Bill Kelly Show

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

With the second week of testimony at the Public Emergency Order Commission getting underway, the time is right to note that, for all that we might see and learn in the weeks to come, it seems certain that some important questions — some important failures — will not be answered or properly scrutinized.

We deserve a review of how the Ontario government handled the convoy crisis - but will we ever get one?

GUEST: Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO,

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Canada's biggest grocery chain is freezing prices on all its No Name products for the next three months. Is this just a PR strategy or are they actually trying to help Canadians?

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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Chrystia Freeland is already thinking about what comes next, after Russia eventually backs out of Ukraine.

She wants Canada and its allies to move toward a NATO-like arrangements for economics, where we deal with like-minded trading partners, reject countries led by unscrupulous dictators, woo those in between and come to the defence of any of our friends under attack.

GUEST: Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Toronto Star

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

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

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Google Canada commissioned Abacus Data to design and execute a national public opinion survey exploring perceptions and views about Bill C-18, the Online News Act and to gauge public reaction to Google’s concerns about the Bill.

The survey was conducted with 2,207 Canadian adults from August 19 to 26, 2022.

GUEST: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, former director of Journalism at the University of Toronto, and author of “Trusting the News in a Digital Age”?

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

What did we learn from day one of testimony in the Emergencies Act inquiry?

GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice

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Abacus Data Surveys:

·       Public Stress About Inflation Is High, but Not Rising Much

·       COVID Anxiety Low, Vaccine Hesitancy Up A Notch

GUEST: Oksana Kishchuk, Director of Strategy and Insights with Abacus Data

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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut.

They alleged the right-wing radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats.

Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has clarified a widely condemned comment she made that people who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine are the “most discriminated-against group” of her lifetime – though she stopped short of a retraction or an apology. What repercussions can her comments have on her leadership?

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he did not speak directly with Russian President Putin before tweeting out a Twitter poll with a highly criticized proposal for a “peace” plan for Russia and Ukraine, following a report from Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer that he had done so.

GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute

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Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence, as the two countries try countering growing threats from China and Russia.

What kind of implications can this alliance create?

GUEST: Stephen M. Saideman, Paterson Chair of International Affairs at Carleton University, and Director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network

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Hockey Canada’s CEO and entire board of directors will leave the organization after facing fierce criticism for its handling of alleged sexual assaults.

The national organization announced the departures in a statement on Tuesday after hearing months of calls for leadership changes within the body, and seeing its major sponsors walk away over the past week.

Now that changes have been made, how can new leadership win the confidence of Canadians back?

GUEST: Dr. Ann Pegoraro (PEG-OH-RAWR-OH), Co-Director of The National Research Network for Gender Equity in Sport

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Canadians deserve to know whether imposing the Emergencies Act was indeed a justified action of last resort.

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

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Does it matter that Ontario is about to build a bunch of new fossil-fuel-fired power plants? Does it matter that they might be the last ones this province ever builds? Those are, fundamentally, the questions we’re left with after last week’s announcement that the province will commission a substantial expansion of natural-gas-fired electrical power — at the same time as it’s making a genuinely impressive investment in electricity-storage projects, marking a fundamental shift in the design of Ontario’s power system.

GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO