Constable Rodney Leclair of the O-P-P updated Rick Zamperin on the search for the body of nine-year-old Alexander Ottley, who fell into Lake Erie over the long weekend.

Guest: Constable Rodney Leclair, Media Relations/Community Safety, OPP

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast

What is the latest with the Via Rail stoppage and Indigenous protests?

Guests:

Jonna Semple, Videographer, Global News.

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

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Former Cabinet minister John Baird will not be running for the leadership of the Conservative Party. Peter Woolstencroft, joined the show to discuss this and the pipeline protests.

Guest: Peter Woolstencroft, retired Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

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The U.S. has levelled new charges of theft and racketeering against Huawei. Meanwhile, Telus plans on rolling out the 5G network with Huawei tech.

Guest: Phil Calvert, Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute & S enior Fellow with the China Institute of the University of Alberta

A new study says that it’s not worth cleaning up the sludge in Chedoke Creek, because contaminants in the creek are now the same as they were before 24-billion litre spill

Guest: Mark Runciman, CEO of Royal Botanical Gardens

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The director of the CDC says that the outbreak of the new coronavirus could be with us “beyond this season, beyond this year”.

Guest: Dr. Rodney Rohde. Professor and Chair, Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the College of Health Professions, Texas State University

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Where has the Prime Minister been on the pipeline protest issue? Should he be stepping up to do more?

Guest: Tim Powers, Vice-Chairman, Summa Strategies

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The first of the panels reviewing bullying in the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board was held last night. Angry and frustrated parents and students spoke up about how bullying is impacting the schools.

Guest: Dr. Jean Clinton, a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences in the division of Child Psychiatry at McMaster, is renowned nationally and internationally as an advocate for children’s issues

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The WHO says that it’s too early to predict when the outbreak of COVID-19 will end.

Guest: Tom Koch, Adjunct Professor with the Department of Geography at University of British Columbia; author of numerous papers and books, including Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground and Cartographies of Disease