Ontario Morning Podcast - Wednesday March 24, 2021 - Categories Via RSS |
- News
- Publication Date |
- Mar 24, 2021
- Episode Duration |
- 00:52:05
Tammy Schirle , a professor of economics at Wilfrid Laurier, looks ahead to today's provincial budget in the context of the 'she-cession' - a term being used to describe how working women in general have been hit harder the effects of the pandemic; Peterborough illustrator Kathryn Durst tells us about working again with Paul McCartney; this time on his second book “Grandude’s Green Submarine”. Dr. Catherine Zahn
president of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH - outlines what she would like to hear in the provincial budget; Jessica Lehr of Pollinate Collingwood tells us how her community has become a Bee City; Karl Baldauf served as Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy's Chief of Staff,. He outlines what he thinks the provincial government's priorities will be in the new budget; Nadia Danyluk from the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Library talks about some of the books that renewed her interest in reading; Safiyah Husein, a senior policy analyst with the John Howard Society of Ontario, discusses their study that revealed inequities in the Youth Bail System. Black, Indigenous and people of colour are spending disproportionately long times incarcerated; Enzo Curcio is making birdhouses out of wine bottle corks to raise money for the Peterborough Regional Health Centre.