Bill Kelly Show

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

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.

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’

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 J

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

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

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

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