Bill Kelly Show

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Trudeau & Poilievre neck and neck in polling Emergency Act Inquiry continued Canada must remain ‘fiscally responsible’ as recession fears grow And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Candidates hoping to land at city hall are making last-ditch efforts to win over Hamilton voters in the dying days of an increasingly close — and sometimes nasty — election campaign. Seven seats around the council horseshoe are up for grabs with incumbents opting not to run again. That includes an open mayoral race with three main rivals looking for the electoral edge to secure the chain of office. Who may end up on top? GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer Topics Include: Trump issued Jan 6 subpoena Prospect of recession looms Biden plans to run again in 2024 And more GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland issued a warning to Canadians Wednesday — the coming months won't be pretty as rising interest rates slow a once red-hot economy and force some people out of their jobs. The Bank of Canada's recent rate hikes to tame sky-high inflation will increase borrowing costs for businesses and consumers alike, which will send shockwaves throughout the economy, Freeland said. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - If you think you’re shivering now, just wait until the shock of your next heating bill sets in. Enbridge Gas Inc., which serves approximately 75 per cent of Ontario residents, adjusts its prices every three months, and on Oct. 1, a new rate increase kicked in after the Ontario Energy Board approved a hike of five to 10 per cent. That comes on top of a rate hike in July of between 18 to 23 per cent. Some households will be paying $500 more than last year. Commodity prices are double what they we

The municipal election is Monday. Where do the candidates stand? GUEST: Connie Smith, Former Anchor for CHCH News - Ottawa publicly signed a multi million dollar deal with Nokia. Does this favourable deal send a message to China? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University - CUPE negotiations have broken down ahead of the strike deadline. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News

At the Emergencies Act Inquiry, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has made some troubling statements about a lack of support from both the federal and provincial governments. “Show me the mounties” the transcript reads. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa   - A new report from CanAge has found exponentially increasing cases of dementia in Canada and that Canada is woefully unprepared for treating such. GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge   - An Edmonton man has been sentenced to 20 years in US prison for recruiting ISIS members, sending them off to fight. From our guest: “Another Edmontonian was given 29 yrs, but not for terrorism, for running over a cop and 4 others back in 2017, despite having an ISIS flag in his vehicle (discussed at length in my book The Peaceable Kingdom)” GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Former CSIS analyst and author of “The Peaceable Kingdom: A history of terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the pre

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:   With the second week of testimony at the Public Emergency Order Commission getting underway, the time is right to note that, for all that we might see and learn in the weeks to come, it seems certain that some important questions — some important failures — will not be answered or properly scrutinized.   We deserve a review of how the Ontario government handled the convoy crisis - but will we ever get one?   GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO, - Canada's biggest grocery chain is freezing prices on all its No Name products for the next three months. Is this just a PR strategy or are they actually trying to help Canadians? GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University -   Chrystia Freeland is already thinking about what comes next, after Russia eventually backs out of Ukraine. She wants Canada and its allies to move toward a NATO-like arrangements for economics, where we deal with like-minded trading partners, reject countries l

GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: Emergencies Act Inquiry Canada sends equipment to Haiti Danielle Smith And more…. GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Google Canada commissioned Abacus Data to design and execute a national public opinion survey exploring perceptions and views about Bill C-18, the Online News Act and to gauge public reaction to Google’s concerns about the Bill. The survey was conducted with 2,207 Canadian adults from August 19 to 26, 2022. GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, former director of Journalism at the University of Toronto, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”? - Topics Include: Trump issues response to January 6th hearing Biden waits for Congress to return before taking action on Saudi relationship Obama to campaign for Democrats in Georgia and Michigan in final weeks And more…. GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: What did we learn from day one of testimony in the Emergencies Act inquiry? GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice - Abacus Data Surveys: ·       Public Stress About Inflation Is High, but Not Rising Much ·       COVID Anxiety Low, Vaccine Hesitancy Up A Notch GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut. They alleged the right-wing radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats. Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has clarified a widely condemned comment she made that people who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine are the “most discriminated-against group” of her lifetime – though she stopped short of a retraction or an apology. What repercussions can her comments have on her leadership? GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies - Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he did not speak directly with Russian President Putin before tweeting out a Twitter poll with a highly criticized proposal for a “peace” plan for Russia and Ukraine, following a report from Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer that he had done so. GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute - Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence, as the two countries try countering growing threats from China and Russia. What kind of implications can this alliance create? GUEST: Stephen M. Saideman, Pate

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Hockey Canada’s CEO and entire board of directors will leave the organization after facing fierce criticism for its handling of alleged sexual assaults. The national organization announced the departures in a statement on Tuesday after hearing months of calls for leadership changes within the body, and seeing its major sponsors walk away over the past week. Now that changes have been made, how can new leadership win the confidence of Canadians back? GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro (PEG-OH-RAWR-OH), Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport - Canadians deserve to know whether imposing the Emergencies Act was indeed a justified action of last resort. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Does it matter that Ontario is about to build a bunch of new fossil-fuel-fired power plants? Does it matter that they might be the last ones this province ever builds? Those are, fundamentally, the questions we’re left with afte