Counterpoint - Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by:

John Mraz - Former liberal war room director with several dozen elections worth of experience

and

Bill Hutchison - Former broadcaster...longtime journalist...professor at Seneca

Topics include:

For a guy who loves to be the centre of attention, apparently Mayor Tory doesn’t have much to say about the high risk 'Cleaver Killer' who waltzed out of a downtown hospital and jumped on a plane. But neither do the Toronto Police nor those at the CAMH.

How far should taxpayer-funded first-responder organizations such as police, fire services and paramedics go when it comes to trying to protect staff from witnessing trauma?

Doug Ford cancels cellphone after too many calls from 'special interest groups'

Andrew Scheer says U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about how certain Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to their home countries are “offensive,” but the Conservative Party of Canada Leader stopped short of condemning the comments as racist.

Stats Canada says 1 in 3 mothers keep their babies in bed with them. Another 1 in 4 say their baby sleeps with them occasionally. That's despite medical studies showing the risk of SIDS is much higher for babies who share a bed with a parent. 

A $445-million loan made to automaker Chrysler during the financial crisis has been written off by the Ontario government because it can’t legally recover the debt, and that’s because the Feds forgave their share last year.

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