Hector MacMillan, the Mayor of Trent Hills, Ontario, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and without immediate high tech surgery to excise the tumour he will die and quickly. In the U.S. the cancer is available in a matter of days, but OHIP won't pay for the Mayor's out of province surgery. Joe Warmington wrote in the Toronto Sun, that Mayor MacMillan tweeted he has been "essentially murdered by a corrupt, rigged political system." and "out of country funding program will pay to remove my penis, but not my cancer tumour." The Ontario Health Minister has responded to the Mayor by talking about "giving opportunities to individuals like yourself, particularly life-saving opportunities" re funding out-of-province health care" but only by "decisions based on best practices and science and evidence."
Guests: Hector MacMillan, Mayor of Trent Hills Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun columnist - Should all MPs be required to post all expense spending online? The federal Liberals have been nabbed again for dubious expense spending. Environment Minister Catherine McKinnon hired a freelance photographer for $6000+ to take pictures of her 'working' at the COP21 Climate conference in Paris. PM Trudeau laments "long standing government policies" which cause this and other expense-claiming. So the rules required this spending? Guest: Michelle Simson, former Liberal MP and Trudeau seatmate in Question Period -
Massive quake in Italy claims hundreds of lives and destroys towns and villages which have stood for hundreds of years. How safe is Canada from quakes? Much of this country (including this part of Ontario) is on major fault lines and the Cascadia fault in California, Oregon, Washington State and B.C., when it rumbles massively will cause destruction almost unimaginable. And we're not prepared. Prepar-ing.....but not prepared. Guest: Dr. John Cassidy, research scientist and international earthquake expert with the Geological Survey of Canada in B.C. -
A University of Virginia lacrosse player sentenced to 23 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend. Both had been binge drinking and the lacrosse playing student says he is innocent. And odd things happened prior to George Huguely's murder trial.
Binge drinking at universities has been in the news since Brock Turner made international headlines when the Stanford University student was stopped in the act of raping an unconscious woman said to have been at a party where binge drinking was happening. This week, Stanford University banned undergrads from drinking any spirits on campus and grad students from drinking hard liquor unless they're mixed at campus parties. Guest: Mathew D. Green, lawyer who represents University of Virginia Lacrosse player George W. Huguely convicted of murder of his girlfriend Yeardley Love
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