sitting. ALSO: Dominic Barton, former McKinsey head, to Face MP questions about contract concerns. GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - Does Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation need fixing? Jeff Palkin joins us to discuss his op-ed in the Hamilton Spectator. GUEST: Jeff Paikin, President of New Horizon Development Group - Loblaw’s three-month-long “price freeze” on its No Name products ended Tuesday as one of its main rivals warns cost increases are coming to store shelves. However, while overall inflation appears to be on the decline, the scrapping of the price freeze comes at a time when Canadian food prices are still higher than overall inflation, according to Statistics Canada’s December 2022 report. What are the implications? GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ontario Liberals think Mike Schreiner, leader of the Green Party of Ontario, should come be their new leader. We have a Green party for a reason, why would they even approach him? And how desperate are they? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for TVO - Promised new national standards for long-term care homes in Canada have now been published — part of Ottawa's attempt to avoid a repeat of the alarming death tolls in long-term care homes that marked the early phase of the pandemic. The Health Standards Organization (HSO) published 60 pages of comprehensive standards Tuesday, to complement the release of 115 pages of standards from the Canadian Standards Association Group (CSA) in December. The federal government launched the standards project in the spring of 2021. While the new standards are voluntary, health experts say they won't do the job unless LTC homes adopt all of them without exceptions. GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge - The Doug Ford government says its vision for its second term is to get desperately needed homes built in Ontario. In York Region, the key to that vision is a massive pipeline that transfers water from one Great Lake region to another. The big grid of pipes moves water and sewage in an intricate back-and-forth system between Lake Ontario and York Region, a suburb of 1.17 million people between Toronto and Lake Simcoe. York gets its water for drinking, and flushing toilets, from both Lake Simcoe and Lake Ontario. GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The federal government failed to spend tens of billions of dollars in the last fiscal year on promised programs and services, including new military equipment, affordable housing and support for veterans. Federal departments are blaming a variety of factors for letting a record total of $38 billion in funding lapse in 2021-22, including delays and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner isn't ruling out a bid for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals. A group of high-profile Liberals — including former cabinet ministers Deb Matthews and Liz Sandals, and current Liberal caucus member Lucille Collard — released a letter Sunday urging Schreiner to join the party and run to be its leader. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - Canadian universities conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists. The joint research projects are generating knowledge that could help drive China’s defence sector in cutting-edge, high-tech industries. Are they aloud to do that still? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

Andy McNamara, National Fantasy Football Host and Journalist for Rogers Sportsnet

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Parliament returns ·        Healthcare negotiations ·        Trudeau AND Poilievre attach each other in dueling speeches ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Canada will supply Ukraine with four Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks and Canadian Armed Forces trainers to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to operate the vehicles, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Thursday. GUEST: Christian Leuprecht (le-PRECK, NOT LEW-preck), Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Topics Include: ·        Calls for police reforms flood Memphis ·        U.S general predicts country will be at war with China in 2025 ·        GOP national sales tax talk backfires ·        And more…. GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: TECH WITH ADAM OLDFIELD

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: There’s no question that Ontario’s public health-care system is strained, but is the Ford governments plan to help ease the stress by expanding for-profit medical services the right fix? GUEST: David Moscrop, Political Theorist, Columnist for The Washington Post and author of ‘Too Dumb For Democracy’ - The cost of living will be top of mind for Liberal members of Parliament as they prepare to head back to the House of Commons next week, but for their Indigenous caucus, affordability is a long-standing issue. The Indigenous caucus met on Thursday, kicking off the federal Liberal’s three-day winter retreat during which they are strategizing about their priorities for the upcoming sitting. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - CBC Toronto has learned that a handful of organized crime groups are behind these real-estate frauds — in which at least 30 homes in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have either been sold or mortgaged without the real owners' knowledge. Those revelations come from a private investigation firm working for a title insurance company to try and get to the bottom of the scams, which are costing insurers millions in claims.  What happens if title insurance falls apart? GUEST: Jennifer Quaid, Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Research in Civil Law at the University of Ottawa

GUEST: Brandon Woodward, Mortgage Agent with Bold Mortgage Group

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Trudeau and premiers meet Feb 7th to discuss healthcare funding ·        Will Canada give Ukraine tanks? ·        Angry protestors in Hamilton ·        And more… GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Germany and the United States said Wednesday they will send battle tanks to Ukraine, the first stage of a co-ordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv break combat stalemates as Russia's invasion enters its 12th month. U.S. President Joe Biden said the U.S. will send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of persistent arguments by Washington that the tanks were too difficult for Ukrainian troops to operate and maintain. The U.S. decision follows Germany agreeing to send 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from its own stocks. Germany had said the Leopards would not be sent unless the U.S. put its Abrams on the table, not wanting to incur Russia's wrath without the U.S. similarly committing its own tanks. GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - What is the state of Canada’s economy in light of yesterday’s interest rate hike? GUEST: Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and MP for Carleton

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What solutions have been discussed this week At ROMA in light of Bill 23? GUEST: Colin Best, President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, and Regional Councillor for Ward 1 in Milton - Topics include: ·        Economy warnings ·        Will there be a 2023 election? ·        Canada’s passports ·        Ukraine update GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University - Another rate hike from the Bank of Canada this week risks pushing the Canadian economy into a deep recession that could cost hundreds of thousands of people their jobs, a growing number of economists worry. GUEST: Jim Stanford, Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work - Bo Levi Mitchell has signed a three-year contract extension with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, tying him to Steeltown through 2025. GUEST: Josh Smith, Reporter for 3 Down Nation in Hamilton

GUEST: Andrew Perez is a senior consultant at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and volunteered with the Ontario Liberal Party during the 2022 Ontario election

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Canada's top public servant to look into the government's procurement process for the development of the ArriveCan app. The Globe and Mail reports that the government paid a two-person Ottawa firm 44-million dollars over two years to subcontract six other companies to actually do the work. At a news conference in Toronto yesterday, Trudeau said he's asked the clerk of the Privy Council to investigate. GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice - As we approach the one-year anniversary, what is left of the ‘Freedom Convey’ ? GUEST:  Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator - All of this evidence suggests that there was neither a shortage of already authorized housing starts to accommodate Ontario’s growing population, nor a shortage of already designated land on which to build homes. Simply put, has the Ford Governments housing ‘plan’ been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand? GUEST: Mark Winfield, Political Scientist and Professor of Environmental Studies with York University

GUEST: Kayln Kahler, Senior Journalist for The Athletic

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·       Liberal retreat starts today in Hamilton ·       Conservatives lead Liberals by 4 ·       Trudeau & Poilievre wanting the same thing ·       And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - The Federal Court has ordered the government to repatriate four Canadian men currently being held in northeastern Syria. The Canadians are among a number of foreign nationals in Syrian prisons for suspected ISIS members that are run by the Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist group. 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 - Topics Include: ·        9 killed in shooting near L.A. ·        Jeff Zients to replace Ron Klain as White House chief of staff ·        More seized documents ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST:  Michelle Eaton, Vice President of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

Topics Include: Apple watch update, virtual reality, apple pencils with the iPad & more!

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Premier Doug Ford is set to introduce changes that would let Canadian health-care workers registered or licensed in other provinces start immediately practicing in Ontario. Currently, health-care professionals must be registered with one of Ontario’s health regulatory colleges before working in the province. However, in an effort to “overcome bureaucratic delays,” Ontario is prepared to loosen those rules. The Ford government said it will introduce these legislative changes in February. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News - The Canadian Real Estate Association said average house prices in Canada dropped a record 12 per cent in 2022, while sales fell more than 39 per cent from December 2021. The average national home price in December was $626,318, down from over $816,000 when the market peaked in early 2022, said CREA in a new report. The once high-flying Canadian real estate market has been hit hard by a series of interest rate hikes over the past year, and many observes expect more trouble ahead as homeowners grapple with mortgages rates over 6 per cent. GUEST: Mike Moffatt, Senior Director at the Smart Prosperity Institute & Assistant Professor with the Ivey Business School at Western University - David Crosby, the legendary singer-songwriter who founded some of the defining rock groups of the 1960s, has died at the age of 81, according to media reports on Thursday. GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and music commentator

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s integrity commission and auditor general will launch probes into the Ford government’s decision to open portions of the Greenbelt for development, acting on requests from the Ontario NDP and other opposition parties. The integrity commissioner accepted a request on Wednesday from incoming Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles, to look into whether housing minister Steve Clark broke conflict of interest and insider information rules GUEST: David Crombie, former federal cabinet minister, Former Mayor or toronto & former chair of the Greenbelt Council - Health Canada is reiterating that it expects provinces to fund medically necessary health services as one company raises fears of two-tiered health care in Ontario. Maple, a Loblaw-funded virtual care business based in Toronto, charges $69 per doctor's visit (or $30 per month for 30 visits per year) — a service that would be free in person. The Canada Health Act requires provincial and territorial health insurance plans to cover "all medically necessary services," Health Canada spokesperson Anne Génier said in a statement. Charging Ontarians for insured services is banned by provincial legislation in accordance with the Canada Health Act. Ontario has insured virtual visits under OHIP, but Maple has found a way around the province's insurance. GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University - We discuss all the big topics like encampments, transparency and Airbnb rentals with Hamilton Mayor, Andrea Horwath. GUEST: Andrea Horwath, Mayor of Hamilton

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Ottawa’s aggressive measures to clean immigration backlog ·        McKinsey’s federal contracts are worth more than $100M. Will MP’s vote to probe? GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - The fight is not over to find records that could answer “hard questions” about unmarked graves at Canada's residential schools, including who the missing children were and how they died, said the woman appointed to work with Indigenous communities in searches underway across the country. ALSO: A First Nation located in Kenora, Ont. says it has discovered 171 anomalies on the grounds of a former residential school. 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 - The association representing Canada’s multibillion-dollar defence sector is the latest to sound the alarm over this country’s unexplained absence from a security pact between some of its closest allies: Australia, Britain and the United States. The warning from the head of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, known as CADSI, follows similar concerns from a senior Canadian military officer about the potential ramifications of Canada’s exclusion from the trilateral treaty known as AUKUS. GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is vowing to move up to 50% of surgical procedures out of hospitals and into private, for-profit health facilities permanently. Asked specifically which procedures he is looking to move to private health facilities, 97% of which are for-profit facilities, Ford offered a list of surgeries that he described as not “serious” – including procedures provided by Ford’s political donors who also lobbied the Premier’s Office for this change. Will Premier Ford's health care plan help or hurt health care in Ontario? GUEST: Dr. James Tiessen, Director of Health Administration & Community Care and Associate Professor with Toronto Metropolitan University - Ottawa on Monday approved an environmental assessment for a lithium mine project in Quebec that will produce 5,480 tonnes of ore per day once completed amid a growing global push to secure supplies of critical minerals. The James Bay Lithium Mine Project, which is located about 100 kilometres east of James Bay in the Eastmain Cree Community in Quebec, will produce lithium — a key ingredient in clean technology like electric vehicle batteries and solar panels, the government said Monday. GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University - When some of the world's wealthiest and most influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting last year, sessions on climate change drew high-level discussions on topics such as carbon financing and sustainable food systems. But an entirely different narrative played out on the internet, where social media users claimed leaders wanted to force the population to eat insects instead of meat in the name of saving the environment. The annual event in the Swiss ski resort town of Davos, which opens Monday, has increasingly become a target of bizarre claims from a growing chorus of commentators who believe the forum involves a group of elites manipulating global events for their own benefit. GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute

GUEST: Andy McNamara, National Fantasy Football Host and Journalist for Rogers Sportsnet

GUEST: David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau stakes Canada’s trade policy on NAFTA resiliency ·        How to help Hati ·        3 day cabinet retreat late January in Hamilton ·        And much more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Japan looks at Canada for LNG supply, but Trudaeu’s response was non-committal. Is that the right move for Canada’s global relations? GUEST: Heather Exner-Pirot is a senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Canada's premiers are unanimously urging Ottawa to take "immediate action" to strengthen the country's bail system. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto Topics Include: ·        More documents found at Biden’s home ·        Trump organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud ·        Debt ceiling flight looms over medicare ·        And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Michael Bociurkiw, Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council and global affairs analyst

GUEST: TECH WITH ADAM OLDFIELD

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Immigration targets are immigration bureaucrats’ best guess, based on institutional experience and analyses, of how many people can join a society and economy without threatening social cohesion. In other words, they are estimates of what Canadian immigration bureaucrats have historically referred to the country’s “absorptive capacity.” What are the problems with the immigration targets? GUEST: Dr. Jennifer Elrick, Associate Professor of Sociology with McGill University - Five out of six Canadians believe the country is already in recession and more than half fear the economy will get worse this year, a new poll suggests. GUEST: Dan Arnold, Chief Strategy Officer for Pollara Strategic Insights - Topics Include: ·        Internal Ford government docs that admit impact of Bill 124 ·        Carbon tax on industry. What will Ford’s gov’t do with the revenue? ·        Opposition parties ask Auditor General to probe Greenbelt moves ·        And more… GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel on Thursday to investigate how classified documents had ended up in President Biden’s private office and home, opening a new legal threat to the White House and providing ammunition to its Republican opponents. 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

The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday in one of the bloodiest battles of Russia's invasion, while Ukraine's unflagging resistance and other challenges prompted Moscow to shake up its military leadership again. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST: Luca Bucci, CEO of the Ontario Home Builders Association

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Premier Doug Ford says Ontario can live with federal strings attached to any new health-care funding from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ford’s comments are significant because some premiers have bristled at Ottawa having any say in how the additional dollars are spent. GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today - This year, though, we’re betting a lot of sober-curious people are going to be opting for a “damp” month instead of fully dry, thanks to the “Dry(ish) January Challenge” — a new initiative that encourages people to try out a month of moderate drinking instead of abstinence. Which is better though? A dry January? Or a damp one? GUEST: Dr. Peter Bieling, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry And Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and Director of Mental Health And Addiction Program with St. Joseph’s Hospital - The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday in one of the bloodiest battles of Russia's invasion, while Ukraine's unflagging resistance and other challenges prompted Moscow to shake up its military leadership again. GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Canada – U.S. reach workaround deal on Nexus backlog ·        Joe Biden to visit Canada for the first time since becoming president ·        Trade talk ·        And more…. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - This past Sunday, Canadians rallied in memory of the 176 people killed in the Iranian downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 in January 2020. On that flight were 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents, heading home to Canada via Kyiv, Ukraine. Instead, they were blasted from the sky by missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, never to see their loved ones again. The brutal attack shocked the world, yet to this day, Iran has not been held accountable for its crime. Three years have passed, with families still clamouring for justice — and wondering why their governments have not done more to get it for them. GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path - The Ford government is facing furious criticism after internal documents, obtained by Global News, acknowledged that low wages and Bill 124 have had a negative impact on Ontario’s ability to retain nurses in the province’s health care sector. The internal government documents, which were intended to brief Health Minister Sylvia Jones on a wide range of issues related to her portfolio, cited the government’s own wage restraint legislation and low pay as contributing factors in the province’s health-care staffing issues. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sportsbook Operations for DraftKings

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ontario Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada are different organizations. They share a lot of common links and goals, absolutely, but they’re different things, with different personnel and missions and challenges.  But he Ontario Liberal Party did not perform well in 2022. With just under 24 per cent of the vote, it won eight seats, came in third, and missed official-party status — again. So how could this effect the federal Liberal party? GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO - There’s a belief among some that Canada should dismantle the RCMP in the face of the scandal and criticism that plague the force. It would certainly be a dramatic change to the landscape of policing in this country. Is it time for that change? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Why Canada’s relationship with Mexico needs to go beyond trade. GUEST: Louise Blais is a former senior diplomat and a special adviser for international affairs for the Business Council of Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Morneau says PM favoured political points over policy ·        Canadians think the country is heading in the wrong direction ·        Three Amigos summit ·        And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - The Trudeau government has stated that CSIS, commonly referred to as Canada’s spy agency, is incapable of performing its duties: the prime minister even stated during the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act that “CSIS does not necessarily have the right tools, mandate or even mindset to respond to the threat Canada faced at that moment,” a reference to the trucker convoy. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he’s “open” to discussing changes to the service’s legal authority. Heck, even the CSIS director and deputy director agree the definition of “threat” is “outdated.” Is It time for change? GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s National Security program, and former CSIS analys - Topics Include: ·        Kevin McCarthy got the votes for speaker ·        Trudeau and Biden to meet before leaders’ summit ·        & more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global 

2022 marked a year of adjustment in housing demand across the REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) market area as sales activity eased by 30 per cent over the near-record highs achieved in 2021. Rising lending rates, previous price gains and limited supply options weighed on potential purchasers. At the same time, new listings continued to grow in the region, but only for homes priced above $800,000.  GUEST: Chris Knighton, Team Leader and Sales Representative with Knighton Real Estate Advisors, the No.1 sales team for Keller Williams in Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Galen Weston Jr., fourth-generation Loblaw Companies Ltd. heir — now president and chairman of Canada's largest food retailer — has caught the ire of Twitter users again . "I beg your pardon," tweeted CTV Queen’s Park reporter Siobhan Morris, an award-winning journalist based in Toronto, on Tuesday evening with a photo showing a pack of boneless, skinless chicken breast priced at $26.87 per kilogram at Loblaws. For comparison's sake, blogTO paid just a fraction of that price per kilo in November as part of an experiment. Morris' tweet has now been viewed more than 1.7 million times in less than 24 hours, attracting nearly 10,000 likes, thousands of retweets and thousands of salty comments. GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University, - What does Canada's COVID sanctions do to Canada-China relations? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University - A Supreme Court ruling that ended the punishment of life without parole for multiple murders has led to a greater emphasis on rehabilitation in sentencing for a wide range of offences. The court’s decision in May in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six Muslim worshippers in Quebec City in 2017, said Canada’s commitment to rehabilitation sets it apart from many other countries. Lower-court judges are taking that message to heart. The ruling is having an effect on sentencing well beyond multiple murders, the review shows. GUEST: Kim Pate, Senator for Ontario

What can we learn from this tragedy? Should there be calls for Police reform? GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: The federal government settled 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022, blowing past the previous all-time record set in 2021. It’s one signal that the federal government appears on track to carry out its immigration plan. Next year, the government hopes to bring in another 485,000 new permanent residents. GUEST: Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration - Canadian investors who made it through a tumultuous 2022 face further uncertainty in the year ahead amid increased recession risk, higher interest rates, persistent inflation, a jittery stock market and a plummeting real estate market. Investment professionals and personal finance experts say the easiest way to grow your money this year is to keep things simple. GUEST: Mark Yamada, President & CEO of PUR Investing Inc -  New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says the holiday travel woes that left thousands of passengers stranded at airports or struggling to find flights home show why there should be more competition in Canada's airspace. GUEST: John Gradek is former Air Canada executive and Coordinator of Integrated Aviation Management program at McGill University

Canada's top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China. That is just one of the many concerns facing the Canadian military in 2023 – are they ready? 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: Canada's top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China. That is just one of the many concerns facing the Canadian military in 2023 – are they ready? GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto - As 2022 comes to an end, Canadians seem to have an “improved, but uneven outlook on the country and the world” compared to the last two years, according to new polling that paints a picture of lingering pessimism about a “hot mess” of a broader world. GUEST: Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Polling - Topics: Bill’s Damar Hamlin in critical condition NFL makes mental health & support resources available to players and staff And more! 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

The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson: The year 2022 in federal politics started in conflict and is ending in conflict. As the new year begins, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is hinting he could pull the plug on the confidence and supply deal that is keeping the minority Liberals in power. The Liberals are being pressured to revise their mandatory gun “buyback” legislation, which has managed to capture large numbers of hunting and sport-shooting long guns. Canadians are feeling the pinch from inflation and rising interest rates. And the war in Ukraine is still raging. So what will happen in federal politics in 2023?  GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Intelligence agencies work hard to provide the best advice possible to senior government leaders. Therefore, you think they would at least read what they send right. 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 - Forecasting oil and gas prices can be a bit like aiming at a dartboard. But these days, analysts might as well be doing it with a blindfold. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Ontario Provincial Police released end-of-year statistics for motor vehicle fatalities in a tweet on Sunday, urging drivers to make 2023 a safer year. “Forty-four motorcyclists were killed last year, 29 pedestrians and 12 bicyclists,” Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video. “This is way over one every single day across the province.” GUEST: Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, Manager of Media Relations, Corporate Communications and Strategy Bureau with Ontario Provincial Police

It is time to grade the Prime Minister's report card for the year, Premier Ford too. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - If you've noticed that everyone is getting sick, you are not alone. Sickness, often with multiple infections, has sharply increased this flu season and a concept called "immunity debt" may be to blame. 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 price of new cars is sky high, and the timeline for getting one is only growing. How long until we no longer measure the wait time in years? GUEST: David Adams, President & CEO of the Global Automakers of Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: A typical young person in Hamilton would have to work full-time for more than two decades to save up for a 20 per cent down payment on an average-priced home in the region, a new study has found. The latest Straddling the Gap report, conducted by the Generation Squeeze lab out of the University of British Columbia (UBC), looked at the difference between home prices and earnings across Canada between 1976 and 2021. GUEST: Michael Collins-Williams, Chief Executive Officer of the West End Home Builders’ Association - Canada’s long-term care sector was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapidly climbing patient deaths, a lack of safety provisions coupled with already-precarious employment and difficult working conditions took its toll on the mental health of health-care workers. So what steps need to be taking to tackle Canada’s long-term care crisis? GUEST: Colleen Grady, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Queen's University - While becoming more autocratic at home during Xi Jinping’s rule, Beijing has become much more willing, over the past decade, to throw its weight around inside other states. It is increasingly trying, for the first time since Mao’s days, to intervene in the domestic politics, media, information environments, and societies of other countries. Beijing’s campaigns today reflect a departure from the more limited and defensive Chinese foreign policy of the late Cold War and early post–Cold War eras. China in many ways has supplanted Russia as the authoritarian foreign power most dedicated to meddling inside other countries. GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: In March 2021, Canada’s premiers again took up the issue of federal health transfers by reiterating a demand made in late 2020 for a $28 billion increase in annual federal funding for health care.  Their premise is simple. Once upon a time, the federal government contributed 50 per cent of the cost of medicare; now it contributes only 22 per cent. The provinces, it seems, are being generous by requesting that the feds need only raise their share to 35 per cent. GUEST: Tom McIntosh, Professor, Politics and International Studies, University of Regina - Canada’s inflation rate eased in November, as an acceleration in grocery and rent prices was offset by a decline at the gas pump. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - One-fifth of all passenger cars, SUVs and trucks sold in Canada in 2026 will need to run on electricity under new regulations Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is proposing Wednesday. By 2030, the mandate will hit 60 per cent of all sales and by 2035, every passenger vehicle sold in Canada will need to be electric. Manufacturers or importers who don’t meet the sales targets could face penalties under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association

GUEST: Adam Pyle, Emergency Medicine Physician and Lecturer with the University of Toronto

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The number of vacant jobs in Canada fell for the first time since the pandemic, easing from record highs in a possible turning point for the country’s labour market. Openings fell 3.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis to 959,615 in the third quarter, Statistics Canada reported Monday. That’s probably the first quarterly decline in vacancies in more than two years, though the agency didn’t collect figures in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. GUEST: Katherine Scott, Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - The Ford government’s controversial new process for selecting the next provincial court chief justice is “defective,” says a former top judge, while a legal expert said it presents a “glaring red flag” and highlights the need for an independent appointment system. Opposition parties, meanwhile, accused the government of trying to politicize the courts. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto - The House Jan 6. committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his allies, wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection with what lawmakers called a “roadmap to justice.” Will the Justice Department lay criminal charges against former U-S President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection? GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Ethics breach in Trudeau’s cabinet Conservative continue focus on cost of living in new year  And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - The details of the coup attempt sound comical at first. A plot to replace the elected government of Germany with one centred on the person of Heinrich XIII, 71-year-old heir to the long-dormant throne of Reuss, a principality in what is now the bucolic state of Thuringia? To be carried out by members of the Reichsburger cult, who believe that the modern federal republic of Germany is not a real country but a corporation formed by the occupying powers after the Second World War? This is a Marx Brothers movie, right? It’s when you read on that the whole thing starts to sound a little more chilling. Among the alleged plotters arrested last week were active or former members of the German military, including a parachute commander and a member of the elite Special Commando Forces. They had lots of money, large caches of weapons and had made what prosecutors called “concrete preparations” to storm the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, and to shoot or take hostage many of its members. GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Topics Include: J6 Committee will vote on criminal referrals of Trump Republicans win popular vote What could GOP control of the house mean for U.S.-China tensions? And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: TECH TALK w/ Adam Oldfield 

GUEST: Cathy Pimentel, Mortgage Agent with Bold Mortgage Group

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Could we see a political divorce in the New Year that will result in an early election? GUEST: Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the Federal NDP - The House of Commons passed a Liberal bill on Wednesday designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content, and Meta is once again threatening to remove news content from Facebook in Canada. Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has argued the bill will "enhance fairness" in the digital news marketplace by creating a framework and bargaining process for behemoths such as Google and Meta, which owns social media sites Facebook and Instagram, to pay media outlets. GUEST: Kevin Desjardins, President of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters - Topics Include: Ford gov’t frozen out over key issues What’s in store for major federal parties in 2023 Poilievre vs. Trudeau And more…. GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

GUEST: Michelle Eaton, Vice President of Public Affairs with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

GUEST: Joshua Kloke, Journalist for The Athletic

GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:  From 2018-2019, we got to see a Ford government the way a Ford government would function, and then from about 2020 until basically the start of 2023, we got to see how an Ontario government would function. The actual agenda and quirks of a given government probably can only really manifest these moves in “peacetime.” And we now might be starting to see how a Ford government functions again, as the pandemic falls off the government’s radar.  GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO - The federal Ethics Commissioner has ruled that Trade and Small Business Minister Mary Ng breached the Conflict of Interest Act in relation to two media training contracts awarded to a close personal friend. Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion released the ruling Tuesday in a detailed report, along with a strongly worded statement on the minister’s conduct. GUEST: Daniel Tsai, Lecturer of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology at the University of Toronto - Against the backdrop of rising interest rates, inflation, constrained supply chains, labour shortages and fears of a recession, it is critical for governments to focus on creating the right conditions to support competitiveness, productivity, and long-term economic growth. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC) has identified critical areas that must inform Ontario’s growth strategy. GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

GUEST: Andrew Holland, National Media Relations Director for the Nature Conservancy of Canada

“Many observers see Russia’s war against Ukraine as the product of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s narcissistic personality and megalomaniacal quest for glory. But, what if the genesis of Putin’s war was actually sown decades ago in the rise of Soviet Imperialism and the actions of another brutal dictator, Joseph Stalin?  That tantalizing theory is explored in the shocking new novel, Who Has Buried the Dead, the third book by successful author and career law enforcement officer KGE “Chuck” Konkel GUEST: ‘KGE’ Chuck Konkel, Author of Who Has Buried The Dead? 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Last February, the Ontario premier expressed the view that the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest paralyzing Canada’s capital and major border points would not be resolved by “a bunch of people sitting around a table talking.” Yet here we are at the end of 2022, in the midst of what is clearly a health-care emergency in this country, and there was Ford last Friday, asking for — yes — a federal-provincial meeting. Or, as he might have put it, a bunch of people sitting around a table talking. GUEST: Susan Delacourt, National Columnist with The Toronto Star - Working with GTA religious communities, the David Suzuki Foundation has created an open letter raising the alarm about Hwy 413, the Greenbelt and climate crisis. GUEST: Gideon Forman, Climate Change and Transportation Policy Analyst with The David Suzuki Foundation - With nearly 300 Canadian students enrolled in its programs, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland feels a lot like a medical school in Canada, just separated by 3,340 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean. While this historic university in the heart of Dublin has been producing doctors since 1784, in recent decades, it’s become an important training ground for many young Canadians who go overseas to pursue their dreams of becoming a physician. More than 40 per cent of the students in RCSI’s four-year medical program are from Canada – more than any other nationality. GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The New Democrats are ready to withdraw from their confidence-and-supply agreement they signed with the Liberals if there is no federal action to address the health-care crisis, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday. The deal reached in March would see the NDP support thr minority government on key votes in the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election before 2025. In exchange, the Liberals have promised to make progress on a number of NDP priorities, including health care. GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Ontario’s tourism industry is not expected to fully recover from the pandemic until 2025, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the industry say in a joint report, with recommendations including tax incentives, cannabis tourism and affordable housing to support staff recruitment. GUEST: Chris Bloore, President of the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario - Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the bank was surprised this year how the combination of large supply chain shocks and an overheated economy would play out on inflation. He says Russia's invasion of Ukraine was also a surprise, which led to higher energy prices and helped turbocharge already rising inflation. Macklem says the unexpected geopolitical action points to the longer-term challenge of keeping inflation low as protectionism increases, and the deflationary benefits of global economies opening up fade. GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Trudeau won’t lead on updating the Constitution What can Ontario by-election say about Conservatives Premiers raise concerns about gun-control bill And more… GUEST: Dr. Loru Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Why have gas prices dropped in Canada? And how long should we expect them to last?  GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - Topics Include: Congress struggles to reach funding deal Kyrsten Sinema becomes an independent Midterm results and turnout And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Topics Include: ·        Family waits 2 days at hospital ER before being admitted to children’s hospital ·        McMaster children’s Hospital gets ICU beds to cope with crisis ·        Red Cross sends personnel to Ottawa to help children’s hospital GUEST: Bruce Squires, President of the McMaster Children’s Hospital - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he takes ‘no pleasure’ in job losses that will result from hiking rates, but cooling the country’s overheated economy comes first. Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers, Armine Yalnizyan interviewed the Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem on Nov. 24, 2022. She joined us to discuss the details. GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers - The corporation used the recent Giving Tuesday as an opportunity to ask customers to donate their Optimum loyalty points as part of a partnership with some local food bank charities, suggesting customers who collect PC Optimum points donate them directly to partnered charities. The idea didn’t land with everyone and left some social media users fuming. GUEST: Marc Gordon, Customer Experience Expert

GUEST: Mary Jo, Member of the Ontario School Safety Group

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: The captain of the women's hockey team Marie-Philip Poulin was named Canada's top athlete of 2022. She became the first female hockey player to win the Northern Star Award. GUEST: Marie-Philip Poulin, Olympic gold medalist, captain of Canada’s women’s national hockey team, and winner of the Northern Star award as Canada’s top athlete (formerly the Lou Marsh award) - Ontario School Safety Group Applauds HWDSB's Mask Mandate GUEST: Mary Jo, Member of the Ontario School Safety Group - The federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end last winter’s protracted anti-government, anti-vaccine mandate protests is largely supported by Canadians, according to a new poll. After six weeks of intense scrutiny at the inquiry into the invocation of the act, the government appears to have emerged unscathed, according to a Nanos Research poll for The Globe and Mail. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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 w/ Shiona Thompson: Marit Stiles is set to be the next leader of the Ontario NDP after the Toronto member of provincial parliament was the sole contender. The New Democrats will now hold a confirmation vote for Stiles, and as long as a majority of party members are in favour, she will secure the job and become leader of the Official Opposition in the legislature. GUEST: Marit Stiles, New leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Davenport - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is working to ensure Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) never again offers medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to veterans, as another veteran says a similar experience happened to her as well. Trudeau made the comments a day after a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces shocked lawmakers by revealing medically-assisted death had been raised to her by a VAC employee. GUEST: Scott Maxwell, Executive Director of Wounded Warriors Canada - Women’s soccer in Canada is set to get a boost with the creation of a domestic professional league in the coming years, backed by star players from last year’s Olympic gold medal-winning team. Project 8, a company founded by retired Canadian national-team player Diana Matheson and her business partner Thomas Gilbert, will announce plans Tuesday for a women’s pro league to launch in 2025 with eight teams across the country. GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson: Canada’s first full-scale electric vehicle manufacturing plant officially opened in southern Ontario on Monday, with the prime minister and the province’s premier saying the launch of the facility marked a national milestone. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said electric delivery vans started rolling off the line earlier in the day at the General Motors CAMI production plant in Ingersoll, Ont., that was retooled to build the company’s BrightDrop all-electric vehicles. GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association - A major UN conference on biodiversityis getting underway in Montreal today (Tuesday) with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world’s land and oceans before the end of this decade. But the environment may be the easy part of a meeting that is being co-hosted by Canada and China amid growing diplomatic tensions between the two – and without the political heft of world leaders, who weren’t invited to attend. GUEST: Timothy Hodges, Professor of Practice, Institute for the Study of International Development - After a year that saw food prices climb by numbers not seen in decades due to record inflation, the cost of groceries in Canada is expected to continue rising in 2023, a new report suggests. The latest Canada Food Price Report released Monday estimates food prices will increase by another five to seven per cent on average next year, adding hundreds of dollars to the average family’s annual expenses. 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast (with guest host Shiona Thompson): Lots of confusion surrounding Alberta Premiere Danielle Smith’s Alberta Sovereignty bill in regards to the powers given to cabinet. Premiere Smith has said she will change it, claiming that aspect of the bill was not intended to be a part of it. GUEST: Dr Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - A cautionary tale for all municipalities out of Hamilton. The latest lake of sewage spilled estimated to be 337 million litres. GUEST: Chris McLaughlin, Executive Director of the Bay Area Restoration Council, and Adjunct Faculty with the School Of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University - Ticketmaster is being taken to court… by Taylor Swift fans? The ticketing giant is being suied by fans of the pop music icon over the Eras Tour sale chaos that crashed Ticketmaster’s systems, leaving many fans unable to get tickets.. GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and music commentator.

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

GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy, Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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: Dr Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

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

GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University

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 

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton 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

GUEST: Marika Warner, Research Director with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment

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” - 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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Trudeau & Poilievre neck and neck in polling Emergency Act Inquiry continued Canada must remain ‘fiscally responsible’ as recession fears grow And more… 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 And more 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

GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Emergencies Act Inquiry Canada sends equipment to Haiti Danielle Smith And more…. 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 And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers

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

GUEST: Luca Bucci, CEO of the Ontario Builders Association

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 And more…. 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 And more…. 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 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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 And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: 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 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sportsbook Operations for DraftKings

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Conservative lead widens What will Trudeau do when angry farmers descend on Ottawa? Why does Poilievre appeal to young Canadians? And more…. 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 And more… GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: 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