NDP Leader Andrea Horwath joins the QP Briefing Podcast to discuss the year unprecedented became a byword for life, the province's COVID-19 response and pandemic baking.

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

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Steven Del Duca joins the QP Briefing Podcast to discuss taking the helm of the Ontario Liberal Party at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

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Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner joins the QP Briefing podcast to talk about the moment that kicked off the 2020s. He shares his reflections on the year everything changed.

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

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QP Briefing welcomes CEO of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association Donna Duncan. She gives a frank assessment of Ontario's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, what still needs to be done, and how the sector needs to change in the future.

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"People say to me, 'You must be really glad you're not in the premier's chair now.' And that's not true, actually, because I have strong opinions about how my team would have done things differently."

MPP and former premier Kathleen Wynne joins the QP Briefing podcast to reflect on her political career.

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It's International Right to Know Week! Ontario's new information and privacy commissioner took on the role in the middle of the pandemic and her first task was to evaluate the COVID-19 exposure notification app. Patricia Kosseim tells us about her approach to the information and privacy balancing act in these very unusual times.

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NDP education critic Marit Stiles returns to the QP Briefing podcast. Last time we recorded an episode with her, the education minister announced the shut down of schools the same afternoon. We talk about what has changed since then.

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Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Brian Beamish joined the show this week to talk about how his commission's work has changed over the past two decades. He weighed in on privacy and health data and the COVID-19 response, why political parties' use of data should be regulated and how the province has changed what it can do with information about you. QP Briefing wishes him all the best in his retirement.

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QP Briefing welcomes one of Canada's foremost experts on ageing to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Samir Sinha talks about how we should change the way we think about caring for older people, and how long-term care could go virtual.

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QP Briefing welcomes rookie MPP Lucille Collard, who talks about partisanship in the time of the pandemic. The new Ottawa-Vanier MPP shares her impression of Question Period and isn't impressed with some of the antics she's seen so far.

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