Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Charles Sousa, The former minister of finance for Ontario and MPP for Mississauga South, Lisa Raitt, Former Deputy Leader of Conservative Party of Canada, and Glenn De Baeremaeker,  a former Scarborough City Councillor, and Deputy Mayor for Scarborough.

We begin today by discussing the aftermath of the Rogers Communications services outage that lasted over 15 hours and blocked access to key sectors like the health care system, banking services and even law enforcement. Yesterday, federal industry minister François-Philippe Champagne met with the head of Rogers and other telecom giants. What do our guests think of that meeting and what came out of it? Meanwhile, in provincial politics, the Premiers are meeting this week in Victoria and the big agenda item is a call on the federal government to increase its share of health care funding from 22 to 35 percent.

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PHYSICIANS ARE CALLING ON THE PROVINCE TO EXPAND FOURTH DOSE ELIGIBILITY

Jane Brown  is joined by Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, an Ottawa-based family physician and a medical anthropologist who writes about health policy and politics, and Dr. Timothy Sly,  an epidemiologist and professor at the school of Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Doctors are calling on the province to expand fourth dose eligibility beyond adults 60 and older, the immunocompromised and Indigenous peoples especially as we currently face a seventh COVID wave.

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ONTARIO HAS ENTERED A SEVENTH COVID-19 WAVE

Jane Brown is now joined by Karen Born, Assistant Scientific Director, Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.

Karen discusses how Ontario is now is a seventh wave and reminds us about what we need to do better protect ourselves from the spread of COVID-19.

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