Ontario Morning Podcast - Wednesday September 23, 2020 - a podcast by CBC Radio

In Peterborough on the weekend, a fire was deliberately set that destroyed an apartment building. Dean Pappas, the local councillor, talks about the efforts to help the thirty or so people who have been displaced; Danijela Puric-Mladenovic a Professor of Forestry at the University of Toronto discusses new research that shows that maple trees in many parts of the world are threatened with extinction; Colin Furness an infection control epidemiologist outlines what ,measures the provincial government should be taking to reduce the spread of the coronavirus; Jordan Press, parliamentary reporter with the Canadian Press, previews this afternoon's Speech From the Throne to Parliament; Maryann Thomas, owner of Ginger Press in Owen Sound talks about managing through COVID-19 and quarantines; Ontario Morning host Julianne Hazelwood travelled to Peterborough to talk with the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Rosana Salvaterra, about coping with two major challenges: the opioid epidemic and the coronavirus pandemic.

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