Bill Kelly Show

GUEST: Dr. Chris Keefer, President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy 

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario will eliminate the post-secondary education requirement to become a police officer, expand enrolment for its basic training program and axe tuition fees at the Ontario Police College, the premier said Tuesday. The moves are designed to get more police officers into communities, Doug Ford said. GUEST: Michael Kempa, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa - Ninety per cent of the population in Ontario lives on a peninsula bounded by three of the Great Lakes. Yet wind is basically not part of the discussion of how to power the province…Why? GUEST: John Michael McGrath, Digital Media Producer with TVO - How can Taiwan teach Canada about fight foreign interference? GUEST: Dr. Robert Huish, Associate Professor with the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University

GUEST: Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, CEO of Canadian Women & Sport

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Ontario Place plans ·        Ford’s love of polluting fossil gas ·        And more…. GUEST: Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Ontario Green Party and MPP for Guelph - After raising the suspicions of both local and global soccer fans when they purchased the club back in 2021, Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds have unequivocally proved that they’re passionate football club owners who bought into the game for all the right reasons. Following Saturday’s win against Boreham Wood which saw Wrexham promoted for the first time in 15 years, co-chairman Ryan Reynolds went viral for the incredibly passionate comments he made after the game that illustrated just how thoroughly he’s bought into both the sport and the community. GUEST: Joe Callaghan, Journalist for The Toronto Star and The GuardiaN - Topics Include: ·        Biden’s election bid ·        Trump touts’ authoritarian vision for second term ·        Tucker Carlson leaves Fax News ·        And mor

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Topics Include: ·        Trudeau vs. Poilievre ·        Trudeau era: trashing the rich has become political obsession. ·        Public Service Strike ·        And more… GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University - Topics Include: ·        VW deal from a provincial scope ·        The bromance between Trudeau and For ·        And more…. GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer - As the largest public service strike in Canadian history enters its first weekend, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds a majority of Canadians inclined to back more than 155,000 federal public service workers in their asks for wage premiums and the right to work from home, but circumspect over wage increase demands. Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada walked off the job midnight Wednesday seeking a number of wage and benefit enhancements to their contract with the federal government. GUEST: Jon Roe,

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: “As a nation we tend to shy away from extremes,” said our late great Washington ambassador Allan Gotlieb, “As some wit put it, Canadians are like vichyssoise; we are cold, half-French and difficult to stir.” So why is Pierre Poilievre trying to get us so mad? Why does anger seep from his every pore? Why does the Conservative Leader insist on being – to borrow a phrase from former U.S. vice-president Spiro Agnew – our “nattering nabob of negativism?” GUEST: Lawrence Martin, Author and Public Affairs Columnist for the Globe and Mail - Fatal encounters with police are on the rise in Canada. The number of civilians dying in incidents with police when force is used has steadily increased since 2000. This is leaving families and communities with little support or recourse for accountability. GUEST: Andrew Crosby, Postdoctoral fellow, School of Planning, University of Waterloo and co-author of this piece - The federal government will provide Volkswagen with up to $13-billion in producti

GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Local politicians have endorsed a roadmap for creating several hundred new affordable housing units annually in Hamilton, Ont. in order to tackle an ongoing homelessness crisis. The plan is a series of short-term and long-term goals in collaboration with city divisions and community partners through a housing secretariat. The goal is to build some 350 new affordable homes each year for the next decade, while repairing existing units. GUEST: Andrea Horwath, Mayor, City of Hamilton - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told NATO officials privately that Canada will never meet the military alliance’s defence-spending target, according to a leaked secret Pentagon assessment obtained by The Washington Post GUEST: Thomas Hughes, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Security Network - What are the implications of the Ford Governments funding cuts to the 2023-2024 School Year? GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation - OP ED: "Is th

GUEST: Amanda Kelly, Co-Founder of Awake, and an expert in safe & environmental cremation procedures

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: One of two men arrested for allegedly operating a secret police station for China in Manhattan had photographic evidence on his phone of the opening of a similar covert station in Canada, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says. GUEST: Steven Chase, Senior Parliamentary Reporter for the Globe and Mail - Canada’s inflation rate is rapidly cooling this spring, a welcome development for the Bank of Canada as it holds interest rates at their highest levels in more than 15 years in a bid to restore price stability. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - What implications does the U.S Inflation Reduction Act have on Canadian competitiveness? GUEST: Glen Hodgson, Author of this piece for the CD Howe Instittute, and has 36 years of experience in global and Canadian macro-economics, international trade analysis and finance - Canadians are still seeing "elevated" prices at grocery stores in March but by a "lesser extent" than in Fe

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: The Ford government tabled new legislation that will give itself the power to convert underutilized schools in Ontario into affordable housing or sell off the properties on the open market, in a major overhaul of education policies. The new bill, called the Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, includes sweeping new measures aimed at standardizing the education system to align with “provincial priorities” — which will be set by education minister Stephen Lecce — and to give parents greater say over their children’s education. GUEST: Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for Global News - Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) leadership says all workers in a legal strike position will strike Wednesday if they don't reach an agreement by 9 p.m. ET Tuesday. Its bargaining groups — one of about 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers, the other of about 120,000 staff spread across more than 20 departments and agencies — each moved into legal strike positions last week afte

GUEST: Josh Goldberg, Baseball Journalist for TheScore