A “road map” to reopening Hamilton’s economy following the coronavirus pandemic has been presented to city council. Emergency Operations Centre Director Paul Johnson says the strategy is driven by the Ontario government’s emergency orders, and lays out a gradual plan for the reopening of municipal facilities and the restarting of city programs and services. Here to elaborate on the “road map” is Paul Johnson, himself!

Guest: Paul Johnson Director of our Emergency Operations Centre, City of Hamilton

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The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou‘s argument that her case didn’t meet the standard of “double criminality,” where the fraud charges she’s facing in the United States would also be considered a crime in Canada. That drew sharp condemnation from both Huawei and the Chinese embassy in Ottawa, which once again called on Canada to immediately release her. 

Guest: Christian Leuprecht – Class of 1965 Professor in leadership at the Royal Military College, Director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen’s University, and a Senior Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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Elissa Freeman, PR expert, joins the show to discuss Donald Trump’s latest feud which this time is with Twitter. Trump received the fact-check sticker when he tweeted "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent." He provided no evidence of that claim, and Twitter added a warning label to the post and linked to a page that described the claims as "unsubstantiated".

Guest: Elissa Freeman. Public Relations Consultant, Huffington Post, Canada.com and PR Daily

A “road map” to reopening Hamilton’s economy following the coronavirus pandemic has been presented to city council. Emergency Operations Centre Director Paul Johnson says the strategy is driven by the Ontario government’s emergency orders, and lays out a gradual plan for the reopening of municipal facilities and the restarting of city programs and services. Here to elaborate on the “road map” is Paul Johnson, himself!

Guest: Paul Johnson Director of our Emergency Operations Centre, City of Hamilton

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in a major decision Wednesday morning.

For a quick look at what this means, Scott talks with Charles Burton from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Guest: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

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Ontario reported 292 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the second day in a row with a new daily case number in the 200s. The provincial total now sits at 26,483 cases. The last times the province saw daily cases in the 200s were in Tuesday’s report, on May 10 and in March. Ontario’s death toll has risen to 2,155, as 32 more deaths were reported.

Meanwhile, 20,372 people have recovered from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, which is almost 77 per cent of cases.

If we don't stay on top of this situation, how quickly could a second wave emerge?

Guests: Ahmad Firas Khalid, MD, PhD, MMgmt, MEd, GradCertPHM, faculty member in Human and Social Sciences, a medical doctor and a health policy advisor, Wilfrid Laurier University
             Dr. Anna Banerji, O.Ont, MD, MPH, FRCPC, DTM&H, Faculty Lead, Indigenous and Refugee Health, Post MD Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

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Five families that built and grew media conglomerate Torstar Corp. have agreed to hand the newspapers they presided over for roughly 70 years to a Canadian investment firm that plans to take the company private.

The owner of the Toronto Star and other community newspapers, including The Hamilton Spectator, revealed Tuesday evening that it reached a $52-million acquisition deal with NordStar Capital LP, a firm run by businessmen Paul Rivett and Jordan Bitove.

Guest: Marvin Ryder. Business Professor, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in a major decision Wednesday morning.

For a quick look at what this means, Scott talks with Charles Burton from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Guest: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute