Fight Back with Libby Znaimer Zoomer Podcast Network

THE MEDICAL RECORD: HOW SOME MEDICATIONS DON'T MIX WELL WITH HEAT WAVES & WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A NEW INSULIN SHOT FOR DIABETICS

Tasha Kheiriddin is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and a former head of the BC Cancer Agency, Dr. Alisa Naiman, family doctor practicing comprehensive primary care in Toronto, and Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, internal medicine and critical care physician at Humber River Hospital.

A first of its kind, one-every-week basal insulin shot will be available to Canadian diabetic patients starting June 30th and what you need to know about certain medications that don't mix very well with heat waves like the one Ontarians are facing this week.




AN UPDATE ON HOW UOFT AND MCGILL UNIVERSITY ARE ADDRESSING THE ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENTS

Tasha Kheiriddin is now joined by Eli Mogil, Partner with McCarthy Tétrault LLP who has experience with injunctions but is not involved at all with UofT or McGill University's legal proceedings against the encampments on their campuses, as well as Hank Topas Quebec Regional Director of B'nai Brith Canada.

Our guests provide an update on the efforts by both UofT and McGill University to get rid of the anti-Israel encampments on their respective campuses.




IMMIGRATION IN CANADA: WHAT IS OTTAWA'S PLAN FOR UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENTS

Tasha Kheiriddin is now joined by Guidy Mamann, a Toronto immigration lawyer and Partner at Mamann, Sandaluk & Kingwell LLP Immigration Lawyers.

Immigration policy is back in the news as the federal government awarded Quebec 750 million dollars to compensate the province for the costs of housing and social services for migrants. That’s in addition to $100 million the province got in January. Ontario bagged $260 million as well, but BC has received nothing, prompting their premier to loudly complain that Ottawa is ignoring the West.

But Quebec still isn’t happy and Premier Francois Legault is now calling for a referendum on getting full immigration powers for the province.  Is Ottawa’s open door immigration policy fueling the next national unity crisis?

RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL: DOES TORONTO-ST. PAUL'S BYELECTION POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO PM TRUDEAU?

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by George Smitherman, a former Ontario Liberal Deputy Premier and Health Minister, Cheri DiNovo, a former NDP MPP, and Lisa Raitt, a former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Today: we get their reactions to the Toronto-St. Paul's byelection race that includes a whooping 84 candidates. If the Liberals were to lose that riding what implications could that have for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? And just how angry are Canadians with the Prime Minister these days?




PETITION WITH 30,000 SIGNATURES OPPOSED TO YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE NAME CHANGE IS BEING PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL TODAY

Jane Brown is now joined by Daniel Tate, a concerned citizen, taxpayer and co-organizer of an online petition to reverse the name change of Yonge-Dundas Square and Councillor Brad Bradford of Ward 19 Beaches-East York.

Daniel Tate joins us shortly after presenting his petition with nearly 30,000 signatures to the executive committee and Mayor Olivia Chow at City Hall today. That petition is calling on the City to reverse the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square.

You can sign the online petition here: STOP the Renaming of Dundas in Toronto

THE ZOOMER SQUAD: HOW MANY ONTARIANS MOVED TO LTC HOMES NOT OF THEIR CHOOSING?

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Rudy Buttignol, President of CARP,  Anthony Quinn, Chief Community Officer of CARP, and John Wright, Executive Vice President, Maru Public Opinion.

This week: a discussion about how heat waves can impact older Canadians, and the extent to which some alternate level of care patients at Ontario hospitals are ending up in a long-term care home not of their choosing.  




HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT IN ONTARIO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Jane Brown is now joined by Dave Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment Canada.

Here is what you need to know about the heat wave affecting Ontario and which segments of the population are especially vulnerable.




UOFT PROFESSOR EXPLAINS THAT ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT DEMANDS TO DIVEST FROM ISRAELI COMPANIES IS "IMPOSSIBLE"

A major demand by the anti-Israel encampment at UofT is for the university to divest from Israeli companies, but according to Rotman School of Management professor Rami Elitzur, who is also a serving member on the University of Toronto Governing Council, such a move would mean losing a lot of the technology we rely on in our daily lives and it would be impossible to do so.

This segment originally aired on Fight Back on June 3rd 2024.

Today on Free For All Friday: listeners weighed in on the name change to Pioneer Village in Toronto and the government's Capital Gains Tax increase. 

TUNE INTO THE TOWN: OTTAWA JUST HIRED A NIGHTLIFE MAYOR

Tasha Kheiriddin is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Alex Blumenstein, co-founder of The Peak, Karen Stintz, CEO of Variety Village, and Toronto Councillor Stephen Holyday, Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre.

Ottawa just hired its first ever nightlife commissioner as part of its strategy to wake the city up from its reputation as a sleepy town. And, some Toronto residents are complaining about the Ontario Line construction. When will that all be over?




OTTAWA AND THE ONGOING CONCERNS AROUND FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

Tasha is now joined by Stephanie Carvin, Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University and an expert on national security issues.

Tensions continue to persist in Ottawa over a report by the The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) alleging some MPs "wittingly assisting" foreign state actors after being elected. We still don't know the names of those MPs involved.




BEER STORES AND LOTTERY TICKETS

Tasha is now joined by Kenny Shim, President of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, and Mike Schreiner, Ontario Green Party leader.

The Beer Store is going to be permitted by the province to sell lottery tickets down the line when convenience stores can start selling alcohol. But not everyone is happy about it...

THE MEDICAL RECORD: FDA ADVISORY PANEL BACKS EXPERIMENTAL ALZHEIMER'S DRUG

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dr. Fahad Razak, Canada Research Chair in Data Informed Healthcare Improvement at the University of Toronto and a general internist at a Toronto hospital, and Dr. Alisa Naiman, a family doctor practicing comprehensive primary care in Toronto.

In the news: Why an FDA advisory panel supports an experimental Alzheimer's drug, and Moderna is working on a two-in-one flu and COVID-19 vaccine.




THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER ONTARIO PLACE'S FUTURE

Jane Brown is now joined by Norm Di Pasquale, Co-Chair of Ontario Place for All, and Chris Glover, NDP MPP for Spadina – Fort York.

Today we hear why judges threw out a legal challenge against the Ford government pertaining to its Ontario Place redevelopment plans and what comes next. 




TORONTO MAYOR OLIVIA CHOW'S MISSION REGARDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING 

Jane Brown is now joined by Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.

Mayor Olivia Chow sets the record straight with us on why she met with CEOs of Canada's major banks and her thoughts regarding the hybrid work model for workers in Toronto's financial district.