The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required to access non-essential businesses in Ontario, including gyms, indoor restaurants, movie theatres and concert halls, under the province's new vaccine certification program starting Sept. 22.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, saying the certificate is necessary to keep non-essential businesses and facilities open as the Delta variant continues to fuel a fourth COVID-19 wave.

GUEST: Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition, Ontario NDP

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New modelling from the Ontario Science Table predicts a substantial 4th wave with the potential to exceed Wave 3 ICU capacity by October. With vaccine certificates not operational until Sep 22, and still no real vaccine mandates, we are likely in for a "nasty fall."

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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The Liberal Party released a costed campaign platform on Wednesday detailing how a re-elected government would spend an additional $78-billion over five years – primarily in areas such as health care, housing and seniors – while targeting corporations and the wealthy for $25-billion in tax hikes.

Released on the day before the first French-language leaders’ debate, the platform features a heavy dose of wedge politics, including several proposals related to abortion, which Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau immediately highlighted as an area where he says his party differs from the Conservatives.

While the platform includes new proposals, many of the more expensive promises in areas such as child care, health, housing and the environment were previously announced. What is new is the detailed table that provides five-year cost estimates for each, and updated projections for Ottawa’s bottom line.

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago became the first non-classical group to perform six nights in a row at Carnegie Hall 50 years ago. Between April 5 and 10, 1971, the band played eight shows at the celebrated venue (including two matinees) and recorded every one of them. In October of that year, performance highlights were featured on the band’s first-ever live album, Chicago at Carnegie Hall. That quadruple-LP reached #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified platinum, and is still the band’s best-selling live album.

GUEST: Lee Loughnane, Founding member and trumpeter for Chicago

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast with Guest Host Ted Michaels:

Premier Doug Ford is set to have a press conference this afternoon to reveal how a COVID-19 vaccine passport certificate system will work.

The premier is scheduled to make an announcement at 1 p.m. at Queen’s Park.

He will be joined by Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, Minister of Health Christine Elliott, and Associate Minister of Digital Government Kaleed Rasheed.

what does the medical community want to hear in today's announcement?

GUEST: Dr. Nathan Stall, Physician in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine with Sinai Health and the Ontario Liberal Candidate for Toronto—St. Paul's

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what does the business community want to hear in today's vaccine passport announcement?

GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, VP of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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Canadian children have missed months of in-person education since the pandemic began last year. Now, a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections threatens to upend a third year of schooling.

In Ontario, students have been out of classrooms for 26 weeks. Even in places such as British Columbia, where in-person learning didn’t pause this past academic year, schooling was still frequently interrupted when students were forced to isolate at home because of positive cases in their classrooms.

The impact of these disruptions on learning is still unclear. Although there are students who have adapted to the changes, early evidence suggests the pandemic has left some behind in their studies by as much as a year.

how will teachers catch students up after a year of lost learning?

ALSO: What’s the role of teachers in discussing vaccines in class? 

GUEST: Todd Cunningham, Professor with the Ontario Institutes for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto

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What do the Liberals need to do with their platform being announced today at 10am?

 ALSO: Economists say NDP plan to hike tax on heavy emitters would cost Canadian jobs

GUEST: Christopher Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast with Guest Host Ted Michaels:

Heading into the third week of Canada’s 44th election campaign, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Trudeau losing support among women – long his staunchest supporters – as well as in battleground regions he needs to win if his party is to form government after Sept. 20.

The Liberal leader is now the most intensely disliked among his major party challengers, with fully two-in-five (41%) saying they view him “very unfavourably”.

Trudeau’s pain is Erin O’Toole’s gain. The Conservative Party leader’s personal momentum – that is, the number of people whose opinion of him has improved over worsened – has quadrupled since the beginning of the campaign (7% to 28%).

ALSO: Leger’s 2021 Federal Election Poll

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

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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the Liberal Party to include a plan to balance the budget following Leader Justin Trudeau’s comment that the party will be releasing its platform “in the coming days.”

GUEST: Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

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South African researchers are raising concern over the spread of a new COVID-19 variant riddled with a number of mutations, including some associated with increased transmissibility and a resistance to antibodies against the disease.

The variant, named C.1.2, was first detected in May and has spread to a majority of South Africa’s provinces as well as seven other countries, including China, Portugal and the U.K.

ALSO: Ontario government removes runny nose, headache from symptom list on daily school COVID-19 screener.

GUEST: Dr. Brian D. Lichty, Associate Professor in Pathology and Molecular Medicine with the McMaster Immunology Research Centre