Even if you're not a horse racing fan, this is a show you'll want to watch.

GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sportsbook Operations for DraftKings

GUEST: Adam Oldfield

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New questions about how the federal government handled a reported Chinese government plot to target MPs are being raised after Conservative MP Michael Chong said Thursday that a 2021 intelligence report on the matter was shared with the prime minister's national security and intelligence adviser.

GUEST: Richard Brennan, Former Journalist with The Toronto Star covering both Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill

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The Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, has garnered the most scrutiny to date. The bill, which passed Parliament last week and has become law, allows the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to require platforms such as Spotify and YouTube to produce and promote Canadian content, as it does for radio and television stations. Bill C-11 will meddle with Canadians’ ability to pick their own content and content creators’ business, in the name of “protecting the economic interests of a niche of Canada’s music and video industries,” according to the Canadian arm of the Internet Society. In a scathing submission, the non-profit group argues that “Bill C-11 seeks to turn the Internet into a mere extension of the Canadian broadcasting system – a dying artifact of 20th Century technologies.”

GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice

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A "perfect storm" of factors including the 2018 election, inefficient practices and the COVID pandemic has left Ontario's trouble-plagued Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) "fundamentally failing" to provide swift justice, the province's ombudsman says.

In a lengthy report published Thursday, Paul Dubé made 61 recommendations to address a backlog of cases at the tribunal that has ballooned to more than 38,000 applications.

GUEST: Kayla Andrade, Founder of Ontario Landlords Watch

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty 

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Lead with Kensington Gardens Long Term Care Home, Toronto and faculty at McMaster University

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Trudeau says he directed Canada's spy agency to share more information with the federal government about threats to members of Parliament in response to reports that the Chinese government was looking to target a Conservative MP's family.

But the MP at the centre of the case, Michael Chong, said Trudeau's response raises serious concerns about his grip on intelligence and security matters

GUEST: Warren Kinsella, Former Special Assistant to Jean Chretien and War Room Director for Dalton McGuinty

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The remote-work protections in the tentative agreement between Canada’s largest public sector union and the federal government could ripple into the private sector, one expert says.

GUEST: Barry Eidlin, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University

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Who made it into the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and music commentator

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

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Canada and the United States have agreed to share more information about the smuggling of guns and drugs across their shared border.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Ottawa has signed four new or updated agreements with Washington that allow the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency to exchange more data with partners south of the border.

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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Rents are skyrocketing across much of Canada, creating an affordability crisis, particularly for young people. And if this Liberal government continues to do nothing – or little – on the housing file, that may become a feature that defines them, and contributes to their political demise – especially because on the other side of the aisle is a Conservative Leader talking about housing as often as he can.

Do how can Canada create more affordable rental housing?

GUEST: Mike Moffatt, Senior Director at the Smart Prosperity Institute & Assistant Professor with the Ivey Business School at Western University

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A security expert says the theft of more than 20-million dollars worth of gold and other valuables from Toronto Pearson International Airport likely required insider knowledge of the airport and its operations. Peel Regional Police says they are investigating the cargo theft from an airport holding facility after the gold and other items were reported missing.

GUEST: Adrian Humphreys, Author and Journalist for the National Post