Bill Kelly Show

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 bu

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 Corresponden

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, a

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

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 th

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 th

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