Ontario's largest education union has publicly endorsed the NDP because they say that the Liberals haven't been supporting education as much as they'd like. If this sounds weird to you, that's because it should. The Wynne Liberals have poured billions of your dollars into education and that still isn't enough for the union?! Will they ever be satisfied? - A group with more likes than Justin Bieber and Donald Trump COMBINED will be coming to Hamilton to perform at FirstOntario Centre. You may hav...
May 11, 2018•56 min
The Wynne Liberals tried something new with how our kids should be taught and it's not only confused the kids who are supposed to learn math, it's confused everyone else too! Clearly this method isn't working, could switching back to the 'old way' of teaching math be the answer we've been looking for? Guest: Dr. Robert Craigen, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba - With a new provincial election on the horizon, editorial cartoonists and artists are starting to get ex...
May 09, 2018•50 min
The Scott Radley Show In the next few weeks, Sam Merulla will bring forward a motion to have public hospitals house safe injection sites in the city of Hamilton. Is the end of the search for suitable safe injection site locations, and what would be the logistics of adding them to hospitals? Guest: Sam Merulla, Councillor for Ward 4 in Hamilton, Ontario - It has been 40 years since a Hamilton team has played an OHL finals game on home ice. Tonight the Hamilton Bulldogs are going to break that str...
May 08, 2018•35 min
Tonight is the night for the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton, with Mike Fortune joining Scott in the studio for a reanalysis of this week’s news. Guest: Mike Fortune, of Cable 14.
May 05, 2018•1 hr 3 min
The Wynne Liberals have said we're going to run a $6 billion deficit, roughly. The auditor general says, no, it'll be more like $11.5 billion. And now the financial accountability officer says it'll be closer to $12 billion. Is this a simple difference of opinion? Is this a political squabble. Or is someone intentionally fudging the truth? Guest: Marvin Ryder, Professor of Marketing at the DeGroote School of Business - If you haven't looked lately, the downtown is filthy! In certain spots that i...
May 04, 2018•51 min
On Tuesday evening the mayor fired off a blistering tweet at Donna Skelly calling her a rookie councillor who doesn't care about Hamilton and is only in it for herself. He then blasted Doug Ford in another tweet. Is this par for the course in election season or unseemly behaviour from a mayor? And should he be creating enemies with the party that appears likely to form a government? Guest: Brad Clark, Principal at Maple Leaf Strategies - Every day we glance at best-before dates on food packaging...
May 03, 2018•51 min
China is in the process of implementing a facial recognition system using 600 million cameras that will track every citizen and penalize or reward them based on social credit scores. Sound terrifying? It is. Guest: Gordon Chang, Expert on Asian Politics - A new poll by OREA says millennials believe the dream of home ownership is out of their reach. Is it, or are their expectations creating a gap that can't be bridged? Guest: Tim Hudak, CEO of Ontario Real Estate Association - Competitive eating ...
May 02, 2018•51 min
Ontario PC leader Doug Ford says if his party wins the June election, the City of Hamilton can spend the $1 billion in funding for LRT on any infrastructure projects it wants. Should the money be going toward other infrastructure projects in Hamilton? Is it worth re-opening the discussion? Guest: Jason Farr, Hamilton city councillor for Ward 2 - A new study from researchers at McMaster University has found that it might actually be harmful to give oxygen to a person who is in medical distress. H...
May 01, 2018•54 min
Tonight Jay McQueen joins Scott Radley in the studio for the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton! Guest: Jay McQueen. morning and evening weather announcer for 900 CHML Global News Radio
Apr 28, 2018•1 hr 1 min
A Police Services Act tribunal found a Hamilton cop did not racially profile Councillor Matthew Green during a stop two years ago today. What, if anything, does this decision mean? And where does this case go from here because we know it's not done? Guest: Bernard Cummins, Lawyer for Const. Andrew Pfeifer - The U.S. government dumped another sea of documents about the JFK assassination today. What do they say? Also, not all of them were released though, a bunch were held for "national security r...
Apr 27, 2018•52 min
Remember that budget and more specifically that deficit the Liberals were going to be running? Yeah you could add a few more billion dollars to that. How is something as large as this missed? Could it really just be some sort of misinterpretation by some accountants? Guest: Steve Paikin, Host of "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" on TVO - Our children are a being taught a style of math that few of us, if any, are familiar with. How can it be that we're expected to help our kids at home with their ho...
Apr 26, 2018•55 min
Everyone knows what happened in Toronto and how it happened, a rental van caused massed casualties. This weapon of choice brings about a lot of questions but the biggest one is how can we prevent this from happening again? This makes for a huge challenge given the availability of rental vehicles. Guest: Candyce Kalshall, Fellow at the Center for Security and Intelligence Studies at The University of Buckingham, Specialist in Conflict and Global Affairs and author of: Armed Forces and Government ...
Apr 25, 2018•47 min
In a condensed version of the Scott Radley Show, Scott speaks with a number of guests about the fatal van attack in Toronto. First, Scott is joined by Alex Pierson, host of ON Point with Alex Pierson on Global News Radio, about the events that have been unfolding during the day and what to expect from ongoing coverage as more details emerge. Guest: Alex Pierson, host of ON Point with Alex Pierson, Global News Radio - Scott speaks with a witness of the van attack in Toronto. Guest: Genevieve - Sc...
Apr 24, 2018•34 min
Doug "The Deacon" Faraway joins Scott Radley in the studio for the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton. It's time for an in-depth analysis of news from the last week – serious and otherwise. Guest: Doug Faraway, host of CIty Matters on Cable 14
Apr 21, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Suddenly the talk of a new arena on the mountain has life. Even the mayor has said it's an idea he wouldn't immediately shut down. So why does such a thing in the Limeridge Mall area make sense? And is there any appetite at all for public money to be spent on this or would it have to be 100 per cent privately funded? Guest: Donna Skelly, Ward 7 Councillor - Yesterday we chatted about a poll showing a shockingly low number of American millenials know anything about the Holocaust or what happened ...
Apr 20, 2018•53 min
A new poll of American millennials has found most don't know much about the Holocaust, Auschwitz or how many people were exterminated in World War II. In fact, 22 per cent had never even heard of the Holocaust! What's that about those who forget history... Guest: Gustavo Rymberg, CEO of the Hamilton Jewish Federation - Airlines are now considering adding standing seats to save space, cram more people into planes and save the customer a few bucks. Is this really the future of air travel? Does any...
Apr 19, 2018•47 min
There are some signs that are showing that fewer and fewer people are going out and shopping at malls. There's also a search for a place to put subsidized housing so could the answer to both of these situations be moving some housing onto shopping mall properties or combining the two? Guest: Fred Eisenberger, Mayor of Hamilton - Tim Hortons has fallen on some bad times but can moving their head office to Toronto help change their misfortune? Will this help Tim Hortons or do they need to change s...
Apr 18, 2018•44 min
What was it like at the Boston Marathon today? Scott catches up with a Niagara Regional police officer who joined the show last week to share his story about going from nearly dying to running as a competitor in the Boston Marathon. Guest: Neal Ridley, Niagara Regional Police Officer and Boston Marathon Competitor - Gone are the days of Tim Hortons being one of Canada's most beloved fast food chains. Every year Leger research group releases the top 10 companies or brands in Canada and this year,...
Apr 17, 2018•55 min
Scott welcomes Loren Lieberman to the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton. Tonight, the two tackles tough topics. Guest: Loren Lieberman, from Cable 14
Apr 14, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Gas is going up and up and up! It isn't showing any signs of going down any time soon but what we aren't seeing much of is why it's still going up. Where's the ceiling on this and why is gas going up at all? Guest: Dan McTeague, Senior Petroleum Analyst at GasBuddy - If you were to be asked what a Hamiltonian looks like, what would pop into your mind? It's a fun challenge to think about that someone actually looked into and made a 5 part series about. What prompts someone to do this and what's t...
Apr 13, 2018•51 min
There has been a big trend of Hamiltonians' civil engagement getting lower and lower. City council wants to change this but their solution is nothing short of disappointing. 9am meetings suck enough on their own so how could putting one on a Friday morning make people want to show up? They have work! - The swastika's meaning has had its real meaning stolen and rewritten by the Nazis. This new meaning that the swastika has taken on has sparked a conversation as to whether or not Swastika Trail sh...
Apr 12, 2018•50 min
It's no secret that there is a pipeline that's supposed to be built in western Canada but there's one catch, the BC government isn't having any of it. Despite a federal government decision being made, a province is preventing it from moving forward. Surely this is against some law or there's something that Ottawa can do about this, right? Guest: Brian-Lee Crowley, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute - A lady in Russia needed some surgery done but the doctor poisoned her by accid...
Apr 11, 2018•1 hr 11 min
The nation is reeling after the tragic crash involving a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in Saskatchewan. A few years ago, Bill McDougall played in an Allan Cup for the Dundas Real McCoys. Not long before that, he set an AHL playoff scoring record with 52 points in 16 games. And only a few years prior to that, he scored 187 points in 61 games for the Humboldt Broncos. During that time, he traveled that stretch of highway on a team bus dozens of times. Guest: Bill McDougall -...
Apr 10, 2018•1 hr
For the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton, Scott Radley welcomes Jamie West to the show for a well-rounded wrap up of this week's biggest topics Guest: Jamie West, Owner, Operator, President and CEO of WestPro Media
Apr 07, 2018•1 hr 7 min
The housing market was doing amazingly for a while but that's not the case anymore. The days of selling your house for a large amount of many has come and gone but what does that mean for those trying to buy a home? Where is the market going to go from here? Guest: Hilliard MacBeth, Author of "When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash" - Nearly everything about you can probably be found on the internet. Whether you know it or not, there are companies that track everything ...
Apr 06, 2018•55 min
The president of Concerned Doctors of Ontario says "gross mismanagement and negligence" by the Wynne government has left our medical system is disarray. How can it be fixed? Or perhaps more accurately, how much will it cost to fix it? Guest: Dr. Kulvinder Gill, President of Concerned Doctors of Ontario - There has been lots of terrific discussion on CHML today about the LRT in the wake of Doug Ford's comments. How will this affect the provincial and then the municipal elections now as people (pr...
Apr 05, 2018•52 min
We're hearing a lot from our politicians who are mentioning free stuff for everyone a lot. People are listening but not questioning a lot of what politicians say and this can be a problem, free things don't just appear and cutting expenses isn't as easy as politicians make it sound. Where should our minds be when listening to our politicians? - Hamilton has some unusual by-laws that govern our parks but the question has to be asked, why do some of these ridiculous by-laws exist? Is there a logic...
Apr 04, 2018•50 min
Ironically enough, an event that was scheduled to take place at McMaster called "Tolerating Intolerance" had a speaker pull out simply because they didn't think another speaker should have been presenting at the same event. This almost makes it sounds like there are people who aren't receiving Mac's new policy that protects the freedom of expression while on campus too well, is this really the case? Guest: Hadhy Ayaz, President of Overcome the Gap - After the controversial verdicts that have com...
Mar 30, 2018•52 min
You may love the Liberals' budget presented today or you may hate it. There's certainly lots in there to chew on. We're going to deal with only one question this evening, though. Namely, how in the world can we possibly pay for this? Even if we need all these things, where will the money come from? Guest: Christine Van Geyn, Ontario Director of the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation - A legal team in Toronto is arguing that their Afro-Canadian client charged with a violent crime should receive speci...
Mar 29, 2018•49 min
Bryan Prince Bookseller, an independent bookstore in Westdale, will be closing its doors this week after 29 years in business. In an age where brick and mortar bookshops seem to be scarce and people are mainly shopping online, how did Bryan Prince Bookseller stay open as long as it did? Guest: Marvin Ryder, business professor for the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University - There are 5.6 million Canadians who are juggling work with taking care of an elderly relative or friend. Many w...
Mar 27, 2018•52 min
