Counterpoint - Thursday, May 23rd, 2019

Alex is joined by:

KIM WRIGHT - Principal at Wright Strategies

ELISSA FREEMAN - Public relations and pop culture expert

Topics include: 

No real explanation needed. Is this a path we should go down, and re-write the laws to allow this to happen? Or, does this cross a line?
Euthanasia by organ donation: Should we allow doctors to retrieve people's organs while they're still alive?

Health has been in the news a lot lately. This hospital is essentially hiding behind a bunch of red tape. Burlington women say dads are dying from shocking bedsores, blame Jo Brant Hospital

10 former Ontario health ministers have written letters to Premier Ford calling on the province to reverse cuts to health. And while this is being sold as a bi partisan stunt-- 6 were libs. Three NDP and one VERY red tory from the Davis years.

The front-runner, also known as the only runner, so far, for for the leadership of Ontario’s Liberal Party says he’d upload responsibility for the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway to the province and introduce half-price TTC and GO Transit fares at off-peak hours. This guy was the transportation min.. If this was such a no-brainer why wasn’t it done when he was in gov? Old ideas. Old blood.

Another day- Another apology for our PM Justin Trudeau who was in Saskatchewan today to formally apologize and exonerate Chief Poundmaker who was convicted and jailed in 1885. He and other First Nations leaders were accused of instigating violence in the Northwest Rebellion. This is the 6th formal and historical apology Trudeau has made. Is this not over kill?

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