The Bill Kelly Show

“Freedom” groups protesting pandemic public-health measures are at it again. Should we be concerned about the movement gathering for Canada day at Parliament hill?

GUEST: Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, Distinguished Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Security program, and former CSIS analyst

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The Ontario NDP has named a longtime Toronto MPP as its interim leader and has postponed its decision on setting a date for party members to choose a replacement for former leader Andrea Horwath.     

The New Democrats' provincial council met Tuesday evening and chose Peter Tabuns to serve as the party's interim leader, following Horwath's election night resignation.

GUEST: Peter Tabuns, Interim Leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Toronto-Danforth

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Air Canada is planning to reduce its flights in July and August, according to a statement from the company’s president, as the airline continues to deal with “customer service shortfalls.”

Travel was inconvenient before Air Canada’s announcement, so how much worse can it get?

ALSO: Germany hopes to import LNG from Canada to speed transition away from Russian fuel

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

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

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On Tuesday, Ms. Hutchinson, 26, described what she saw and heard that day to the U.S. House of Representatives committee that is investigating what happened and the threat it posed to the U.S. system of governance.

Her testimony gave new shape to the dalliance with anti-democratic rebellion that marked Mr. Trump’s final days in office, describing a chaos and fear inside the White House that mirrored the storming of barricades less than three kilometres away.

GUEST: Brian J. Karem Political Commentator for CNN, Columnist for Salon.Com and The Washington Diplomat, and Host of the podcast "Just Ask the Question

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What is Canada’s role as NATO embarks on the greatest overhaul since the Cold War?

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

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A conspiracy influencer based in British Columbia, has proclaimed herself the “Queen of Canada”. How is Romana Didulo influence harming her subjects?

GUEST: Christine Sarteschi, Associate Professor of Social Work & Criminology with Chatham University

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In the wake of the ongoing freedom movement, are Canadians becoming flag-phobic?

GUEST: Derek Foster, Associate Professor in Brock University’s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film with Brock University

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The Amstor shopping mall has for years been the modest commercial heart of Kremenchuk, the place where residents of this quiet mid-sized city in central Ukraine came to buy everything from cheap electronics to fresh fish. It was where teenagers went to hang out on weekends.

By Monday evening, Amstor was a smouldering mess after it was struck by a pair of Russian missiles. At least 16 people were killed, a number that was expected to continue to rise as an unknown number of shoppers were believed to be buried beneath the wreckage of the shopping centre’s roof, which collapsed on top of them as they tried to escape the blazing mall.

GUEST: Matthew Best, Freelance Journalist for the The Globe & Mail, and Ottawa Citizen

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The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says that Ontario’s housing is among the least affordable in the country right now, competing with British Columbia for the top spot — and that it’s likely to get worse unless major new policy changes occur at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. In order to try to restore housing prices to the level of affordability last seen around 2003-04 (meaning a home price of around $500,000), Ontario would need to, by 2030, build 1.85 million homes above and beyond what’s already planned — a substantially larger number than the 1.5 million target recommended by Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force Report.

GUEST: Aled Ab Iorwerth, Deputy Chief Economist for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

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

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Three weeks after winning his second election, Premier Doug Ford unveiled his new cabinet on Friday morning — though it largely leaves some of his most trusted ministers from the previous government in their existing posts. There are few enough changes that it’s tempting to speculate that Ford might not have bothered with a cabinet shuffle at all if Christine Elliott, his former health minister and deputy premier, hadn’t forced the issue by choosing not to run again.

GUEST:  Muhammad Ali, Senior Consultant for Crestview Strategies (liberal strategist)

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How is the world reacting to the U.S abortion ruling?

Reggie is in Nashville following the Roe story.

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News