GUEST: Daniel Safayeni, Vice President of Policy with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to close out the Public Order Emergencies Commission hearings today, when he’ll testify about his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear out the “Freedom Convoy” protests earlier this year.

The hearings have been underway for weeks and have heard from dozens of witnesses as part of its duty to analyze Trudeau’s justification for invoking the controversial legislation earlier this year.

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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David Detomasi joined the show to discuss an op-ed piece that he wrote in the Conversation called “Canada should focus on building ties with countries that share its values — but tread carefully”.

GUEST: Dr. David Detomasi, Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow In International Business with Queen's University

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The King, as the Leafs and two generations of their fans knew him so well, is gone. 

Ravaged by the onset of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Salming died at 71 on Thursday in Sweden, the club announced in a joint statement with his family. 

GUEST: Mike Stubbs, Host of London Live on 980 CFPL and London Knights play-by-play announcer 

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Topics Include:

• Ontario education workers to vote on new deal

·        Ontario NDP leadership race deadline nears

·        Bill 39

·        And more…

GUEST: Alan Hale, Queen’s Park Today

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Bill 39 is called the Better Municipal Governance Act. Apparently, what the Progressive Conservative government considers good governance is allowing the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to push through their own local laws with only one-third support of council.

A power virtually unheard of on any elected body from student council to the federal government, it was the recent request of re-elected Toronto Mayor John Tory.

GUEST: Jeff Burch, NDP MPP Niagara Centre, Opposition Critic for Municipal Affairs 

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In the wake of news that three Ontario children's hospitals have cancelled surgeries, dozens of parents are sharing their stories about how the onslaught of viruses this fall has affected their families, and question whether enough is being done to address the "crisis" in care.

GUEST: Sara L Austin, CEO, Children First Canada

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Ontario’s housing minister is defending his government’s plan to eliminate and reduce development charges even as municipalities warn the province its approach could significantly increase property taxes.

GUEST: Marianne Meed Ward, Mayor, City of Burlington

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The second trial for Peter Khill, the Binbrook man charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an Indigenous man continues today.

Both the defense and the crown agree that 29-year-old Jonathan Styres was shot dead in the driveway of Peter Khill's Binbrook home at about 3am on February 4th, 2016 - and that it was Khill who fired his shotgun at Styres

GUEST: Lisa Polewski, reporter, 900CHML

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We continue the conversation with defense lawyer, Ar Goldkind on Khill trail.

GUEST: Ari Goldkind, Toronto defence lawyer

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The Bank Of Canada estimates half of Canadian homeowners who took out a variable-rate mortgage with fixed payments have already hit their trigger rate.

Hitting a trigger rate means a mortgage holder is no longer paying down any principal on their loan and is only covering interest — a key point that can prompt the lender to force a homeowner to make additional payments.

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

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The Emergencies Act Inquiry is wrapping up this week. What have we learned so far? & What can we expect next?

GUEST: Susan Delacourt, columnist, Toronto Star

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The Ontario Health Coalition has officially launched a constitutional challenge against the province’s controversial Bill 7.

The law allows some discharged elderly hospital patients to be forced into long-term care homes they did not choose in Ontario.

Guests: Natalie Mehra, Ontario Health Coalition & Graham Webb of Advocacy Centre for the Elderly

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The Ontario government recently proposed a new bill, the More Homes Built Faster Act, or Bill 23. This bill contains some positive elements, like the removal of duplicate plan approval requirements and adding measures aimed at increasing urban density and housing mix.

However, Bill 23 also proposes weakening or eliminating many housing development regulations, such as site plan controls, that protect us and our natural environment from the negative effects of poorly built development. If implemented as tabled, the bill will severely disrupt the province’s environmental housing regulations.

GUEST: Luna Kirfan, Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo

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Eight per cent of vaccinated people with COVID infections that don’t require hospitalization end up with long COVID, with each subsequent infection repeating the risk. COVID increases the risk of cardiovascular and other health problems, enough to cause a stark rise in excess deaths and to shorten life expectancy.

In 2020, when adult intensive care units were at risk of being overwhelmed, we wore masks and accepted restrictions. With pediatric intensive care now at risk, will leaders follow the evidence and tell us to mask up?

GUEST: Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University