The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

The captain of the women's hockey team Marie-Philip Poulin was named Canada's top athlete of 2022. She became the first female hockey player to win the Northern Star Award.

GUEST: Marie-Philip Poulin, Olympic gold medalist, captain of Canada’s women’s national hockey team, and winner of the Northern Star award as Canada’s top athlete (formerly the Lou Marsh award)

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Ontario School Safety Group Applauds HWDSB's Mask Mandate

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

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The federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to end last winter’s protracted anti-government, anti-vaccine mandate protests is largely supported by Canadians, according to a new poll.

After six weeks of intense scrutiny at the inquiry into the invocation of the act, the government appears to have emerged unscathed, according to a Nanos Research poll for The Globe and Mail.

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

GUEST: Brian Hogben, Broker for Mission35 Mortgages and author of “How to Get Mortgage Free Really F*$%ing Fast!: The Book on How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Canada with 10 Simple Steps”

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Marit Stiles is set to be the next leader of the Ontario NDP after the Toronto member of provincial parliament was the sole contender.

The New Democrats will now hold a confirmation vote for Stiles, and as long as a majority of party members are in favour, she will secure the job and become leader of the Official Opposition in the legislature.

GUEST: Marit Stiles, New leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Davenport

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is working to ensure Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) never again offers medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to veterans, as another veteran says a similar experience happened to her as well.

Trudeau made the comments a day after a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces shocked lawmakers by revealing medically-assisted death had been raised to her by a VAC employee.

GUEST: Scott Maxwell, Executive Director of Wounded Warriors Canada

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Women’s soccer in Canada is set to get a boost with the creation of a domestic professional league in the coming years, backed by star players from last year’s Olympic gold medal-winning team.

Project 8, a company founded by retired Canadian national-team player Diana Matheson and her business partner Thomas Gilbert, will announce plans Tuesday for a women’s pro league to launch in 2025 with eight teams across the country.

GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro, Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Canada’s first full-scale electric vehicle manufacturing plant officially opened in southern Ontario on Monday, with the prime minister and the province’s premier saying the launch of the facility marked a national milestone.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said electric delivery vans started rolling off the line earlier in the day at the General Motors CAMI production plant in Ingersoll, Ont., that was retooled to build the company’s BrightDrop all-electric vehicles.

GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association

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A major UN conference on biodiversityis getting underway in Montreal today (Tuesday) with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world’s land and oceans before the end of this decade.

But the environment may be the easy part of a meeting that is being co-hosted by Canada and China amid growing diplomatic tensions between the two – and without the political heft of world leaders, who weren’t invited to attend.

GUEST: Timothy Hodges, Professor of Practice, Institute for the Study of International Development

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After a year that saw food prices climb by numbers not seen in decades due to record inflation, the cost of groceries in Canada is expected to continue rising in 2023, a new report suggests.

The latest Canada Food Price Report released Monday estimates food prices will increase by another five to seven per cent on average next year, adding hundreds of dollars to the average family’s annual expenses.

GUEST: Mike von Massow, OAC Chair in Food System Leadership and an Associate Professor in Food Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast (with guest host Shiona Thompson):

Lots of confusion surrounding Alberta Premiere Danielle Smith’s

Alberta Sovereignty bill in regards to the powers given to cabinet. Premiere

Smith has said she will change it, claiming that aspect of the bill was not

intended to be a part of it.

GUEST: Dr

Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie

University

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A cautionary tale for all municipalities out of Hamilton. The

latest lake of sewage spilled estimated to be 337 million litres.

GUEST: Chris

McLaughlin, Executive Director of the Bay Area Restoration Council, and Adjunct

Faculty with the School Of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster

University

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Ticketmaster is being taken to court… by Taylor Swift fans? The

ticketing giant is being suied by fans of the pop music icon over the Eras Tour

sale chaos that crashed Ticketmaster’s systems, leaving many fans unable to get

tickets..

GUEST: Eric

Alper, Publicist and music commentator.

Topics Include: electric vehicles, Google maps updates, Alexa technology & more!

GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

With reports of hospital emergency rooms under strain and cases of flu, RSV and COVID-19 spiking across Canada, health care has surpassed inflation as the top national issue of concern. What’s being done to solve those problems?

GUEST: Cliff van der Linden, Director of the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University and CEO of Vox Pop Labs

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In Abacus’s latest national survey completed on November 30th, they asked Canadians about their plans for holiday gatherings. Comparing there results to last year; Canadians are significantly more comfortable celebrating with family and friends this holiday season.

GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data

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Premier Doug Ford says auditor general Bonnie Lysyk should “stay in her lane” and audit government spending, not run undercover sting operations at casinos that rankle police.

GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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U.S. citizens are flocking to buy recreational properties in Canada following Ottawa’s announcement of a two-year ban that will prohibit the purchase of residential property by non-Canadians.

Around 75 per cent of U.S. citizens living in border states who currently own recreational property — a ski chalet or cottage, for example — in Canada made their purchase after the two-year foreign buyer ban was announced in April, according to a new Royal LePage survey.

GUEST: Pauline Aunger, Broker with Royal LePage

GUEST: Claudia Dessanti, Senior Manager of Policy, Ontario Chamber of Commerce

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk released her annual report Wednesday. We discuss some of the highlights like, highway projects, auto insurance and more!

GUEST: Peter Tabuns, Interim Leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Toronto-Danforth

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 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that while he's "not looking for a fight" with Alberta, the federal government is not taking anything off the table when it comes to how it may respond to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's new 'sovereignty act.'

GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada

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Few events capture the attention of the globe like the Men’s FIFA World Cup — in 2018, the event boasted a viewership of 3.5 billion people. Yet, despite the enormous popularity of the World Cup, host cities and countries invsriably lose money on the event itself, with FIFA capturing most of the profits despite its non-profit status.

GUEST: David Roberts, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor with the University of Toronto