The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

A photo released by Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, over the weekend was meant to calm speculation as to her whereabouts. Writing in the Globe and Mail, Campbell Clark says that if Chrystia Freeland and the federal Liberals are looking for a low-cost economic initiative, the answer lies with the office of Immigration Minister Marc Miller. Keith Mackey joins us to share his insights on two aviation stories catching our eyes today. Overall, about 63 per cent of Canadians would prefer to see lower spending in Trudeau’s budget, according to the poll by Nanos Research Group conducted for Bloomberg. AutoCate, a newly-launched membership-based platform geared toward women, aims to reduce fraud and discrimination in the auto repair industry. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gave out $14.9 million in bonuses in 2023, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Bill C-63, the Online Harms Bill, continues to be a point of contention. Now, author Margaret Atwood has weighed in online, while sharing an article on the issue and writing “If this account of the bill is true, it’s Lettres de Cachet all over again. The possibilities for revenge false accusations + thoughtcrime stuff are sooo inviting!” Ward 2 Councillor Cameron Kroetsch is being investigated by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission for motions he made at the city council regarding police budgeting and his comments regarding how the Police Services Board reviews the annual police budget before sending it to Council for approval.

Guests:

Elissa Freeman, PR and Pop Culture Expert

Campbell Clark, Chief Political Writer for The Globe and Mail

Keith Mackey, of Mackey International

Nik Nanos, CMC FRIC Chief Data Scientist and Founder, Nanos Research

Stefanie Bruinsma, CEO and founder of AutoCate

Franco Terrazzano, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Federal Director

Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of Trusting the News in a Digital Age

Peter Graefe, Professor of Political Science with McMaster University

Scott Radley, Host of The Scott Radley Show and Columnist with The Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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Did you watch The Oscars last night? How do we get more physicians in Ontario? Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional two years. How can we fix Canada’s military recruiting crunch? On March 15th, the Cancer Assistance Program is celebrating 30 years of providing free practical services to cancer patients and their families in the greater Hamilton Area! It’s the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the global COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic.

Guests:

Bill Brioux, television critic and author

Dr. Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, the author of When Politics Comes Before Patients — Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

CJ Hélie, President of Beer Canada

Richard Shimooka, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Dusty Vacon, Manager of Fund Development with Cancer Assistance Program

Debbie Logel Butler, Executive Director of the Cancer Assistance Program

Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Thomas Tenkate, Professor at the School of Occupational & Public Health with Toronto Metropolitan University

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

Scott Radley, Host of The Scott Radley Show and Columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine & Lisa Polewski

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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We look at the significance of Sweden joining NATO.

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

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged the federal government to cancel or put a hold on the carbon tax ahead of a planned increase, warning that if they don’t, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could get annihilated in the next election. How McMaster’s planetarium is preparing for the eclipse? How did Biden’s State of the Union Address go over? Brandi Ferenc, from Stouffville, Ont., is the keynote speaker at this year’s International Women’s Day Luncheon in Barrie. What is the time-frame we can reasonably expect for a municipality like Hamilton recovering from ransomware attacks? Could the NDP end up forming an official opposition to a Conservative federal government? Hamilton’s own Vicki Gruber, the harbour master for the ports of Hamilton and Oshawa, is among the women paving the way for others in the marine industry. We look at the significance of Sweden joining NATO.

Guests:

Wayne Petrozzi, Professor Emeritus of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Robert Cockroft, Assistant Professor / Director, William J. McCallion Planetarium / Secretary, Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)

Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

Brandi Ferenc RSE, Refrigeration Mechanic/Gas Fitter 1, HVAC Instructor, Mentor - HVAC & Women in Skilled Trades

Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst & Journalist

Tim Powers, Chairman of Summa Strategies and Managing Director of Abacus Data

Vicki Gruber, Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority Harbour Master and Director of Security

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

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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The Hamilton Police Service’s Shooting Response Unit has been made permanent. As you heard from Marit Stiles on yesterday’s show, the leader of Ontario’s new democrats wants Doug Ford’s provincial government to remove tolls from the 407 and make it a highway for transport trucks. A carbon fee with your pizza? Goodfellas Wood Oven Pizza chain is planning on pairing the two. You may have seen the story of a gravestone in Peterborough that has been defaced, allegedly by a family member who wished to not have their own name on it. Michael Spavor has reportedly reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the federal government. The Emergencies Act remains unchanged, despite recommendations… where does that leave us, and given our situation in Canada, could we have another convoy? New Leger polling, conducted exclusively for The National Post, found that many Canadians think Canada is broken and are angry with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada’s military in a recruitment “death spiral”? Defence Minister Bill Blair says that may be the case.

Guests:

Detective Sergeant Steve Bereziuk of the Hamilton Police Service, oversees the Shooting Response Team

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

Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University

Steve Joordens, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto

Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, former CSIS analyst

Andrew Enns, Executive Vice-President, Central Canada, for Leger

Dr. Jack Cunningham, Ph.D., Program Coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, in Trinity College and the Munk School, University of Toronto

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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Premier Doug Ford's Conservatives halted the Ontario NDP push to scrap tolls for transport trucks on Highway 407. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released Leger polling showing 69 per cent of Canadians oppose the federal carbon tax hike on April 1. Saudi Aramco and the United Arab Emirates’ ADNOC are investing in U.S. liquid natural gas, while they still can. The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday and signalled it’s still too soon to ease monetary policy despite recent cooling in inflation. The Task Force for Housing and Climate has released extensive recommendations in a new report. Nikki Haley has suspended her presidential campaign after being soundly defeated across the U.S. on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Following this afternoon’s brazen shooting in downtown Hamilton, we speak with law enforcement analyst Hank Idsinga about the impact of startling acts of violence on a city, as well as what a rise in gun crimes indicates. This week, the House of Commons Ethics Committee shut down an emergency request by Conservative Member of Parliament Michael Chong to investigate the firing of two Chinese scientists – Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng – at the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory in 2021.

Guests:

Marit Stiles, Leader, Ontario NDP

Franco Terrazzano, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Federal Director

Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, Former Liberal MP

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

Adam Mongrain, Member of the Task Force for Housing and Climate, Housing Policy Director at Vivre en Ville

Brian J. Karem, journalist and author, White House correspondent for Playboy and political analyst for CNN

Hank Idsinga, 640 Toronto Law Enforcement Analyst, Retired Inspector with the Toronto Police Service, former homicide investigator, 34 years with the force

Tasha Kheriddin, journalist, writer with National Post, GZERO media, and her Substack page ‘In My Opinion’; Author of ‘The Right Path.’

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Radley

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Jen McQueen & Dave Woodard

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An annual road closure in Burlington for an endangered salamander species is happening early this year due to unseasonably mild weather. All this talk of Ontario highway tolls, preventing future tolls being created, and even the Ontario NDP suggesting we scrap the 407 tolls… what is going on? We get an update on the School bus crash near Woodstock, Ontario. Kevin Nielsen was on the scene earlier today, and he joins us now. The Ontario government is celebrating a tentative central agreement with the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association. Yesterday, as you heard here on Hamilton Today, the City revealed that the cybersecurity incident is indeed a ransomware attack. Canada’s biggest grocers are investing money and space in discount stores such as No Frills, Food Basics and FreshCo as shoppers look for ways to save on food amid the higher cost of living. Is the federal pharmacare going nowhere? How is the Winnipeg Lab scandal impacting us Canada, and what does it mean for us on the world stage?

Guests:

Gabriella Zagorski, Monitoring Technician with Conservation Halton

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

Kevin Nielsen, Global News Online Journalist covering Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge

Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario

David Shipley, Cyber security expert and CEO of Beauceron Security

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food distribution and policy, and the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University

André Picard, Health Columnist with the Globe and Mail

Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Radley

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer - Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Jen McQueen & Dave Woodard

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The Hamilton Today Podcast with guest host Scott Radley:

New Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News found that 42% of respondents would go to the United States and personally pay for more routine health care if needed. As artificial intelligence develops further and fraud schemes become increasingly convoluted, Canadians are more concerned than ever about the effect the nascent technology could have on fraudulent activities, says a recent poll conducted by RBC. We have heard a lot about how small and independent businesses have been hit by the deadlines to repay their CEBA loans, but what about average Canadians and their attempts to pay back CERB? As we enter another week of the fallout from a “cybersecurity incident” at the City of Hamilton, many questions still surround the event. MP Neil Lumsden joins us to discuss the $100,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant that Theatre Aquarius is receiving from the provincial government’s Ontario Trillium Foundation, used to improve the technological infrastructure at Theatre Aquarius. Are Canada’s most violent criminals living better than most Canadians? We continue the conversation about the amenities available to the incarcerated. The Toronto Police Service is reviewing last Saturday's protest outside of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Guests:

Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs

Jonathan Anderson, associate professor and cybersecurity expert at Memorial University in Newfoundland

Jay Goldberg, Ontario Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Dr. Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, the author of When Politics Comes Before Patients — Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Ken Mann, Reporter, 900 CHML

Neil Lumsden, Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport

Frank Caputo, Member of Parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo

Ari Goldkind, Toronto criminal lawyer, legal expert, media commentator

Sean Sparling, retired Deputy Chief of Sault Ste Marie Police, currently the President of Investigative Solutions Network

Host – Scott Radley

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Ben Straughan

Podcast Co-Producer - Tom McKay

News Anchor – Jen McQueen & Dave Woodard

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The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

Tom Wilson Tehoháhake returns to the show, to talk about his newest book, his art, and life in general! Former prime minister Brian Mulroney died at 84, yesterday, as you heard on 900 CHML. The Ancaster Food Drive needs volunteers as well as donations: this Saturday is the 32nd Ancaster Food Drive and it looks to be one where they will pass 2 Million pounds of food. More Canadian auto insurance companies are calling on some of their customers to install anti-theft tracking devices. What was former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s impact on Canada’s economy and business world? The feds are putting more into Nuclear energy. Our guest attended the meeting where these announcements came out. Canada has stopped sharing dangerous pathogens with China through its high-security infectious-disease laboratory, but other collaborations continue despite past security breaches and a warning from Canada’s spy agency of the threat Beijing poses. Get used to surge pricing, even if Wendy’s has backed off.

Guests:

Tom Wilson Tehoháhake, newly appointed member of the Order of Canada, Modern Mohawk visual artist, as well as Juno award-winning musician (LeE HARVeY osMOND, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, and Junkhouse), and best-selling author of ‘Beautiful Scars’ – his new book, ‘Mohawk Warriors, Hunters & Chiefs’

Tim Powers, Chairman of Summa Strategies and Managing Director of Abacus Data

Tom Ippolito, Co-Chair of the Ancaster Community Food Drive

Lorraine Sommerfeld, columnist with Driving.ca and the Hamilton Spectator

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

David Novog, a professor in the Department of Engineering Physics and UNENE Research Chair

Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter, The Globe and Mail

Eric Dolansky, Associate Professor of Marketing with Brock University's Goodman School of Business

Scott Radley, Host of The Scott Radley Show and Columnist with the Hamilton Spectator

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Jen McQueen

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The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is out in Thunder Bay. What is he up to out there? This week marks the 40th anniversary of his father's famous "Walk in the Snow." Could the current PM be contemplating something similar? Well, Scott can hope!

We delve into the famous walk that led Pierre Trudeau to resign as Prime Minister, and it's legacy in the time of his son. We'll also talk about surge pricing, pharmacare, springtime real estate markets and more.

Guests:

Sean Simpson, VP of IPSOS Public Affairs. 

David Baxter, Digital Broadcast Journalist with Global Ottawa.

Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author, ‘Retail Before, During & After COVID-19'.

Henry Jacek, Professor Emeritus, Political Science at McMaster University. 

Nicolas von Bredow, CCIM, Broker of Record / Owner; 2023/24 President of the Realtors Association of Hamilton Burlington.

Tasha Kheiriddin, Journalist, Public Affairs Consultant, and Author of The Right Path. 

Phil Gurski, President of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, former CSIS analyst. 

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator.

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig

News Anchor – Jen McQueen

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