Up first on the podcast today: the chocolate economy. Host Marcy Markusa speaks with Helen Staines, the owner of Decadence Chocolates, an artisanal chocolatier here in Winnipeg.

Her business is facing cocoa price increases of up to 400 per cent.

Also on the podcast today: With just two weeks to go before the federal election, former Conservative MP Dorothy Dobbie, former NDP MLA Erin Selby and outgoing Liberal MP Dan Vandal speak with host Marcy Markusa about what their parties are promising on crime, justice and border security. The panel talks about sentencing, border concerns, rehabilitation and how party leaders are preparing for the final debate. Dobbie, Selby and Vandal tell Marcy Markusa what they think their party will get right — and why.