The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Even as Ontario enters a third wave of COVID-19 infections and more contagious variants, the province is loosening restrictions on restaurants. The Ontario government wants to get the economy moving again -- so it is allowing outdoor dining in lockdown regions, and is boosting restaurant capacity for other zones.

GUEST: Dr. Timothy Sly, Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus in the School of Population and Public Health with Ryerson University

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It’s official, after countless unsourced news reports and rumours: Spectators from abroad will be barred from the postponed Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months.

Officials said the risk was too great to admit ticket holders from overseas during a pandemic. The Japanese public has also opposed fans from abroad. Several surveys have shown that up to 80 per cent oppose holding the Olympics, and a similar percentage opposed fans from overseas attending.

Japan, which has attributed about 8,800 deaths to COVID-19, has controlled the virus better than most countries.

GUEST: Marnie McBean, Team Canada’s Tokyo 2020 Chef de Mission and three-time Olympic gold medallist

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Efforts to enshrine the reality of climate change in official Conservative party policy failed this weekend, marking a blow to Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole’s efforts to position his party as serious on environmental issues.

A vote on the matter came at the party’s official policy convention, which concluded on Saturday.

Though the party’s policy declaration already contains a lengthy section on that subject, 54 per cent of delegates voted against expanding it to include the sentence “we recognize that climate change is real. The Conservative Party is willing to act.”

GUEST: Daniel Béland, James McGill Professor of Political Science and Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada with McGill University

It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

Topics include merger of Rogers & Shaw, Google Chrome updates and more.

Was the decision to stop publishing six obscure Dr. Suess titles containing racist imagery and messaging an erasure of history?

Media coverage of the controversy has presented it as an example of censorship, an attack on free speech and yet another example of cancel culture. These reactions are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises is a children’s entertainment company that functions as both a business and a family estate dedicated to preserving and promoting Theodor Seuss Geisel’s legacy. After consulting with educators and other experts, they decided to halt publication of six books because, in their words, they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” An examination of many of the images and text in question confirmed the use of racist tropes in depicting Asian and Black characters.

This decision reflects norms in publishing, archiving and collecting.

Click HERE for the full article on the Conversation. 

GUEST: Dr. Monica Eileen Patterson, Associate Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Assistant Director of Curatorial Studies in the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University

Jorge joins Bill Kelly on 900 chml to discuss the current political situation in Peru and the latest corruption scandals (politicians jumping the queue to get the vaccine and making shady deals with pharmaceutical companies).

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GUEST: Jorge Sanchez-Perez, Ph.D. Candidate with the School of Humanities and an Instructor with the Philosophy Department and Peace Studies Program at McMaster University