Bill Kelly Show

What can we learn from this tragedy? Should there be calls for Police reform?

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

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The federal government settled 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022, blowing past the previous all-time record set in 2021.

It’s one signal that the federal government appears on track to carry out its immigration plan. Next year, the government hopes to bring in another 485,000 new permanent residents.

GUEST: Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration

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Canadian investors who made it through a tumultuous 2022 face further uncertainty in the year ahead amid increased recession risk, higher interest rates, persistent inflation, a jittery stock market and a plummeting real estate market.

Investment professionals and personal finance experts say the easiest way to grow your money this year is to keep things simple.

GUEST: Mark Yamada, President & CEO of PUR Investing Inc

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New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says the holiday travel woes that left thousands of passengers stranded at airports or struggling to find flights home show why there should be more competition in Canada's airspace.

GUEST: John Gradek is former Air Canada executive and Coordinator of Integrated Aviation Management program at McGill University

Canada's top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China. That is just one of the many concerns facing the Canadian military in 2023 – are they ready?

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

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Canada's top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China. That is just one of the many concerns facing the Canadian military in 2023 – are they ready?

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

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As 2022 comes to an end, Canadians seem to have an “improved, but uneven outlook on the country and the world” compared to the last two years, according to new polling that paints a picture of lingering pessimism about a “hot mess” of a broader world.

GUEST: Darrell Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Polling

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GUEST: Dr. Carla Edwards, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences with McMaster University and High-Performance Mental Health Advisor for both Swimming Canada & Cycling Canada

The Bill Kelly Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:

The year 2022 in federal politics started in conflict and is ending in conflict.

As the new year begins, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is hinting he could pull the plug on the confidence and supply deal that is keeping the minority Liberals in power. The Liberals are being pressured to revise their mandatory gun “buyback” legislation, which has managed to capture large numbers of hunting and sport-shooting long guns. Canadians are feeling the pinch from inflation and rising interest rates. And the war in Ukraine is still raging.

So what will happen in federal politics in 2023? 

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

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Intelligence agencies work hard to provide the best advice possible to senior government leaders. Therefore, you think they would at least read what they send right.

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

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Forecasting oil and gas prices can be a bit like aiming at a dartboard. But these days, analysts might as well be doing it with a blindfold.

GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

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Ontario Provincial Police released end-of-year statistics for motor vehicle fatalities in a tweet on Sunday, urging drivers to make 2023 a safer year.

“Forty-four motorcyclists were killed last year, 29 pedestrians and 12 bicyclists,” Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in a video. “This is way over one every single day across the province.”

GUEST: Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, Manager of Media Relations, Corporate Communications and Strategy Bureau with Ontario Provincial Police

It is time to grade the Prime Minister's report card for the year, Premier Ford too.

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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If you've noticed that everyone is getting sick, you are not alone. Sickness, often with multiple infections, has sharply increased this flu season and a concept called "immunity debt" may be to blame.

GUEST: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Tenured Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University and Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity with the DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research

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The price of new cars is sky high, and the timeline for getting one is only growing. How long until we no longer measure the wait time in years?

GUEST: David Adams, President & CEO of the Global Automakers of Canada

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A typical young person in Hamilton would have to work full-time for more than two decades to save up for a 20 per cent down payment on an average-priced home in the region, a new study has found.

The latest Straddling the Gap report, conducted by the Generation Squeeze lab out of the University of British Columbia (UBC), looked at the difference between home prices and earnings across Canada between 1976 and 2021.

GUEST: Michael Collins-Williams, Chief Executive Officer of the West End Home Builders’ Association

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Canada’s long-term care sector was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapidly climbing patient deaths, a lack of safety provisions coupled with already-precarious employment and difficult working conditions took its toll on the mental health of health-care workers.

So what steps need to be taking to tackle Canada’s long-term care crisis?

GUEST: Colleen Grady, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Queen's University

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While becoming more autocratic at home during Xi Jinping’s rule, Beijing has become much more willing, over the past decade, to throw its weight around inside other states. It is increasingly trying, for the first time since Mao’s days, to intervene in the domestic politics, media, information environments, and societies of other countries. Beijing’s campaigns today reflect a departure from the more limited and defensive Chinese foreign policy of the late Cold War and early post–Cold War eras. China in many ways has supplanted Russia as the authoritarian foreign power most dedicated to meddling inside other countries.

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