Councillor Leigh Bursey tells us about spending the night in the Brockville railway tunnel as part an effort to bring attention to the plight of people who are without places to stay; The Deputy Chief of Peterborough Police Services Tim Farquharson, discusses the spike in opioid-related deaths since the onset of the pandemic, and some of the social causes underlying them; What kind of a Christmas can we expect with the threat of COVID-19 looming? Epidemiologist Tim Sly offers his perspective; Tucked away in the recent provincial budget were changes for conservation authorities that are making environmental groups nervous. We discuss the proposed changes with Kim Gavine of Conservation Ontario; Sarah Keyes is the co-author of a private members bill focused on bringing food literacy education in Ontario schools; How sustainable is it to keep schools open if COVID-19 cases keep rising? The head of the Council of Ontario Directors of Education Tony Pontes discusses how schools are dealing with the second wave of the coronavirus; The former host of 'The National' on CBC television, Peter Mansbridge, tells us a little about his new book "Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation".