The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:
Ontario’s online portal where people from the general population can book their COVID-19 vaccine appointment will be launched on March 15, and will start by allowing people 80 and over to register first.
ALSO: Health Canada's chief medical adviser said today the department is poised to make a decision on whether to authorize a promising COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca in the coming days.
GUEST: Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, Division Head of Infectious Diseases with Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital
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A C.D. Howe Institute paper compares the annual budgetary projections for spending and the bottom line in the 31 municipalities over a decade and compares them to the results reported in those municipalities’ year-end financial statements. It finds cities’ were in robust health in the run-up to 2020. The 31 largest by population tallied an aggregate surplus of over $10 billion in 2019, with Hamilton’s surplus for that year sitting at $268m.
GUEST: Bill Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute and author of the paper
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Tracking down John Bell: how the case of the Oxford professor exposes a transparency crisis in the government:
As testing and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine are hailed as UK pandemic successes, why won’t Oxford University or the government disclose the “long list” of financial interests of a high profile researcher at the centre of both? Paul D Thacker investigates.
GUEST: Paul D. Thacker, Freelance Journalist for the British Medical Journal and a Former Investigator for the U.S. Senate and Safra Ethics Center, at Harvard
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