The Mayoral Race & Urgent Care Centres
Libby Znaimer is joined by Councillor James Pasternak for Ward 6 York Centre, Karen Stintz, CEO of Variety Village as well as a former Toronto City Councillor and mayoral candidate and Councillor Paula Fletcher for Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth.\n\nIn the news: we are in the final few weeks of the election campaign for Toronto next mayor. What does our panel think about the latest promises being made by the candidates? And then there's the latest violent incident on the TTC--a 14 year old girl has been charged after she set a firework off in a packed bus in Scarborough.\n----\nONTARIO HOSPITAL URGENT CARE HOURS BEING REDUCED DUE TO STAFFING SHORTAGES\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Johan Viljoen, Chief of Staff at Niagara Health.\n\nNiagara Health is reducing the operating hours of its Fort Erie and Port Colborne urgent care centres in order to keep their emergency departments in Welland, Niagara Falls and St. Catharines open. Dr. Viljoen details the new policy and the impact of staffing shortages.\n----\nSENIORS ARE PROTESTING YONGE STREET BIKE LANE\n\nLibby Znaimer is joined by Trevor Townsend, Founder of Keep Toronto Moving.\n\nA group of Seniors and residents with accessibility issues will be gathering at Yonge and Roxborough this afternoon at 4 pm to protest the Yonge bike lane and the challenges they feel it creates like added traffic congestion. The advocacy group Keep Toronto Moving also wants to see the next mayor elected to office utilize the strong mayor powers to establish an anti-congestion office. How realistic is that? Trevor weighs in.\n\nListen live, weekdays from noon to 1, on Zoomer Radio!