An independent public watchdog says city staff who contributed to and distributed information in the midst of a key Scarborough subway debate may have violated the city’s public service bylaw. A Star analysis earlier found that a briefing note produced by the TTC was used by the mayor and allied councillors to kill any return of a light-rail plan in Scarborough and that staff discredited the LRT while advancing a one-stop subway now estimated to cost more than $3.2 billion. The co-founder of Democracy Watch Duff Conacher joins the show.
An Ontario nurse who once wrote a poem describing the “sharp thirst” of a serial killer has been charged with murdering eight elderly patients in her care. A gaping, infected bedsore that led to an Etobicoke man’s death is just one example of systemic failures of care and negligence at a large Ontario nursing home chain, a lawsuit alleges. Jordanne Holland, the President of Concerned Friends of Ontario Citizens in Care Facilities joins the show.
The Mississauga Chiefs were among five hockey teams in Mississauga cited in a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario over team names and logos deemed “racially insensitive.” Brad Gallant, of Qalipu Mi’kmaq ancestry, filed the complaint, which asks the city of Mississauga to end its “subsidy” to five hockey teams using indigenous names or logos, and for the city to remove their mascots and banners from municipal property.
International Bestselling author Mark Steyn joins the show to talk all things Trump/Clinton, University of Toronto's Jordan Peterson and his fight for freedom of speech, and the launch of his new show on CRTV.
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