Bill Kelly Show

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:



Ontario has basically lifted all its COVID-era public-health measures; the pandemic is essentially over, in an official sense, judging by how Ontario is handling it. An exception is the regulation that permits patients to be sent from a hospital to a long-term-care home, even against their will, or else be hit with heavy financial penalties. Are the already frail and vulnerable going to be the only people asked to make sacrifices to keep our system functioning?

Matt Gurney, Columnist for the National Post and TVO

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An organized campaign of hate is trying to silence women in journalism and they’re sounding the alarm to find a way to stop these online attacks! 

GUEST: Brent Joly, President of The Canadian Association of Journalists

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Ukrainian troops bolstered by stepped-up Western military aid launched a long-awaited counter-offensive to retake territory in the south on Monday as Russian forces shelled residential areas of the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv.

Moscow acknowledged a new offensive had been launched but said it had failed and the Ukrainians had suffered significant casualties.

GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·       Freeland responds to harassment

·       Trudeau douses excitement over East Coast gas exports

·       Russian invasion spurred NATO involvement in Canada’s Artic

·       And more

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

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The FBI told a judge that there was “probable cause to believe” that classified national security materials were improperly taken to “unauthorized” locations at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, and that a search would also likely find “evidence of obstruction,” according to a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit released Friday.

GUEST: Jennifer Johnson, Washington Correspondent for Global News

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Michael Melling, the vice-president of news at Bell Media, is taking a leave effective immediately, after two weeks of tumult around his role in the dismissal of marquee anchor Lisa LaFlamme. This as the head of Bell Media's parent company says the decision to end Lisa LaFlamme's contract had nothing to do with her age, gender or grey hair.

ALSO: In an open letter, prominent Canadians call on Bell to ‘make things right’ for LaFlamme and the public

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”? 

This year, LiONS LAIR celebrates its 12th anniversary as Hamilton's leading pitch competition that brings together innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Here is one of the top 8 finalists: 

Musicology: a video conference platform with the lowest latency around allowing for all frequencies of music to be heard which an important aspect is to teaching music online.

GUEST: Rebecca Featherstone, Founder & CEO of Musicology and Lions Lair finalist

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

·       Ont. gov’t plans to bypass public hearing for long-term care bill

·       Bed shortages could see seniors moved long distances

·       Ford gov’t insists Ontario needs ‘strong mayors’ to build more housing

·       And more!

GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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Abacus Data completed a national survey of 1,500 Canadian adults from July 11 to 17, 2022.

WHICH IS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE – CANADA OR THE US?

While 1 in every 10 Canadians think it would be better to live in the US, everyone else thinks Canada is the better place to be. This feeling is pretty consistent across all regions of the country. To the extent that there are subgroups of the population that are more doubtful that Canada is better, these are men under 45, Conservative and People’s Party voters, and those who have not been vaccinated for Covid-19. 

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

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The prime minister and party leaders have too much power and it needs to be diminished to improve democratic accountability in Canada’s Parliament, says one veteran Conservative MP.

Michael Chong, the long-serving MP for the Ontario riding of Wellington-Halton Hills, is proposing a trio of reforms to increase the influence of individual members in the House of Commons.

GUEST: Michael Chong, Conservative MP for Wellington—Halton Hills and Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls from Ukraine to cancel a permit allowing turbines repaired in Montreal to be sent back to a Russian energy giant as a three-day visit from Germany’s leader gets underway.

What should Canada do?

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

Ontario’s plan to replace electricity generation when an aging nuclear plant closes in 2025 has critics saying the province didn’t get the memo on the growing dangers of climate change.

Of six new contracts announced by the province’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) on Tuesday, four are for power to be generated by burning natural gas, while the other two — for wind and energy storage — account for less than 10 per cent of the 764 megawatts under contract.

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy