The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Fully vaccinated U.S citizens wasted little time yesterday seizing their first chance in 17 months to venture into Canada, while lawmakers south of the border urged the White House to hurry up and follow Ottawa’s lead.

To be eligible, travellers must live in the U.S., be 14 days past their last vaccine dose and show proof of a negative molecular test for COVID-19 that’s no more than 72 hours old.

The Canada Border Services Agency also requires visitors to use the ArriveCAN app or online web portal to upload their vaccination details.

GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Ryerson University

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What’s the economic impact of the border reopening to Americans vs the public health impact?  

GUEST: Mory DiMaurizio, Chief Operating Officer of City Cruises in Niagara Falls

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All eyes are on September following the Ontario government’s recent unveiling of its back-to-school plan.

Brock University Professor of Child and Youth Studies Dawn Zinga and Associate Professor Danielle Sirianni Molnar want to make sure teachers’ voices are being heard and understood as schools reopen.

To that end, the duo has launched a survey of teachers as part of their study “Teachers’ Perspectives on the Pandemic.”

The research team, which also consists of master’s student Melissa Blackburn and other research assistants, is looking for 250 elementary or secondary school teachers who are certified with the Ontario College of Teachers and have at least two years of teaching experience in Ontario.

GUEST: Danielle Sirianni Molnar, Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University

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Robert Schellenberg, who is facing the death penalty in China for drug trafficking, lost his appeal Tuesday and a second important verdict will be handed down by the country’s courts later this week.

The latter verdict will concern Michael Spavor, one of the two Canadian men who were arrested in apparent retaliation for Canada’s detention of a Huawei executive. He is expected to learn his fate in Dandong, near the North Korean border. A judgment is expected Wednesday morning.

The two verdicts, coming right before an expected federal election call in Canada, could make for a momentous week in Canada-China relations, which have sunk to their worst level since students were killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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A U.N.appointed panel of experts said Monday that the Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past the most ambitious threshold set in the Paris accord. That increases the risk of extreme weather and long-term climate-related disasters.

The Paris agreement called for limiting temperature increases to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) — and ideally to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.

The report was “a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.” — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

GUEST: Kent Moore, Professor of Atmospheric Physics with the University of Toronto

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Canadian captain Christine Sinclair let out a celebratory scream that could be heard throughout Yokohama Stadium when teammate Julia Grosso delivered the game-winning dagger in Friday's gold-medal match..

Canada won 3-2 against Sweden in a thrilling penalty-kick battle to become Olympic champions for the first time in women's soccer. 

After Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé denied Jonna Andersson's attempt, Grosso scored the winner to end it.

The team went wild, charging Grosso and piling on top of her — dancing, yelling and soaking up the moment. 

Are the national and provincial governing bodies for Canadian soccer equipped to capitalize on an expected wave of interest in the game?

GUEST: Melanie Bradley, General Manager of Brams United Girls Soccer Club in Brampton and former coach of gold medalists Ashley Lawrence (Defender), Kadeisha Buchanan (Defender) and Adriana Leon (Forward)

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The Canadian business community appears to be largely supportive of the Quebec government’s move to impose the country’s first vaccine passport system.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says vaccine passports or digital vaccination certificates would help to prevent future waves of the pandemic from forcing a resurgence of financially disastrous lockdowns by enabling those with low risk to participate in events, move freely and go about their daily lives.

GUEST:  Mark Agnew, VP of Policy for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce

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William Grenville Davis, the Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario for 14 years, has died at home in Brampton. He was 92.

Seldom in Canada — perhaps anywhere in the world — has a political leader described his formula for success in such succinct and self-effacing terms as Davis once did.

He was an unstinting booster of his Brampton hometown, a peerless fan of the Toronto Argonauts, father of Ontario’s community college system, a key figure in Canada’s constitutional repatriation, unrivalled master of oratorical circumlocution and — most of all — a devoted family man.

GUEST: Steve Paikin, Host of ‘The Agenda’ on TVO

Canada’s top sports app is being acquired by Penn National Gaming Inc., a heavy hitter in the world of sports betting, for $2.2 billion in cash and stock as the two companies vie for dominance in North America’s rapidly expanding gambling industry.

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University