Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: The Festival of Friends is around the corner – coming up on August 4th – and we now hae word of the iconic Gage Park festival’s lineup. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen led from start to finish and cruised to victory at the Canadian Grand Prix for a second year in a row on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday, as the two superpowers seek to put relations back on track after they were derailed by a Chinese spy balloon earlier this year. Open Streets on King Street got its first test-run on Sunday. The idea was originally instigated in the city by former Mayor Fred Eisenberger. Leaders of the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund say they’ve reached a proposed $10-billion settlement with the governments of Ontario and Canada over unpaid annuities for using their lands. At four historical sites across Hamilton, the city says it has installed signs to acknowledge the statues and monuments are "potentially probl