The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

After five months of campaigning, the outcome of the third Conservative Party leadership campaign in six years looms over the horizon. What is the latest ?

ALSO: Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper endorses Pierre Poilievre for party leader

GUEST:  Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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European Union governments agreed Tuesday to reduce consumption of natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia amid its invasion of Ukraine, although the measure contains exemptions for some countries.

GUEST: Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

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The state of global aviation has been a mess in recent months as pandemic-related travel restrictions have eased and the subsequent demand for flights has put a tremendous strain on airlines and airports. For Canadian flyers, the situation may actually get worse after the summer travel season.

ALSO: Toronto’s airport is now worst in the world for delays

GUEST: John Gradek is a Faculty Lecturer in the School of Continuing Studies, and Coordinator of the Supply Chain and Operations Management and Integrated Aviation Management programs at McGill University

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The Pentagon is officially opening a UFO investigations office as US government gets serious about ‘alien-sightings’.

GUEST: Chris Rutkowski, Ufologist and Science Writer

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

The Ontario government has released a plan to help students catch up following two years of interrupted learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan focuses primarily on getting students back in the classroom for a "full school experience,” however the Progressive Conservatives say they will also “enable the option of remote learning” for parents who feel it’s the best option for their child.

GUEST: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow with the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education w U of T

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It was a scene that, until it happened, was almost impossible to imagine. The Holy Father delivered an apology in a First Nation community, surrounded by the same Indigenous language, regalia, culture and ceremony the Catholic Church had once intentionally – and often brutally – attempted to eradicate.

Was the apology enough?

GUEST: Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard, Director of the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University

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Hockey Canada releases plan to combat 'toxic' culture ahead of parliamentary hearings

Can the plan be done, and if so how?   

GUEST:  Kristi Allain, Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life, and an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas University

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A new CIBC survey finds Canadians are hoping to enjoy summer but most (80 per cent) are concerned about the impact of rising inflation on their ability to enjoy themselves this summer season.

Canadians expect to spend approximately $1,900 this year on summer activities, which is an increase of $400 from 2021, and most of those who expect to increase their spend (76 per cent) name inflation as the leading cause.

GUEST: Nicholas Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics with Toronto Metropolitan University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.

Francis kissed the hand of a residential school survivor as he was greeted at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport by Indigenous representatives, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, an Inuk who is Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.

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

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People in Ontario are calling out Doug Ford's government as several long-term care homes in the province are still without air conditioning, while severe heat warnings are in effect in many cities.

GUEST: Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos, Co-Founder of Canadians4LTC Standards and a Professor at Ontario Tech University

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Urban areas are the hot spots of global warming. Extreme heat, alongside flooding and wildfire, is a key risk to the health and well-being of Canadians. Urgent action is required NOW to manage risk and avoid worsening impacts – and ultimately FATALITIES – resulting from rising heat. The ‘Irreversible Extreme Heat’ guide presents practical actions that Canadians can undertake to reduce risks in relation to extreme heat.

GUEST: Dr. Blair Feltmate, Head of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo

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The 2003 Canadian world junior team is also under a cloud of suspicion — and a Halifax police investigation — as the pressure ramps up on members of the 2018 squad facing a newly reopened and separate police probe into allegations of sexual assault.

ALSO: St-Onge suspends funding to GymCan until it signs with safe sport office

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

GUEST: Megan Walker, Board member and former executive director of the London Abused Women's Centre

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Topics Include:

GUEST: Jean Charest, Leaderships Candidate for the Federal Conservative Party

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The fate of this season’s crop came down to one mid-January evening, when a bitter cold blanket fell across Niagara.

Grapevines covered on Westcott Vineyards with thermal blankets survived, but for other parts of the Jordan Station vineyard, there was “quite a bit of bud damage” said owner Carolyn Hurst. It saw its crop load reduced by 50 or 60 per cent for the year, and lost about 25 per cent of its grapevines altogether.

GUEST: Aaron Dobbin, President of the Wine Growers of Ontario

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In a defensive back and forth between that lasted well into the fourth quarter, it was the BC Lions who would prevail over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to claim a win in the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader.

GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton & CHML Sports Director and Host of ‘The Fifth Quarter’

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Thing we still don’t know about the Jerry Dias investigation in the wake of the leaked report.

GUEST: Rosa Saba, Business reporter for the Toronto Star

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Municipal Affairs minister Steve Clark says the 'strong mayor' plan is about building affordable housing. When asked how the new powers would speed up building the premier said "I don't remember about affordable housing."

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

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Hundreds of Hells Angels members from across the country are expected to gather in Durham Region this weekend and police say they are prepared for the event.

Deputy Chief Dean Bertrim of the Durham Regional Police Service was among several officials who held a press conference Monday morning explaining to the public what could be expected.

GUEST: Stephen Metelsky, Author, Organized crime expert, and a Professor Criminal Psychology at both Mohawk College and Queen’s University

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Netflix Inc. will ask customers in five Latin America countries to pay a fee if they want to use their account in an additional home, a test the company hopes will curb password sharing and generate additional revenue from the many people using borrowed accounts.

Customers in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the Dominican Republic will be asked to pay an extra fee if they use an account for more than two weeks outside of their primary residence. The additional home will cost 219 pesos ($1.70) in Argentina and $2.99 in the other countries.

ALSO: Arkell's Update

GUEST: Eric Alper, Publicist and Music Commentator

GUEST: Colleen Fuller, Health and Drug Policy Researcher

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast w/ Shiona Thompson:

Bargaining began Monday between the Ontario government and a major education union, the first in a series of talks scheduled with labour groups in the sector before contracts for teachers and other school workers expire at the end of August.

GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

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A NASA forecast model used by scientist Tamitha Skov anticipates a solar flare hitting the Earth on 19 July 2022. that “could cause interference in radio and GPS signals.”

ALSO: Extreme heat sears parts of Europe, with UK seeing third-hottest day on record

GUEST: Kent Moore, Vice-Principal of Research and a Professor of Atmospheric Physics with the University of Toronto

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Hockey Canada topics Include:

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

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

The Canadian Forces will create a new group to focus on the growing importance of space to military operations and the country’s security.

The idea of establishing a Canadian Space Division has been circulating at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa since 2019, but it is now expected to be in place by September.

GUEST: David Pugliese, Journalist with the Ottawa Citizen

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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is ordering Rogers to explain in detail what caused last week's network outage, how it affected emergency services and what the company plans to do to compensate customers.

In a letter addressed to Ted Woodhead, Rogers' senior vice president of regulatory affairs, the CRTC chided Rogers for not being fully transparent with its customers.

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

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Villa Italia executive director Pat Mostacci, former chair of Festitalia, is accused of being the architect of a seven-year-long fraud and embezzlement plot

How did an identity theft scheme funnel $1.2 million out of Hamilton’s Villa Italia retirement home?

GUEST: Grant LaFleche, Investigative Journalist with the Hamilton Spectator

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

In the Northwest Territories, more than half of the members of the legislative assembly are women.

In British Columbia, that number is 43 per cent.

This didn’t happen by fluke; in both regions, efforts to boost the number of women elected were deliberate, and recruiting initiatives continue — something experts say is key to ensuring diversity among politicians at all levels.

So how do we get more women into politics?

GUEST: Peggy Nash, Former NDP Finance Critic, and author of “Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide To Getting Elected” available May 2022

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Dane Evans threw a three-yard touchdown to Tim White with 19 seconds to play, leading the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to their first victory of the season, 25-23 over the visiting Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday night.

For a moment late in the fourth quarter, it appeared the Ticats’ season opening losing streak would reach five games after Evans fumbled the football deep in Hamilton territory and Ottawa’s Laurenzo Mauldin recovered it at the one-yard line.

GUEST: Rick Zamperin, Host of Good Morning Hamilton & CHML Sports Director

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Activism for First Nations without clean water programs.

GUEST: Jeff Burnett, Development & Strategy at Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation