Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Radley: Scott Radley is stepping in for Mr. Thompson today. Now, do you know what gets Radley’s goat? Mismanagement of government funds. The federal government spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay from 2019 to 2021 while it met less than half its performance objectives and while it hired more than 15,000 new employees each year, according to records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. The CTF’s own Franco Terrazzano joins Scott for that. One of Hamilton’s major thoroughfares is set to undergo several changes this summer after city councillors approved ‘short-term’ changes on Main Street, including moving from five to four lanes. Ward 1Coucnilor Maureen Wilson steps on to explain the reasoning. Ontario's expert pandemic advisers say that Ontario is likely in another wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly infectious BA.5 Omicron subvariant of the virus. Scott speaks about the implications of that with Hamilton’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Elizabe