Hamilton Today with Scott Thompson

The Ontario government this morning unveiled it’s plan for the health care system in
the province. The government twill be creating a new health agency to ‘bring the system together’.

Guest - Raisa Deber, Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, U OF Toronto

Today is the start of a three day congressional appearance for former Trump lawyer
Michael Cohen, and he is expected to say that Trump broke the law while in office.

Guest - Michael Taube, Troy Media syndicated, columnist, and Washington Times contributor

What is the Barton Street BIA doing to bring life back to the street.

Guest - Rachel Braithwaite, Executive Director, Barton Village BIA

A hockey dad mic’d up his kid at practice and video taped his comments. After posting it online, it went viral. Scott chats with the dad.

Guest - Jeremy Rupke, father who mic’d up his son during hockey practise

Check out this interview and more on the Scott Thompson Show Podcast

By-elections are underway in several ridings, one of the most important being the
Burnaby South, where NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is vying for a seat. What happens with him and his party if he loses?

Guest - David Moscrop, Postdoctoral Fellow Simon Fraser University, political theorist, author of “When is Deliberation Democratic?”

Opposition parties will be grilling the government again today due to the ongoing SNC Lavalin affair. Testimony heard at the justice committee so far indicates that a line was crossed, says some MPs. ALSO: NDP MPP Monique Taylor has been booted out of legislature for the day due to accusing the Ontairo government of lying to parents of children with autism.

Guest - Peter Graefe. Professor of Political Science, McMaster University

An Ontario woman is fighting to have the government contact Egypt and demand the
release of her father who was thrown into a Cairo prison without explanation.

Guest - Amal Ahmed Albaz, daughter of Yasser Ahmed Albaz, who is in a Cairo prison