Metro Morning

Feeling unsafe at work: TTC employees and TDSB teachers and classroom staff worry daily about violent incidents, according to union heads.

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones: private delivery of some procedures will bring wait times "back to pre-pandemic levels by March 2023"; contrasting views from U of T educator and UHN administrator.

'Girls need connection first -- then competing': little tweaks go a long way with GTA basketball program for adolescent girls; divorce was warfare until a Toronto psychologist changed the rules.

University of Toronto prof: many branches of science come together to build climate models from huge collections of new and historical data; environmentalist has simple suggestion for Toronto City Hall.

GTA mayor: 20% tax increase will be needed next year to replace development charges, under new Provincial housing act; is Hamilton urban boundary expansion legal?

'Gonna have to dig in .. today is gonna be a battle': friend of Constable Greg Pierzchala watched him enter the OPP and now says goodbye; planning student has solutions for Lawrence East's unsafe design.

'Stooping' (from NYC's stoops) -- Torontonian sold on the many advantages of bringing home curbside discards; "The first time -- it was horrible!": winter camping fan learns from his mistakes.

A conversation with poet Randell Adjei on how to approach the new year with some hope and food guide Suresh Doss shares his most memorable discoveries of 2022.

How the townspeople of Cramahe came together to help stranded travelers in the midst of this weekend’s storm and after the Taliban banned women from attending universities, what does the future look like for women and girls' education in Afghanistan?

More than two years ago, Karen Scutt came on Metro Morning to talk about her search for a surrogate mother. Today, she came back with the woman who agreed to become her surrogate. Also, former Chef to the British Royal Family, John Higgins, stopped in with a batch of eggnog.