Prof. Gammel's most recent project is focused on Canadian painter Mary Riter Hamilton who painted the trenches where Canadians had fought during the First World War. She painted over 300 oils and charcoals and brought them home to Canada. Hamilton grappled with representing mass death, and insisted on remembering the many dead, which reminds her of our COVID-19 pandemic in which we were also bombarded with death statistics. She recently published a book on the topic, ‘I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton’.

GUEST: Irene Grammel, Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University

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Ontario will keep capacity limits in place for at least a month longer than planned in some settings where proof of vaccination is required, after a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Night clubs, strip clubs, sex clubs and bathhouses were expected to remove caps on the number of patrons next week, but the province announced Wednesday that the restrictions will stay in place for at least another 28 days while it monitors health indicators.

Was this the right call?

GUEST: Dr. Barry Pakes, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Physician, and a Professor with Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will meet its promise to cut gas prices by 5.7 cents before the next budget.

The economic statement released last week by his Progressive Conservative government did not mention the cut that Ford promised in his 2018 election campaign.

He also called on the federal government to match his government’s pledge and said if that happens, he’ll cut the tax “even further.”

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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An area around a number of barns and buildings will be the starting point for survivors tasked with finding the remains of missing children who attended the longest-running residential school in Canada.

On Tuesday, the first phase of the quest began using ground penetrating radar to probe a 200-hectare parcel of land where the former Mohawk Institute was located in Brantford, Ont.

Kimberly is calling on the provincial and federal governments to release thousands of records that she says are associated with the Mohawk Institute such as things like death certificates and transfers to sanatoriums that could help identify the children who went to the school and were never seen again. 

GUEST: Kimberly R. Murray, Executive Lead of the Survivors’ Secretariat

Former players pushing for accountability from Canada Soccer and the Vancouver Whitecaps in the aftermath of sexual misconduct allegations against two former coaches are calling for the suspension of high-ranking international soccer executive Victor Montagliani, pending the results of an investigation at Canada Soccer.

Montagliani is president of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and a FIFA vice-president. He is also a Vancouver native and former president of B.C. Soccer and Canada Soccer.

Montagliani was Canada Soccer director of national teams in 2008 when Canada's under-20 women's team coach Bob Birarda was quietly dismissed due to player complaints of inappropriate behaviour.

GUEST: Paul Champ, Counsel for the Professional Footballers Association of Canada (PFACan) in this case. 

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Ontario’s health minister says the government isn’t changing course on its reopening plan despite a recent rise in COVID-19 infections.

Health Minister Christine Elliott says a bump in cases was anticipated during the colder weather as people move indoors, and that was factored into the province’s plans.

Elliott said if restrictions are reintroduced it will be by region and most likely led by local medical officers of health because they have the best knowledge of their areas and what must be done.

Do we need to consider adjusting our public health restrictions?

GUEST: Dr. Prabhat Jha, Epidemiologist and Professor of Global Health with the University of Toronto, and Founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital

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Hamilton's integrity commissioner says Terry Whitehead should lose a month of pay after finding the Mountain city councillor bullied city staff in a meeting about traffic on Aberdeen Avenue, and that he should be restricted in which staffers he deals with directly.

Principles Integrity, the firm given the role of integrity commissioner, says Whitehead was antagonistic and hostile toward a senior staffer in discussing the reconfiguration of the west-end road, which Whitehead says has slowed down commuters from Ward 14.

At the Sept. 11, 2020, meeting, the report says, Whitehead delivered a series of antagonistic questions at a chief road official. If something similar had been in court, the report says, it would be seen as "witness badgering."

GUEST: Laura Babcock, President of PowerGroup

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Big Bird ruffled some conservatives' feathers this weekend by announcing that he had been vaccinated against COVID-19.

The beloved Muppet tweeted on Sunday that he had gotten the shot, which is newly available for Americans between the ages of 5 and 11. Big Bird has been a fixture of children's television since 1969 but is officially 6 years old.

What are the business ethics of using children’s TV programming to increase vaccination?

GUEST: David Soberman, Canadian National Chair in Strategic Marketing with Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto