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Who has the strongest message so far and why?

Liberals: Ontario can be a place to grow, if we make the right choices.

PC: Only Doug Ford and the Ontario PC’s will get it done.

NDP: They broke it, we fix it

Greens: Our Green vision for Ontario focuses on three pillars – Jobs, People, Pleanet

GUEST: Dr. Joanne McNeish, Associate Professor of Marketing with Ryerson University

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Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country's biggest patriotic holiday Monday without a major new battlefield success in Ukraine to boast of, as the war ground on through its 11th week with the Kremlin's forces making little or no progress in their offensive.

While Western analysts in recent weeks had widely expected Putin to use the holiday to trumpet some kind of victory in Ukraine or announce an escalation, he did neither. Instead, he sought to justify the war again as a necessary response to what he portrayed as a hostile Ukraine.

ALSO: Russian satellite TV shows a Ukraine message: 'blood on your hands'

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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In every Ontario election poll that's publicly available, the number one concern of voters is the rising cost of living. What realistic actions can be taken by the government to lower those costs? 

GUEST: Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

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

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Leah joins Bill to discuss April's job numbers with a focus on working women and mothers!

GUEST: Leah Nord, Senior Director of Workforce Strategies and Inclusive Growth, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

It's time for Tech Talk with Adam Oldfield!

Topics include: Netflix password sharing, drones, and more!

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GUEST: John Best, President, The Bay Observer

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Last Saturday, President Biden paid tribute to journalists at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner.

The dinner was quite the event. It celebrated journalism instead of calling us "fake news" and featured a president who is willing to sit and take a few jokes at his expense instead of one who refused to attend and instead hid out in the White House and called us "the enemy of the people."

But what about free speech? Sure, the night celebrated it — but it almost feels like we're celebrating the passing of a relative we loved from afar.

Read the full article HERE.

GUEST: Brian J. Karem, Political Analyst for CNN, White House Reporter, Columnist for Salon.com and The Washington Diplomat, and host of ‘Just Ask the Question’ Podcast, Author of the new book Free The Press: The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It.

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Like a boogeyman to scare children, stagflation is rolled out every now and again by economic prognosticators to warn of how awful things can get if we're bad. Perhaps that's why many economists don't seem to be taking the threat seriously.

Similar to the response after warning of inflation in 2022, most financial commentators have been saying that the threat of stagflation — an unusual combination of a stagnant economy and steady inflation — is small.

But U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not seem as confident this week as he has been in the past.

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

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is again vowing to protect abortion rights in Canada, but the Liberals have not yet acted on several commitments made on the issue in last year’s election, such as new rules on access to the service, or provided a timeline on their implementation.

Since the bombshell Monday report that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn abortion rights, Liberal cabinet ministers have been quick to state their support for a person’s right to choose an abortion and access the health care service.

ALSO: Ford vows to keep Ontario abortion law ‘exactly the same’

GUEST: Dr. Gail Robinson, Author and Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynecology with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto

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Russian rockets hit dozens of targets across Ukraine on Tuesday in a fierce intensification of the war that appeared aimed at cutting off Ukraine’s supply of weapons from NATO countries.

The strikes included three in Lviv and the surrounding area, where missiles damaged three power substations and knocked out electricity in parts of the city, according to mayor Andrei Sadovy. Two pumping stations were also hit and trains heading into Lviv were stopped. Ukrainian Railways said the substations were part of the railway station’s infrastructure.

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

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Election Campaign Topics:

GUEST: Stephen Del Duca, Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party

What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity.  The book—which tells the untold story behind the now infamous WE Charity Scandal—is written by lawyer and former WE Charity board member, Tawfiq Rangwala. He joined us on the Bill Kelly Show to discuss. 

GUEST: Tawfiq Rangwala, Author of this book and former WE Charity board member