Metro Morning

Two performers from the production Ghost Quartet on time travel and jalopies on a dark road; human trafficking hotline credited with many arrests.

Homeless voters in the 905 feel election campaigning has missed key issues; Gord Downie's legacy, and the causes he championed, two years after his death.

Metro Morning's Jesse Wente talks about what he sees as disturbing trends in the global political climate, the "Trump effect" and the dangers of polarization; Syrian refugee and new Canadian citizen Vanig Garabedian talks about what it will mean to vote for the first time in his new country; and Duncan Tooley talks about representing Canada at the Roll Ball World Cup- despite Team Canada never having played a game before.

Shonah Chalmers, a professor in the culinary program at Humber College, talks about her course on cooking from "root-to-stem" and how a change in attitude can have a huge environmental impact; Co-founder of Choir! Choir! Choir! Nobu Adilman talks about how he helped organize choirs of Americans and Mexicans on both sides of the Tijuana border to sing a Beatles standard in order to spread a message of love and connection; and Urban designer and author Ken Greenberg talks about how he's using paint to transform the cold, congested and grey Rees Lakeshore intersection of the Gardiner into a golden "gateway to the waterfront".

Parents who lost young people undertake important advocacy work: Glen Canning does anti-bullying outreach and Janette Moore campaigns against illegal rooming houses with insufficient safety standards.

Raina Telgemeier author of 'Guts' talks about being in Grade 4 and starting to draw comics to deal with her phobias; positive response to new Toronto police mental health strategy.

Using the private refugee sponsorship model to alleviate poverty and homelessness in Oshawa; pitbull expert says you get out what you put in, just like many other dog breeds.

Voters in Burlington weigh their options in the federal election; CUPE head explains how they got the contract they wanted.

U of T must be more than 'custodians' of students says author responding to recent suicide; mother & daughter want to involve different generations in a conversation about the importance of voting.

Malcom Gladwell on why it's fine to talk to strangers; U of T President Meric Gertler says changes are being made after student suicide at the Bahen Centre for Technology computer science building.