Bill Kelly Show

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 Quebeco

 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

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,