Ontario Public Health officials are advising folks to have their thanksgiving dinners with their immediate families. But are people going to listen?

Guest: Dr.Todd Coleman,  PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health Sciences Wilfrid Laurier University

Last week, the federal government reintroduced a bill to ban conversion therapy. We chat with Dr. Kristopher Wells about the latest bill and the practice.  

Guest: Kristopher Wells, Faculty of Health and Community Studies MacEwan University, Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual & Gender Minority Youth

The inquiry into Long Term Care in Ontario continues as residents have been describing the emotional impact of the pandemic to the independent inquiry.

Guest: Jane E. Meadus, Barrister & Solicitor, Institutional Advocate, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly

Is there an appetite for an Ontario election, given as how Saskatchewan and BC are heading to polls, and New Brunswick just had one? In a Toronto Star poll, Ontarians aren’t wanting to bite on that, especially with the pandemic going on.

Guest: Sabrina Nanji, Queen’s Park Today

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The US President has spent the weekend in hospital while battling COVID-19. After a weekend of mixed information on his status, and his limo ride around the hospital for his supporters, could he be released today?

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Producer and Correspondent with Global News

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Are Ontarians reluctant to follow the COVID-19 instructions? With ‘normal’ not being in sight for the near future, how should we be following the rules at this point in time?

Guest: Alison Thompson, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor of Public Health Services, and Professor of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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Yesterday saw Sisters in Spirit Day vigils being held for missing and murdered Indigenous Women. The ONWA has released a report outlining solutions to end systemic violence against women.

Guest: Cora McGuire-Cyrette, Executive Director at ONWA (Ontario Native Women Association)