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Hamilton politicians have voted to hold firm to the city’s urban boundary, and will try to accommodate future population growth through a combination of infill and intensification.

Meeting as the general issues committee, councillors voted 13-3 on Friday to reject an expansion of Hamilton’s urban boundary by 1,310 hectares.

Will this decision rob buyers of housing choices in the future?

Do we think the province will get involved with this debate?

GUEST: Michael Collins-Williams, Chief Executive Officer of the West End Home Builders’ Association

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Ontario high schools will shift back to regular semesters no later than February, returning secondary students to a normal schedule for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.

School boards will be able to make the change sooner if they have their local public health unit’s support, Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced Thursday.

Numerous school boards have requested the move away from “modified semesters,” which saw students take four courses each term, alternating which two classes they had each week.

GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

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As parliament prepares to spring back into action on Monday, Canadians have one thing at the top of their mind: the rising cost of living.

That’s the latest from a new Ipsos poll, which found concerns about rising price tags on essentials like groceries and gas are now outranking issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, health care and housing as Canadians’ top concern.

GUEST: Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs

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A jury on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on charges related to his shooting dead two people at an anti-racism protest and injuring a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year, after a tumultuous trial that gripped America.

Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, when he shot them with an assault rifle as he roamed the streets of Kenosha with other armed men acting as a self-described militia during protests in August 2020, after a white police officer shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back.

Full article HERE.

GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

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Ontario unveiled its winter COVID-19 testing strategy on Thursday which includes a “holiday blitz” as well as providing students with take-home rapid antigen tests over the school break.

The province said it is looking to expand its testing plan as winter and the colder weather comes in and pushes people to spend more time indoors and increase close contact.

The winter strategy is a three-prong response — a holiday mobile testing blitz, access to low barrier testing options for elementary and secondary school students and expanded access to testing through pharmacies.

ALSO: Health Canada has approved Pfizer's Covid 19 vaccine for children

GUEST: Dr. Chris Bauch, Research Chair in the Department of Applied Mathematics and a Specialist in Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Infectious Disease Outbreaks with the University of Waterloo

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Prime Minister Justine Trudeau says he directly raised concerns about a proposed electric-vehicle tax credit, Buy American rhetoric and the cross-border Line 5 oil pipeline with U.S. President Joe Biden.

Trudeau made the remarks on Thursday night following a trilateral summit with the American leader and his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which the prime minister described as “extremely effective.”

ALSO: Throne speech from the Liberals this Tuesday, what can we expect?

GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill

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Ryerson Public School in Burlington, Ont., has been renamed Makwendam — an Anishinaabemowin word meaning "to remember," according to the Halton District School Board (HDSB).

The new name, which the board said is pronounced "muck-kwen-dum," was unanimously approved during a meeting Wednesday night.

ALSO: Help Ryerson University pick its new name

GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Former President of the Ontario Native Women’s Association and Director at the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University