Hamilton Today with Scott Thompson

Tonight the three leaders of the major parties in Ontario will be taking part in the first televised debate. With tonight’s debate and the writ to be officially dropped this coming Wednesday, how are the provincial parties faring?

Guest: Cheryl Collier, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Windsor

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A new report from Beer Canada says that Canadian beer drinkers pay an average of 5 times more tax for beer than Americans.

Guest: Luke Harford, Beer Canada

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Popular K-pop boy band BTS is coming to Hamilton for three shows in the fall. There’s already a lot of hype and it’s predicted that tickets will sell quickly, but why is a band from South Korea so popular in Canada?

Guest: Graham Rockingham, Music Critic for The Hamilton Spectator

Tonight the three leaders of the major parties in Ontario will be taking part in the first televised debate.

Guest: Alan Carter, Anchor & Queen's Park Bureau Chief, Global News

(Photo: Images via The Canadian Press)

Lawsuits have been filed against a pair of long term care providers, saying that they were ‘systemically negligent’ towards residents. What do we need to do to protect the elderly?

Guest - Laura Tamblyn Watts, National Director, Law, Policy & Research, CARP

The President of the US insisted yesterday that his reimpursement of Michael Cohen for the hush payment to Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his campaign but the revelation of his payment clashed with his previous statements, which has stunned many in the White House. ALSO: Fox News vs Trump?

Guest - Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Twitter has been messaging 330 million users, advising that they change their passwords after a glitch that stored passwords exposed them.

Guest - Syd Bolton. Curator, Personal Computer Museum

The President of the US insisted yesterday that his reimpursement of Michael Cohen for the hush payment to Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his campaign but the revelation of his payment clashed with his previous statements, which has stunned many in the White House. ALSO: Fox News vs Trump? 

Guest - Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

The federal government has announced it’ll intervene in the constitutional question filed by the government of British Columbia when it comes the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Guest - Dan Mcteague, Former Liberal MP and Consumer Affairs Critic, Analyst,
gasbuddy.com

Lawsuits have been filed against a pair of long term care providers, saying that they were ‘systemically negligent’ towards residents. What do we need to do to protect the elderly?

Guest - Laura Tamblyn Watts, National Director, Law, Policy & Research, CARP

The President of the US insisted yesterday that his reimpursement of Michael Cohen for the hush payment to Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his campaign but the revelation of his payment clashed with his previous statements, which has stunned many in the White House. ALSO: Fox News vs Trump?

Guest - Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Twitter has been messaging 330 million users, advising that they change their passwords after a glitch that stored passwords exposed them.

Guest - Syd Bolton. Curator, Personal Computer Museum

The President of the US insisted yesterday that his reimpursement of Michael Cohen for the hush payment to Stormy Daniels had nothing to do with his campaign but the revelation of his payment clashed with his previous statements, which has stunned many in the White House. ALSO: Fox News vs Trump? 

Guest - Claire Finkelstein, Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

The federal government has announced it’ll intervene in the constitutional question filed by the government of British Columbia when it comes the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Guest - Dan Mcteague, Former Liberal MP and Consumer Affairs Critic, Analyst,
gasbuddy.com

The fiscal watchdog for Ontario is saying that the province’s deficit will jump this year to almost $12B. This is a result of higher spending in the latest budget.

Guest - Jean Paul Lam, Associate Professor of Economics at University of Waterloo. Formerly an assistant chief economist at the Bank of Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t say yesterday whether there would be a possibility of a delay in legalizing marijuana. There’s two months left until the government’s deadline but the Senate’s Aboriginal Popele’s committee has called to delay the measure by as much as a year.

Guest - Dan Malleck. Health Sciences Professor, Brock University. Author: Try to Control Yourself: The regulation of public drinking in post prohibition Ontario

Cambridge Analytica has declared bankruptcy and is shutting down after the Facebook scandal. The firm blamed ‘unfairly negative media coverage’ and said it had been ‘vilified’.

Guest - Syd Bolton. Curator, Personal Computer Museum

Cambridge Analytica has declared bankruptcy and is shutting down after the Facebook scandal. The firm blamed ‘unfairly negative media coverage’ and said it had been ‘vilified’.

Guest - Syd Bolton. Curator, Personal Computer Museum