The 105th Grey Cup!  We speak with the referee of the 2017 CFL Championship game.
               

Guest:  Dave Foxcroft.  Referee of tomorrow's Grey Cup in Ottawa.

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Roy asks callers if governments must enact laws to protect employees on the bottom rung of the economic ladder from greedy business owners? Or .... is raising minimum wage to $15.00 a crass grab at votes from Canadians who will cheer a raise of minimum wage and an unfair attack on small  business in the province?

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It's law. Bill-148. Ontario minimum wage ($15.00 per hour as of January 1, 2019 ....$14,00 per hour as of January 1, 2018). 

At the beginning of this winter Premier Kathleen Wynne expresses concern for the economically disadvantaged.  One year ago today there was zero such concern as the Premier simply watched the poorest in the province fall by the wayside, unable to pay their hugely increased hydro bills.

Guest:  Julie Kwiecinski, Director of Provincial Affairs, Ontario, Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

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Roy and the Beauties chat about:

1)  A 40 year old British mother wants Beauty and the Beast removed from the classrooms of younger students because the handsome Prince kissing Sleeping Beauty may be viewed as 'sexual harassment.' 
2)  Canadian house prices overvalued by 50% compared to rents: OECD.
3)  Household debt levels are higher in Canada than in any other country (OECD report).
4)  Canada's wealthy may have begun a tax revolt
5)  Ontario PC Party policy weekend.

Roy asks callers if governments must enact laws to protect employees on the bottom rung of the economic ladder from greedy business owners? Or .... is raising minimum wage to $15.00 a crass grab at votes from Canadians who will cheer a raise of minimum wage and an unfair attack on small  business in the province?

Germans may be going to the polls again in a national election in the Spring, just months after the most recent vote.  Are 1 million-plus refugee claimants from the ME and N Africa the reason?  A federal coalition of political parties is proving impossible because the Green Party insists families of refugee claimants should be permitted to enter Germany and reunify with their refugee claimant family member.

Guest: Professor Cheryl Benard. Was program director of the Initiative for Middle Eastern Youth and the Alternative Strategies initiative with the Rand Corporation's National Security Division.

Roy takes calls regarding how Lyndsay Shepherd was treated by professors and the administration of Laurier University.