Is the lockdown working? 

Apparently it is working in parts of Ontario according to the rate of transmission numbers.

ALSO: Ontario must cut COVID-19 cases to 1,000 daily to lift lockdowns.

GUEST: Ryan Imgrund, Biostatistician and Teacher

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Ontario opens first net new hospital in Ontario in 30 years. 

Premier Doug Ford says a new hospital set to open in Vaughan, Ont., will be used to relieve a capacity crunch because of risingCOVID-19 rates.

Ford says some patients from overcrowded Greater Toronto Area hospitals will be transferred to Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital when it opens on Feb. 7.

The hospital will add 35 new critical care beds and 150 medical beds to the province’s bed capacity.

GUEST: Altaf Stationwala, President and CEO of Mackenzie Health

*From the City of Hamilton: Due to the current supply issue with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the province has directed to only continue vaccinating residents, staff and essential caregivers in long-term care homes and high risk retirement homes, and to stop administering first doses of both the COVID-19 Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to all other individuals at this time as we await further supply of the vaccine. This delay is temporary and the province has advised that Pfizer expects they will be able to send enough vaccine to restart by March. Those individuals who have already received a first dose of either vaccine will be able to get a second dose.

ALSO: Hamilton says only one business broke COVID-19 rules last week.

GUEST: Paul Johnson, Director of Emergency Centre, City of Hamilton

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Clinics and other resources that help young people in Ottawa deal with mental health issues say they've noticed a significant spike in demand for their services since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

Kids Help Phone says calls and texts from young people in Ottawa have more than doubled since schools closed for the holidays on Dec. 18, representing a 110 per cent increase over the same period last year.

According to the crisis line, that increase in volume places the capital behind only Victoria among Canadian cities. 

GUEST: Dr. Paolo Pires, Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the Child and Youth Mental Health Program at McMaster Children Hospital

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Inauguration Preview, Trumps last day in office & fear of violence grows at the U.S. capital before tomorrow’s inauguration.

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Bureau Chief for Global News

General Motors Co and labor union Unifor said on Friday they have reached a tentative deal for the automaker to invest nearly C$1 billion ($785.42 million) in its CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, to manufacture commercial electric vans.

Under the tentative deal, which is yet to be ratified by the union workers, GM has agreed to begin large-scale commercial production of EV600, an electric van, at its CAMI plant, Unifor said in a statement.

GUEST: Jerry Dias, Unifor National President

Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his "Wall of Sound" method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81.

California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.

Spector was convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like mansion on the edge of Los Angeles. After a trial in 2009, he was sentenced to 19 years to life.

While most sources give Spector's birth date as 1940, it was listed as 1939 in court documents following his arrest. His lawyer subsequently confirmed that date to The Associated Press.

Clarkson, star of "Barbarian Queen" and other B-movies, was found shot to death in the foyer of Spector's mansion in the hills overlooking Alhambra, a modest suburban town on the edge of Los Angeles.

GUEST: Eric Alper, Music Expert

Hamilton city councillors are praising a new “one-stop shop” website local MPP Donna Skelly has launched to help small businesses through the pandemic.

But they say a lack of paid sick days for many low-wage workers is a dangerous gap amid the ongoing struggle to curb the coronavirus.

Skelly addressed city politicians after her website, reliefwithinreach.ca, launched earlier Wednesday.

The Progressive Conservative MPP said it offers a simple interface for users to access various government pandemic-relief programs.

GUEST: Donna Skelly, MPP Flamborough-Glanbrook