Scott Thompson Show

The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Thompson: Did you watch The Oscars last night? How do we get more physicians in Ontario? Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional two years. How can we fix Canada’s military recruiting crunch? On March 15th, the Cancer Assistance Program is celebrating 30 years of providing free practical services to cancer patients and their families in the greater Hamilton Area! It’s the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the global COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. Guests: Bill Brioux, television critic and author Dr. Shawn Whatley is a practicing physician, the author of When Politics Comes Before Patients — Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing, and a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute CJ Hélie, President of Beer Canada Richard Shimooka, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Dusty Vacon, Manager o