Ontario Morning Podcast - Friday October 16, 2020 - a podcast by CBC Radio

The Bala Cranberry Festival is usually held the weekend after Thanksgiving- but not this year. We hear from Murray Johnston of Muskoka Lakes Farm and Winery about the cancellation of the festival and the state of the industry in general; Sergeant Steven Koopman is with the Kingston Police’s community-oriented response and engagement unit. He talks about the preparations they are making for the weekend even though the homecoming celebrations for Queen's University will happening online; Freelance journalist Catherine Field updates us from Paris on the lockdowns in place because of the rise in infection from the coronavirus; Cathy Abraham of Ontario Public School Boards Association endorses the province's decision scrap a regulation that saw teachers being hired on the basis of seniority; Dr. Ian Arra, Medical Officer of Health for Grey Bruce explains the rationale for their approach to enforcing mask laws; Amanda Parris ,the host of 'Exhibitionists', talks about the show as it begins its final season.

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