Bill Kelly Show

Photo: (Hamilton Conservation Authority) This weekend, a boy fell 30 feet at Albion Falls and was rescued by Hamilton Fire. A man also fell Saturday and was rescued by rope. Now, a Hamilton city councillor wants the city to fence off the trail and stairway that goes down to the base of the Falls and to look at charging trespassers. Guest: Tom Jackson, City Councillor. Ward 6. City of Hamilton

Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield. 

Hamilton is taking a look at scrapping a program that will spur downtown development. They argue that there may not be a need for the program any more now that the city is booming. Guest: Jason Farr. City Councillor, Ward 2, City of Hamilton. Hamilton is spending $16,000 so they can count how many out of town trucks are using the Red Hill and Lincoln Alexander parkways. The reason for doing this is because they want to come up with ways to ease congestion and to ask for money to maintain roads. Guest: John Best. President, The Bay Observer. Bill Cosby is planning on hosting townhall meeting this summer on educating people on how to protect themselves from false allegations of sexual assault. This comes after his first trial ended in a hung jury. Guest: Lenore Lukasik-Foss, Director of SACHA (Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton Area).

Photo: (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Bill Cosby is planning on hosting townhall meeting this summer on educating people on how to protect themselves from false allegations of sexual assault. This comes after his first trial ended in a hung jury. Guest: Lenore Lukasik-Foss, Director of SACHA (Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton Area).

Hamilton is spending $16,000 so they can count how many out of town trucks are using the Red Hill and Lincoln Alexander parkways. The reason for doing this is because they want to come up with ways to ease congestion and to ask for money to maintain roads. Guest: John Best. President, The Bay Observer.

Photo: (CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Stephen C. Host) Hamilton is taking a look at scrapping a program that will spur downtown development. They argue that there may not be a need for the program any more now that the city is booming. Guest: Jason Farr. City Councillor, Ward 2, City of Hamilton.

The LCBO will be extending it’s hours amid fears of a looming strike next week. The LCBO says it will have some stores open from 9am to 11pm starting today. Guest: Warren “Smokey” Thomas, President of OPSEU. Mayor’s Townhall with Burlington Mayor Rick Goldring. Guest: Rick Goldring, Mayor of the City of Burlington.

What does Burlington have planned to develop its downtown core?  Guest: Rick Goldring, Mayor of the City of Burlington.

The LCBO will be extending it’s hours amid fears of a looming strike next week. The LCBO says it will have some stores open from 9am to 11pm starting today. Guest: Warren “Smokey” Thomas, President of OPSEU.

Photo: (Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) A Montreal man attacked an airport security officer at a Flint Michigan terminal. The accused has cited the conflicts in the Middle East as justification for his actions. What do we know so far? Guest: Mike Armstrong, Quebec Correspondent, Global National. Guest: Phil Gurski, President and CEO, Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting.

City Council’s planning committee voted yesterday to enact three bylaws to help break and enter victims reclaim stolen property and heirlooms before they’re melted down and resold. Guest: Sam Merulla. City Councillor, Ward 4, City of Hamilton. The Towards Safe Harbour Report Card was released this week by the Bay Area Restoration Council. While the Randle Reef clean up is significant, progress seems to be slow on other fronts. Guest: Chris McLaughlin | Executive Director, Bay Area Restoration Council. Residents in Hamilton and Thunder Bay have started to receive packages from the Ontario government that are for trying to get people to sign up for the basic income pilot project. Guest: Tom Cooper, Director, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

Photo: (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov) Residents in Hamilton and Thunder Bay have started to receive packages from the Ontario government that are for trying to get people to sign up for the basic income pilot project. Guest: Tom Cooper, Director, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

The Towards Safe Harbour Report Card was released this week by the Bay Area Restoration Council. While the Randle Reef clean up is significant, progress seems to be slow on other fronts. Guest: Chris McLaughlin | Executive Director, Bay Area Restoration Council

City Council’s planning committee voted yesterday to enact three bylaws to help break and enter victims reclaim stolen property and heirlooms before they’re melted down and resold. Guest: Sam Merulla. City Councillor, Ward 4, City of Hamilton.

Photo: (Will Costa/Facebook) The city has voted to sell and close off an alley way in Dundas that has garnered controversy.Council decided to sell a section of the lane to a landowner who has property adjacent to it. More than 30 people spoke against the proposed sale. What was the meeting like yesterday and the reaction from residents? Robert “Bob” James, resident of Dundas whose property backs onto the laneway, lived there 37 years. The union that represents HSR’s bus drivers wants city council to declare that the HSR should operate and maintain the LRT line once it is implemented. Their union has launched a campaign which includes a petition, website and video that urges that transit be kept public. Guest: Eric Tuck, President ATU Local 107. A man in London, Ontario has decided to fight for a bylaw that will see bylaw officers be able to save animals that are left in cars on a hot summer day. This comes after he encountered an incident where a dog was left in a car with cracked windows. He argues tha

The union that represents HSR’s bus drivers wants city council to declare that the HSR should operate and maintain the LRT line once it is implemented. Their union has launched a campaign which includes a petition, website and video which urges that transit be kept public. Guest: Eric Tuck, President ATU Local 107.

Photo: (Krista Sharpe/Global News) A man in London, Ontario has decided to fight for a bylaw that will see bylaw officers be able to save animals that are left in cars on a hot summer day. This comes after he encountered an incident where a dog was left in a car with cracked windows. He argues that when he called the police and confronted the owners, police said that what the owners did was not against the law. Guest: Cole Benjamin, London man petitioning to have a bylaw created about leaving animals in cars.

The union that represents HSR’s bus drivers wants city council to declare that the HSR should operate and maintain the LRT line once it is implemented. Their union has launched a campaign which includes a petition, website and video that urges that transit be kept public. Guest: Eric Tuck, President ATU Local 107.

PHoto: (RoyBoy at English Wikipedia) The city has voted to sell and close off an alley way in Dundas that has garnered controversy. Council decided to sell a section of the lane to a landowner who has property adjacent to it. More than 30 people spoke against the proposed sale. What was the meeting like yesterday and the reaction from residents? Guest: Robert “Bob” James, resident of Dundas whose property backs onto the laneway, lived there 37 years.

The Hamilton Police’s use of carding/street checks decreased dramatically to nearly nil last year. However, the previous police chief had argued that limiting street checks would make the city less safe and that “reduced officer-community engagement can lead to increased crime, violence, injury and death”. So the question remains: has the city become more dangerous with the ban on carding in place? Guest: Lloyd Ferguson. City Councillor, Ward 12, City of Hamilton. A man has been killed and eight others injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd of worshipers leaving a mosque near London, England. What do we know from this situation? Guest: David Videcette, a terrorism expert and author of The Theseus Paradox. What happens to a person who hits and kills cyclists and pedestrians on our roads? According to an investigation being done by Global News, most drivers face minor penalties, small fines and very little jail time. Guest: Carolyn Jarvis, Chief Investigative Correspondant, Global National.