ONTARIO TO PROVIDE 21 DAYS OF ELECTRICITY COST RELIEF TO RESIDENTS AND SMALL BUSINESSES 

Libby Znaimer is joined by Peter Tabuns, NDP MPP (Toronto—Danforth)  and Energy Critic as well as Paul Acchione,  a senior management consultant with over 48 years of engineering and management experience in the nuclear and fossil power generation industry.

As of 12:01 yesterday, the province kicked off 21 days of electricity cost relief for families and individuals working from home and also small businesses. Both guests detail what you need to know to benefit from this and Peter Tabuns weighs in on whether this is enough support from the government.

JAGMEET SINGH AND THE ROCKING CHAIR 

Libby Znaimer is joined by Duff Conacher, Co-Founder of Democracy Watch and David Tarrant, Vice President of National Strategic Communications at Enterprise.

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has found himself in the hot seat over a rocking chair. What happened was his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, posted a photo of a chair made by a Canadian company on her Instagram. Jagmeet also posted a photo of the chair with him sitting on it holding his child and a laptop with the caption: “how I’m spending my time these days. I have a new partner to spend time with”. The chair, valued at $1,895, was given to Sidhu as a gift from the company in exchange for promoting it on her social media. So the question becomes, do ethics policies apply to the family of political leaders and how big of an ethical problem is this for Singh?

CANADA SENDS SPECIAL FORCES TO UKRAINE AS RUSSIA-UKRAINE-NATO TENSIONS RISE

Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Aurel Braun, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto and Center Associate Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and Dr. Andriy Zayarnyuk, Professor of History at the University of Winnipeg who teaches about the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and nationalism.

Tensions continue to rise between Russia and the Ukraine and NATO with Russia amassing roughly 100,000 troops along the border. Canada, who is a part of NATO, has sent over a small contingency of special forces troops that is being tasked with organizing an evacuation for Canadian diplomats should Russia initiate a full scale invasion. Our experts weigh in on the recent developments in the region and how likely an invasion is considering Russia invaded and annexed Crimea back in 2014.