Ontario Today
with Kathleen Petty
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You hear about cyclists going to Italy, France or California.

 

What about Ontario?

The Federal government says it is trying to recover $330 million dollars in incorrect EI payments in the past year. Much of that is suspected fraud. The Opposition calls it attacking those in need.

 

Ontario Today has won a 2013 Gracie Award for Outstanding Talk Show from The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. This is the 3rd Gracie Ontario Today has received since 2010. 

 

The program asked: Is sex work just another job? We had calls from someone who worked in a massage parlour; from a wife who had discovered her husband paid for sex; a call from a woman who had been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute; and a call from a man who had looked to the sex trade after his girlfriend dumped him.

 

It was an eye-opening hour of radio that pulled back the curtain on a world we usually prefer to politely ignore. And it wouldn't have happened without your calls and your willingness to tell your story. So on behalf of host Rita Celli and producer Margot Wright, thank you.

A lot of us will die of heart attack or stroke. But we're pretty good at planting our heads firmly in the sand.

 

Did you recognize the symptoms?

 

Open lines with Dr. Beth Abramson, cardiologist and author of Heart Health for Canadians: The Definitive Guide.  

 

Ellen Roseman's new book Fight Back: 81 Ways to Help You Save Money and Protect Yourself from Corporate Trickery explains how to take on your telecom, bank or airline and win.

Statistics Canada says the number of immigrants choosing Ontario is way down while the number of people leaving for other provinces, especially Alberta, is way up.

 

READ more on this topic here.

READ Ontario's new immigrant strategy here.

READ about the Federal government's new economic immigration programs here. 

Former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci reports that the lack of Aboriginal representation on juries in Ontario is a symptom of a much larger problem.

 

Moira Welsh, reporter and author of No Going Home: Why Long-term Care is Failing Our Families is our guest for a conversation about the quality of care in Ontario's nursing homes.

 

READ more on this topic here.

An initiative by Sudbury police to get bad drivers off the road left seniors feeling targetted and police apoligizing.

 

So how do you know when it's time to give up the keys?

Ontario Today's resident gardener Ed Lawrence on what not to miss this spring.

 

Here are links to some of the garden shows Ed mentions:

The Stratford Garden Festival, Feb. 28 to Mar. 3.

Canada Blooms 2013, in Toronto Mar. 15 to 24.

National Master Gardener Conference, in Huntsville Apr. 5 to 7.

The Big Backyard Show in Ottawa Apr. 12 to 14.