The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

As anti-vaccine mandate protesters continue to gum up downtown Ottawa, many are wondering how long police will let the protesters stay — and how they might eventually move them out.

While many residents have been calling for an end to the noise and disruption caused by raucous demonstrations, observers are calling on authorities to avoid public displays of force.

The protest, now into its fifth day, started in opposition to the federal government's vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers. It has since expanded into a movement against broader public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, including provincial mandates.

GUEST: Alex Boutilier, National Politics Reporter for Global News

A number of Conservative MPs rallied behind Erin O'Toole Tuesday, saying he should stay on as leader even as some of his caucus colleagues mobilize to oust him.

Speaking briefly to reporters on Parliament Hill, the party's deputy leader Candice Bergen said she's not interested in taking over as interim leader if O'Toole gets the boot after a planned vote today at the Conservative caucus meeting.

MPs opposed to O'Toole's leadership have collected enough signatures — 35 so far — to hold a secret ballot on his future.

A vote by 50 per cent plus one of the 119 sitting Conservative MPs calling on O'Toole to step down would force him to make way for an interim leader immediately. Sources tell CBC News that O'Toole's caucus opponents believe they have the necessary votes, with at least 60 MPs agreeing that he has to go.

If O’Toole is voted out, do we think Doug Ford is planning to run for the CPC Leadership?

GUEST: Stephanie Chouinard, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College

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Brian Flores has sued the NFL and three teams – the Dolphins, Broncos and Giants -- alleging discrimination regarding his interview processes with Denver and New York and his firing last month by Miami.

The 58-page lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday and seeks class-action status.

Flores alleges that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross attempted to incentivize him to "tank," or purposely lose games, shortly after he was hired in 2019, with Ross allegedly offering Flores $100,000 for every loss that season. Flores says that as the team won games late in the season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier told him Ross was "mad" that the on-field success was "compromising [the team's] draft position."

GUEST: Dr. Richard Norman, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Future of Sport Research Lab at Ryerson University

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Co-Founder of Doctors For Justice in Long Term Care and Palliative Care Physician

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole is a dead man walking. At publication time, thirty-five MPs have signed a letter asking for a caucus leadership review vote, possibly as soon as this Wednesday’s caucus meeting. According to the Globe and Mail, sources claim that they have at least 63 of 119 Conservative members who will vote O’Toole out. That is, if he doesn’t pull the trigger himself, and call a vote, or just call it quits.

The Conservatives need to take a long hard look at themselves, what they stand for, who’s leading their parade, and whose company they want to keep!

GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and a Lecturer with the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University

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A look at the new Ontario modeling that will be released at 9am today.

What’s next for Ontario?

GUEST:  Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto

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David’s Expertise: Hate groups, extremism, far right and anti-government movements in Canada

Many Canadians are standing in Ottawa as part of the Trucker’s Convoy’ protest. But do they know who they are standing with?

What do we know about the far-right leaders that have infiltrated the ‘Truckers Convoy’ and what are the possible outcomes of this protest knowing their history?

GUEST: Dr. David Hofmann, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Brunswick and a Senior Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS)