The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

After a year of struggling with this pandemic, science has developed a relatively good grasp of COVID-19.

So how did it come to this?

We are here, in large part, because many of our politicians have ignored the core facts of the COVID-19 virus and the main strategies that will clearly fight the pandemic.

Click HERE for the full article in Maclean’s.

GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Journalist for both the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s

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Local police departments across Ontario issued stunning public statements rejecting the use of heavy-handed police powers announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Friday afternoon.

Ontario reversed course on Saturday, just one day after the announcement that triggered the backlash.

Officers will no longer have the right to stop any pedestrian or driver to ask why they’re out or request their home address, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said in a written statement on Saturday evening.

Instead, she said, police will only be able to stop people who they have reason to believe are participating in an “organized public event or social gathering.”

GUEST: Chief Ryan Diodati, Acting Hamilton Police Chief

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The federal government is stepping in to provide more help to Ontario as COVID-19 cases soar, putting strain on the province’s healthcare system. Feds are working on sending health-care workers, rapid testing and equipment to help. 

ALSO: Public health experts are raising their eyebrows at Ontario's original decision to restrict outdoor gatherings.

GUEST: Dr. Peter Juni, Director of Ontario’s Science Table and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Toronto

It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

Topics Include: LG announcement, Siri, & more. 

Former Officer Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand as testimony at his murder trial ended Thursday, passing up the chance to explain to the jury and the public for the first time what he was thinking when he pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck.

Closing arguments are set to begin Monday, after which a racially diverse jury will begin deliberating at a barbed-wire-ringed courthouse in a city on edge -- not just because of the Chauvin case but because of the deadly police shooting of a 20-year-old Black man in a Minneapolis suburb last weekend.

Before the jury was brought in Thursday morning, Chauvin, his COVID-19 mask removed in a rare courtroom moment, ended weeks of speculation by informing the judge he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to testify.

Shortly afterward, the defence rested its case, after a total of two days of testimony, compared with two weeks for the prosecution.

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

London Police Services Board members voted Thursday to ask the province to allow chiefs of police to be able to suspend officers without pay in certain circumstances.

More specifically, the board is asking the province to declare in force existing sections of the Community Safety and Policing Act that would allow chiefs of police the discretion to suspend an officer charged with, or convicted of a serious offence without pay.

The board is also asking that the province further amend legislation to “streamline the process for termination of a police officer who is found guilty of serious or criminal misconduct.”

GUEST: David Cassels, Former deputy chief of the Edmonton Police Service and retired chief of the Winnipeg Police Service