Some are calling for stricter bail conditions in the wake of the shooting of the OPP officer. Should it be tougher to get out on bail? Guest: Jaime Stephenson, Defence Lawyer; Former President, Hamilton Criminal Lawyers Association - Now that Damar Hamlin is showing positive signs of recovery, what should the NFL do with its schedule and standings headache? Guest: Steve Foxcroft, NFL Chain-Gang Member, Vice-President, Fluke Transport - 7:10 - 7:55 - Canada is opening its doors to 500,000 new imm...
Jan 06, 2023•46 min
When I flew out of Pearson in June, it was a disaster. Today people are complaining it's still a disaster. How could things not be improved in half a year? Guest: Gábor Lukács, Founder, President & Coordinator, Air Passenger Rights - Whenever there's a tragedy people say they're offering 'thoughts and prayers.' So why was it so shocking to see an ESPN analyst stop his commentary and actually pray for Damar Hamlin. Do we really mean the 'prayer' part or is that a meaningless cliche? Guest: Dr...
Jan 05, 2023•37 min
Pelé is a soccer player who did more than just play the beautiful game, he sparked a love for the sport of soccer in many people's hearts. Now that he's died, people are looking back on his legacy and many achievements. While some remember seeing him on their TV, a Hamilton man is remembering what it was like playing against him. Was it intimidating? Exciting? An opportunity to get an autograph right there on the pitch? Guest: John McGrane, Former Canadian Men’s Soccer Player, Member of the Cana...
Jan 04, 2023•21 min
Today sees a major spike in divorce filings but why is that? Why are people choosing divorce nowadays and how much does it cost for each side to go through the process? Guest: Tracy Miller, Family Lawyer; Co-Host, Divorce Solutions Podcast
Jan 04, 2023•11 min
One of the big sports stories that's circulating right now is Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's collapse and subsequent hospitalization following a tackle mid-game. What happened to him and could it happen to athletes in other sports too? Guest: Dr. David Levy, Sports Medicine Practitioner; Team Physician for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for 35 years, the Toronto Rock since inception, McMaster University and Mohawk College varsity teams for over 30 years; Medical Staff for the Hamilton Bulldogs; Ha...
Jan 04, 2023•43 min
Scott welcomes Jamie West back to the show for this week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio. Together they debate of all of the great holiday topics from real or fake Christmas tree to Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays. Guest: Jamie West, Founder & CEO, Westpro Media
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Canada is mandating that by 2026, 20 per cent of all new cars be electric. Are we even remotely ready for this? Guest: Tim Burrows, Manager, Electric Vehicle Society - YouTube is paying $2 billion for the rights to Sunday night football. Is this the beginning of all sports moving to streaming services? ALSO, there hasn't been a classic Christmas movie released in the past 20 years. Are we no longer festive enough? Creative enough? Joyful enough? Guest: Bill Brioux, Television Critic, Author &...
Dec 23, 2022•32 min
Two polls were taken about what matters to Canadians. One in 1992, one 30 years later in 2022. How have we changed? Guest: Craig Worden, President & Chief Innovation Officer, Pollara Strategic Insights - The number of Canadians who consider religion important is dropping. Except one age group is surprisingly rising. Which one? Guest: David Haskell, Associate Professor, Digital Media and Journalism / Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University - Are we totally sick of those endless ads f...
Dec 22, 2022•44 min
We've heard that the government should stay out of the nation's bedrooms but what about the nation's kitchens? It would appear that some UN delegates at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference want to tell you what to eat but why are they trying to influence your diet and should they be trying anyways? Guest: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois a.k.a. The Food Professor, Professor of Food Distribution & Policy and Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University - Some really nasty weat...
Dec 21, 2022•38 min
As the war in Ukraine progresses and the Russian invasion continues to be repelled, people are starting to question Putin's hold on Russia. What are the chances that a coup is waiting to strike? Guest: Dr. Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University
Dec 20, 2022•11 min
As the war in Ukraine progresses and the Russian invasion continues to be repelled, people are starting to question Putin's hold on Russia. What are the chances that a coup is waiting to strike? Guest: Dr. Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University - Writing a book is no small. There is a lot of time that goes into the research and actual writing which means you've got to pick a topic that won't bore you nor your reader. With that in mind, why would someone w...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 2 min
The stars have aligned for this week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio! Scott has assembled all of CHML's announcers for a super-round table featuring Rick Zamperin of Good Morning Hamilton, Bill Kelly of The Bill Kelly Show and Scott Thompson of Hamilton Today. Together they tackle topics that range everywhere from if Bo Levi Mitchell will someday be the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' quarterback to what Hamiltonians' taxes may go up by. Buckle up for an amazing show that truly li...
Dec 17, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Why are we seeing so many students suffering from chronic abenteeism at school? How does this impact grades? Can we fix it or is this something that will be temporary and eventually fade away? Guest: Dr. Paul Bennett, Founding Director and Lead Researcher, Schoolhouse Institute - A joke tweet from PGA golfer Mackenzie Hughes revealed a lot about people, the most glaring of which is that many only read the first few lines before coming to a conclusion and moving on. The answer was in the tweet an...
Dec 16, 2022•24 min
You can see some pretty interesting things if you drive around Hamilton and among those interesting things is a certain station wagon from the movie, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation . How did the current owner come to acquire such a unique vehicle and what has the public's reaction to it been? Guest: Sean Kiely, Owner, Ford Country Squire station wagon - We might someday see the owner of the Hamilton Bulldogs also become the owner of the Ottawa Senators. If that happens, will the team be c...
Dec 15, 2022•35 min
For people who claim to want their privacy, Harry and Meghan sure do a lot to stay in the public eye. The story they keep selling is being made in all mediums possible but what do they have to sell after everyone knows their story? Do they have a shelf life? Guest: Nathan Tidridge, Waterdown high teacher and author of six books on the Crown and its role in Canada - It isn't even Christmas yet and the Blue Jays are making some pretty big moves. What could next season' Jays look like and are they ...
Dec 14, 2022•43 min
What was done to get us out of the last recession? Are moves being made so that we go down that path and avoid this supposed recession we're heading towards? Is that even possible for us to do at the moment? Guest: Marvin Ryder, Professor of Marketing, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University - Hospital wait times are even longer than before but just how bad are they and what are other countries doing to combat this? What if we followed what Sweden and Switzerland are doing? Guest: Nadee...
Dec 13, 2022•55 min
Is university too hard? Why does it seem like the federal government is treating Quebec and Alberta differently? Will Hamiltonians be forced to pay higher taxes because the new city councilors all want new programs without getting rid of any preexisting ones? Are penalties a sufficient way of deciding the winner in games as large as World Cup matches? These questions and more get debated and answered on this week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio. Guest: Mike Fortune, Hos...
Dec 10, 2022•1 hr 7 min
After much consternation regarding the potential for land in the Greenbelt being sold to land developers, a request was made on Twitter to see MPPs Donna Skelly and Neil Lumsden appear before Hamilton's city council to find out more about this. Scott welcomes MPP Donna Skelly to the show to speak about exactly this. Guest: Donna Skelly, MPP for Flamborough-Glanbrook - While housing markets across the country seem to be rebounding and shifting, we're being told that this is not the case here in H...
Dec 09, 2022•47 min
Decisions are being made at City Hall regarding how much your taxes are going to be going up (or if they will at all). How is this process coming along and how much of a hit can Hamiltonians expect this year? Guest: John Paul Danko, City Councilor for Ward 8 - Fighting has fallen by the wayside in the modern game of hockey. While this may please many, there are still those who love a good hockey fight and miss the days of enforcers and goons. Those who can't get enough of hockey fights will be d...
Dec 08, 2022•27 min
When you buy millions and millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines, they only last so long before they go bad and according to Canada's Auditor-General, that's soon to be the case. Does this mean the feds are essentially flushing your tax dollars down the drain? Guest: Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation - If you've watched Sesame Street, you've probably seen Bob McGrath's face or heard his voice. Though he passed away this week, he'll live on in the memories of ever...
Dec 07, 2022•32 min
Guests: Matt Francis Dan Kelly Don Robertson
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Guests: Brian Patrick Green Bill Brioux Bubba O'Neil
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 21 min
The Federal Government is trying to collect back CERB money from recipients who it turns out weren't eligible. This sounds bad for the ones who it turns out weren't eligible, but it seems also like a good thing to return tax payer money where it belongs. Jay Goldberg. Ontario Director of the Canadian Tax Payers Federation. Crowdfunding has been a great tool for small start-ups to get off the ground. But there are also a lot of weird ones out there. Many campaigns, you would be shocked to learn h...
Dec 01, 2022•32 min
Today is Giving Tuesday! This day was created to highlight charities and how they need donations in order to help people. Are Canadians as generous as we might like to think we are? Guest: Nicole Danesi, Senior Manager of Public Relations, Canada Helps - Why does it seem like politics always find a way to seep into the sports world? Are we not able to keep the two separate? Guest: Dr. Ann Pegararo, Lang Chair In Sport Management and Director of the International Institute for Sport Business &...
Nov 30, 2022•31 min
This week's edition of The Brightest Conversation in Hamilton Radio features former Ward 2 councilor Jason Farr! As a newly minted private citizen, there's a lot that he's done and a lot still left to do. Scott and Jason chat about Jason's time on Y108's morning show, some behind the scenes from his time on Hamilton City Council and much, much more. Guest: Jason Farr, former Ward 2 councilor
Nov 26, 2022•1 hr 9 min
The Bank of Canada has announced that it's losing money for the first time ever. While this generally sounds like a bad thing, is it really? What does this actually mean? Guest: Dr. Eric Kam, Professor of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Monetary Economics, Implications of Monetary Growth, with Toronto Metropolitan University - Whenever humanity has made efforts to get to the moon, there's always some sort of buzz that gets generated, this time seems to be different. Why hasn't ...
Nov 25, 2022•42 min
Canada played its first match in the World Cup today against Belgium. How did we do and what is needed in order to pull out a win next time? Guest: John McGrane, former Olympic and North American Soccer League soccer player - The news that a meteor flew over the Grimsby/Vineland area and landed somewhere around here. Can you find any pieces and how big of a meteorite should you keep an eye out for? If you do find a piece, what can you do with it? Guest: Dr. Kim Tait, Mineralogy, Meteorite and Ge...
Nov 24, 2022•43 min
Canada is looking to expand its requirements for who's eligible for MAiD but is this needed, especially when you consider that Canada is number 1 in terms of MAiD? With the current rate of patients who are opting for and being granted MAiD, does that mean, would opening it up to the mentally ill prove to be a beneficial move? What about children? Guest: Trudo Lemmens, Professor, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, University of Toronto
Nov 23, 2022•25 min
Canada is back on the world stage as it prepares for its World Cup appearance against Belgium. Scott is joined by someone who knows what it's like playing the game on the international stage. Does Canada stand a chance against the Belgians? Guest: Greg Sutton, Master Coach, Men & Women's Soccer, Concordia University; Former Professional Soccer Player - Canada is looking to expand its requirements for who's eligible for MAiD. Is this needed, especially when you consider that Canada is number ...
Nov 23, 2022•49 min
Tiny shelters are being touted as something that could help the homeless however the next issue is where do you put them. How do people feel about a proposed location here in Hamilton? Guest: Tom Cooper, Director, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction & Board Member, Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters - Could we see the World Cup get hosted by North Korea someday? Why would a sports team draft a player only to avoid playing him? Why aren't we seeing Canadian university football games on...
Nov 22, 2022•48 min
