Bill Kelly Show

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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The C-E-O and the volunteer board of directors of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation are stepping down because they say their work has been politicized by ongoing allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian elections.

GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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The federal government has announced a range of military, economic and cultural measures to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement in Toronto alongside the visiting Ukrainian P-M.

GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network

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For-profit nursing homes in Canada’s largest city are vacating the sector rather than undertaking mandatory upgrades, creating a property sell-off that hinders the Ontario government’s promise of 60,000 new and upgraded beds by 2028.

The problem stems from two colliding forces: Toronto’s red-hot real estate market and a looming deadline for outdated homes to comply with design standards requiring single- or double-occupancy rooms. Faced with a choice between significant construction costs or selling their properties to housing developers, many nursing-home owners are opting for the latter.

GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO, CanAge

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

On the 10th anniversary of his winning the party leadership, a battered yet battle-tested prime minister is governing in the face of stubborn speculation about his political future. Those close to him say Trudeau remains committed to the political vision that propelled him to office and saved the Liberals from ruin in 2015.

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

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Hackers working with Russia’s spy agency claimed earlier this year to have disrupted operations at a Canadian natural-gas pipeline company, inflicting costly damage on its infrastructure, leaked Pentagon documents say.

The Globe and Mail has been unable to independently verify the allegations in the U.S. intelligence documents, the contents of which have also been reported by U.S. media.

There is no evidence to date that a natural-gas pipeline company in Canada suffered such an attack, which the Pentagon documents suggest occurred earlier this year.

GUEST: Steve Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail

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In a new push to reach its target of 1.5 million new homes by 2031, Premier Doug Ford’s government is proposing a slew of changes that include allowing municipalities to build faster on undeveloped land — which critics warn will fuel sprawl into farmland.

Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark said Thursday his wide-ranging measures are intended to provide better protections for tenants and home buyers in a housing crunch of supply and affordability.

GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

Topics Include: Ford Motor Company has filed patents for a hydrogen combustion engine, Millions of devices are susceptible to being hacked by NUIT, Videotron's acquisition of Freedom Mobile promises to provide a low-cost alternative to the major Canadian telecom providers & more!

GUEST: Adam Oldfield w/ Tech Talk

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario says it will invest millions to help deal with the backlog of tribunal cases between tenants and landlords while providing additional measures to protect renters against “renovictions.

ALSO: Poll - Majority of Canadians who don’t own a home have ‘given up’

GUEST: Mike Collins-Williams, CEO, West End Home Builders Association

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Many times over many years, Premier Ford and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark promised to leave the green space that rings around the Greater Toronto Area untouched. They broke that promise last November by announcing that they were taking 15 chunks of land out of the Greenbelt, setting off a firestorm of public anger in Ontario.

The bad news is the government is refusing to release the document. This is a troubling lack of transparency on a matter clearly in the public interest. How can members of the public know whether politicians made the right decision if they don’t have access to the evidence that was used to support that choice?

GUEST: Emma McIntosh, Reporter for The Narwhal

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Major grocery chain CEOs say profit margins are as thin as ever, even as they're raking in record profit.

ALSO: Loblaw board says Galen Weston is underpaid, boosts compensation.

GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

How is Marit Stiles a ‘relative unknown’ in Ontario Politics? How could this affect her party?

ALSO: Why are people dissatisfied with the Ford Government?

GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of Women Winning Office: An Activist's Guide To Getting Elected

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The City of Ottawa failed to protect the rights of its residents when thousands of protesters took over the downtown core last winter, states the second report of the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation.

The report, released Monday, makes 25 recommendations it states would help the city rebuild its credibility and ensure another disruptive protest like the three-week-long convoy occupation, which began as a movement against COVID mandates, will never happen again.

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

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump faced a judge in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday where he was formally arraigned on business fraud charges over hush money payments allegedly made to a woman who say they had sexual affairs with him.

He pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which were outlined in an indictment made public shortly after Trump’s appearance in court.

GUEST: Jason Opal, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies with McGill University