Starting next month, students who haven’t been able to finish the practical portion of their courses due to the pandemic will now be able to. Ron McKerlie joins Bill about it.

Guest: Ron McKerlie, President, Mohawk College

There are calls for the police to be defunded and Hamilton has a major deficit due to COVID-19. A motion is being brought forward to the police services board today to look into a 20%s spending cut.  
 
Guest: Lloyd Ferguson. City Councillor, Ward 12, City of Hamilton

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A petition has emerged online that has garnered support in Toronto to rename Dundas St due to it’s colonial ties and problematic history.  Should we rename Dundas the town? What about other areas in our city?  
 
Guest: Ameil Joseph, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, McMaster University

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The Liberal government did not get the support of opposition parties yesterday for updating the rules for CERB.

Guest: Peter Graefe. Professor of Political Science, McMaster University

A group of Halton area mayors are also not happy with being left in Stage One, and have written a letter to the government asking to be moved to Phase Two.  
 
Guest: Marianne Meed Ward, Mayor, City of Burlington. 

We’re continuing to discuss the report on the violence at Pride last year. Cameron Kroetsch is associated with Pride Hamilton, and joins Bill to discuss the reaction as the report. The report goes before the Police Services Board tomorrow.  
 
Guest: Cameron Kroetsch, community member associated with Pride Hamilton

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Andrew Goldberg joins us again to chat about employment issues in the time of COVID-19. Up for discussion today: the reopening of childcare centres, CERB, and 4,300 unsafe workplace complaints filed and only one was deemed valid.  
 
Guest: Andrew Goldberg, Employment lawyer and Associate at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, employmentlawyer.ca 

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Ken Hewitt, the mayor of Haldimand, and the mayor of Norfolk yesterday protested the decision made by the Ontario government to keep their areas in Phase One instead of moving to Phase Two of reopening. They did so by getting socially distant hair cuts. But why hair cuts? What’s the response been like?   
 
Guest: Ken Hewitt, Mayor of Haldimand