Gov to Small Business: It’s Time to Pay Up

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

When is it too cold to take your dog for a walk? Amid a surge in auto thefts in the Greater Toronto Area, some insurance companies are now pushing owners of highly targeted vehicles to install tracking devices. For thousands of small businesses, it’s time to pay up. Is China on the precipice of a decline? Interim Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein has been called to testify on Justin Trudeau’s Jamaican vacation, but Democracy Watch has pointed out that there are questions around how Konrad was appointed to his position in the first place. There are now adults in the world who can remember this question being a part of their school experience for their entire lives: should we ban cellphones in classrooms? With multiple stressors affecting Ontario’s health-care system, the Ontario Medical Association has released an 11-point plan for addressing weaknesses in the system and pitched it to the Doug Ford government ahead of 2024 budgeting. It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast!

Guests:

Michelle Macnab, Director Community Outreach and Animal Programs Hamilton-Burlington SPCA.

David Booth, Senior Writer/Postmedia Driving, driving.ca

Ryan Mallough, VP of legislative affairs for Ontario, Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Charles Burton, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Duff Conacher, Co-Founder of Democracy Watch.

Dr. Jay Olson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga.

Dr. Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, the author of When Politics Comes Before Patients — Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Moshe Lander, Senior Economics Lecturer with Concordia University.

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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