Vivian Stamatopoulos, a long-term care advocate and associate teaching professor at Ontario Tech University, joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the long-term care sector. She discusses her journey to advocacy in the sector and recent Ontario government announcements on a vaccination mandate for long-term care workers and funding to hire more staff.

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Annie Kidder, executive director of People for Education, joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the return to school in Ontario and steps she thinks will make them safer.

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The new president of the Ontario Medical Association joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic and what comes next.

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Is anyone going to investigate reports of dozens of seniors dying of neglect in Ontario long-term care homes? Hear from politicians, health-care experts and some of the advocates who are calling for a police investigation as QP Briefing editor Jessica Smith Cross breaks down the search for accountability for preventable deaths of seniors in long-term care exposed by the Canadian military and the long-term care commission.

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Two doctors, Naheed Dosani and Gaibrie Stephen, join the QP Briefing podcast to talk about how the pandemic has brought activism and advocacy from MDs to the forefront of the public debate. Why health equity has always mattered but we're paying attention today.

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Karl Baldauf, vice-president of the McMillan Vantage Policy Group, and Mike Moffatt, senior director of policy and innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute, joined the QP Briefing Podcast to discuss the Ontario government's 2021 budget. They talked about highlights, what they felt was missing and what the budget says about the government's priorities and path forward.

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Epidemiologist Colin Furness answers all of our questions about the state of the pandemic in Ontario today — variants of concern, vaccinations, air filtration, vaccine passports and the status of the third wave.

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Jane Meadus, a lawyer with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the effect of the pandemic on Ontario's seniors and the work of the independent commission into long-term care.

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Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the skilled trades, the skills mismatch, and the controversy over paid sick leave. Plus, he weighs in on a constituent's criticism of his pandemic hair.

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Government House Leader Paul Calandra joins the QP Briefing podcast to discuss how he helped keep the Ontario legislature at work during the pandemic and his love of cheesy Christmas movies. Plus, we dive into a controversial vote condemning the "extreme and hateful invective of Charles McVety."

This is the fourth and final in a series of year-ender podcasts with guests from all four of Ontario's major political parties.

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