Aug 2024

Sanctioned Encampments could cost more than $30 Million!

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Hamilton is looking for new ways to deal with encampments as the cost of sanctioned encampments is revealed. Real estate insolvencies in Canada to surpass levels of the global financial crisis. CBC paid millions in bonuses after eli ... Show More

1h 18m

Aug 2024

Veronika Dornan On The Perseid Meteor Shower & How It's Best Seen

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is coming and we find out what it is and how best to view it. Guest: Veronika Dornan, PhD candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University

9m 34s

Aug 2024

Is Ontario Moving Too Fast In Its Quest To Expand Alcohol Sales?

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: How did viewership change between the Tokyo Olympics and Paris? Is Ontario moving too fast in its effort to bring alcohol sales to more than just LCBO locations? The importance of an annual physical is in question. What danger does ... Show More

1h 19m

Oct 2022

How the Alberta NDP Competes In One of Canada's Most Conservative Provinces

Alberta is one of Canada's most conservative provinces, with an economy and culture that might be compared to Texas. However despite this lean, the Alberta NDP, a social-democratic party, has been able to find electoral success. That may be owed to where the party deviates from o ... Show More

37m 20s

Jul 2023

Canadians may need to brace for another interest rate hike

July 7, 2023 - Canada's job market once again goes on a hiring spree, defying expectations. Will that prompt the Bank of Canada to tighten the screws once again? Power and Politics asks CBC Senior Business Correspondent Peter Armstrong. Plus, we speak with Ontario Economic Develo ... Show More

45m 6s

Nov 2021

Labour Minister Monte McNaughton discusses Ontario’s new labour legislation

Guest: Monte McNaughton, Ontario Labour Minister The last two years of this pandemic hit everyone differently. It is undeniable that its impacts were not equitable and those with precarious jobs — including frontline essential workers — paid the most disproportionate price. Now t ... Show More

19m 51s

Aug 2023

Why is Alberta pausing new renewable energy projects?

It’s been a busy month in Alberta energy politics. In early August, the provincial government caught many by surprise with a six-month pause on any new solar and wind projects that would produce more than one megawatt of power. Since then, Premier Danielle Smith has doubled down ... Show More

20m 19s

Oct 2023

Can Alberta take half Canada’s pension fund?

A report commissioned by Alberta’s UCP government says if it left the Canada Pension Plan, the province is entitled to take over half the plan’s hundreds of billions worth of assets with it. Why have analysts ridiculed the estimate? Why is the UCP spending millions on a push to l ... Show More

23m 22s

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