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Last February, the Ontario premier expressed the view that the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest paralyzing Canada’s capital and major border points would not be resolved by “a bunch of people sitting around a table talking.”

Yet here we are at the end of 2022, in the midst of what is clearly a health-care emergency in this country, and there was Ford last Friday, asking for — yes — a federal-provincial meeting. Or, as he might have put it, a bunch of people sitting around a table talking.

GUEST: Susan Delacourt, National Columnist with The Toronto Star

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Working with GTA religious communities, the David Suzuki Foundation has created an open letter raising the alarm about Hwy 413, the Greenbelt and climate crisis.

GUEST: Gideon Forman, Climate Change and Transportation Policy Analyst with The David Suzuki Foundation

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With nearly 300 Canadian students enrolled in its programs, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland feels a lot like a medical school in Canada, just separated by 3,340 kilometres of Atlantic Ocean.

While this historic university in the heart of Dublin has been producing doctors since 1784, in recent decades, it’s become an important training ground for many young Canadians who go overseas to pursue their dreams of becoming a physician.

More than 40 per cent of the students in RCSI’s four-year medical program are from Canada – more than any other nationality.

GUEST: Dr. Jason Profetto, Family Physician & Chair of Clinical Skills and MD Admissions with McMaster University

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The New Democrats are ready to withdraw from their confidence-and-supply agreement they signed with the Liberals if there is no federal action to address the health-care crisis, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday.

The deal reached in March would see the NDP support thr minority government on key votes in the House of Commons to avoid triggering an election before 2025. In exchange, the Liberals have promised to make progress on a number of NDP priorities, including health care.

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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Ontario’s tourism industry is not expected to fully recover from the pandemic until 2025, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the industry say in a joint report, with recommendations including tax incentives, cannabis tourism and affordable housing to support staff recruitment.

GUEST: Chris Bloore, President of the Tourism Industry Association of Ontario

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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the bank was surprised this year how the combination of large supply chain shocks and an overheated economy would play out on inflation.

He says Russia's invasion of Ukraine was also a surprise, which led to higher energy prices and helped turbocharge already rising inflation.

Macklem says the unexpected geopolitical action points to the longer-term challenge of keeping inflation low as protectionism increases, and the deflationary benefits of global economies opening up fade.

GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University

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

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Why have gas prices dropped in Canada? And how long should we expect them to last? 

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

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Topics Include:

·        Family waits 2 days at hospital ER before being admitted to children’s hospital

·        McMaster children’s Hospital gets ICU beds to cope with crisis

·        Red Cross sends personnel to Ottawa to help children’s hospital

GUEST: Bruce Squires, President of the McMaster Children’s Hospital

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Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he takes ‘no pleasure’ in job losses that will result from hiking rates, but cooling the country’s overheated economy comes first.

Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers, Armine Yalnizyan interviewed the Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem on Nov. 24, 2022. She joined us to discuss the details.

GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers

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The corporation used the recent Giving Tuesday as an opportunity to ask customers to donate their Optimum loyalty points as part of a partnership with some local food bank charities, suggesting customers who collect PC Optimum points donate them directly to partnered charities. The idea didn’t land with everyone and left some social media users fuming.

GUEST: Marc Gordon, Customer Experience Expert

GUEST: Mary Jo, Member of the Ontario School Safety Group