• Do you bore people at parties? The Dull Men’s Club is for you.
    Dec 24 2024

    GOVERNMENT HOUSING.

    Is it time? Mark may be changing his mind.

    Calls 15-min cities?

    Analysis | Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods

    BE HAPPY NOT ANGRY. 7 things to add or subtract for happiness, according to science - The Washington Post

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    37 mins
  • I found a traffic enforcement technology I can support
    Dec 24 2024

    CALLS POLITICAL CASH. One big factor helping the Conservatives is their ability to raise – and spend – more money than both the Liberals and NDP combined. That’s both cause and effect.

    OKA APOLOGY

    CARMI LEVY

    THREE - US Supreme Court to consider TikTok bid to halt ban

    US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from app stores

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    40 mins
  • PITY THE POSTIE?
    Dec 23 2024

    CALLS: AUTOMATIC TAX FILING. This is a fantastic idea that should have been implemented decades ago. I don’t understand why some people are afraid of it.

    GUEST: David Booth - the Motormouth at Driving.ca

    Honda and Nissan announce plans to merge, creating world's third-largest automaker | CBC News

    GUEST: Sgt. Kerry Schmidt - Highway Safety Division - OPP

    StormWatch on the roads/highways !

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    38 mins
  • Is Trump A Bully? I say yes – and it will be bad for the USA.
    Dec 23 2024

    Mark Towhey in for Jim RIchards while he is on vacation !

    GUEST: VP of national affairs, Jasmin Guenette, CFIB

    LEGAL TAX. Is Canada’s new capital gains tax legal?

    https://x.com/CFIB/status/1870193409685586110

    GUEST: Rich Robertson - Director Research and Advocacy B'nai Brith Canada

    NAZI NAMES.

    HOUSING COST. DCs and other municipal fees add $200K per unit to the cost of a new low-rise housing in Toronto. This is unaffordable.

    Vaughan is cutting its DCs significantly. How can they afford this? How can the rest of Ontario afford not to?

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    38 mins
  • What do you do if someone really fumbles a White Elephant event?
    Dec 20 2024

    GUEST: John Ibbitson - Writer at Large with the Globe and Mail

    Poilievre to submit letter to Governor General asking to recall House for confidence vote

    CALLS: Revisiting Singh’s decision today

    The Newstalk 1010 Christmas Cookie Challenge!

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    37 mins
  • MUNICIPAL PANEL
    Dec 20 2024

    Deb in for Jim while he is on vacation

    GUESTS: John Tory - former mayor of Toronto

    Karen Stintz - Former city Councillor and TTC chair currently president & CEO of Variety Village and a Federal conservative candidate

    Joe Mihevc - adjunct professor at York University, served Toronto as a city councillor for 28 years

    \GUEST: Marvin Ryder - professor of marketing and entrepreneurship at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business

    The U.K., Belgium and Germany have done it. Should Canada also privatize its postal service?

    CALLS: Privatize Canada Post?

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    39 mins
  • Are you ready to be taxed more by Olivia Chow?
    Dec 19 2024

    GUEST: Caroline Tolton - red mailbox she set up in her west end neighbourhood

    GUESTS: Scott Reid - CTV Political Commentator and advisor to a number of Prime Ministers, premiers and political leaders

    Tim Powers - Chairman of Summa Strategies and managing director of Abacus Data

    PM Justin Trudeau planning to oversee long-awaited cabinet shuffle on Friday: sources

    BREAKING: ‘I am sounding the alarm right now’: Council pulls back on rule change allowing neighbourhood corner stores

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    38 mins
  • PROVINCIAL POLITICS PANEL
    Dec 19 2024

    Deb Hutton in for Jim Richards who is on Christmas vacation

    GUESTS: Kathleen Wynne - former Liberal premier of Ontario

    Tim Hudak - former leader of the Ontario Conservatives - founder of Tim Hudak political consulting

    Frances Lankin - former Canadian senator, former president and CEO of United Way Toronto, and a former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister in the NDP government of Bob Rae

    GUEST: Boris Bytensky - Newstalk 1010 Legal Analyst, Criminal lawyer with crimlawcanada.com

    'Immigration consequences' unlikely for man linked to deadly 401 crash

    CALLS: Should there have been harsher consequences for this guy?

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    40 mins