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In 2024, the Ontario government is planning to spend an extra $2 billion on home care services, a 3-year effort to expand and revamp a struggling section of the province’s healthcare system. However, this approach is allegedly putting Ontarians without family doctors at a further disadvantage, and it doesn’t do enough to cut down on wait times at Ontario’s Emergency Rooms. Kristy Cameron chats with Dr. Michael Herman, an Emergency Room Physician at Ottawa’s Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Meantime, an extended CEBA repayment deadline is just hours away, and business owners are sweating...
March 27, 2024 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
A new statement from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is calling on the feds to take further action in the war against gambling promotions, arguing that youth mental health is at stake if they don’t. Recently, the Trudeau Liberals had banned athletes and celebrities from making appearances in these ads, but CAMH wants to see an outright ban for any platform that relies on minors as the key audience. That magic number is 25 percent or above. Kristy Cameron opens the debate floor with Dr. Nigel Turner, a scientist at CAMH’s Institute for Mental Health and Policy Research....
March 27, 2024 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Canada’s College of Family Physicians is calling for changes into how family doctors are paid. In doing so, it hopes that provinces like Ontario can ensure the long-term sustainability of present and future jobs in the industry. Does the province’s 2024 Budget address the majority of those concerns? In Hour 4, we are joined alongside Dr. Garni Tatikian, a family physician based in Toronto. Plus, we bring you the latest on the Baltimore bridge collapse, and find out how other ‘bridge towns’ in North America are reacting to Tuesday’s tragedy.
March 26, 2024 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
You won’t be able to legally enjoy a cold one at a city park this Summer. While other Canadian cities have moved ahead with pilot projects to green-light alcohol consumption, Ottawa isn’t there yet. Should we allow legal drinking in Ottawa’s public parks? Kristy Cameron tackles today’s Question of the Day. As for Ontario-at-large, we have some noteworthy news to report from Queen’s Park, as the Doug Ford government tables the 2024 Budget. It involves no new taxes and buckets of infrastructure cash. We dissect the province’s annual blueprint with a special Political Heat Panel.
March 26, 2024 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
The OPP is asking people to fight crime with cameras. Over in Russell County, their OPP detachment is the latest police force to adopt the CAMSafe Program, which would lean on a database of residential and commercial security cameras. This would create a mega-network that police could tap into when investigating crimes. We dig deeper with cybersecurity expert Claudiu Popa in Hour 2. Meantime, a group of airlines are taking aim at the Supreme Court of Canada. They argue that Canada’s top court should overturn the rules and regulations that require said airlines to fork over thousands of...
March 26, 2024 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
If you had any visions of cracking open an ice-cold beer at a city park this year, toss those fantasies out the window. That’s because Ottawa City Council has rejected the idea of allowing any sort of drinking in public parks, even for tourists. Capital Ward councillor Shawn Menard joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Meantime, our country’s lagging productivity growth is turning into a huge problem, according to the Bank of Canada. In fact, Canada’s biggest bank fears that our productivity growth is approaching ‘emergency levels’, which could force higher interest rates and limit rising...
March 26, 2024 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
