Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gathered at a YMCA to announce a historic childcare deal between the Ontario and federal governments that would see fees drop by 50 per cent by the end of the year.

The deal was a long time coming and as Steve Paikin and John Michael McGrath discuss on this week's podcast, there are always politics at play.

Then, independent MPP for Durham Lindsey Park joins the pod to discuss her bill to combat loneliness, and her decision not to run in the next election.

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