Bill Kelly Show

An Oakville high school teacher who made headlines around the world for wearing large prosthetic breasts to class is not likely to be subject to a dress code when on the job, according to a school board review.

Images of the Oakville Trafalgar High staffer went viral on social media in September, prompting a dress code review from the Halton District School Board (HDSB), which revealed results to board members at a meeting Wednesday night.

GUEST: Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Levitt Sheikh

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The Ontario government is expecting economic growth and job creation to slow considerably in 2023 and 2024 as the province navigates global headwinds like sticky inflation and high interest rates.

Short-term uncertainty was the key theme of Ontario's 2022 fall economic statement, which was tabled in the legislature Monday by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy.

GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Founder of the Queen’s Park Observer

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An Oakville high school teacher who made headlines around the world for wearing large prosthetic breasts to class is not likely to be subject to a dress code when on the job, according to a school board review.

Images of the Oakville Trafalgar High staffer went viral on social media in September, prompting a dress code review from the Halton District School Board (HDSB), which revealed results to board members at a meeting Wednesday night.

GUEST: Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Howard Levitt

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Hamilton's living wage has been recalculated to be $19.05, the Ontario Living Wage Network and its local partners announced Monday, a 10.8 per cent increase since the last calculation in 2021.

The current minimum wage set by the provincial government is $15.50. 

GUEST: Tom Cooper, Director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

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How much more can the streaming music business grow? 

GUEST: Alan Cross, Host of the Ongoing History of New Music

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Ontario's chief medical officer of health is "strongly recommending" that Ontarians wear masks in all indoor public settings, including in schools and in childcare settings, but stopped short of recommending a return to a mask mandate in the province.

GUEST: Dr. Anna Banerji (ban-er-ji), O.Ont MD MPH FRCPC DTM&H, Faculty Lead, Indigenous and Refugee Health, Post MD Education, Faculty of Medicine, , University of Toronto

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Elon Musk has unleashed chaos at Twitter in the few short weeks since he took the helm of the company, and experts say lawsuits, regulatory intervention and ultimate financial collapse could be on the horizon.

The billionaire has let his decision making play out on a public stage from the start, tweeting about new policies before promptly reversing them and polling users about features like verification.

Experts say this back-and-forth style of leading such a large company is unprecedented, and could spell trouble for Twitter’s future, as advertisers flee the disordered platform and regulators discuss potential investigations.

GUEST: Carmi Levy Technology Analyst & Journalist

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University

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Warnings continue to come in across Ontario, as the triple threat of influenza, COVID-19 and RSV continue to slam our hospitals. Is it time to bring back to mask mandate? 

GUEST: Dr. Isaac Bogoch, Staff Physician, General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto

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Canada's low unemployment rate is not sustainable and is contributing to decades-high inflation, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said during a speech in downtown Toronto Thursday.

Speaking before students and researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University, the governor said the Canadian labour market needs to be rebalanced to stabilize inflation.

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer, Concordia University

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GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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Canadians are buying less expensive food, stockpiling food and even eating less to cope with food prices as inflation soars, according to a new survey.

The survey, conducted by Nanos Research on behalf of CTV News, asked more than 1,000 Canadians if their household had used a cost-saving option in the past month in response to the price of food.

GUEST: Janet Music, Research Program Coordinator at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab 

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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A new Maru Public Opinion survey released finds that in the raging dispute and brinksmanship over a new contract, the union representing Ontario’s union representing education workers, including education assistants, custodians, and librarians, has a majority (59%) of support compared to a minority (41%) who side with the provincial government. However, the survey, conducted after both the union and the government agreed to put down their strike, and legislative hammers, reveals no other clear-cut verdict for either party on many elements of the dispute as they return to the negotiating table.

GUEST: John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion

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Premier Doug Ford has no regrets about using the “notwithstanding clause” in controversial legislation with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, insisting it helped both sides come “to their senses” and return to bargaining.

GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

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U-S President Joe Biden says Democrats did far better in this week's midterm elections than anyone predicted.

GUEST: Wayne Petrozzi, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University

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The U.S. and Canadian economies are in a similar situation and financial markets have given the federal government’s fall economic statement a passing grade. So why is the Canadian dollar trading in the low-70s against the U.S. dollar?

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