Scott Radley Show

Following the leaders debate on Sunday night, Scott and Brad Clark rip into all three main party leaders for their performances - both during the debates and over the course of the campaign so far.Guest: Brad Clark, former Hamilton city councillor, MPP and Minister of Transport & Labour, currently a principal at Maple Leaf Strategies-A new estimate says between 15% and 20% of all packaged food in Canada has shrunk over the past 5 years. It's called "shrinkflation".Guest: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, professor and researcher in food distribution and policy, Dean of the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University-There's plenty to talk about in the world of sports, and Scott and Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys touch on all kinds of sports news, including the Hamilton Bulldogs' performance in the Memorial Cup, the Stanley Cup final, and too many strikeouts in baseball.

It’s Friday night and Scott is hosting the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton. Mike Fortune returns to the studio, after moderating political debates, and is ready for any topic that Scott throws at him. Start your weekend in the best way by listening to the newest podcast of The Scott Radley Show. Guest: Mike Fortune, host Cable 14

Why don't Hamilton police officers wear cameras that document their conduct, and should they? Guest: Clint Twolan, President of the Hamilton Police Association - Do the new NFL rules, regarding what a player may and may not do during the national anthem, violate the rights of the players? Guest: Jon Pinkus, Associate with Samfiru Tamarkin LLP - Once more the question of of bringing an NHL team to Hamilton has entered the conversation. Scott and Bubba get to the heart of the issue: how realistic of an idea is it? Guest: Bubba O'Niel, Sports anchor on CHCH

There are poles about every little thing going on with the provincial election where we can see a few interesting trends. One of the most interesting things is how many people are voting for the NDP not because they want the NDP to win but becuase they don't want the Liberals or PCs to. Will you be voting because you believe in a party or because you don't want another to win?-There's some idea that Hamilton did, in fact, have an NHL team at one point. Too bad there isn't any jersey or sweater in any museums to prove it until now! Someone has found one after going to some great lengths to find it and he shares some stories from his journey. Guest: Russ Boychuk, Seeker of a 1925 Hamilton Tiger Jersey-Scott's producer, Ben, has been posed with three really... interesting situations that people have been found in. From a heavily tattooed man standing on top of swings shouting the birds and the bees story in graphic detail to three men who stole a 25ft shed with a pickup truck and a guy who hid his legless girlf

Time for the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton, with Brad Clark joining Scott in the studio for a lively conversation about the news of the week. Guest: Brad Clark, Principal at Maple Leaf Strategies, Former City Councillor, MPP, Minister Transport & Labour

Whenever elections roll around, politicians love saying that they'll cut taxes and spend more on the people. That can only run for so long before you end up billions of dollars in debt like we are right now. Now our politicians need to do something but what is it? Are our politicians focused on the most urgent issues, or the the most emotionally charge ones? Guest: Bill Kelly, Host of the Bill Kelly Show on Global News Radio 900 CHML-The upcoming royal wedding isn't going to be following tradition quite like weddings from the past. What will these changes be and should the Royal Family be moving with the times? Guest: Robert Oldham, past president of the Hamilton Branch of the Monarch's League of Canada-Ben's Story of the Day is coming to you today with some more confusing people's stories and unusual situations. Misspelled tattoos, flying bouncy castles and screaming German parrots are all on the menu today plus a Canadian story that Scott will skip over... sort of...-The Hamilton Bulldogs have conquered O

Everyone is arguing about whether they hear Laurel or Yanny after listening to this clip -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGpl0E95cM -- so we thought we'd find out how our hearing actually works and how it's possible two people can listen to the same sound but hear two totally different things. And what does this mean for other things, like music? Could we be listening to the same song but actually be hearing it differently? Guest: Laurel Trainor, Director of McMaster's Auditory Development Lab-You've probably heard more than a few helicopters flying over Hamilton during the last few days until suddenly, they stopped. Someone called the Canadian Armed Forces and mentioned something that halted their training across all of Hamilton. Who put in this call and what did he or she call about?-The C.D. Howe Institute says government regulations alone have driven up the cost of homes in Hamilton by as much as $100,000. What policies have done this? Can they be changed or would undoing them cause more harm than go

How much do Ontarians owe? Do the math and you'll discover that when you factor in provincial plus federal debt, the amount we owe is equal to each family being on the hook for more than $400,000. For how much longer will this continue to grow? Guest: John Robson, Columnist for the National Post-Another foot washed up onto the Vancouver shoreline this week. That's 14 this decade. Is this the work of a twisted serial killer or some weird coincidence? Guest: Sasha Reid, Criminologist and Serial Killer Expert-Usually first dates are a little awkward and a lot of decisions regarding how you feel about the other person are made. Some lady from the United States made her decision on a first date and it was simple, he was the one. She was later arrested for sending the man 65 thousand texts - and you thought you had a bad first date experience.-Three of the four Hamiltonians on the Hamilton Bulldogs join Scott in studio to talk about a championship, the Memorial Cup and the joys and challenges of playing at home.

The Carmen's Group is bidding to operate the entertainment venues in Hamilton's downtown. Now they have teamed with Oakview Group, a major management and concert-booking company based in Los Angeles. What is the benefit of Hamilton this organization, and how could this change Hamilton?   Guest: Scott Warren, of Carmen's Group   -   The Ontario Provincial election is only weeks away. Scott talks to Dr. Barry Kay of the Laurier Instittute for Public Predictions and Policy, to get a picture of what Ontario's political landscape will likely look like after June 7, 2018.   Guest: Dr. Barry Kay, Political Science Professor at Wilfor Laurier University   -   And Don Robertson makes his weekly stop by The Scott Radley Show, to talk about the Bulldogs' historic season, the Raptors and more.   Guest: Don Robertson, General Manager and Associate Head Coach for the Dundas Real McCoys

Tonight Scott is joined by Cadillac Bill for the Brightest Conversation in Hamilton. Prepare for serious talk, lighthearted topics, history lessons and some strange words of wisdom in the newest podcast of The Scott Radley Show. Guest: Cadillac Bill of The Cadillac Bill Show on Cable 14

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 have never heard of BTS but this K-pop group has amassed a following so large that they didn't even need conventional adverstising to sell out these concerts so fast that Ticketmaster's website couldn't keep up. Will you be seeing BTS live in Hamilton? Guest: Graham Rockingham, Music Editor at the Hamilton Spectator-Today is a special edition of Ben's Story of the Day. What makes it special you might be asking? It's the second time we've done this this week! There's also a bit of a theme to the stories, can you guess what

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 excited. There are some... quirky... people running for office each with their own flaws that cartoonists love to interpret for everyone in comedic ways. They're some of the few that can knock politicians down a peg or two, so what are The Spec's editorial cartoonist's thoughts on this upcoming election? Guest: Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist at The Hamilton Spectator-There is a world full of unique and wonderful people. Most of them lead quite normal lives but there's a few that just take things to another level. Sc

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 streak. Some are surprised that they have made it this far, others expected great things from this season. Scott talks to Steve Staios, to get his insights on this season and what to expect from tonight’s game.Guest: Steve Staios, General manager and President of the Hamilton Bulldogs-Scott is baffled, to say the least, by Don Gorske of Fond du Lac Wisconsin. On May 4th Gorske consumed his 30,000th Big Mac hamburger. In light of this, Scott ponders the level of commitment needed, to have the same meal nearly every day for m

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.

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 is. Cigarette butts by the thousands are among the worst offenders. Now a task force has pushed the city to see if there's anything that can be done to clean up or even simply enforce the bylaws that are already in place. Guest: Cameron Topp, Owner of Saigon Soul Food restaurant-Jeans are reknown for their robustness and reliability. The fashion industry sometimes takes clothes to a new level and sometimes even challenges the notion of calling them 'clothes'. Jeans have now fallen victim to the fashion industry whose ch

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 before digging in. How are these dates decided? Is there some science behind this or is there just some guy stamping packages with random dates and how much food waste is there by following these dates religiously? Guest: Dr. Keith Warriner, Professor of Food Sciences at Guelph University-Once a week, three stories are pitted against each other to be crowned Ben's Story of the Day. Sometimes the stories are weird, sometimes they're gross and sometimes they're just plain funny. What three stories did Scott find for Ben

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 is simply incredible and arguably dumb but there's still something to be said about someone who can eat 125 cupcakes in about 8 minutes. Matt Stonie posted a video of him doing this as well as other unbelievable eating feats on YouTube. -The Hamilton Bulldogs open their OHL final tomorrow in Sault Ste. Marie. What have they done right that's allowed them to get this far in just three years? And what is the league doing to help Michael Andlauer get a new arena in Hamilton? Guest: David Branch - President of the Canadian

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. How did this process even become standard practice in the first place and what should first responders and medical practitioners be doing differently?Guest: Dr. Derek Chu, clinical fellow at McMaster University's Department of Medicine-Scott is joined by Don Robertson of the Dundas Real McCoys to talk sports, as well as how Scott's desk at the Hamilton Spectator had a guest starring role in an Emmy-winning miniseries. They also ask the questions - is it appropriate to suspend a player for flipping the bird? Is the NHL ever

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

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 reasons" despite assurances they'd all be released. Why is this? Guest: Randy Owen, JFK Assassination Expert-Except for those that actually enjoy exercise, running and working out in general sucks. It isn't fun and it hurts, so then why not run in a race for a short distance... like a REALLY short distance. Only 0.5km long and don't worry, there's a donut and coffee station half way through with a designated smoking area for those that need a break. Oh and there's beer! Do we need to go on?-What now for the Maple Leafs?