Bill Kelly Show

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

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

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 co

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

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