Lion’s Lair 2021: Payd is an early-stage SaaS company looking to help students (future, current and past) save and pay for school with ease. As former students, the payd founders understand the stress that comes with school loans. So, they've developed this sophisticated program that utilizes a user’s natural spending habits to unobtrusively save money.

GUEST: Jonathan Hillis, CEO/Founder of Payd

It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

A growing number of provinces have begun implementing vaccine mandates by requiring proof of vaccination to attend certain social and recreational events, or access to non-essential businesses.

With these announcements has come a rise in vaccine hesitant Canadians who oppose the idea of mandates, many of whom are concerned their rights and freedoms are being infringed upon.

It has also become a key wedge issue in the federal election.

Do vaccine mandates violate Canadians' charter rights?

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

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Doctors must be judicious about handing out medical exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines, the head of Ontario’s medical regulator said, urging physicians to do their part to slow the pandemic’s fourth wave.

The message from the CEO of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario comes after the province announced a vaccine certificate program that will require residents to be inoculated against COVID-19 to access some non-essential services, unless there’s a medical reason they can’t be vaccinated.

GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician, Chair of Clinical Skills and Assistant Clinical Professor with McMaster University’s Undergraduate Medical Program

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Four of Canada’s party leaders squared off in French for their first televised debate in the federal election campaign, with the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations taking centre stage Thursday night.

New Democrat Jagmeet Singh, Conservative Erin O’Toole, Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois and Liberal Justin Trudeau were on stage at TVA network in Montreal.

The COVID-19 pandemic was the first topic to be discussed, with the three opposition leaders criticizing Trudeau for pushing an election as the health crisis continues. Singh called the election “useless” while O’Toole said it “wasn’t the time” to call one.

GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University

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Dr. Bernard Ho joins the Bill Kelly show to discuss the long-term care crisis affecting Canada and the letter of recommendations that was sent to all federal party leaders by the Canadian Doctors for Medicare and the Doctors for Justice in LTC.

GUEST: Dr. Bernard Ho, Family Medicine Resident with Sinai Health and member of the Canadian Doctors of Medicare

My week with an Afghan ratline: inside a top secret volunteer effort to evacuate Kabul

GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist