Marissa Lennox is now filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Anthony Quinn, Chief Community Officer

CARP, Bill VanGorder,  Chief Operating Officer and Chief Policy Officer of CARP and John Wright,  Executive Vice President, Maru Public Opinion.

Over the weekend, hundreds of protesters gathered in Pickering right outside of Ontario finance minister Peter Bethlenfalvy's office calling on the Ford government to protect land on the Greenbelt. The Ford government said it will follow 14 of the 15 recommendations in the auditor general's report. The one recommendation it has not agreed to follow is to revisit the land swaps and potentially reverse course on the Greenbelt plans.

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WHAT IS "SKIMPFLATION"? 

Marissa Lennox is now joined by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

A headline in the Toronto Sun this weekend read: Unveiling Skimpflation – the latest consumer squeeze. Written by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, who is the Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University – And he joins us now to discuss a term that may be unfamiliar to many – but in fact, it is a practice that itself has a decades-long history.

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EVEN A MAYOR CAN'T AFFORD HOUSING IN ONTARIO 

Marissa Lennox is now joined by Steve Jelenic, Toronto Real Estate Agent with SAGE real estate.

We talked about it earlier in the program, but a mayor in the Kitchener-Waterloo area says she can’t afford a home, despite making 90k a year.

It raises a lot of questions about housing affordability in the province.

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