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THE ZOOMER SQUAD: THE EXTENT TO WHICH CANADIANS FEEL UNPREPARED FOR RETIREMENT

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Anthony Quinn, Chief Community Officer of CARP, Bill VanGorder, Chief Advocacy and Education Officer of CARP, and John Wright, Executive Vice President of Maru Public Opinion.

Today: a discussion about Ottawa Seniors who have had to leave their apartments in their retirement residences after facing an unexpected hike in their monthly rent, and we look at a poll by Abacus Data detailing the extent to which Canadians feel unprepared for retirement.




THE FUTURE OF ONTARIO'S SCIENCE CENTRE

Jane Brown is now joined by Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, and Liberal MPP Adil Shamji for Don Valley East.

The Ford government has closed down the Ontario Science Centre...this after an engineering report said that the roof could collapse soon. What are your thoughts on this unilateral decision-making by the Ford PCs? Do we fix the science centre or move it to Ontario Place?

EDMONTON OILERS HAVE A SHOT AT BEING FIRST CANADIAN TEAM TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP SINCE 1993 

Jane Brown is now joined by Wally Rigobon, Co-host of the Naz and Wally Sports Hour on Zoomer Radio.

It's been 31 years since a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup. Do the Edmonton Oilers have it in them to break the curse in game 7 against the Florida Panthers? Our own resident sports expert weighs in.

Today on Free For All Friday: Plenty of listeners phoned in with a reaction to the online petition co-organized by Daniel Tate demanding a reversal to the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square. Daniel presented his petition, which has now surpassed 30,000 signatures, to the executive committee as well as Mayor Olivia Chow at City Hall this week.

TUNE INTO THE TOWN: OUR PANEL REACTS TO THE ONLINE PETITION WITH 30,000 + SIGNATURES CALLING FOR REVERSAL OF YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE RENAMING 

Tasha Kheiriddin is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Alex Blumenstein, Co-Founder of The Peak, Karen Stintz, CEO, Variety Village, and David Crombie, Former Mayor of Toronto.

Earlier this week, Daniel Tate, a co-organizer of a petition with 30,000 + signatures demanding that Toronto reverse the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square, presented his petition to the executive committee including Mayor Olivia Chow at City Hall. He joined Fight Back shortly after his appearance and spoke with our own Jane Brown about it. You can sign the online petition here: STOP the Renaming of Dundas in Toronto

Another big issue: the anti-Israel encampment on UofT's campus. UofT is currently in day 2 of being in court as part of its application for an injunction to get rid of the encampment. Our panelists react to the latest.




MEMBERS OF TORONTO'S JEWISH COMMUNITY CONCERNED OVER TDSB VOTE ON ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM

Tasha is now joined by by Tamara Gotlieb, a founding member of the Jewish Educators and Family Association of Canada.

Members of Toronto's Jewish community are expressing serious concern over the potential for the term "anti-Palestinian racism" to be added to its Combating Hate and Racism Student Learning Strategy. Yesterday the board passed a motion which endorsed a report recommending the inclusion of APR in the school boards’ strategy. We have reached out to the Chair of the TDSB. She was not available to speak with us about the motion during the show.




THE LATEST ON CANADIANS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS PM JUSTIN TRUDEAU 

Tasha Kheiriddin is now joined by John Mykytyshyn, Conservative Activist, Political Consultant and President of Bradgate Research Group and Andrew Perez, Principal at Perez Strategies and a Liberal strategist.

Have Canadians had enough of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and want to see him resign? We've assembled a strategy panel to discuss just that. 

THE MEDICAL RECORD: HOW SOME MEDICATIONS DON'T MIX WELL WITH HEAT WAVES & WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A NEW INSULIN SHOT FOR DIABETICS

Tasha Kheiriddin is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and a former head of the BC Cancer Agency, Dr. Alisa Naiman, family doctor practicing comprehensive primary care in Toronto, and Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, internal medicine and critical care physician at Humber River Hospital.

A first of its kind, one-every-week basal insulin shot will be available to Canadian diabetic patients starting June 30th and what you need to know about certain medications that don't mix very well with heat waves like the one Ontarians are facing this week.




AN UPDATE ON HOW UOFT AND MCGILL UNIVERSITY ARE ADDRESSING THE ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENTS

Tasha Kheiriddin is now joined by Eli Mogil, Partner with McCarthy Tétrault LLP who has experience with injunctions but is not involved at all with UofT or McGill University's legal proceedings against the encampments on their campuses, as well as Hank Topas Quebec Regional Director of B'nai Brith Canada.

Our guests provide an update on the efforts by both UofT and McGill University to get rid of the anti-Israel encampments on their respective campuses.




IMMIGRATION IN CANADA: WHAT IS OTTAWA'S PLAN FOR UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENTS

Tasha Kheiriddin is now joined by Guidy Mamann, a Toronto immigration lawyer and Partner at Mamann, Sandaluk & Kingwell LLP Immigration Lawyers.

Immigration policy is back in the news as the federal government awarded Quebec 750 million dollars to compensate the province for the costs of housing and social services for migrants. That’s in addition to $100 million the province got in January. Ontario bagged $260 million as well, but BC has received nothing, prompting their premier to loudly complain that Ottawa is ignoring the West.

But Quebec still isn’t happy and Premier Francois Legault is now calling for a referendum on getting full immigration powers for the province.  Is Ottawa’s open door immigration policy fueling the next national unity crisis?

RECOVERING POLITICIANS PANEL: DOES TORONTO-ST. PAUL'S BYELECTION POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO PM TRUDEAU?

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by George Smitherman, a former Ontario Liberal Deputy Premier and Health Minister, Cheri DiNovo, a former NDP MPP, and Lisa Raitt, a former Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Today: we get their reactions to the Toronto-St. Paul's byelection race that includes a whooping 84 candidates. If the Liberals were to lose that riding what implications could that have for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? And just how angry are Canadians with the Prime Minister these days?




PETITION WITH 30,000 SIGNATURES OPPOSED TO YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE NAME CHANGE IS BEING PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL TODAY

Jane Brown is now joined by Daniel Tate, a concerned citizen, taxpayer and co-organizer of an online petition to reverse the name change of Yonge-Dundas Square and Councillor Brad Bradford of Ward 19 Beaches-East York.

Daniel Tate joins us shortly after presenting his petition with nearly 30,000 signatures to the executive committee and Mayor Olivia Chow at City Hall today. That petition is calling on the City to reverse the renaming of Yonge-Dundas Square.

You can sign the online petition here: STOP the Renaming of Dundas in Toronto

THE ZOOMER SQUAD: HOW MANY ONTARIANS MOVED TO LTC HOMES NOT OF THEIR CHOOSING?

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Rudy Buttignol, President of CARP,  Anthony Quinn, Chief Community Officer of CARP, and John Wright, Executive Vice President, Maru Public Opinion.

This week: a discussion about how heat waves can impact older Canadians, and the extent to which some alternate level of care patients at Ontario hospitals are ending up in a long-term care home not of their choosing.  




HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT IN ONTARIO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Jane Brown is now joined by Dave Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment Canada.

Here is what you need to know about the heat wave affecting Ontario and which segments of the population are especially vulnerable.




UOFT PROFESSOR EXPLAINS THAT ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT DEMANDS TO DIVEST FROM ISRAELI COMPANIES IS "IMPOSSIBLE"

A major demand by the anti-Israel encampment at UofT is for the university to divest from Israeli companies, but according to Rotman School of Management professor Rami Elitzur, who is also a serving member on the University of Toronto Governing Council, such a move would mean losing a lot of the technology we rely on in our daily lives and it would be impossible to do so.

This segment originally aired on Fight Back on June 3rd 2024.