The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Canada – U.S. reach workaround deal on Nexus backlog

·        Joe Biden to visit Canada for the first time since becoming president

·        Trade talk

·        And more….

GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail

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This past Sunday, Canadians rallied in memory of the 176 people killed in the Iranian downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 in January 2020. On that flight were 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents, heading home to Canada via Kyiv, Ukraine. Instead, they were blasted from the sky by missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, never to see their loved ones again.

The brutal attack shocked the world, yet to this day, Iran has not been held accountable for its crime. Three years have passed, with families still clamouring for justice — and wondering why their governments have not done more to get it for them.

GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path

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The Ford government is facing furious criticism after internal documents, obtained by Global News, acknowledged that low wages and Bill 124 have had a negative impact on Ontario’s ability to retain nurses in the province’s health care sector.

The internal government documents, which were intended to brief Health Minister Sylvia Jones on a wide range of issues related to her portfolio, cited the government’s own wage restraint legislation and low pay as contributing factors in the province’s health-care staffing issues.

GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

GUEST: Johnny Avello, Director of Race and Sportsbook Operations for DraftKings

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The Ontario Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada are different organizations. They share a lot of common links and goals, absolutely, but they’re different things, with different personnel and missions and challenges. 

But he Ontario Liberal Party did not perform well in 2022. With just under 24 per cent of the vote, it won eight seats, came in third, and missed official-party status — again. So how could this effect the federal Liberal party?

GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO

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There’s a belief among some that Canada should dismantle the RCMP in the face of the scandal and criticism that plague the force.

It would certainly be a dramatic change to the landscape of policing in this country. Is it time for that change?

GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa

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Why Canada’s relationship with Mexico needs to go beyond trade.

GUEST: Louise Blais is a former senior diplomat and a special adviser for international affairs for the Business Council of Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·        Morneau says PM favoured political points over policy

·        Canadians think the country is heading in the wrong direction

·        Three Amigos summit

·        And more….

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

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The Trudeau government has stated that CSIS, commonly referred to as Canada’s spy agency, is incapable of performing its duties: the prime minister even stated during the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act that “CSIS does not necessarily have the right tools, mandate or even mindset to respond to the threat Canada faced at that moment,” a reference to the trucker convoy. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he’s “open” to discussing changes to the service’s legal authority. Heck, even the CSIS director and deputy director agree the definition of “threat” is “outdated.” Is It time for change?

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s National Security program, and former CSIS analys

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Topics Include:

·        Kevin McCarthy got the votes for speaker

·        Trudeau and Biden to meet before leaders’ summit

·        & more…

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global 

2022 marked a year of adjustment in housing demand across the REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) market area as sales activity eased by 30 per cent over the near-record highs achieved in 2021. Rising lending rates, previous price gains and limited supply options weighed on potential purchasers. At the same time, new listings continued to grow in the region, but only for homes priced above $800,000. 

GUEST: Chris Knighton, Team Leader and Sales Representative with Knighton Real Estate Advisors, the No.1 sales team for Keller Williams in Canada

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Galen Weston Jr., fourth-generation Loblaw Companies Ltd. heir — now president and chairman of Canada's largest food retailer — has caught the ire of Twitter users again .

"I beg your pardon," tweeted CTV Queen’s Park reporter Siobhan Morris, an award-winning journalist based in Toronto, on Tuesday evening with a photo showing a pack of boneless, skinless chicken breast priced at $26.87 per kilogram at Loblaws.

For comparison's sake, blogTO paid just a fraction of that price per kilo in November as part of an experiment. Morris' tweet has now been viewed more than 1.7 million times in less than 24 hours, attracting nearly 10,000 likes, thousands of retweets and thousands of salty comments.

GUEST: Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Toronto Metropolitan University,

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What does Canada's COVID sanctions do to Canada-China relations?

GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish (HEW-ish) Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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A Supreme Court ruling that ended the punishment of life without parole for multiple murders has led to a greater emphasis on rehabilitation in sentencing for a wide range of offences.

The court’s decision in May in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six Muslim worshippers in Quebec City in 2017, said Canada’s commitment to rehabilitation sets it apart from many other countries.

Lower-court judges are taking that message to heart. The ruling is having an effect on sentencing well beyond multiple murders, the review shows.

GUEST: Kim Pate, Senator for Ontario