Ontario Today Phone-Ins

A reddit group with 80,000 members has called for a national boycott of Loblaw stores in May. For his thoughts, Ontario Today invites Michael Mulvey onto the program. Mulvey is an associate professor of Marketing at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. The program also hears from Ottawa's Donovan Burey who compiles the grocery store deals and shares them on Reddit.

Ontario Today speak with Andre Yeu, a Toronto-based dog trainer and is founder of When Hounds Fly; And Toronto city councilor, Paula Fletcher, who's been pushing for a review of how the city handles dog attacks.

Your stories about close encounters and experiences with Alice Munro and her work. Ontario Today invites Canadian author, Heather O'Neill onto the program to share her thoughts. By chance, O'Neill reread Munro's complete collection a month ago. Retired Queen's University English professor, Tracy Ware, also joins the show to weigh in.

Interest in meatless burgers is waning and just this month, Florida banned lab-grown meat. Ontario Today invites food and climate freelance journalist, Joe Fassler, onto the program for his take. The program also hears from agricultural economist Ellen Goddard. She’s a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

He's a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

The union representing federal public servants plans to grieve an order from the federal government for employees to return to the workplace three days a week. Our guest is Malini Vijaykumar, a labour lawyer with Nelligan O'Brien Payne.

The authors of The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know About Each Other join Ontario Today for a frank discussion about the campus protests against the war in Gaza. Raja Khouri is a former Ontario Human Rights Commissioner and founder of the Canadian Arab Institute. Jeffrey Wilkinson is an American born Jewish educator.

Dr. Christopher Kerr is the chief executive officer and chief medical officer at the Centre for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo. For 14 years, Kerr and his team of researchers have been studying end-of-life dreams and visions.

Dr. Fahad Razak joins Ontario Today and takes your calls. Razak is an internal Medicine Physician at St. Michael's Hospital. He's also the former scientific director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.

Ontario Today checks in with McGill University grad, Sequoia Kim, who volunteers with CKUT, the school's campus radio station. The program also invites James Turk onto the program. Turk is the director at the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Paul is a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

It started this month for seniors over 70, but so far, only 16 per cent of oral-healthcare providers have signed up to participate. Ontario Dental Association president Dr. Brock Nicolucci joins Ontario Today to weigh in.

Albert Koehl is the coordinator of the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition. The group is calling on all levels of government to better regulate big trucks and SUVs.

This week, Speaker Greg Fergus kicked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of question period after a nasty exchange with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ontario Today is joined by two guests: Alex Marland is a professor of politics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and Angus Reid Institute president Shachi Kurl.

Ontario Today invites Dr. Michael Mak onto the show to weigh in. Dr. Mak is a sleep medicine specialist and a staff psychiatrist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Ontario Today invites former police officer, Kelly Donovan to the program. Donovan is an outspoken critics of how police services handle internal investigations. She's also a surivor of domestic abuse. We also hear from research, Kim French, an assistant professor of psychology at Colorado State University, who has been studying domestic violence among officers.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada (ICBC) says inadequate training is making Canada's roads less safe. Ontario Today invites former long hauler and recent driving instructor Jacques Picotte onto the program to weigh in.

Paul is a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

Canada is currently hosting the second-to-last negotiation on the road to a binding agreement on plastic pollution. To talk more about it plastic, Ontario Today invites Cal Lakhan onto the show. He's a York University research scientist who has been sudying waste diversion and recycling.

Ontario Today is joined by Mary Gellner of Ottawa whose aunt received medical assistance dying last year; and Dr. Viren Naik, a MAID assessor and provicer.