The Vassy Kapelos Show
The top newsmakers, political headlines, your go-to daily debrief. Vassy loves politics and she’ll make sure you do too. The Vassy Kapelos Show will keep you informed through hard-hitting interviews with the major players, entertaining analysis and debate with your favourite pundits and all the details and context you need on breaking news as it comes into our newsroom.
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Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show is hosted by Deb Hutton and features panelists Tamara Cherry, former crime reporter and founder of Pickup Communications, and Mike Kakuk, co-host of the Morning Drive on AM800 CKLW in Windsor.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Poland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, about countries sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Canada’s Associate Finance Minister about the economy and the prospect for a recession this year.
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Graham Richardson fills in for Vassy Kapelos. He speaks with a former drug addict from British Columbia who wants to open a brick-and-mortar store selling heroin, meth, cocaine, and MDMA.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Anita Anand, Canada's Defence Minister, about whether our country is willing to send some of its battle tanks to Ukraine — something Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has repeatedly issued pleas for.
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Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show is hosted by Deb Hutton and features panelists Tom Mulcair, CTV political analyst and former federal NDP leader, and Karen Restoule, CEO of Bold Realities & Whose Land.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Adam Oake, a Canadian who just returned home from the front lines of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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Andy Knight, an Albert...
Graham Richardson, filling in for Vassy Kapelos, speaks with the wife of an Ontario man who was struggling to get around in Chile after Air Canada lost his customized wheelchair in Toronto. He was finally reunited with his wheelchair during our show.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan, about the potential for a health-care deal with the federal government.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a plan to expand surgeries in private clinics. Vassy Kapelos speaks with Marit Stiles, incoming leader of Ontario's New Democrats, to get her reaction.
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Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show is hosted by Deb Hutton and features panelists Bob Richardson, senior counsel at National Public Relations and a former Ontario Liberal chief of staff, and Chris Holski, News Editor with 580 CFRA in Ottawa.
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The country's major airports and airlines are among witnesses appearing today during an emergency meeting of the House of Commons transportation committee regarding holiday travel chaos. Vassy Kapelos breaks down the key takeaways.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Marc Doret, mayor of Dorval, Quebec, on taking action to maintain his city’s bilingual status.
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Vassy Kapelos talks with Erin McIntyre, a cousin of Allison Holthoff — the 37-year-old woman who died in a Nova Scotia hospital on New Year's Eve after waiting hours for care.
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In an exclusive interview with Vassy Kapelos, former finance minister Bill Morneau speaks about the Trudeau government's management of the economy and whether he has regrets over ethics scandals.
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Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show is hosted by Deb Hutton and features panelists Elias Makos, host of The Elias Makos Show on CJAD in Montreal and Reshmi Nair, co-host of The Rush on Newstalk 1010 in Toronto.
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Vassy Kapelos speaks with Omar Alghabra, Canada's Minister of Transport, about his conversation with Sunwing after hundreds of Canadians were stranded in Mexico and elsewhere due to the airline cancelling their flights home.
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After hitting record numbers, immigration minister says meeting targets helps cover labour and demographic shortages. Vassy Kapelos speaks with Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
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Aaron Blake, Senior Political Reporter with The Washington Post, breaks down why Kevin McCarthy has not been voted House Speaker in the United States.
Patrick Gobeil, a Sunwing passenger from Prince Alber...
Toronto’s mayor proposes a nearly $50 million police budget increase in community safety push. Vassy Kapelos speaks with Mayor John Tory.
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Retired Lieutenant-General the Honourable Andrew Leslie, former Canadian Army Chief of Staff and MP for Orleans on the latest between Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Zain Chagla, an infectious diseases physician and associate professor at McMaster University, on Canada’s decision to...
Free For All Friday features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show is hosted by Mike Kakuk and features panelists Sharan Kaur, political strategist and former Deputy Chief of Staff to Bill Morneau, and Karl Dockstader, co-host of One Dish One Mic which airs in Niagara, London and Windsor.
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