Bill Kelly Show

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Guest Host Shiona Thompson:

New battery-manufacturing plant announcements are coming so fast and furious that newswire Reuters have taken to running a continuous update of all the facilities being planned to manufacture EVs and their batteries around the world. Is the EV revolution passing Canada’s auto manufacturing sector by?

GUEST: David Booth, Automotive Columnist and Senior Writer for Postmedia

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Following the alarming decline in student math results across the province, the Ontario government announced payouts to parents to help overcome the learning gap. Is this the best way to invest in our schools and students after the pandemic?

GUEST: Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives

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Have school board elections become a ‘culture war’?

GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator

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

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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University

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Candidates hoping to land at city hall are making last-ditch efforts to win over Hamilton voters in the dying days of an increasingly close — and sometimes nasty — election campaign.

Seven seats around the council horseshoe are up for grabs with incumbents opting not to run again. That includes an open mayoral race with three main rivals looking for the electoral edge to secure the chain of office.

Who may end up on top?

GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland issued a warning to Canadians Wednesday — the coming months won't be pretty as rising interest rates slow a once red-hot economy and force some people out of their jobs.

The Bank of Canada's recent rate hikes to tame sky-high inflation will increase borrowing costs for businesses and consumers alike, which will send shockwaves throughout the economy, Freeland said.

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

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If you think you’re shivering now, just wait until the shock of your next heating bill sets in.

Enbridge Gas Inc., which serves approximately 75 per cent of Ontario residents, adjusts its prices every three months, and on Oct. 1, a new rate increase kicked in after the Ontario Energy Board approved a hike of five to 10 per cent. That comes on top of a rate hike in July of between 18 to 23 per cent. Some households will be paying $500 more than last year. Commodity prices are double what they were this time last year.

GUEST: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers

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British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office last month with hopes and promises of reinvigorating the British economy and putting it on the path to long-term success.

It didn’t go to plan.

Instead, Truss’ tenure was scarred by turmoil as her economic policies threatened the country’s financial stability, driving the pound to record lows, sparking chaos on bond markets and increasing mortgage costs for millions of people.

Why was her tenure so short, and what happens now?

GUEST: Peter McNally, Professor Emeritus with School of Information and the Director of History with the McGill Project at McGill University, McGill’s “Royal Watcher” 

The municipal election is Monday. Where do the candidates stand?

GUEST: Connie Smith, Former Anchor for CHCH News

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Ottawa publicly signed a multi million dollar deal with Nokia. Does this favourable deal send a message to China?

GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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CUPE negotiations have broken down ahead of the strike deadline.

GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News

At the Emergencies Act Inquiry, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has made some troubling statements about a lack of support from both the federal and provincial governments. “Show me the mounties” the transcript reads.

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

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A new report from CanAge has found exponentially increasing cases of dementia in Canada and that Canada is woefully unprepared for treating such.

GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge

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An Edmonton man has been sentenced to 20 years in US prison for recruiting ISIS members, sending them off to fight. From our guest: “Another Edmontonian was given 29 yrs, but not for terrorism, for running over a cop and 4 others back in 2017, despite having an ISIS flag in his vehicle (discussed at length in my book The Peaceable Kingdom)”

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Former CSIS analyst and author of “The Peaceable Kingdom: A history of terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the present”