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  • Colin Furness - Infection-Control Epidemiologist/ Tim Hudak - CEO of the Ontario Real Estate Association / Joanne Russo of Russo Corp in Aurora / Corby-Sue Neumann, Director of Culinary at HelloFresh Canada
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with Colin Furness - Infection-control epidemiologist and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto to get his take on the Moderna vaccine for the “wee little ones”; booster hesitancy; and the latest on this summer wave
    • Ann Rohmer is with Tim Hudak – CEO of the Ontario Real Estate Association. They discuss finding solutions to increase housing supply
    • Kevin Frankish talks with Joanne Russo of Russo Corp in Aurora; a hands-on boutique style firm that specializes in Corporate and Consumer restructuring and bankruptcy, offering support and services to individuals and businesses with debt problems. Insolvency management and self care are not two topics you often hear mentioned in the same sentence. Chat to promote SELF CARE DAY on Sunday
    • Lianne Castelino the host of Where Parents Talk chats with Corby-Sue Neumann, Director of Culinary at HelloFresh Canada. Discusses cost-effective meal-planning and grocery shopping tips during rising inflation and strategies to empower kids to cook for themselves while living away from home.
    • Ann Rohmer with her monthly chat with City of Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua. This will be his last one as he is not seeking re-election this fall
    1 hr
  • Laurie Campbell - Wellness at Bromwich + Smith / Robert Hosking from the Robert Half Group / Dr. David Carr / Dr. Sameer Masood / NordVPN Survey
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with Laurie Campbell, Director of Client Financial Wellness at Bromwich + Smith; Bank of Canada’s aggressive rate hike of a full percentage point; fallout? Survival tips
    • Kevin Frankish looks into productivity trends since the shift to remote work with Robert Hosking from the ROBERT HALF GROUP, including specific times of day productivity increases and the days of the week employees get more done.
    • Ann Rohmer discusses the emergency room crisis with Dr. David Carr - Associate Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto and his take on Ontario’s ER crisis and staffing shortage.
    • Jim Lang is with Dr. Sameer Masood, who is University Health Network’s Director of ED Quality, Safety and Innovation. This story is about the recent launch of Toronto’s Virtual Emergency Department (ED), an innovative collaboration between University Health Network (UHN), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Unity Health Toronto. The collaboration between the three networks is meant to expand access to virtual ED care for urgent, but non-life-threatening health concerns.
    Tina Cortese looks at the results of a new survey by cybersecurity company NordVPN. Canadians spend more than 49 hours a week online, which is the equivalent of more than 2 days. This amounts to a little over 104 days a year, or around 22 years of a lifetime. Canadians love streaming TV shows and films. Just two hours less – 6 hours and 22 minutes – are spent scrolling through social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
    59 min
  • YPRH Associate Medical Officer of Health - Dr. Joanne Fernandes / Canadian Border Services Association / KPMG - Family Businesses Report / Digital ID / Summer Movies with Teri Hart
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with York Region Public Health Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joanne Fernandes about summer case counts? 2nd booster? Variant update?
    • Glynn Perkins is with a Canadian Border Services Association spokesperson about how to maketravel quicker and move more efficiently.
    • Tina Cortes has a new report from KPMG in Canada about how family businesses have been able to reinvent themselves, stay competitive and achieve multi-generational success.
    • Jim Lang looks into the debate around digital identity …what is it? And why does it have so many Canadians wondering what a digital ID-enabled future could look like. Could it help reduce identity fraud and streamline business processes? With so many different views on what digital ID is, it’s important for Canadians to cut through the noise and learn about how it will work, where it could be used and how it’ll change the daily lives of Canadians.
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with movie/entertainment specialist with SuperChannel Teri Hart and the long list of summer blockbusters; will there be a return to the movie theatre? ; a list of movies already in theatres right up until Labour Day
    57 min
  • Kevin Forget - Destination Ontario / Barbara Byers - The Lifesaving Society / CAA Southern Ontario / Golden Girls Canada / Bodychecking in Hockey
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with Kevin Forget of Destination Ontario who reminds listeners that there are great vacation spots in the province and right here in York region and shares some budget friendly ideas.
    • Ann Rohmer also speaks with Barbara Byers from The Lifesaving Society where the discussion focuses on pool safety and drowning prevention.
    • Kevin Frankish looks into the CAA Southern Ontario and the results of their surveys about distracted and drug-impaired driving.
    • Ann Rohmer looks at Golden Girls Canada; a home shared by mature adults.
    • Jim Lang speaks with a University of Calgary Professor whose new report found that teens who started bodychecking in hockey earlier were at "significantly higher risk" for concussion in subsequent seasons.
    57 min
  • Kelley Keehn / Gregory Jack - IPSOS / Sarah King - Greenpeace Canada / Alex Cheng - Bloor Door
    • Ann Rohmer is with Kelley Keehn, an expert on all things money; personal finance educator and author – how to cope with effects of inflation on a personal level and how to prepare for a recession.
    Tina Cortese discusses a recent IPSOS survey with Gregory Jack - Vice President at IPSOS about the rising cost of living has gone from being a fact of life or mild annoyance to the main source of financial anxiety. According to a new Ipsos poll, 85 per cent of respondents are stressed their income won’t keep up with inflation.
    • Kevin Frankish speaks with Sarah King, the head of GREENPEACE CANADA’S oceans & plastics campaign; with their take on the feds plan to ban single use plastics.
    • Jim Lang looks into backyard homes with Francois Abbott - architect and owner of Toronto’s Fabrication Studio. The company is focused on Garden Suites and Laneway Suites. Compact and climate-friendly homes.
    • Tina Cortese is with Alex Cheng – Blue Door Director of Programs about INNclusion. This program will provide safe, stable housing for four youth who identify as a part of the 2SLGBTQ+ group, who are at risk of and/or experiencing homelessness in York Region.
    47 min
  • Monkey Pox / Canadian Blood Services / Blake Adam / Bibi's Got Game / Ms. Marvel
    • Ann Rohmer opens this episode with information about Monkey Pox, its origins, signs, symptoms, transmissibility, treatable. The medical facts from The W.H.O. & York Region Public Health.
    • Tina Cortese reminds us that Canadian Blood Services says it is struggling to replenish a critically low national supply caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization says the virus that has persisted since March 2020 has resulted in the smallest donor base in a decade.
    • Jim Lang speaks with Blake Adam, CEO of Medimap, a Canadian technology company that publishes wait-times online for walk-in clinics, about how the growing doctor shortage in Ontario is impacting walk-in clinics and how his company is helping frustrated patients find the care they need as quickly as possible.
    • Kevin Frankish discusses "Bibi's Got Game: A Story about Tennis, Meditation and a Dog Named Coco", the first picture book written by and based on real-life tennis star Bianca Andreescu, a young athlete learns how to work through life's toughest moments through inner strength and meditation.
    Shaliza Bacchus looks into the Markham teen who stars as Disney’s Ms. Marvel (Disney+ series that features Marvel Studios' first Muslim superhero). The newest Marvel limited series, follows Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Pakistani American girl from New Jersey who struggles to fit in at school and home until she’s endowed with superpowers.
    53 min
  • Food Banks Canada / VP - Ontario Hotel Restaurant Hotel Association / Pay Equity / Mayor of Vaughan / Father's Day Gift Ideas
    Ann Rohmer is with Food Banks Canada discussing newly released data from Food Banks Canada on how more Canadians report they are facing hunger and food insecurity due to rising inflation and housing costs. The nation's leading charitable organization that's focused on relieving hunger today and preventing hunger tomorrow, Food Banks Canada's data shows that one-in-five (an estimated 7 million) Canadians now report going hungry — with 23% reporting that they are eating less "than they think they should" because there isn't enough money for food.
     
    Kevin Frankish speaks with the Vice President from the Ontario Hotel Restaurant Hotel Association about their shortage of workers; issues affecting their operating hours, hotel occupancies, menu selections, mental health and many operational consequences. They are trying to work towards a sustainable way of working through their workforce pandemic.
     
    Tina Cortese looks into the pay equity legislation that exists in most provinces across Canada. In Ontario and Quebec specifically, both public and private sector employers must comply with pay equity laws. The new federal pay equity act applies to all federally-regulated
    companies with more than 10 employees.
     
    Ann Rohmer is with the Mayor of Vaughan for his June update. The mayor announced last week he is not running for re-election this fall; what’s next for Maurizio Bevilacqua?
     
    Jim Lang speaks with the trend experts at Showcase, home of the hottest trends with 109 Canadian stores who have assembled a fun Father’ Day List featuring 13 weird and wonderful gift ideas for every type of dad including: Finger Chopsticks, Natural Wood Barrel Bourbon Soap, Big Boss Hose, Arctic Hat, E-Scooter.
    53 min
  • Lori Alhadeff - Make Our Schools Safe / York Regional Police Chief / CAA - Slowdown Please Sign / Dr. Daniel Kalla / Mary Garofalo - The Ken & Barbie Killers / Canadian Open
    • Ann Rohmer looks into the issue of making our schools safe. As the nation continues to mourn the horrific shooting at a Texas elementary school last week, one advocate is in Albany this week pushing for legislation to make schools safer. Lori Alhadeff, the mother of a student killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Florida in 2018 is hoping to get Alyssa’s Law passed in New York.  If it does, schools in New York would be equipped with at least one panic button in cases of emergencies like an active shooter.  Her daughter Alyssa was one of the 17 people who was killed at Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida in February of 2018.
    • Glynn Perkins speaks with York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween and the reaction to Ottawa's move to ban handgun sales with the new firearms control bill.
    • Kevin Frankish reminds us that this month the focus is on speeding and aggressive driving; and the CAA “SLOWDOWN PLEASE” sign campaign.
     
    • Ann Rohmer speaks with ER doctor and best selling author Dr. Daniel Kalla.
     
    • Tina Cortese is with award winning investigative journalist & broadcast producer Mary Garofalo;  her latest project is "The Ken & Barbie Killers", a documentary about Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka; this Sunday at 9pm on HLN
    • Jim Lang discusses the Canadian Open. Tt’s back and starts on June 6th at the St. George's Golf & Country Club in Toronto
    56 min
  • Steve Paikin / Robert Half Survey on Burnout / Bruce Ross / Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua
    • Ann Rohmer is with TVO’S Steve Paikin. They talk about the Provincial campaign as we head into the last weekend before voting day on June 2nd.
    • Burnout is a growing issue for many workers, including those who have flexible schedules, new research from talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half shows. In a survey of more than 500 professionals in Canada, 38 per cent of respondents said they are more burned out now than a year ago. Results are similar to a 2021 poll, suggesting more must be done to support employees' mental health and well-being. Kevin Frankish discusses.
    • Jim Lang with a preview of Men’s Health Week (June 15-21). Jim chats with Bruce Ross about his mental health struggles. Breaking Free of Depression’s Grip: A Powerful Success Story is the story of Bruce R. Ross, a successful Canadian executive, husband, father, neighbour, friend, and now author, who has lived a thriving life despite depression’s dark clutch on him for over 45 years.
    • Ann Rohmer with her monthly chat with City of Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua. The first order of business – storm clean up and so much more.
    48 min
  • Dr. Barry Pakes / Dr. Rose Zacharias / Hybrid Savings - IWG / Alex Cheung / Daniele Zanotti

    Ann Rohmer is with York Region's Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barry Pakes. The May 24th long weekend is the unofficial start of summer.  Can residents hope for a calm COVID summer?

    Kevin Frankish speaks with the Ontario Medical Association President Dr. Rose Zacharias. Fixing wait times, mental health and doctor shortages in the Peel and York regions are priorities as the provincial election nears. The OMA has pulled together statistics that show what work needs to be done to improve health care in York & Peel Regions.


    Tina Cortese looks at "Hybrid Savings". Research from The International Working Group (IWG) finds the adoption of hybrid working could save companies an average of $13,000 annually per employee when factoring in costs such as rent, heating, support staff, etc. A company can save as much as 51% on suburban office spaces compared to city locations. For example, a company with a 100,000 square foot Toronto office would save almost $8M per year by moving 50% of its footprint to the suburbs — closer to where many employees live.

     

    Ann Rohmer speaks with Alex Cheung, Director of Programs with Blue Door. The discussion covers an overview of Blue Door as well as transitional housing; the challenges that people face finding housing.

     

    Jim Lang speaks with Daniele Zanotti, President and CEO of the United Way of Greater Toronto. Daniele speaks about the impact of the cost of living on York Region residents, especially those most vulnerable and what action is needed.

    57 min

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