Ontario Morning Podcast - Friday October 2, 2020 - a podcast by CBC Radio

The Green Party of Canada will select a new leader tomorrow. Charlie Pinkerton of ipolitics tells us about the front runners and what a direction the party might take; Parisa Mahboubi an analyst with the CD Howe Institute discusses what the current rise in the minimum wage by 25 cents an hour will mean for workers and employers; Elizabeth Bardon of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Lisa Ladouceur, a nurse practitioner who manages the COVID-19 assessment centre in Midland, tell us how they are responding to the rising demand for tests; Kingston has just created what is called an AAA intersection. It stands for All Ages and Abilities. Ian Semple of city's Department of Transportation Services explains what makes it special; Mike von Massow a food economist at the University of Guelph outlines how supply chains work and why, once again, there are shortages of some items; Daniel Lippman is the White House and Washington correspondent for Politico updates us on the news that U-S President Donald Trump and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus; We talk about fall colours with Ian Chadwick of the Muskoka Field Naturalists.

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