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Sep 2023
1h 6m

Can You Smell The Ribs!?

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The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

The Importance of radio news has been highlighted by the wildfires during the Meta news block. It’s the time of year for the Burlington Ribfest!! That is to say, Canada’s Largest Ribfest begins today! Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament Michael Chong, who was earlier in the year a subject of China’s pressure campaigns, will speak to the United States’ Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The New StatCan report say that Canada’s economy stalled in this year’s second quarter. Michael Chong is set to talk with the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The fact that the U.S. is taking these steps is likely to irk Xi Jinping’s government, and to see Canada combined is certainly eyebrow-raising: what sort of reaction can we expect to come out of this? As the conversation around the Greenbelt continues, and rightfully raises eyebrows in some cases, we can’t lose sight of the fact that we still are in a housing crisis and need to be able to build our way out of it. With some rough poll numbers in the news, multiple crises and unresolved issues, as well as the associated grumblings from (anonymous) Liberal MP’s all in mind… we ask, could the Liberal party soon send someone to try to convince Justin Trudeau to step aside? It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast!

Guests:

Gordon Gow, Director, Faculty of Arts - Media Tech Studies (MTS) and Professor, Faculty of Arts - Sociology Dept, University of Alberta.

Brent Paszt & Jay Birdle, Organizers for Burlington Ribfest.

Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News.

Dr. Ian Lee, Associate Professor with the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.

Ron Foxcroft, Canadian businessman, Fox40World, creator of the FOX40 whistle; author of 40 Ways of the Fox; CEO of Fluke Transport; former Honorary Colonel with the Argyll Regiment, Chairman of the Argyll Commemorative Fundraising Campaign; and NCAA referee with a storied career.

Gordon Houlden, Director Emeritus of the China Institute and Professor of Political Science with the University of Alberta.

Murtaza Haider, professor of Data Science and Real Estate Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Tasha Kheiriddin, journalist, writer with National Post, GZERO media, and her Substack page ‘In My Opinion’; Author of The Right Path.

Scott Radley, host of the Scott Radley show and columnist with the Hamilton Spectator.

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – William Erskine

Special Guest Producer: Jordan Armenise

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchor – Dave Woodard & Jen McQueen

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