The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The federal Conservatives revealed their climate plan on Thursday and proposing a $20-per-tonne carbon price — lower than the Liberals’.

The plan is a major shift in policy, as the party has previously threatened to scrap the program introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2018.

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole announced the climate policy Thursday morning, saying his party would scrap Trudeau’s carbon price system and replace it with a “pricing mechanism for consumers.”

The 15-page document, obtained by The Canadian Press, proposed the carbon price at $20 per tonne, rising no higher than $50 per tonne.

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

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After record-high days for Ontario's COVID-19 cases and ICU departments.... we're preparing for new restrictions to be announced by the premier.

It comes after Doug Ford and his cabinet met for several hours yesterday and will again pick-up discussions this morning.

Premier Doug Ford and members of his cabinet are looking at measures such as travel restrictions and ordering a shut down of certain construction-related activities. Also up for consideration, is a further tightening of restrictions around non-essential retail sales and cutting back on curbside pick-up.

ALSO: NO THERE ISN’T A PCR ‘CASEDEMIC’

GUEST: Dr Raywat Deonandan, Professor and Epidemiologist with the faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa 

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CALLS FROM LISTENE:

Do you support lockdowns to stem the spread of COVID-19?

Back to the future: it’s Hamilton100 again.

That’s 100 as in the year 2030, the 100th anniversary of the Commonwealth Games.

The local bid for the 2026 Games has been abandoned.

The Spectator has learned that the private consortium hoping to bring the Games to Hamilton, where they started in 1930, will concentrate solely on bidding for the 2030 Games after shifting — at the request of the Games’ national and international governing bodies — last year to bid for first, 2026, and later 2027.

Lou Frapporti of Hamilton100 Commonwealth Games Bid Corporation confirmed Tuesday night that “we had been asked to pivot (last fall, to a plan for a possible year-delayed Games for 2027) and worked hard on it, but the process has been aborted.

GUEST: Steve Milton, Journalist for The Hamilton Spectator

GUEST: Lewis Weinerman, Owner & Broker of Record with Copper Lion Realty

President Biden has watched a parade of presidents set sweeping goals for the United States overseas, only to become entangled in long-running, slow-bleeding problems. Now that he has the job himself, Biden is determined to avoid the same fate.

His pledge to end the two-decade U.S. war in Afghanistan is the best example so far.

Biden sees the war against the Taliban as a drag on the need to deal with bigger threats like China, climate change, the coronavirus pandemic — and even a terrorism menace that has mutated significantly in the two decades since the attacks that launched the Afghan war to begin with. He is also focused on threats from Russia and the decline of U.S. influence abroad.

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political science, Carleton University