Ontario Morning Podcast - Wednesday July 21, 2021
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Jul 21, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:56:37
Reza Rajabiun, a consultant in competition and telecom policy and a research fellow at Ryerson University discusses the provincial government's pledge to spend billions to get high speed internet to the entire province by 2025; For a picture of how the pandemic has affected; For a picture of how the pandemic is affecting life for trans and non binary people, we spoke with Carl Cruise-Baxter, a Trans Outreach Worker with the Canadian Mental Health Association for Kawartha, Haliburton and Pine Ridge; We get the view from Red Lake, one of the communities in northwestern Ontario threatened by forest fires. NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa describes the situation for us; Travel journalist Jennifer Weatherhead Harrington says Canada can look forward to a lot of American tourists when Canada welcomes fully-vaccinated travelers; How to broach the difficult conversation with a family member who is unwilling to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Family therapist Richard Grunfeld has some advice; Our Tara Henley tells us about her conversation with Hakeem Oluseyi about his new memoir "A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars."; Prescott Mayor Brett Todd talks about his community's relationship with Ogdensburg on the other side of the river in light of federal decision to open the border to fully-vaccinated Americans;Dr. David Edward-Ooi Poon is the founder of Faces of Advocacyad organization dedicated to reuniting Canadian families separated from their loved ones during the COVID-19 related travel restrictions. He offers his reaction to the federal government's policy with respect to the border re-opening.

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