Think Tank with Ana Bailao & Ben Mulroney

Greg Brady and the panel of:

Ben Mulroney, Host of the Ben Mulroney Show 9 to Noon on the Corus Radio Network

Ana Bailao, former Toronto city councillor, deputy mayor, housing expert

Discuss:

1.One person dead after North York encampment fire: City left this encampment standing for months, was there no safe way to clear the site without real housing to offer? With every encampment blaze tying up dozens of firefighters, cops, and paramedics, are we spending more on emergency response than it would cost to house people safely in the first place? The mayor insists we must get people indoors after this tragedy but where are they going to go?

2.Police investigating Oshawa swarming attack advocates say may have been hate-motivated: If no slurs were heard but the hijab was yanked off, is it assault, hate crime, both? Durham police say they’re considering hate motivation; Muslim advocates insist the motive is obvious. Who gets to decide what constitutes hate in Canada, investigators, courts or the targeted community? Time to make changes to the youth justice act? Should parents/guardians be held accountable?

3.After bomb threats at Canadian airports, services now back to ‘normal’: Should NAV Canada publish at least a redacted threat summary once the RCMP rules nothing suspicious so the public knows what really happened? Should callers who phone in hoaxes face terrorism charges?

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