Scott Thompson Show

A Scott Thompson Show bonus podcast featuring guest-host Scott Radley! Scott spoke with Alcino Duarte about what it is like running business known for some of the best sandwiches in the whole city! Guest: Alcino Duarte, Owner of Duarte’s, at 417 Barton Street East in Hamilton, Ontario Subscribe to the Scott Thompson Show wherever you find your favourite podcasts, and follow along as Scott (whichever Scott is hosting, that is) finds out more about the small businesses, restaurants and initiatives in Hamilton that have been affected by the pandemic! https://curiouscast.ca/podcast/189/the-scott-thompson-show/ Host - Scott RadleyContent Producer - Jordan ArmeniseTechnical/Podcast Producer - William P. Erskine

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast with guest-host Scott Radley! A study out of the U.K. shows that mixing the AstraZeneca vaccine with the Pfizer vaccine, which is built on mRNA technology, is beneficial. So what about Moderna, and how should people who have stuck with the same vaccine for both doses feel? 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 - As we approach what is hopefully the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic, discussion about immigration is returning to the proverbial table. Guest: Dave Korzinski, Research Director with the Angus Reid Institute  - Did you follow all of the COVID-19 rules, as they updated and downgraded or morphed into something else, over the past several months in Canada? Did you break any of those rules with or without knowing it at the time? Guest: Jason Disano Director of the Canadian Hub for Applied and S

A Scott Thompson Show bonus podcast featuring guest-host Scott Radley! If you have been craving ice cream, this segment might only make that craving stronger, but it also will point you toward someone who can help: Kim Thorneycroft of the Ancaster Ice Cream Parlour! Guest: Kim Thorneycroft, Owner of the Ancaster Ice Cream Parlour, by Little League Park, at 286 Jerseyville Road West in Ancaster, Ontario, online at https://ancastericecreamparlour.ca/home-%26-ice-cream-flavours  Subscribe to the Scott Thompson Show wherever you find your favourite podcasts, and follow along as Scott (whichever Scott is hosting, that is) finds out more about the small businesses, restaurants and initiatives in Hamilton that have been affected by the pandemic! https://curiouscast.ca/podcast/189/the-scott-thompson-show/

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast with guest-host Scott Radley! Have you ever gone viral online? If so, was it for saying something nice or negative? Research suggests that success on social media is driven by hate, and no one is very shocked by that. The question is, why does hate and negativity do well online? Guest: Jaigris Hodson, Associate Professor with the College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Royal Roads University - If you could have yourself launched into space just for the experience, would you? Soon you may be able to, if you have the money for it. The era of passenger space travel is near, and with it comes changes to the human experience. Guest: Dr. Jesse Rogerson, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies in Natural Science with York University - Canadians who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination feel a little in the dark about what they can and still cannot do, as Canadian provinces start reopening. Guest: Dr. Kerry Bowman, Bioethicist and a Assistant Professo

A Scott Thompson Show bonus podcast featuring guest-host Scott Radley! Scott Radley spoke with Ryan Stewart about Power Pizza, the new pizza shop on Ottawa Street that only opened a matter of weeks ago.. Guest: Ryan Stewart. owner of Power Pizza, 134 Ottawa Street North, Units 4 & 5, in Hamilton, Ontario, and online at https://powerpizza.ca/ Subscribe to the Scott Thompson Show wherever you find your favourite podcasts, and follow along as Scott (whichever Scott is hosting, that is) finds out more about the small businesses, restaurants and initiatives in Hamilton that have been affected by the pandemic! https://curiouscast.ca/podcast/189/the-scott-thompson-show/ Host - Scott RadleyContent Producer - Jordan ArmeniseTechnical/Podcast Producer - William P. Erskine

Scott Radley is in for Scott, carrying on the Small Business Spotlight! Today, Krista Swayze of Flourish Skin Studio joined the show to discuss how the pandemic has affected her spa.

While the Federal leaders have spent recent weeks preparing for the likelihood of an election in the coming months, Canada has made international headlines as the history of its residential schools came into focus. The ups and downs of vaccination rollout are maybe only just settling now, if at all. The economic factors of the pandemic can only stay on the back-burner for so long. All of these issues and more should come up when the election bell is finally rung. Are Trudeau, O'Toole Singh and company ready? Guest: Michael Taube, Troy Media Syndicated Columnist, Washington Times contributor, Former Speech Writer for Stephen Harper - The Federal Liberals have introduced a new bill to tackle hate speech online, in the last days before parliament recesses, and it is raising some red flags. Guest: Joanna Baron, Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation - The Canadiens are headed to the Stanley Cup! It has been a tense few days, filled with mixed emotions for Canadian hockey fans, but it is

Peter Trajkovski, Director of Operations for Edgewater Manor, joins Scott to talk about the emotions people are giving off while on their newly reopened patio, how they got through being closed for a very long time, what's being done as they're allowed to open back up and more.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) and Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan say they will be announcing a “horrific and shocking discovery” on Thursday morning. The discovery is in relation to unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School, which was located about 140 kilometres east of Regina. “The number of unmarked graves will be the most significantly substantial to date in Canada,” a news release from the FSIN read. Guest: Dr. Ken Coates, Senior Fellow of Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - Hostile military and intelligence forces are targeting Canada in a new “sophisticated, multifaceted” type of warfare using a range of tools from criminal gangs to cyber-hackers to high-tech companies such as Huawei and China Telecom, the author of a newly released national security report alleges. Guest: Sam Cooper, Global News National investigative journalist - Premiering this week, The Unforgotten is a new film expos

Brenda Eszenyi, owner of Penny Pincher Costume Inc., joins Scott to talk about how they're taking costumes to the streets of Hamilton, some of the costumes they rent & have for sale and more.

Tracy Young, owner of True Blue Water, joins Scott to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on weddings and events impacted them too and how they're keeping fresh drinking water, ice and more flowing to customers.

A new variant of an already known COVID-19 variant could pose a new global threat. What exactly is the "Delta Plus" variant and will we have to change anything we're currently doing to combat it? Guest: Dr. Ahmad Firas Khalid, Health Policy Expert - Protests taking place at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, over new restrictions, Trudeau touting a matter of weeks -- not months! -- before the Canada-U.S. border lifts further restrictions, and Dr. David Williams delivers news many businesses want to hear. Decisions like these earn and lose politicians points -- sometimes, unfairly -- and that can muddy the waters. Good thing Graeme Benjamin & Tim Powers is here to see through the muck! Guests: Graeme Benjamin, Digital Broadcast Journalist with Global News Halifax             Tim Powers, Chairman of Summa Strategies and Managing Director of Abacus Data - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has challenged the government of China to conduct a transparent probe into the treatment of its Uyghur population. The c

Vaccine eligibility in Hamilton and across the province has been updated. As of yesterday, all Ontarians who received their first dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on or before May 9, 2021 are eligible to book or re-book their second dose appointment at a shortened interval. And as of Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 8:00 a.m., individuals who received their first dose of an mRNA vaccine on or before May 30, 2021 -- and who live in a Delta hot spot (Durham, Halton, Hamilton, Peel, Porcupine, Simcoe-Muskoka, Toronto, Waterloo, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, and York public health units) -- will be eligible to book or re-book their second dose appointment at a shortened interval. Guest: Paul Johnson, Director of Emergency Centre, City of Hamilton - Vaccine shopping, and COVID-19 is not over just because Canada gets vaccinated... there can always be more variants, so long as COVID-19 is worldwide. Guest: Dr. Omar Khan, Assistant Professor with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Immunology with

Thomas Lute, owner of The Argylle, joins Scott to talk about what it's like opening up a business during a pandemic, golfing in downtown Hamilton and more.

What does National Indigenous Peoples Day mean in 2021, and how can we all make sure that this year marks a year of change? What are the conversations that need to be had in the future? Guest: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, President of the Ontario Native Women's Association and Director of the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University - Professor Jeffrey Dvorkin returns to the show for a conversation with Scott about how media has changed during the pandemic, as well as to share more insights from experiences educating young journalists. Guest: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of Trusting the News in a Digital Age  - As vaccines become more commonplace and the world slowly begins to open up again, employees are wondering if mandatory workplace vaccinations will be put in place. Can employers get away with mandating vaccination? Guest: Fiona Martyn, Employment lawyer and Associate with Samfiru Tumarki