Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Do protests like the encampments on university campuses accomplish much of anything, in this day and age? The federal government is granting B.C.‘s request to once again ban the public use of illicit drugs, Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks said on Parliament Hill on Tuesday. We look at Canada’s Defence spending, since Defence Minister Bill Blair recently made a rare admission for a federal cabinet minister. In a new piece for the National Post, Tasha Kheiriddin looks at foreign interference – particularly from the government of China – and the Federal Liberal’s attempts to curb it. It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast! Guests: Alan Cross, music historian, host of The Ongoing History of New Music. Jon Roe, Research Associate with Angus Reid. David Baxter, Digital Broadcast Journalist Global News. Colin D’Mello, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News. Richard Shimooka, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (expertise in Can