Doug Ford is now reversing course on the Greenbelt land swap reverse.

Guest: Charlie Pinkerton, Deputy Editor of The Trillium

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Ontario minor league hockey is on the search for more diversity in its team rosters.

Guest: Ian Taylor, Executive Director of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association

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As mass layoffs swiftly move through the journalism industry, is more at risk than just jobs?

Guest: Peter Menzies, National Newspaper Award-winning journalist, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, past Editor-in-Chief of the Calgary Herald and former Vice-Chair of the CRTC

The City of Hamilton saw its General Issues Committee field several topics today, many of which we've spoken about in the past. Where do things stand and what does the future hold for Hamilton?

Guest: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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Justin Trudeau has made serious allegations against India's government following the slaying of a Sikh leader in BC. In what position does this put Canada and more specifically, Trudeau, if India wasn't involved? What about if India was involved?

Guest: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

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Grade inflation is something that we've come to be more aware of. While this is something we can imagine happening in a subject like the arts or literature, how could it happen in math or the sciences?

Guest: Dr. Paul Bennett, Director of School House Consulting

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Jon Roe returns to the show to discuss part 2 of Angus Reid's polling of Canadians in what's being called 'Canada and the Culture Wars '.

Guest: Jon Roe, Research Associate with Angus Reid

How is Hamilton's police force responding to encampments around the city and the violence that sometimes erupts around them?

Guest: Inspector Frank Miscione, Hamilton Police Service

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17% of Canadians think that food is something we should be getting for free.

Guest: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Professor of Food Distribution and Policy, and the Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University

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Lawyers Howard Levitt and Peter Carey of Levitt Sheikh LLP have filed for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal the order upholding the College of Psychologists’ sanction against Dr. Jordan Peterson.

Guest: Peter Carey, Partner with Levitt Sheikh LLP

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Bill Brioux is bringing some of your favourite TV shows and stars to the Westdale in a way like you've never seen before!

Guest: Bill Brioux, Bill Brioux, Television Critic and Author

Guests:

Ted McMeekin, Ward 15 Councillor for City of Hamilton

Muhammad Ali, VP Crestview Strategies

Don Robertson, Owner Dundas Real McCoys

Scott welcomes Jason Farr to the show for this week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio. What a week it was in the Hammer. Lots of news to discuss including tax increases, tiny homes, the cancelled encampment meeting earlier this week, First Ontario Centre and so much more.

GUEST: Jason Farr, former councilor for Ward 2 in the City of Hamilton. 

So the renovation timeline at First Ontario Centre might be seeing a shift? And so the Toronto Rock is set to play their entire 2023-24 season, from start to finish, in the arena.

Guest: Vito Sgro is a Former Mayoral candidate in 2018, and Liberal Candidate for Flamborough-Glanbrook in the 2021 election

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Books from 2008 or earlier are being removed from school shelves in the Peel District School Board thanks to what appears to be a seemingly inconsistent approach to a book weeding process implemented last spring.

Guest: Nomi Claire Lazar, Full Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and author of the book ”Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time"

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Since legalization, Canadian medical cannabis registrations are reported to be at the lowest level. What's going on? Are people slowly not partaking anymore?

Guest: Mitchell Osak, CEO of Quanta Consulting Inc (cannabis expert)

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For better or worse, let's talk about those Blue Jays

Guest: Josh Goldberg, Baseball Journalist for TheScore

A city report released today says an incoming tax increase in 2024 will be 14.2 per cent!

Guest: Matt Francis, Councillor for Ward 5 in Hamilton

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Whenever the government buys mundane things like office supplies, the price tags tend to bloat to astronomical amounts. Is there a better way to do this in a way that optimizes the process of public procurement in Ontario?

Guest: Rocco Rossi, President and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

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As the world seems to divide ever further, a study was conducted to see how Canadians view the world and are conducting themselves as things like cancel culture gain prevalence.

Guest: Jon Roe, Research Associate with Angus Reid

What is with this growth in the number of loyalty alliances among businesses? Are consumers actually benefiting from them?

Guest: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst & Author

A meeting that was supposed to held to get public input on tiny shelters had to be cancelled which turned the already tumultuous topic into an even larger debacle. What went wrong?

Guest: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer

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There seems to be a transphobic slant that's being taken by the Conservative party and Justin Ling says it's time for Pierre Poilievre to reject those policies.

GUEST: Justin Ling is a freelance investigative journalist and writes the Bug-eyed and Shameless newsletter

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Is our justice system being too soft when you look at Danny Masterson’s rape crimes compared to what he would’ve got in Canada?

GUEST: Jeff Manishen, Criminal Lawyer, Ross & McBride; Former Crown Attorney

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A Secret Service agent who was there on the day that JFK was assassinated has broken his silence and challenged the current theories as to what happened on that fateful day.

GUEST: Jason Opal, Professor in Department of History and Classical Studies with McGill University