Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Happy Friday! Today Scott is excited to get out of the house and enjoy some local events. Tomorrow the Barton Street Festival returns and Scott asks Julie Freeman, Barton Village Festival Organizer, what to expect. After all exponential growth of housing prices in the last few years, with the surge of bidding wars on the promise of a record low interest rate, now we see a problem in the road; with interest rates rising, are new homeowners going to face the consequences? Michael Taube joins Scott to give an update on the Conservative leadership race, as party membership rates soar. Eric Alper comes on to talk Stranger Things getting Kate Bush back on the charts. Catherine Ross, law professor, gives her take and a summary of the first public hearing of the January 6th committee. Is Canada -- and the West -- losing interest in the war in Ukraine? What could this lost momentum possibly do? Andrew Rasiulis of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute speaks to Scott on