The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The Ontario Liberals think Mike Schreiner, leader of the Green Party of Ontario, should come be their new leader. We have a Green party for a reason, why would they even approach him? And how desperate are they?

GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for TVO

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Promised new national standards for long-term care homes in Canada have now been published — part of Ottawa's attempt to avoid a repeat of the alarming death tolls in long-term care homes that marked the early phase of the pandemic.

The Health Standards Organization (HSO) published 60 pages of comprehensive standards Tuesday, to complement the release of 115 pages of standards from the Canadian Standards Association Group (CSA) in December. The federal government launched the standards project in the spring of 2021.

While the new standards are voluntary, health experts say they won't do the job unless LTC homes adopt all of them without exceptions.

GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge

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The Doug Ford government says its vision for its second term is to get desperately needed homes built in Ontario. In York Region, the key to that vision is a massive pipeline that transfers water from one Great Lake region to another. The big grid of pipes moves water and sewage in an intricate back-and-forth system between Lake Ontario and York Region, a suburb of 1.17 million people between Toronto and Lake Simcoe. York gets its water for drinking, and flushing toilets, from both Lake Simcoe and Lake Ontario.

GUEST: Fatima Syed, Journalist with The Narwhal

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The federal government failed to spend tens of billions of dollars in the last fiscal year on promised programs and services, including new military equipment, affordable housing and support for veterans.

Federal departments are blaming a variety of factors for letting a record total of $38 billion in funding lapse in 2021-22, including delays and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner isn't ruling out a bid for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals.

A group of high-profile Liberals — including former cabinet ministers Deb Matthews and Liz Sandals, and current Liberal caucus member Lucille Collard — released a letter Sunday urging Schreiner to join the party and run to be its leader.

GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph

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Canadian universities conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists. The joint research projects are generating knowledge that could help drive China’s defence sector in cutting-edge, high-tech industries. Are they aloud to do that still?

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

Andy McNamara, National Fantasy Football Host and Journalist for Rogers Sportsnet

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Parliament returns

·        Healthcare negotiations

·        Trudeau AND Poilievre attach each other in dueling speeches

·        And more…

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

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Canada will supply Ukraine with four Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks and Canadian Armed Forces trainers to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to operate the vehicles, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Thursday.

GUEST: Christian Leuprecht (le-PRECK, NOT LEW-preck), Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute

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Topics Include:

·        Calls for police reforms flood Memphis

·        U.S general predicts country will be at war with China in 2025

·        GOP national sales tax talk backfires

·        And more….

GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News