The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The Ontario government is moving to activate an “emergency brake” for four weeks across the entire province in response to rising COVID-19 cases and strained capacity at intensive care units, multiple sources tell Global News.

While the move came after an hours-long meeting of the Ontario cabinet on Wednesday, several health-care professionals in the province have pleaded for government intervention in recent weeks.

Many of the logistical details were still being sorted out Wednesday night. However, government and political party sources said the emergency measure, as of Wednesday night, would take effect as of 12:01 a.m. on Saturday.

The sources said the restrictions will generally be similar to what is seen in the grey lockdown level of Ontario’s COVID-19 response framework.

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

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The Canadian government is making moves to strengthen Canada’s vaccine manufacturing capacity — but it won’t happen anytime soon.

The $415 million in federal funding, announced Wednesday, will go towards helping Sanofi build a new vaccine production facility in Toronto, which would eventually have the tools to produce, fill-and-finish, and inspect vaccines on a large scale.

Sanofi, which already has a manufacturing location in North York, Ont., will also receive $55 million from the Ontario government. The company itself will provide more than $455 million to create and maintain 1,225 jobs, and invest at least $79 million a year to fund Canadian research and development.

Influenza vaccines will be the main product produced at the new Toronto facility.

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

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The roar of traffic, aircraft and even ringing telephones are linked to negative health effects. Now scientists are starting to unravel what all this noise is doing to our bodies.

Why is noise pollution bad for your heart?

GUEST: Dr. Tor Oiamo, Assistant Professor with the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson University

The convenience store cashier who sold cigarettes to George Floyd and was handed a counterfeit $20 bill in return took the stand Wednesday at Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial as prosecutors laid out the sequence of events that led to Floyd’s ill-fated arrest outside.

GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Former Director of Journalism and a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College

McMaster is building on its established strengths in nuclear research, training and innovation with the appointment of Dave Tucker as the university’s first Assistant Vice-President Research, Nuclear.

Tucker, who most recently served as head of the Radiation Safety Technical Services at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, is well aware of McMaster’s nuclear assets – both talent and infrastructure – and says that’s what drew him back to Canada, his former employer and his alma mater.

GUEST: Dave Tucker, Associate Vice-President of Nuclear Research with McMaster University

Many kids have been stressed about getting COVID-19 at school, especially as we have moved through rolling closures and re-openings. While the situation keeps changing, parents are the ultimate decision makers for their family and what they deem to be best for their kids. Anxious kids need strong leadership. Alyson joins Bill Kelly on 900CHML to help answer some of those parenting questions. 

GUEST: Alyson Schafer, Parenting Expert