The Jim Richards Show
Jim Richards provides everything you need to know on your way home, making the brutal GTA commute seem shorter. Jim brings a unique perspective to the day’s events to keep you informed and entertained.
Episodes
Are you team environment or team pragmatism?
Plus – How is the political gender gap impacting the dating world?
GUESTS: Emily Alfred - a senior campaigner at the Toronto Environmental Alliance
Kim Wright - Principal and founder of Wright Strategies
How about ‘working hard or hardly working?’ We take your calls.
Plus – A mom says her son had a life-threatening allergic reaction and had to wait 20 minutes for an ambulance
GUEST: Patricia Kosseim - Ontario’s privacy commissioner
Amanda Dale - mother of the boy who had the allergic reaction
What does a former Public Safety minister think about this move?
Plus – The latest in the Canada Post battle
GUESTS: Stockwell Day - former Public Safety Minister
Jim Gallant - one of the negotiators with CUPW
Deb Hutton is in for Jim all this week.
Deb talks with the beloved author about the scam
Plus – Ontario unveils its new energy plan
GUESTS: Anwar Knight - award winning broadcaster
Greta Podleski - Canadian cookbook author
Stephen Lecce - Ontario Energy Minister
Deb talks data and public debate with an analyst
Plus – Is there something you have to do every day or your whole day is ruined?
GUESTS: Karen Littlewood - President of OSSTF
David Coletto - founder, Chair, and CEO of Abacus Data
Deb talks with the head of the organization about the announcement
Plus – Why are women being told to drink no more than 6 glasses of wine a year?
GUESTS: Kojo Modeste - executive director of Pride Toronto
Rebecca Madrid - a CUPE local president (CUPE 1813)
Brandon Purcell - Advocacy Manager of Prevention at the Canadian Cancer Society
How often are you making orders on UberEats?
Plus - Are jobs better when you can just be done with them at the end of the day?
GUEST: Monte McGregor - Barrister & Solicitor - Rusonik, O’Connor, Robbins, Ross & Angelini LLP
What do we need to do to stop this?
Plus – Have you been on the other end of a long 9-1-1 delay?
GUESTS: Dr. Daniel Rosenfield - ER doctor at SickKids
David McGuinty - Defence Minister
Deb looks back on the 1995 victory of Mike Harris and chats with the former premier
Plus – Do you really need a wedding ‘content creator’?
GUEST: Mike Harris – former premier of Ontario
Deb chats with Toronto’s former mayor about his thoughts on where things are going.
Plus – How often do you wash your car?
GUESTS: John Tory - former Toronto mayor
Martha Hall Findlay - director of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy
Also, What coffee brand is vanishing from Canadian grocery shelves?
Where are the biggest price hikes happening?
GUEST: Mike Von Massow - OAC Chair in Food System Leadership and Professor in Food Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles
Jim talks with a doctor about what he’s seeing in the ER
Plus – Are you afraid of driving with your partner?
GUEST: Dr. Mitch Shulman – Newstalk 1010 Chief Medical Analyst
What does a cybersecurity expert think of this?
Plus – The Ontario Legislature wraps for the next 137 days
GUESTS: Ritesh Kotak - cybersecurity expert
Siobhan Morris - CTV Toronto Queen’s Park Bureau Reporter
Jim wonders if this might be a turning point.
Plus – Marit Stiles asks the Premier to “grow a pair”. But what about growing pears?
GUESTS: Dr. Isaac Bogoch - infectious disease expert
Amanda Galbraith - co-founder and partner at reputation management company Oyster Group and host of Free For All Fridays
Jim talks to political leaders from the province as a landmark bill is voted through
GUESTS: Marit Stiles – leader of the Ontario NDP
Mike Schreiner – leader of the Ontario Green Party
We take your calls as an American trans woman files asylum claim here in Canada
Plus – Why meteorologists in the States say it’s getting harder to do their jobs because of Trump cuts
GUESTS: Mark Robinson - storm chaser
Robert Benzie - Toronto Star Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
Dave Mitchell - Senior Director of Operations - of YAAACE - Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Chara...
Jim takes your calls about what the right approach is.
Plus – Making sense of the Liberals new border security bill
GUESTS: Max Chaudhry - Immigration Lawyer at Chaudry Law
Jessie Rodger - Executive Director - Anova: A Future Without Violence
What does our marketing expert think about this shift?
Plus – What gives you ‘grammar rage’?
GUEST: Tony Chapman - Marketing expert, host of the podcast Chatter That Matters
Jim weighs in on a judge’s response to policing in Peel
Plus – Does Bono have a point when it comes to who is giving foreign aid?
GUESTS: Christian Leuprecht - national security expert and professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario
Carmi Levy - tech expert
Jim weighs in on something going on near him.
Plus – the latest on Canada Post negotiations
GUESTS: Siobhan Morris - CTV Toronto Queen’s Park Bureau Reporter
Ryan Manucha - Research Fellow at the CD Howe Institute and Author of Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Trade
Jim Gallant - one of the negotiators with CUPW
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