Ontario voters are sending mixed signals while polling shows that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s popularity is bottoming out - this week's by-elections saw one PC and one Liberal candidate returned. Could a vastly unpopular Premier shock us with another majority government and save face for the left? Are predictions the left is in serious trouble following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. wishful thinking from the right?

Guest: Professor Henry Jacek, professor of political science at McMaster University in Hamilton

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Criminal lawyers and judges describe Canada's criminal code as "embarrassingly bad". They’re calling on the Trudeau government to entirely rewrite Canada's criminal law structure.

Guest:  Scott Newark, former senior policy advisor to the federal Minister for Public Safety and former Alberta crown attorney

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U.S. pollster John Zogby is the author of "We Are Many: We Are One”. The book breaks down people in the U.S. into 11 different tribes. They are man, but are they 'one' in the U.S. today?

Guest: John Zogby of Zogby Analytics

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Is the opioid crisis a national public emergency which the federal government must take steps on immediately? As politicians, public health officials and families who have been directly involved meet on this issue, the question is also raised about the many Canadians in an aging national population who live with severe and debilitating 24/7 pain they describe as "torture" and whose lives are made bearable by opioid pain medication. Must these patients fear their medication will be denied going forward?

Guest: Dr. David Juurlink, Professor, faculty of medicine, and head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto

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A B.C. father is pleading with the RCMP to intervene with his 19 year old son's entry into the world of criminal drug dealing. His older son is in jail awaiting a sentence for drug dealing. 

Ontario parents pleaded this year with a judge to incarcerate their drug addicted and criminally charged son who refuses treatment and has threatened his mother. He qualifies as a youth and would not be imprisoned on conviction. 

Guest:  David Butt, criminal lawyer

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The weekly Beauties and the Beast segment with Roy and Catherine Swift, Linda Leatherdale, and Michelle Simson.

Phil Jackson - New York Knicks president, NBA star player and coach of 11 NBA Championship teams who coached Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neil and Kobe Bryant - used the term "posse" to describe LeBron James' entourage in an interview with ESPN. The group included Bryant's agent and business manager. Jackson has been heavily criticized by LeBron, Reggie Miller and others. Magic Johnson, however, is coming to Jackson's aid.

Guests: Ron Miller, African American, assistant dean at Liberty University and author of “Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom's Porch”  
Mark Yost, business of sport writer for the Wall Street Journal and author Varsity Green

Roy asks callers for their opinion of "protesters" who disrupt other people's lives with their discontent, day after day after day.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says Ontario's hugely spiking electricity prices are her "mistake". She also says that hearing Ontarians tell her they have to choose between paying rent and buying food, or paying their electricity bill is "unacceptable to me". What about fears of people dying because of high electricity bills?

Guest: Francesca Dobbyn, executive director for the United Way of Bruce-Grey County. She fears people will die because of electricity prices and energy policies and points to one death already which can be linked to energy cost.

Roy continues speaking with Francesca Dobbyn, executive director for the United Way of Bruce-Grey County, and takes calls from people who are having trouble paying their hydro bill.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says Ontario's hugely spiking electricity prices are her "mistake". She also says that hearing Ontarians tell her they have to choose between paying rent and buying food, or paying their electricity bill is "unacceptable to me". What about fears of people dying because of high electricity bills?

Guest: Francesca Dobbyn, executive director for the United Way of Bruce-Grey County. She fears people will die because of electricity prices and energy policies and points to one death already which can be linked to energy cost.