Article of Impeachment against Trump to be introduced today!

ALSO: Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have suspended Parler from their respective App Store and web hosting service, saying the social networking service popular with many right-leaning social media users has not taken adequate measures to prevent the spread of posts inciting violence.

The action by Apple and Amazon follows a similar move by Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday. Parler is favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, who was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday, and it is seen as a haven for people expelled from Twitter

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent / Producer for Global News

Op-ed: Get the children back to class:

We are writing to strongly support the Ontario government’s plan to reopen elementary schools on Jan. 11 and secondary schools on Jan. 25 for in-person instruction.

While the Ontario government decided to temporarily close schools as part of broader social, retail and industrial restrictions to counter COVID-19, extending the school closures beyond the anticipated end dates will lead to unnecessary, and likely irreversible, short-term and long-term damage to our children. As our understanding of COVID-19 has matured over the past year, several facts are better understood and, as a result, our current strategy must differ from our initial expansive pandemic response.

First, our children are at low risk of developing significant disease due to COVID-19. The likelihood that a given child will require hospitalization, admission to an intensive care unit or mechanical ventilation is lower with COVID-19 than it is after infection with RSV or influenza, which is reassuring for Canadian parents.

GUEST:  Dr. Martha Fulford, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at McMaster Children's Hospital and Hamilton Health Sciences

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Why did Ontario COVID-19 rates surge after Christmas? New cellphone mobility data offers some clues.

Provincial modelling is set to be released tomorrow. On Saturday, Sources told Global’s Travis Dhranraj the provincial government is considering an 8pm-5am curfew (Same as Quebec) w/ exemptions for essential workers and some others. 

Experts now say the holiday period accelerated what was already an alarming trajectory before Christmas. According to mobility data shared exclusively with the Toronto Star, some health units that have seen dramatic increases in post-holiday infection rates also had among the province’s highest rates of movement.

GUEST: Dr. Michael Warner, Head of ICU at Michael Garron Hospital

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Update on vaccination in Hamilton

Beginning Sunday, the COVID-19 vaccination program is going out to residents at long-term care and high-risk retirement homes using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

In addition to the existing fixed-site Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton Public Health Services, in conjunction with Primary Care Physicians and Hamilton Paramedic Services will begin a pilot program and pivot the focus onto this priority group.  The mobile clinic will begin at Idlewyld Manor and will expand to include the vaccination of all long-term care home residents and those living in high-risk retirement homes in the city of Hamilton by January 18, 2021, including residents of homes that are currently in outbreak.

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

It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

Ontario student will not be returning to in-person learning until Jan 25th.

ETFO Peel Local President Gail Bannister-Clarke sends letter to Region of Peel MOH Dr. Lawrence Loh – in light of ever-increasing COVID numbers in Peel.

GUEST:  Gail Bannister-Clarke, President of the Peel Elementary Teachers’ Local, ETFO Executive Member

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The Canadian Shield: why a group of medical and business professionals think a new approach to combating COVID-19 is needed.

GUEST: Robert Greenhill, Co-Founder of The Canadian Shield, Professor of Practice at McGill University, Executive Chair of Global Canada

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Ontario schools remaining online. 

New book “Leading From The Inside Out: Hard-Earned Lessons from Education, Government and ... Baseball”

GUEST: Dr. Charles Pascal, former Deputy Education Minister and current Professor of Applied Psychology & Human Development at the University of Toronto

What can Canadians learn from yesterday's events on Capitol Hill?

Daniel specializes in the fields of Canadian and comparative politics, as well as the study of public policy, including social policy and he joins Greg to discuss. 

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