Hour 1: • Kelly Higginson, Restaurants Canada • Scott McKenna, Nova Scotia Health • Daniel Roscoe, Roswell Development • Rachel Samson, The Institute for Research on Public Policy Hour 2: • It's the Open Hour. Todd takes your calls! Hour 3: • Grady Munro, Fraser Institute • Toby Bond, Dalhousie University • Matthew Johnson, University of Alberta • Jo-Ann Roberts
In Hour 1, Kelly Higginson, president and CEO of Restaurants Canada, joins Todd to discuss if the GST tax 'holiday' helped businesses after it has been in place for a month. Scott McKenna, chief information officer at Nova Scotia Health, shares how text messages and notifications are now available for most Nova Scotia Health appointments. Daniel Roscoe, CEO of Roswell Development, discusses a Halifax wind energy deal to cut city emissions by 24 per cent. Rachel Samson, vice president at The Institute for Research on Public Policy and co-author of the report, shares how one in 10 Canadians live in places susceptible to workforce disruption from the transition to a greener economy. In Hour 2, Todd opens the phone lines for the Open Hour. In Hour 3, Grady Munro, a policy analyst at Fraser Institute, discusses a proposed federal tax hike that would make Canada's top capital gains tax rate among the highest of 37 advanced countries. Toby Bond, a PhD candidate at Dalhousie and senior scientist at the Canadian Light Source, shares that research out of Dalhousie could be an electric vehicle game-changer. Matthew Johnson, a family science professor at the University of Alberta, discusses research on the gender gap, which has shown the same pattern over and over: women still take on more domestic tasks than men. Author Jo-Ann Roberts is in the studio to talk about her book Storm the Ballot Box: An Insider's Guide to a Voting Revolution.