The Mayor’s Townhall with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger.

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The Canadian government has introduced a “Notice of Ways and Means” motion to help protect Canada’s steel makers and to ensure that the country can respond quickly to changes in the steel market.

Guest: Bob Bratina, Liberal MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

Photo: (Stephen C. Host / File / The Canadian Press)

The Canadian government has introduced a “Notice of Ways and Means” motion to help protect Canada’s steel makers and to ensure that the country can respond quickly to changes in the steel market.

Guest: Bob Bratina, Liberal MP for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

There was backlash against a Conservative MP who lashed out a parliamentary hearing. The MP in question said in response to a witness’s testimony that they should be ‘ashamed’ of themselves for linking conservatism to extremist attacks.

Guest: Barry Kay, political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is issuing it’s final report today with it’s findings. It’s has more than 200 recommendations to the federal government, and calls the violence against First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and girls a form of ‘genocide’.

Guest: Dawn Martin-Hill, Associate Professor | Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies, McMaster University.

Series of ads offered to give away the crosses left behind by family members of inmates who have died of overdoses. One of the ads says “These crosses signify the many men and women of society’s underbelly who are taking a dirt nap due to their unwavering addiction to self destruction”.

Guest: Amy McKechnie, sister to Ryan McKechnie who died of an overdose in 2017 at the jail.

There was backlash against a Conservative MP who lashed out a parliamentary hearing. The MP in question said in response to a witness’s testimony that they should be ‘ashamed’ of themselves for linking conservatism to extremist attacks.

Guest: Barry Kay, political science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

Photo: (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is issuing its final report today with its findings. It’s has more than 200 recommendations to the federal government, and calls the violence against First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and girls a form of ‘genocide’.

Guest: Dawn Martin-Hill, Associate Professor | Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies, McMaster University.