The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Trudeau stakes Canada’s trade policy on NAFTA resiliency

·        How to help Hati

·        3 day cabinet retreat late January in Hamilton

·        And much more…

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

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Japan looks at Canada for LNG supply, but Trudaeu’s response was non-committal. Is that the right move for Canada’s global relations?

GUEST: Heather Exner-Pirot is a senior policy analyst at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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Canada's premiers are unanimously urging Ottawa to take "immediate action" to strengthen the country's bail system.

GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

Topics Include:

·        More documents found at Biden’s home

·        Trump organization fined $1.6 million for tax fraud

·        Debt ceiling flight looms over medicare

·        And more…

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Michael Bociurkiw, Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council and global affairs analyst

GUEST: TECH WITH ADAM OLDFIELD

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Immigration targets are immigration bureaucrats’ best guess, based on institutional experience and analyses, of how many people can join a society and economy without threatening social cohesion.

In other words, they are estimates of what Canadian immigration bureaucrats have historically referred to the country’s “absorptive capacity.”

What are the problems with the immigration targets?

GUEST: Dr. Jennifer Elrick, Associate Professor of Sociology with McGill University

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Five out of six Canadians believe the country is already in recession and more than half fear the economy will get worse this year, a new poll suggests.

GUEST: Dan Arnold, Chief Strategy Officer for Pollara Strategic Insights

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Topics Include:

·        Internal Ford government docs that admit impact of Bill 124

·        Carbon tax on industry. What will Ford’s gov’t do with the revenue?

·        Opposition parties ask Auditor General to probe Greenbelt moves

·        And more…

GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel on Thursday to investigate how classified documents had ended up in President Biden’s private office and home, opening a new legal threat to the White House and providing ammunition to its Republican opponents.

GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question’ Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It

The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday in one of the bloodiest battles of Russia's invasion, while Ukraine's unflagging resistance and other challenges prompted Moscow to shake up its military leadership again.

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

GUEST: Luca Bucci, CEO of the Ontario Home Builders Association

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario can live with federal strings attached to any new health-care funding from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Ford’s comments are significant because some premiers have bristled at Ottawa having any say in how the additional dollars are spent.

GUEST: Alan Hale, Reporter for Queen’s Park Today

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This year, though, we’re betting a lot of sober-curious people are going to be opting for a “damp” month instead of fully dry, thanks to the “Dry(ish) January Challenge” — a new initiative that encourages people to try out a month of moderate drinking instead of abstinence.

Which is better though? A dry January? Or a damp one?

GUEST: Dr. Peter Bieling, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry And Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University and Director of Mental Health And Addiction Program with St. Joseph’s Hospital

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The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday in one of the bloodiest battles of Russia's invasion, while Ukraine's unflagging resistance and other challenges prompted Moscow to shake up its military leadership again.

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