Scott Thompson Show

Public Relations expert Elissa Freeman joins us to share her thoughts on some of the important and bizarre stories from this week! Hamilton’s Police Services Board has a new chair: Pat Mandy and she joins us on the show today! Canadians are divided on when COVID-19 vaccine mandates should be lifted for various activities, a new poll suggests, with no clear consensus on when life should return to the way it was before the pandemic. Does Parliament's hybrid model, allowing for virtual sittings, hinder the process or could it be beneficial? And what do we need to know about this new variant spreading in southern Africa? Guests: Elissa Freeman, PR and Pop Culture Expert Pat Mandy, Chair of the City of Hamilton’s Police Services Board, Chair of the De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre board; former CEO of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network, former vice-president of patient services at Hamilton Health Sciences Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs Duff Conacher, C