A Hamilton man just finished running his 100th marathon with the Road2Hope Marathon over the weekend. How did he accomplish this and how did he get started?

Guest: Jim Rankin

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Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys are back for their usual Monday night sports chat, and they talk about whether or not it would be a good idea to hire a sports psychologist as a head coach and the role that money plays when putting together a team.

It’s time for The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton and if you have been unhappy with the weather this week, tonight’s guest is who you can blame: Jay McQueen steps out of the 900 CHML Weather Centre to discuss the news of the week.

Guest: Jay McQueen, Weather Announcer for 900 CHML

500,000 Canadians private financial records are going to be collected by Stats Canada to be studied.  is requesting personal banking information of 500,00 Canadians without their knowledge.

Allen Mendelhson, 

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With the growing elderly population, Canada is heading toward a unique and potentially unsettling economic change. Some are saying that the solution is to increase Canada’s population through immigration. Marvin Ryder explains why.

Guest: Marvin Ryder, from the DeGroote School of Business

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Scott presents three of the strangest news items that sound like they were taken straight from detective stories. Which will be crowned Story of the Week?

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Rick Zamperin and Scott discuss this Saturday’s Ticats game. Aas well, they remember Don Edwards, president of the Ontario Football Alliance, who lo yesterday along with  his son Spencer in a tragic car accident.

Catch more from Rick after the Ticats game on The 5th Quarter. And catch up on the season, subscribe to The 5th Quarter on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your favourite shows. 

Guest: Rick Zamperin, Sports/News Director for 900 CHML, host of The 5th Quarter 

According to StatsCan, only 21% of Canadians gave to charities last year. Are that few Canadians giving to charity in reality? And what are the best charities to give to in Canada?

Guest: Kate Bahen, Managing Director, Charity Intelligence Canada

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Calgary's city council is debating whether or not they should be bidding on the 2026 Winter Olympics. At this point, the vote will now go out to Calgarians after a motion to cancel an upcoming plebiscite failed to pass.

Guest: Michael Heine, Director, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University

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Scott is joined by Bubba O'Neil of CHCH to talk sports, including pitchers possibly using outside methods to improve their pitching and whether or not star players can just decide not to play a game for a "rest day".

Guest: Bubba O'Neil, CHCH sports and weather anchor

According to a new poll, nearly half of Canadians say they suffer from anxiety. Has something changed or has the discussion of mental illness just become more open?

Guest: Dr. Catherine Mancini, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuroscience, McMaster University, and psychiatrist at the Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic at St. Joseph's Health Care

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A new chemical is being added to Hamilton's drinking water that will protect the water from corrosion from the lead pipes that are still part of the city's water distribution system. How does it work? And how does the water get from Lake Ontario to our taps in the first place?

Guest: Andrew Grice, Director of Water, City of Hamilton

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Who would have thought a hockey game between 8-year-olds would be controversial? Believe it or not, controversy broke out after a rep hockey game between a Kitchener team and a Cambridge team ended in an extremely unbalanced score of 41-0.

Should the coaches have stepped in or made different choices to avoid this humiliating outcome for the losing team? What about the hockey association? Scott offers his opinion and asks callers to weigh in.