Hamilton Today with Scott Thompson

Yesterday a Baton Rouge man was shot outside a convenience store and today a man was shot by police during a traffic stop. The woman who live streamed her boyfriend being shot in Minnesota remained relatively calm during the video and during her being detained. Why is it social media is the first thing we jump to when events happen? What goes through people’s mind under situations of duress?

Guest: Anita Bromberg, Executive Director for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

Guest: Oren Amitay, Registered Psycholigst and Media Consultant.

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Sources are saying that Conservative MP Jason Kenney is going to announce that he is going to run for the leader of the PC party in Alberta.

Guest: JJ McCullough, news commentator.

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The CNE will no longer allow those with disabilities to get into their festival for free. Now, they have to pay regular full admission while their caretaker will get in for no charge.

Guest: Laurie Sue Robertson, disability awareness consultant.

Guest: Marc Gordon, marketer, expert, speaker.

Guest: Virginia Ludy, General Manager for the CNE.

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Protests have erupted in Baton Rouge, Lousiana after a black man selling CDs outside a shop was shot by two police officers. Video emerged on social media afterwards showing the shooting.

Guest: Ross McLean. Crime Specialist. Security expert, Former Toronto Police Officer. rossmcleansecurity.com

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A survey was conducted in Ontario and while many participants had favourable views of immigrants, it revealed that there is an ‘epidemic of Islamophobia’ in Ontario. Is there one?

Guest: Raheel Raza, Muslim Canadian journalist, author, public speaker, media consultant, anti-racism activist, and interfaith discussion leader.

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The Black Lives Matter movement garnered attention after it staged a 30 minute disruption to the Pride parade this weekend. Pride’s executive director agreed to the group’s demands, one of them being that police floats and booths be excluded from the event, and then backtracked.

Guest: Ross McLean. Crime Specialist. Security expert, Former Toronto Police Officer. rossmcleansecurity.com

Guest: Sue-Ann Levy, Investigative Columnist with Post Media.

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One of the co-accused in the Tim Bosma case, Dellen Millard, will be appealing his life sentence. What goes into the appeal process. Also; a Judge has apologized and asked for counselling to make him a better judge after he made comments to a sexual assault victim and asked her why she ‘couldn’t keep her knees together’.

Guest: Lorne Honnickman, Lawyer & Partner with Brauti Thorning Zibarras Lawyers.

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It’s been a pretty bad week for Hillary Clinton. More news broke about the Benghazi scandal and it was revealed that her husband, Bill Clinton, met up with Attorney General Loretta Lynch at an airport. Is this worst yet to come?

Guest: Charles Ortel, Washington Insider, Writer, Expert on Geopolitics.

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A freedom of information request by The Rebel revealed 2700 pages of problems involving Syrian refugees at a New Brunswick school. Some of the problems involve older men being in classes with younger girls, aggressiveness, demands to teach Sharia law and harassment of Jewish students.

Guest: Faith Goldy, Host with The Rebel.

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A Hamilton forensics specialist has used his skills to determine the identity of people within an iconic photo from Iwo Jima. One of the flag raisers in the photo was identified wrong back then.

Guest: Michael Plaxton, Forensic Specialist with Hamilton Police.

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