The U-S Senate is set to open Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial today. What can we expect?

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

For the first time in four years, insolvencies shifted back to an older demographic. The share of insolvencies among those 50 and older increased from 28.3% in 2019 to 29.8% in 2020, while the share among younger generations declined. This shift was even more pronounced when we compare insolvencies immediately prior to the pandemic with post-pandemic insolvencies. Post-pandemic, the share among debtors 50 and older rose to 31.4%.

GUEST: Doug Hoyes, Licensed Insolvency Trustee and co-founder of Hoyes, Michalos & Associates

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario will begin to gradually reopen its economy on Wednesday but the government said it would move regions back into lockdown if COVID-19 cases spiked.

Premier Doug Ford said the state of emergency would expire as scheduled on Tuesday and regions would transition back to the province’s colour-coded restrictions system over the next three weeks. Until then, the stay-at-home order would remain in place.

GUEST: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

GUEST:  Dr, Zain Chagla, an Infectious Disease Specialist with St. Joseph’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

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A long-term care home in Vaughan, Ont. says it gave some of its COVID-19 vaccine doses to non-frontline staff and relatives of board members last month, prompting a nurse ordered to administer the shots to complain to their union.

Charlene Nero, a legal director at LiUNA local 3000 which represents some staff at the home, told CP24 a nurse alleged in a grievance filed last week that they were asked to give COVID-19 vaccines to 10 people at the home who were neither residents nor frontline staff.

Arya Tweet:

“I don’t believe Ontario has a ‘strong plan to stop the variants’. 

There wasn't even a proper plan to stop the non-variants which included paid sick leave, increased staffing & infection control in LTC, and improved contact tracing.”

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care physician, specializing in long-term care and Co-Founder of Doctors for Justice in Long-Term Care

By comparison, according to a deal signed in August 2020 between Novavax and the British government, the firm will produce 60 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine this year at a plantin the U.K.

But let’s go back to Boris Johnson’s May 16, 2020 announcement.

While Trudeau was content to slip in a few lines about his vaccine deal into a much longer news update, in Britain they launched a full-scale plan to develop and manufacture a vaccine. A vaccine task force was set up, a pledge of $162 million was made to build a permanent vaccine innovation and manufacturing site to be ready for summer 2021 and a further $60 million was pledged to quickly set up a temporary site to manufacture vaccines by fall 2020.

GUEST: Harriet Hadfield, Journalist for Sky News