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Hamilton Today with Scott Thompson

English - August 22, 2022 22:44 - 1 hour
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The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:
Back from the staycation and into the hot seat, Scott Thompson has come back to host Hamilton Today! Right out the gate Scott wants to talk about how rent control may be harming rent affordability in Hamilton, as unintuitive as it sounds. The president of Hamilton and District Apartment Association shares his views with Scott. Lisa LaFlamme’s firing from CTV is still in the news, so Scott discusses CTV’s PR-friendly statement on the matter with Elissa Freeman, lawyer Howard Levitt, and journalism professor Jeffrey Dvorkin. Cheaper flights are coming for Canadians, Hamilton’s LRT may be in jeopardy once again, inflation hitting Canadians’ budgets more and more, Russia vowing to end war in Ukraine, and Scott Radley joins Scott Thompson once again after a long time away! It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast.
Guests:
Arun Pathak. President, Hamilton and District Apartment Association.
Elissa Freeman, PR and Pop Culture Expert.
Richard Vanderlubbe, President at TripCentral.ca.
Alan Hale, Queen’s Park Today.
Fred Eisenberger, Mayor, City of Hamilton.
Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Howard Levitt. 
Jon Roe, Research Associate.
Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.
Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of Trusting the News in a Digital Age.
Scott Radley. Host of The Scott Radley Show, Columnist with the Hamilton Spectator. Rush enthusiast.
Host – Scott Thompson
Content Producer – Elizabeth Russell
Technical/Podcast Producer - William Webber
Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan
News Anchors – David Woodard & Diana Weeks
Want to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://omny.fm/shows/scott-thompson-show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson:

Back from the staycation and into the hot seat, Scott Thompson has come back to host Hamilton Today! Right out the gate Scott wants to talk about how rent control may be harming rent affordability in Hamilton, as unintuitive as it sounds. The president of Hamilton and District Apartment Association shares his views with Scott. Lisa LaFlamme’s firing from CTV is still in the news, so Scott discusses CTV’s PR-friendly statement on the matter with Elissa Freeman, lawyer Howard Levitt, and journalism professor Jeffrey Dvorkin. Cheaper flights are coming for Canadians, Hamilton’s LRT may be in jeopardy once again, inflation hitting Canadians’ budgets more and more, Russia vowing to end war in Ukraine, and Scott Radley joins Scott Thompson once again after a long time away! It is all coming up on the Hamilton Today Podcast.

Guests:

Arun Pathak. President, Hamilton and District Apartment Association.

Elissa Freeman, PR and Pop Culture Expert.

Richard Vanderlubbe, President at TripCentral.ca.

Alan Hale, Queen’s Park Today.

Fred Eisenberger, Mayor, City of Hamilton.

Howard Levitt, Senior Partner, Howard Levitt. 

Jon Roe, Research Associate.

Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.

Jeffrey Dvorkin, Senior Fellow at Massey College, Former Director of Journalism at the University of Toronto-Scarborough and author of Trusting the News in a Digital Age.

Scott Radley. Host of The Scott Radley Show, Columnist with the Hamilton Spectator. Rush enthusiast.

Host – Scott Thompson

Content Producer – Elizabeth Russell

Technical/Podcast Producer - William Webber

Podcast Co-Producer – Ben Straughan

News Anchors – David Woodard & Diana Weeks

Want to keep up with what happened in Hamilton Today? Subscribe to the podcast! https://omny.fm/shows/scott-thompson-show