Are Toronto Doing Enough to Deal with the Protests?

Published: Jan. 9, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL:\xa0 TORONTO MAYOR OLIVIA CHOW'S SKATE PARTY DISRUPTED BY PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by Lisa Raitt, former deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, George Smitherman, former Ontario Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre who also served as a health minister and deputy Premier and Andrew Cash, Former NDP MP, Toronto-Davenport district.\n\nThis week: Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow's skating party at Nathan Phillips Square was disrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces criticism\xa0for his latest vacation to Jamaica.\n\nTORONTO COUNCILLORS CALL ON OTTAWA TO INVESTIGATE ARSON OF JEWISH BUSINESS AS ACT OF TERRORISM\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by Toronto City Councillors James Pasternak, Ward 6 York Centre, and Mike Colle, Ward 8 Eglinton-Lawrence.\n\nBoth City Councillors on the program today are calling on Ottawa to investigate the vandalism of a Jewish-owned business in North York, International Delicatessen Foods (IDF for short), as a potential act of terrorism. Both of their wards are home to a large Jewish community. They also react to the situation whereby a Toronto Police Officer handed over a coffee to a pro-Palestinian protester which drew plenty of backlash including from some of our elected politicians like Councillor Pasternak and Liberal MP Marco Mendicino.\n\nHUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS CANCELED DUE TO BOEING PLANE ISSUES\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by John Gradek, a faculty lecturer at McGill University in Montreal and a former executive with Air Canada and Dr. Karl Moore, an Airline Industry Analyst and Professor at McGill University.\n\nSome Airlines have had to ground their planes in the U.S. Here's why.