Ontario Morning

Ontario Morning - Thursday May 14, 2020


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Peter Jüni, an epidemiology professor at the University of Toronto, was the lead author of a peer-reviewed study that concludes that warming weather will not do anything to slow the spread of the coronavirus; The National Research Council of Canada is teaming up with a Chinese company CanSino to develop a vaccine to combat the coronavirus. Lakshmi Krishnan of the NRC tells us more; Our Queen's Park reporter Mike Crawley obtained a draft of a news release outlining the province's plans to allow more openings. He tells us what he's learned; Two companies, Revera and Siena, operate more than 130 long-term care homes in Ontario, including facilities in Cornwall, Barrie and Bobcayeon. They may find themselves find themselves facing a $100 million class action lawsuit undertaken by the families of residents who have died. Darryl Singer is the lawyer who is leading the case; Carmen Gill is a sociologist at the University of New Brunswick who specializes in violence against women. She discusses how women have become particularly vulnerable because of the isolation being observed because of the pandemic; Cybersecurity expert Claudiu Popa explains how the apps designed for contact tracing of COVID-19 work and the risks they can present to our privacy; Siena and Zoe McLaven are twin sisters and Grade 12 students at Innisdale Secondary School in Barrie. They talk about ending their final year without prom; Annie Sparling extols the virtues of the humble rutabaga from Blyth, the Rutabaga Capitol of Canada.
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