News broke over the weekend that festivals such as Supercrawl and the Festival of Friends were to receive less funding this year through the Celebrate Ontario grant. Supercrawl for example has been cut from $275,000 to nothing. How difficult will it be to proceed with festivals with these cuts?

LISTEN: https://omny.fm/shows/bill-kelly-show/podcast-climate-disater-prevention-festival-fundin

Municipalities, insurers and others are calling on the federal government to change the way it’s been funding climate change disaster prevention. Right now, the fund matches dollars to provinces and territories but there’s a catch. In order to qualify, local communities must kick in between 50-60 percent of the cost and meet a minimum price.

Guest: John Best. Publisher of the Bay Observer.

News broke over the weekend that festivals such as Supercrawl and the Festival of Friends were to receive less funding this year through the Celebrate Ontario grant. Supercrawl for example has been cut from $275,000 to nothing. How difficult will it be to proceed with festivals with these cuts?

Guest: Loren Lieberman. Former Festival Organizer.

Toronto vs Ontario: The top court for the province is going to go through the legalities of last year’s intervention by the Ontario government into Toronto’s election.

Guest: Christo Aivalis, Social Sciences and humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Toronto.

Toronto vs Ontario: The top court for the province is going to go through the legalities of last year’s intervention by the Ontario government into Toronto’s election.

Guest: Christo Aivalis, Social Sciences and humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Toronto.

Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield. 

It’s Theresa May’s last day as PM in the UK. Where does the country go from here,
given the mess that is Brexit?

Guest: Steven Fielding, Professor at the University of Nottingham. Expert on British politics and political history.

C-101, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new legislation, is made to change Canada’s trade safeguard rules, but what risks does it carry?

Guest: Catherine Cobden, Canadian Steel Producers Association.

A Corbett Communications survey found that 54% of respondents said that the actions of the Ontario Premier have made an impact on how they plan on voting for the federal election. It suggests that voters are less likely to vote for Scheer this fall.

Guest: Nour El-Kadri, Professor at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa.