The Todd Veinotte Show | December 20, 2024

In Hour 1, Kevin Russell, executive director of Rental Housing Providers Nova Scotia,  discusses how Halifax's rental vacancy rate has risen to 2.1 per cent, according to the report. Dr. Christine Saulnier, a co-author of the report, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, shares how Nova Scotia's child poverty rate is the highest in Atlantic Canada. Politics with Lori Turnbull, political science professor at Dalhousie University. Dr Sonu Gaind, a psychiatry professor at the University of Toronto, shares a release from Statistics Canada that shows a record high in the number of people who chose medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2023. Still, critics of the law say there were more than 600 cases last year where they believe the program shouldn't have been an option at all. In Hour 2, Todd takes your calls for the Open Hour. In Hour 3, Thomas Arnason McNeil, Senior Energy Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre, discusses how the federal government has pushed its target to achieve a net-zero electricity grid back 15 years to 2050 as part of new clean electricity regulations. Jodene Baker, Vice-President of Research, Advocacy, & External Relations at Imagine Canada, shares that a majority of newcomers make charitable donations, yet a quarter regret immigration. Weather Wrap up with Allister Allders. Sports Talk with Cecil Wright.