The city of Kingston wants to see old clothes and used sheets in textile recycling bins set up across the city through a pilot project, and in partnership with a Trenton company. However, after concerns over its impact, the project has been temporarily put on hold. Myra Hird, Professor of Environmental Studies at Queen's University, joined us to talk about it. Today on the books column gardener and author Patrick Lima is our guest, with his latest book Tracks in the Snow: Poems & Essays from Life and the Land. The County of Simcoe is helping create other options to address the rise of homelessness in the region. Recently, it granted new funding to the Busby Centre’s South Georgian Bay site. We spoke with executive director Sara Peddle about this matter