The Deb Hutton Show

Reshmi recaps the top stories of the day...  We provide you an update on the mayoral race including a new 18-year-old candidate. NDP MPP for Kiiwetinoong Sol Mamakwa joins the show to tall about the announcement of Volkswagen opening an electric vehicle battery plant in southern Ontario and its impact on First Nations. Toronto Tech start-up  First Class Facilitation CEO Maddy Hearne and CTO McKenzie Day to talk about how they will help survivors of intimate partnership violence.  Prodcuer Ben and Reshmi discuss whether if looking through your partner's Youtube history is an invasion of privacy?

Reshmi recaps the top stories of the day... We open up the first hour by discussing the latest news including TPS officer who stole siezed drugs and Reshmi remembers the life of Tarek Fateh who passed away at the age of 73. Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles joins the show to discuss the inreasing rent costs in the province and why the current governement needs to update the rent control regulations. Our sciece expert Dan Riskin joins the show hops on for his weekly segment to discuss the latest science news. Finally daughter of Sue Johanson, former host of Sunday Night Sex Show, Jane Johanson joins the show to discsuss the rising STI rates among seniors. 

Reshmi recaps the top stories of the day including Ontario not paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.Cathryn Naiker - Comedian, Host of the Buckets & Tea NBA Show and The Pickup WNBA Podcast joins to talk about the firing of Raptors coach Nick Nurse. Jim Richards joins to tease Newstalk Tonight.

Entertainment Court with Richard Crouse. Brett House joins the show for a special dollars and sense. Also Jim Richards and Genevieve Tomney join are the smart speakers for today.

We recap top stories including a Toronto mayoral canidate update.  Vic Fedeli - Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade to talk VW battery plant in St Thomas. We play over/underrated. Kevin Donovan - Toronto Star investigative reporter discusses Wrong turns in the Sherman investigation - new episode of his podcast about the mistakes made early in the investigation that have had long lasting impacts

Nick Nurse is fired by the Raptors. Rent in Toronto hits a high $3000 creating a very alarming situation. Carmi Levy Joins to talk tech. Producer Ben has a dilemma regarding who should fix what in an apartment building. 

Reshmi weighs in on all the news of the day...  TDSB Trustee Weidong Pei is trying to overturn the TDSB lottery system for specialty high schools. He joins the show to elaborate on his plans, and we take your calls, should the TDSB get rid of the lottery system?

Reshmi weighs in on all the news of the day...  In the second hour we provide updates on the mayoral race and see what Andrew Furey has to say about bike lanes. Toronto Star columnist Shawn Micallef joins the show to discuss the election and if the city will finally get "grown up" mayor. We play our weekly segment of Fake News 4/20 edition. To end the hour we take calls to see if Torontonians are seeing their kids get meaner due to COVID lockdowns. 

Reshmi weighs in on all the news of the day... Are your kids getting meaner thanks to COVID? We also discuss if the city is doing enough with keeping us upateded with their consturction plans. Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation Wesley Wark joins the show to discuss Canada's procedure on declassifying information. We are also joined by former Ontario nurse Tyler Clark who has decided to leave the province due to unaffordability

Reshmi weighs in on all the news of the day...  We recap the biggest news of the days. With Mississauga finally allowing legalized pot shops we take calls to see what people think about that and also get their thoughts on if they think people should take paycuts working from home.