The Jerry Agar Show

Minister of Labour, Monte McNaughton, announced today that Ontario businesses that self identify as "high risk” settings in which opioid overdoses could take place will be required to have a Naloxone kit on-site beginning June 1 but is that  affair requirement of business owners?  Or, is it in line with the health standards already imposed on Ontario businesses of various sizes

Columnist and municipal affairs watcher Matt Elliott theorizes that the big meeting on Mayor Tory’s ambitious housing plan at city council today is a trap.  How?  Why?  Elliott joins Mark Towhey, in for Jerry Agar, to explain.  Mark has a theory of his own…that the trap is actually for the Mayor set by city council!  

Mark's grocery shopping trick saves him money.  Also: CTV News Political Analyst Thomas Mulcair says you should prepare yourself for a federal election in 2023 -- are you ready???

After Mark Towhey watched the Harry & Meghan doc on netflix it occurs to him that you can make this argument. AND:  Exciting ‘scientific breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion?

Everywhere else in Canada has done this forever. Has no one in Ontario ever traveled outside the province? Later: Return-to-office order for federal public servants would be 'egregious violation' of workers' rights, says PSAC

Well, not all.  Condoms will be free at pharmacies in France for anyone 25-years and younger.  Does the move make sense?  Should other countries, like Canada, take up the idea?    

A former Afghan interpreter and ambulance driver the Canadian military is pleading to let his mom, brothers and sister, as well as their children, into the country.  He has a good argument though, the government previously said it would resettle at least 40,000 Afghan nationals but have only welcomed just over 26,000 at this point 

Mark Towhey, in for Jerry Agar, discusses the recent rash of violence in schools and is wondering about a recent article in The New York Times that explored the success of Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in schools around the U.S.

Do you get the feeling that the government doesn't really care about you after hearing the head of the Bank of Canada say  having the economy operating close to maximum sustainable employment and having low, stable inflation, the two actually go hand in hand. As I said, we don’t think 4.9, 5.2 per cent unemployment is sustainable.” 

Mark started the show by predicting how the Mayor would address questions about the murder while participating in a press conference with all three levels of government on an extension to the Bloor/ Young substation.  How close did Mark get to Tory's answer?  You be the judge.