With LRT potentially cancelled, will it kill the Longwood bridge rebuild?

Guest: Maureen Wilson, Ward 1 Councillor, City of Hamilton

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More than 20,000 drivers last year were caught by red light cameras in Hamilton. Some of the major intersections that had this happen were Main and Dundurn, King and Dundurn and Hess & Cannon.  

Guest: Jason Farr, City Councillor, Ward 2

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Bernie Sanders has edged a win over Pete Buttigieg in New Hampshire, which leaves the Democrats with two front runners in the race. 

Guest: Laura Babcock. President, PowerGroup

Hamilton councilors are refusing to expand on a number of services until they can get the 2020 tax increase below 3.5%.  

Guest: Brad Clark, Ward 9 Councillor, City of Hamilton 

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The City of Hamilton has been urged to get the snow covered sidewalk situation on it’s streets under control with a clearing program.

Guest: Karl Andrus, VP Community, Hamilton Community Benefits Network

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A new report that was the collaboration between four different organizations reveals their recommendations for enabling and expanding virtual health services in Canada. 

Guest: Dr. Ewan Affleck, Virtual Care Task Force Co-chair, College of Family Physicians of Canada 

The panels on bullying that the HWDSB is going to be holding start this week. These are happening because of the Devan Bracci-Selvey case. One of the Panelists joins Bill this morning to discuss further.

Guest: Dr. Jean Clinton, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences in the division of Child Psychiatry at McMaster and is renowned nationally and internationally as an advocate for children’s issues

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An event is being held tomorrow in council chambers to chat about the benefits of economic projects such as LRT. It’s entitled “LRT vs Tax: Do the Math!”.

Guests: Maureen Wilson, Ward 1 Councillor, City of Hamilton
             Nrinder Nann, Ward 3 Councillor, City of Hamilton
             John-Paul Danko, Ward 8 Councillor, City of Hamilton

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Metrolinx says that the cost numbers towards cancelling the LRT project will be revealed this spring.

Guest: Ryan McGreal, Editor of Raise the Hammer.

City councilors have directed staff to negotiate the best deal for revamping our aging arena and convention centre without tapping tax-payer dollars.

Guest: Jason Farr, City Councillor, Ward 2

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Could we be seeing a late contestant joining the federal Conservative party's leadership race? John Ivison joins Bill to talk about how Jon Baird could shakeup the leadership race.

Guest: John Ivison, Columnist, National Post

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A town hall is going to be held by the NDP in regard to water quality, water protection and what we can do to make sure our water ways are safe and clean. This is particularly poignant given the sewage-gate situation from last year.

Guest: Sandy Shaw , MPP, Hamilton West Ancaster Dundas
           Sol Mamakwa,  MPP, Kiiwetinoong

Earlier this week, the minister charged with modernizing the broadcast and telecommunications law said that if the government wanted to adopt the recommendations, it wouldn’t be applied the same way for small media groups vs global tech giants. This was clarified later on in the week. They want to make changes by June.

Guest: Troy Reeb , Executive VP of Broadcast Networks, Corus/Global News

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Soon, the Ontario Liberal party will have to choose a new leader. One of the candidates is in town today and joins Bill.

Guest: Steven Del Duca, MPP & liberal leadership candidate in Ontario

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Tony Valeri is one of the members of the task force that is looking into the options on the table for transportation in the city and joins Bill in studio.

Guest: Tony Valeri, chair of the task force looking into transportation options for Hamilton