The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·       Federal government meets threshold to invoke emergencies act

·       Canada to get new electoral map

·       And more….

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

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Ontario politicians are preparing to return to Queen’s Park for the first time in 2023 for a legislative session that will overhaul the delivery of health care.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the province’s decision to allow development in portions of the Greenbelt continue in the background. And the Ontario NDP has a new leader.

GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News

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Topics Include:

·        China hits back on U.S. allegations

·        Blinken urges speedy accession of Sweden, Finland to NATO

·        Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine

·        And more…

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Nomi Claire Lazar, Research Council Member with the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of “States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies”

In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, our guest argues the case that privatization is not the ultimate enemy in Ontario's healthcare system - the search for profits is.

GUEST: Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor with York University and a Fellow with the Royal Society of Canada,

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The City of Hamilton recently set up a hotline for public workers, contractors etc to report fraud and waste in municipal spending. So far over $700,000 of untoward spending has been uncovered. As well, Hamilton Centre's by-election has been called now that Andrea Horwath, the previous seated MPP, has resigned.

GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer.

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The Ontario Cannabis Store is trying to lower prices for manufacturers of pot. Will this help the industry? Will consumers see the cost benefit?

GUEST: Mitchell Osak, CEO Quanta Consulting Inc

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

She retires just before the Public Order Emergency Commission report comes out, why did she choose to step down now? & What will we remember Brenda Lucki by?

GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

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The federal government will no longer fund research with Chinese military and state security institutions and is urging the provinces and universities to adopt similar national-security measures.

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

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Topics Include:

·        Ontario's economic and fiscal outlook

·        Healthcare polling

·        Doug Ford’s comments on stag & Doe and John Tory

·        And more…..

GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Hamilton is no longer Canada’s “preferred candidate” for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, according to the organization trying to secure the national bid for the event.

In a letter to the committee trying to secure the bid for the city, Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) cited a failed effort in getting government support as the reason for the dismissal.

GUEST: Rich Gelder, President of the Hamilton Olympic Club and former candidate for Hamilton City Council

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Members of Parliament have summoned the heads of Canada's largest grocery store chains to answer for rising food prices.

On Monday, a House of Commons committee studying food price inflation called on the CEOs and presidents of Loblaw Companies, Metro and Empire Company Limited -- which operates chains including Sobeys, Safeway and FreshCo -- to attend an upcoming meeting.

The proposal to hear from the industry leaders came from NDP MP Alistair MacGregor, and it received unanimous support from Liberal, Conservative and Bloc Quebecois MPs on the committee.

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

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Fighting one Cold War was bad enough. Waging two at once would be impossible. This comes as the U.S now faces simultaneous showdowns with China and Russia.

GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University