How should Canadians honour Truth and Reconciliation Day?

GUEST: Dr. Ken Coates, Canada Research Chair with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Senior Fellow of Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues with the Macdonald Laurier Institute.

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Mayor Fred Eisenberger retires from politics after this next month's election, but he still makes time in his schedule to hold the monthly town hall to answer questions about Hamilton's new milestones and projects.

GUEST: Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger

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Negative workplace culture leads to three times less productivity than positive environment

GUEST: Paula Allen, Senior Vice President of Research & Wellbeing at LifeWorks

Boardball is a new sport that aims to lower the barriers to playing volleyball by reducing the extensive setup required so that you can play anytime and anywhere. Instead of needing a traditional court, volleyball net, and large group of people, all that is needed to play Boardball is a board, a volleyball, and 4 people. The game is competitive, dynamic, and provides a more accessible way for people to use their bump-set-spike skills

GUEST: Amanda Nguyen, Co-Founder of Boardball & Winner of LiONS LAIR

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Most physicians and healthcare practitioners receive no data about their practice or patient outcomes. Current data feedback systems are piecemeal and not informed by evidence. Hospitals want to provide their practitioners with the support they need to deliver, maintain and improve their quality of care yet do not have the expertise to do so. The LLIF MD dashboard fulfills these market needs by using patient-care data with a focus on practitioner- centric data analytics. These analytics inform physicians about their care, anonymously index their practice relative to their local peers and index participating hospitals relative to one another. These create practice and educational insights for practitioners and system-level performance insights for clinical departments and hospitals. Llif Healthcare is built on a foundation of medical research that is well established and partly derived by its Founder. Through research, the lived experience of being a healthcare practitioner and the insights cleaned as an agent of system change, the LLIF MD Dashboard is the first step in revolutionizing medical practice in a data- rich era. Not only does this work have the potential to change how practitioners provide care, but it also equally can fundamentally change medical training in the foreseeable future.

GUEST: Shawn Mondoux, Founder and CEO of LLIF Healthcare, and Second Place winner

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Chirp is a venture-backed MedTech start-up developing a wall-mounted device that uses ambient sensors to remotely monitor the wellbeing of aging adults. It’s unobtrusive and low- effort for the care recipient and tracks their mobility, detects visitors, and looks for emergency events such as calls for help. Chirp has none of the inconvenience of wearable personal emergency response devices and is less invasive than camera monitoring.

GUEST: Justin Schorn, CEO of Chirp and Third Place winner

Investor point of view: long game

GUEST: Jamie Harsevoort, CEO at Launchit Ventures 

GUEST: Julie Ellis, Speaker, Author, Leadership Coach and 'Investor Lion'

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Gala Recap

GUEST: Connie Smith, MC of LiONS LAIR

GUEST: David Carter, Executive Director of the Innovation Factory

Value & Benefits of LiONS LAIR

GUEST: Mike Marini, Marketing Coordinator with the City of Hamilton

GUEST: David Wright of Cassio Capital Advisors Inc.

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Pillar of Business Sponsors

GUEST: Alex Ross is with Gowling WLG, also a Lawyer, Registered Canadian Patent Agent and Legal Lion

GUEST: Aaron Gillespie, Partner with KPMG and 'Financial Lion'

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Importance of entrepreneurship in economy

GUEST: Shann McGrail, CEO of Haltech Region Innovation Centre 

GUEST: Karen Linseman, Director of Operations with the Innovation Factory 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

According to a new Angus Reid poll, the ascension of Pierre Poilievre has given the Conservative Party an uptick in vote popularity. But, is it too soon to make conclusions?

GUEST: Clifton van der Linden, Director of the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University

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In China, the high-profile TV drama In The Name Of The People has become a smash hit. In that show, Chinese agents enter the U.S. posing as businessmen so they can repatriate a factory manager who had fled abroad with huge ill-gotten wealth.

But a new study by the European non-governmental agency Safeguard Defenders suggests that there might be some truth to the fiction. According to the NGO, the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau has established more than 50 “overseas police service centres” in cities around the world – including three publicly documented ones in Toronto, home to Canada’s largest Chinese diaspora.

GUEST: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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The trophy awarded to Canada’s athlete of the year is getting a new name.

The award was named after Lou Marsh, a former football player and NHL referee who spent more than 40 years working in the Toronto Star’s sports department in a variety of different roles.

Questions have been raised in recent years over whether the honour should be renamed because of some of the racist language used in Marsh’s writing.

The Toronto Star is taking public submissions on a new name for the trophy, and a committee is set to choose a replacement before the 2022 award is handed out in December.

GUEST: Mark Hebscher, Longtime Sports Broadcaster, Author & Host of the ‘Hebsy on Sports’ podcast

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

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