GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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OP-ED: Should Jagmeet Singh pull his support for the Liberals? It is up to the opposition parties to take a stand and put the country before the party, and let the dominoes fall where they may.

GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Principal at Navigator and Author of The Right Path

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The homelessness crisis in Ontario is not just an unfortunate situation. It is the outcome of decades of policy decisions and poor choices made by successive Ontario governments.

This is why municipalities are calling on the Government of Ontario to step up and show leadership and accountability in addressing the serious problem it has created.

The homelessness crisis is a made-in-Ontario crisis that calls out for intelligent and co-ordinated action on the part of the province.

GUEST: Colin Best, President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, and Regional Councillor for Ward 1 in Milton

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Canada’s banking regulator is increasing its monitoring of domestic banks’ financial health as the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure ripples through markets, even after U.S. leaders introduced rare measures designed to avoid repeating the run on deposits that toppled the tech-lending leader.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions took control of SVB’s Canadian operations on Sunday, and on Monday the regulator took steps to begin daily check-ins with banks that will enable it to monitor their liquidity, according to two sources with knowledge of the decision. The frequent updates are a precautionary tool last used in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, designed to provide an early warning if any signs of stress emerge.

GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

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New polling shows the majority of Canadians support the federal government calling an independent inquiry into allegations of foreign interference, but still feel the country's electoral system is safe.

GUEST: Andrew Enns, Executive Vice-President of Central Canada for Leger

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Ontario teachers need to pay attention to the Ford government’s move to allow more private delivery in the public health care system because education could be next, warns the president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.

GUEST: Karen Littlewood, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

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Agencies that run daycares say they're so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10-a-day child care can be delivered to all the kids who will need a spot. 

Stories abound of daycare centres running at half capacity, asking parents to take their kids out of care for a day or two a week, or even shutting down operations entirely, all for lack of staff. 

The Trudeau government is promising to give all families in Canada access to high quality child care at an average price of $10 per day. Its plan calls for creating 250,000 new child-care spots by 2026. 

GUEST: Kerry McCuaig, Fellow with the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with U of T

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Topics Include:

·       Parliamentary committee’s straying beyond poetics

·       Poilievre must do more to win over women voters

·       Conservatives more trusted than Liberals to manage finances

·       And more….

GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University

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Ontario legislative member Vincent Ke, has resigned from the PC party following a Global News report of allegations by intelligence sources that Ke was involved in an election interference network directed by China’s consulate in Toronto.

Ke, who represents the Toronto-area riding of Don Valley North, denies the allegations. 

GUEST: Sabrina Nanji, Publisher of the Queen’s Park Observer

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Topics Include:

·        U.S Federal reserve governors to hold closed-door meeting today

·        Silicon Valley Bank

·        And more….

GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News

GUEST: Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge

GUEST: TECH TALK with Adam Oldfield