Ontario Today Phone-ins From Cbc Radio

We hear from Pride Toronto's executive director Kojo Modeste and board co-chair Nirmalan Vijeyakumar and we hear your thoughts on the meaning of pride this year.

As the school year wraps, 2050 graduates and co-hosts Nanak Sidhu and Bupa Zhang join us to hear student feedback from across Ontario.

Yale researcher and author James Kimmel hears your stories. Kimmel's latest book is called: The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--and How to Overcome It.

Your stories with Zane Colt, board chair of the advocacy group Conceivable Dreams. He and his partner have already conceived using IVF and surrogacy, and are now trying for a second child. We also hear from retired Ottawa fertility specialist, Dr. Art Leader.

Your stories about escaping the blistering heat and we hear from Caroline Metz, managing director of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at University of Waterloo.

Our expert gardener, Mary Shearman Reid, fills in for Paul Zammit. She offers some advice for gardeners during this heat wave and takes your questions.

Novelist Waubgeshig Rice and callers share stories of trying to learn lost languages, and what that teaches you about your people and identity. 

As Ontario mulls involuntary addictions treatment for people who are involved in the criminal justice system, we hear from a Hamilton-based addictions doctor who works in detention facilities, Dr. Lori Regenstreif.

Writer and educator Jay Dixit hears your stories. Jay just ended his assignment as Writing Community Ambassador with OpenAI, the creators of ChapGPT.

Your stories with former Middle East diplomat, Mike Molloy, as well as Hossein Raeesi, adjunct professor at Carleton University and long-time Iranian human rights lawyer. 

Our expert gardener, Paul Zammit, takes your gardening questions. Paul is a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

Your calls with Stephen Saideman, Paterson Chair in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network. 

We talk about a new Nature of Things documentary, Dad Bods, which goes into some of the emerging science around fatherhood and we hear from the hosts of the Medical Dads podcast about the ways fatherhood changed them.

Retired Vice-Admiral Darren Hawco and callers discuss what it will take to rebuild, rearm and reinvest in Canada's military. 

Your share your stories about conditions at Ontario jails as concerns about overcrowding and potential for violence grow. Our guest is criminal defence lawyer Tonya Kent, who sits on a prison law committee with the Criminal Lawyers’ Association.

Canadian and US immigration lawyer Melissa Babel talks with callers about crossing the border.

Your stories about how the labour dispute at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) affects you. Our guests are Harry Goslin, President of the Ontario Compensation Employees Union and Aaron Lazarus, Vice-President of Communications for the WSIB, the employer in this dispute. 

Our expert gardener, Paul Zammit, takes your gardening questions. Paul is a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

Your stories on discovering a love of birds and we hear from Ed Yong, a Pulitzer Prize winning science writer and best selling author, including his newest book An Immense World (Young Readers Edition).

Your stories living life as a single person and we hear from Yuthika Girme, director of the Singlehood Experiences and Complexities Underlying Relationships Lab and associate professor in psychology at Simon Fraser University.