Protests Over Greenbelt and Housing Affordability
Marissa Lennox is now filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by Anthony Quinn, Chief Community Officer\n\nCARP, Bill VanGorder,\xa0 Chief Operating Officer and Chief Policy Officer of CARP and John Wright,\xa0 Executive Vice President, Maru Public Opinion.\n\nOver the weekend, hundreds of protesters gathered in Pickering right outside of Ontario finance minister Peter Bethlenfalvy's office calling on the Ford government to protect land on the Greenbelt. The Ford government said it will follow 14 of the 15 recommendations in the auditor general's report. The one recommendation it has not agreed to follow is to revisit the land swaps and potentially reverse course on the Greenbelt plans.\n----\nWHAT IS "SKIMPFLATION"?\xa0\n\nMarissa Lennox is now joined by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.\n\nA headline in the Toronto Sun this weekend read: Unveiling Skimpflation \u2013 the latest consumer squeeze. Written by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, who is the Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University \u2013 And he joins us now to discuss a term that may be unfamiliar to many \u2013 but in fact, it is a practice that itself has a decades-long history.\n----\nEVEN A MAYOR CAN'T AFFORD HOUSING IN ONTARIO\xa0\n\nMarissa Lennox is now joined by Steve Jelenic, Toronto Real Estate Agent with SAGE real estate.\n\nWe talked about it earlier in the program, but a mayor in the Kitchener-Waterloo area says she can\u2019t afford a home, despite making 90k a year.\n\nIt raises a lot of questions about housing affordability in the province.\n\nListen live, weekdays from noon to 1, on Zoomer Radio!