On today’s edition of The Morning Show Podcast, we began with the return of the Take Back the Night March, which this year coincides with Ontario’s first Consent Awareness Week. Then we turned to the downtown mural dispute, where a councillor and a local business owner are clashing over whether a cannabis-themed mural was inappropriate or a case of government overreach. We also looked at Ontario’s fiscal outlook, with the province’s deficit expected to rise sharply, interest rates being cut by the Bank of Canada, and Prime Minister Mark Carney heading to Mexico to strengthen trade and security ties. Finally, our weekly panel with Bob Smith and Steve Cordes dug into the debate over possible school closures and asked what London’s next big “city-building” project could be.

On today’s edition of The Morning Show Podcast, we started with Premier Doug Ford’s hopes that Prime Minister Mark Carney will label his 401 tunnel plan a nation-building project, along with the growing concern over Beer Store closures and the province’s container return system. We then spoke with Sebastián Vallejo Vera from Western University about Carney’s upcoming trade talks in Mexico. From there, we looked at how to attract more people into the trades with Jeremy Marks from Literacy Link South Central. Kris Ronan from Ginger Goat joined us to preview Goat Fest in Kitchener-Waterloo, and we wrapped up with a strange story of a Russian woman who sold her soul for about $1,600 Canadian to fund her doll collection and a concert ticket.