The Todd Veinotte Show | January 9, 2025

In Hour 1, Tanya Penney, Nova Scotia Health's senior director of the emergency program of care and executive director for the central zone, joins Todd to discuss the Emergency department closure report, which shows problems persist at most troubled Nova Scotia locations despite some progress, recruitment challenges and closures continue at some sites. NDP Leader Claudia Chender says the government is not living up to that promise regarding a legislative agenda. Dr. Jeff Goodall, a veterinarian who runs the Sunnyview Animal Care Centre in Bedford, discusses how Nova Scotia clinics out to boost the supply of blood available to dogs in emergency cases Canadian Animal Blood Bank is opening a processing centre in the region. Moshe Lander, an economist from Montreal's Concordia University, joins Todd to discuss what Trudeau's exit means for the struggling loonie and Canada's economy. In Hour 2, Todd opens the phone lines for the Open Hour. In Hour 3, Politicschat with UPEI political science professor Don Desserud. Tim Guest, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Hospice Palliative Care Association, shares Phase Two of the Healing Pathways Community Funding Program. Duff Conacher, Co-founder of Democracy Watch, will challenge a prorogation of Parliament in court if it is clearly in the Liberal Party's self-interest and happens at a time when opposition parties intend to vote non-confidence in the government. Norm Collins, Founder of Crosswalk Safety Society of Nova Scotia, discusses how Halifax safety advocates are calling for government action to reduce the number of pedestrians injured or killed by cars after the death of a senior who was hit while walking on a marked crosswalk earlier this week.