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GUEST: Amy Ding, CEO/Founder of Requity Homes

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Justin Trudeau will have to contend with the defeat of three female cabinet ministers as the Prime Minister crafts his senior leadership team in what’s expected to be a quick return to governing.

The three ministers failed to win their seats in Monday’s election and Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna didn’t run in this campaign. The loss of four female ministers in total makes a significant cabinet shakeup likely. Mr. Trudeau has made gender parity a priority of his cabinets since his first victory in 2015.

Two senior government officials told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Trudeau will outline his government’s next steps once Elections Canada has finalized the seat counts, which could be as early as Thursday. Mr. Trudeau has not held a news conference since the election. 

GUEST: Tina J. Park, Lecturer of Canadian Nationalism at the University of Toronto

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While a bit short of a majority, Justin Trudeau wins a third successive election by a large margin in the seat count. Yet some critics say he should be put out to pasture.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh suffered a drubbing in the 2019 election, losing almost half his party’s seats. With much higher expectations, he did badly again in Monday’s vote, electing (pending mail-in vote counts) only one more member. Yet hardly anyone says a word.

Read the full op-ed HERE.

GUEST: Lawrence Martin, Author and Public Affairs Columnist for the Globe and Mail

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The Ontario Human Rights Commission is seeking the public’s input as it develops a policy statement on the display of derogatory names, words and images.

The commission said it wants to address what it calls a “quickly evolving issue” that has increasingly seen Indigenous and racialized communities call for the removal of statues of historic figures “perceived as colonizers, slave owners or who advances racist policies.”

It also pointed to growing calls for officials to rename roads, buildings and other institutions named after historic figures, for the same reasons.

ALSO: Ryerson University unveils monument celebrating Indigenous teachings

GUEST: Patti Doyle-Bedwell, Native Studies Instructor with Dalhousie University

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GUEST: Shirook Ali, CEO/Founder of Ecosystem Informatics

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GUEST: Hanna Haponenko, COO of Axcessiom Technology

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The failure of Erin O'Toole's Conservative Party to make its hoped-for breakthrough in Ontario in the federal election is by no means any guarantee that voters will reject Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives in the provincial election that's just eight months away. 

The provincial parties are analyzing the results of the federal vote and trying to figure out the implications for Ontario politics. While top strategists from all the main provincial parties insist it would be unwise to draw straightforward conclusions about the Ontario vote from the federal vote, they do say there are lessons to be learned.

GUEST: Muhammed Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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As of Wednesday with 155 of 155 polls on the Mountain reporting – minus close to 2,600 special ballots and mail-in votes being counted as of Tuesday – an estimated 47,202 votes were cast in the riding with Hepfner picking up 34 per cent (16,304) ahead of the NDP’s Malcolm Allen who garnered 32.4 per cent (15,285).

Conservative Al Miles was third in the race with 11,576 votes.

The Canadian Press called a Hepfner win just after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday when the agency reported Elections Canada expected most of the mail-in ballots across Canada to be counted by the end of day.

GUEST: Lisa Hepfner, New MP for Hamilton Mountain

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Why are people pushing back on the vax passport? What is triggering their emotion when it comes to civil liberties and personal freedoms that call the pandemic a ‘medical dictatorship’?

GUEST: Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

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When Betty Zou and a group of concerned parents in East Toronto hatched a plan to create a COVID-19 rapid testing program at their children’s school, they never imagined they would soon be providing tutorials and sharing “how to” documents with families in communities across Canada.

“Since we’ve launched, we’ve had a ton of email inquiries from schools in the area and even in other districts, like Peel, Etobicoke, Burlington, as far away as Saskatoon and Surrey, B.C. from other parents who are just really interested in replicating our model at their schools,” she said.

Zou and the team at “Earl Beatty Community Asymptomatic Testing” receive the rapid tests from the StaySafe Rapid Antigen Screening Program in Kitchener-Waterloo Region for free.

GUEST: Sam Kaufman, Organizer with the Earl Beatty Community Asymptomatic Testing Project