The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

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

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Deeply divided top diplomats from the world’s richest and largest developing nations failed to find common ground Friday over Russia’s war in Ukraine and how to deal with its global impacts, leaving prospects for future cooperation in the forum uncertain.

GUEST: Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Director of the Indo-Pacific Program and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Andrew Perez is a Toronto-based public-affairs professional, freelance writer, and political activist. He volunteered on the Ontario Liberal Party’s central campaign team during the 2022 Ontario election

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

The soap opera continues as Patrick Brown is trying to appeal the decision by the federal Conservative party to disqualify him from the contest to be its next leader. What does this mean for the leadership race?

GUEST: Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies

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Natural gas is the hottest commodity in the world right now. It’s a key driver of global inflation, posting price jumps that are extreme even by the standards of today’s turbulent markets — some 700 per cent in Europe since the start of last year, pushing the continent to the brink of recession. It’s at the heart of a dawning era of confrontation between the great powers, one so intense that in capitals across the West, plans to fight climate change are getting relegated to the back-burner.

In short, natural gas now rivals oil as the fuel that shapes geopolitics. And there isn’t enough of it to go around.

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

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A private group that is trying to bring the 2030 Commonwealth Games to Hamilton has officially submitted its proposal to the federal and provincial governments.

That confirmation came from Hamilton 2030 Commonwealth Bid Corporation spokesman Lou Frapporti, as he appeared before city councillors on Monday.

GUEST: Rich Gelder, President of the Hamilton Olympic Club and former candidate for Hamilton City Council

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Patrick Brown has been disqualification from running in the federal Conservative leadership race. How did this happen and was it done to ensure Poilievre becomes the new leader?

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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Canada became the first country to ratify Finland and Sweden's accession protocols to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday.

The move follows NATO leaders officially inviting the two nations to join the alliance during a summit in Madrid last week, and brings the two countries a step closer to becoming full NATO members.

GUEST: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is being urged to extend an emergency measure that gives employees access to three days of paid sick leave amid new concerns of a rising wave of COVID-19 in the province.

The provincial Worker Income Protection Benefit program, first introduced in April 2021 during the Delta-driven wave of COVID-19 and extended amid the Omicron stage of the pandemic, is slated to end on July 31. There has been no formal indication from the Progressive Conservative government on whether the measure will be extended.

GUEST: Dr. Amit Arya, Palliative Care Lead with Kensington Gardens Long Term Care and Assistant Clinical Professor with McMaster University

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

According to a pair of surveys done by the Bank of Canada, Canadians are worried inflation will stay high for the long term. How does this effect consumer confidence?

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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Russia declared victory in Luhansk but Ukraine captured tanks and regains territory elsewhere. Now that Putin’s captured Luhansk, what is his plan?

GUEST: Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and a Senior Member of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

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Topics Include:

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Topics Include:

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

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Why could Canada be paying for the economic war against Russia for a long time to come?

Heather writes about it in the Toronto Star….Read the full article HERE.

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

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Dispelling the myths around the benefits of drug price controls.

GUEST: Richard C. Owens is a Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute