Meet the youngest MPP in Ontario history.  And his ideology. He hates abortion and liberal sex-ed curriculums. He loves Dr. Suess. He parodies the Monster Mash ("We stopped the caaaaarbon tax!") in the legislature. His office calls the cops on seniors holding a "read-in" to protest library cuts. He was quiet as a 19-year-old backbencher in the opposition, but he's speaking his mind these days.

So: Who is Sam Oosterhoff? What's he doing to Ontario's conservative party? Where did his fundamentalist outlook come from? How did he get elected as a freshman? And what, exactly, is his plan? We asked the man who's been covering him since before anyone outside the Niagara region knew his name.

GUEST: Grant LaFleche, investigative reporter, St. Catharine's Standard

Meet the youngest MPP in Ontario history.  And his ideology. He hates abortion and liberal sex-ed curriculums. He loves Dr. Suess. He parodies the Monster Mash ("We stopped the caaaaarbon tax!") in the legislature. His office calls the cops on seniors holding a "read-in" to protest library cuts. He was quiet as a 19-year-old backbencher in the opposition, but he's speaking his mind these days.

So: Who is Sam Oosterhoff? What's he doing to Ontario's conservative party? Where did his fundamentalist outlook come from? How did he get elected as a freshman? And what, exactly, is his plan? We asked the man who's been covering him since before anyone outside the Niagara region knew his name.

GUEST: Grant LaFleche, investigative reporter, St. Catharine's Standard

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned the need for gender-based analysis of construction camps that dot remote areas of Canada's west last year, he was met with a hail of criticism for casting all men who work at those camps as potential rapists. That, of course, isn't the case—but what does the sudden influx of thousands of workers do to the communities who try to welcome them? It's complicated.

These work camps provide an undeniable influx of cash to communities who often struggle economically. But they also flood social services built for much smaller populations, bring higher rates of crime and, yes, increased reports of sexual harassment and assault. So what's being done on the ground to help victims or prevent future ones? How do the people who live with the "shadow population" see it? And what does the research say?

GUEST: Kyle Edwards, Maclean's

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned the need for gender-based analysis of construction camps that dot remote areas of Canada's west last year, he was met with a hail of criticism for casting all men who work at those camps as potential rapists. That, of course, isn't the case—but what does the sudden influx of thousands of workers do to the communities who try to welcome them? It's complicated.

These work camps provide an undeniable influx of cash to communities who often struggle economically. But they also flood social services built for much smaller populations, bring higher rates of crime and, yes, increased reports of sexual harassment and assault. So what's being done on the ground to help victims or prevent future ones? How do the people who live with the "shadow population" see it? And what does the research say?

GUEST: Kyle Edwards, Maclean's

This is one that will kick us right in the national pride. In order to make a good outdoor hockey rink, you need the temperature to get below freezing and stay that way consistently for a while. If you've been paying attention the past few winters, you may have noticed that's not as common as it once was. So is the outdoor rink doomed over the next few decades?

Hockey will always be a part of the Canadian myth, and it and other winter sports aren't going to vanish. But what happens when the only Canadians who can play them are ones who can afford indoor ice time, or admission to ski hills that make their own powder? If we don't have the weather to play and practice, how will Canadians dominate the sports we've come to associate with national pride?

GUEST: Stanley Kay, Sports Illustrated

This is one that will kick us right in the national pride. In order to make a good outdoor hockey rink, you need the temperature to get below freezing and stay that way consistently for a while. If you've been paying attention the past few winters, you may have noticed that's not as common as it once was. So is the outdoor rink doomed over the next few decades?

Hockey will always be a part of the Canadian myth, and it and other winter sports aren't going to vanish. But what happens when the only Canadians who can play them are ones who can afford indoor ice time, or admission to ski hills that make their own powder? If we don't have the weather to play and practice, how will Canadians dominate the sports we've come to associate with national pride?

GUEST: Stanley Kay, Sports Illustrated

This will likely be Canada's least-covered federal election in history, at least on a local level. The race to be Prime Minister will receive no shortage of analysis, but in the midst of vanishing local news outlets, what happens to the other 338 other races? 

What kind of coverage can local news outlets afford to take on this fall? And when they run out of reporters, or money, what stories are the first to go? What replaces them? What options do voters have for in-depth local analysis? And, of course, how will savvy political campaigns take advantage of the situation?

GUEST: April Lindgren, head of the Local News Research Project, professor of journalism at Ryerson University

This will likely be Canada's least-covered federal election in history, at least on a local level. The race to be Prime Minister will receive no shortage of analysis, but in the midst of vanishing local news outlets, what happens to the other 338 other races? 

What kind of coverage can local news outlets afford to take on this fall? And when they run out of reporters, or money, what stories are the first to go? What replaces them? What options do voters have for in-depth local analysis? And, of course, how will savvy political campaigns take advantage of the situation?

GUEST: April Lindgren, head of the Local News Research Project, professor of journalism at Ryerson University

Logging into a social network can be qualified as risky behaviour, in the same vein as drinking, gambling or unsafe sex. We know enough about it now to understand that it does things to our brain, and now it seems even the tech giants are acknowledging that some of their platforms' key features are...bad for us.

This week, Instagram removed the ability to instantly see the number of likes a post has received. Minor? Sure. But those little hearts are a key social currency, says Bailey Parnell, a social media researcher who studies the link between these systems and our mental health. How can we practice "safe social"? What further changes could be coming from the teach giants? How bad does it have to get before we change our habits?

GUEST: Bailey Parnell, CEO of Skills Camp, social media researcher and lecturer.

Logging into a social network can be qualified as risky behaviour, in the same vein as drinking, gambling or unsafe sex. We know enough about it now to understand that it does things to our brain, and now it seems even the tech giants are acknowledging that some of their platforms' key features are...bad for us.

This week, Instagram removed the ability to instantly see the number of likes a post has received. Minor? Sure. But those little hearts are a key social currency, says Bailey Parnell, a social media researcher who studies the link between these systems and our mental health. How can we practice "safe social"? What further changes could be coming from the teach giants? How bad does it have to get before we change our habits?

GUEST: Bailey Parnell, CEO of Skills Camp, social media researcher and lecturer.