Today we cover London’s federal homelessness funding and extreme weather review, speak with Ark Aid’s Sarah Campbell and Police Chief Thai Truong, examine France’s telemarketing ban and the Porter flight controversy, and debate Canada-U.S. trade concessions and Ontario’s approach to AI data centres

Ark Aid Street Mission executive director Sarah Campbell joins us to discuss the need for stable funding to keep essential daytime services available for people experiencing homelessness in London

London Police Chief Thai Truong joins us to discuss the region’s lowest homicide rate since 2019 and why the Crime Severity Index increased despite the decline in homicides

London is set to receive more than $2.5 million in renewed federal homelessness funding, with most going toward the winter response, while the city will also review how it handles extreme heat and poor air quality from wildfire smoke

Murray Faulkner and Matt Newton-Reid join our weekly panel to debate whether Canada should offer concessions in trade talks with the U.S. and whether Ontario needs a policy governing new AI data centres

We look at France’s new ban on unsolicited telemarketing calls and whether it will work better than Canada’s approach, along with a passenger’s defence of the child at the centre of a Porter Airlines flight cancellation

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We look at London's response to extreme heat and wildfire smoke, homelessness outreach funding and the city's winter response, the impact of U.S. tariffs and possible Canadian trade concessions, a deadly B.C. wildfire, calls to pause new AI data centre approvals in Ontario and a Porter flight cancelled over a child refusing to wear a seatbelt

Ward 6 Councillor Sam Trosow discusses his push to review how London responds to extreme heat and wildfire smoke while seeking continued bridge funding for Ark Aid Street Mission and 519 Pursuit

Mayor Josh Morgan discusses how U.S. tariffs are affecting London's unemployment rate and the uncertainty surrounding federal homelessness funding as the city prepares its winter response

The federal government is discussing possible trade concessions with the United States as Canada looks for relief from U.S. tariffs

Ontario Green Party leader Mike Schreiner explains why he wants the Ford government to pause approvals for new AI data centres until provincial guidelines are established

An 80-year-old woman has been killed as wildfires continue to burn in British Columbia

A Porter Airlines flight was cancelled after a child refused to wear a seatbelt as the aircraft prepared for takeoff

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Today's podcast features the withdrawn Strathroy data centre proposal, the Miles4AMiracle campaign, a London election update, a new anti-human trafficking partnership, New York's push for Canadian tourists, J-AAR Construction's new charity book, the debate over filming people in public and what's happening in London this long weekend

Joe Gesualdi explains why he's pushing his daughter's empty wheelchair to Queen's Park to fight for provincial funding for a life-changing surgery

We speak with Strathroy-Caradoc Mayor Colin Grantham about the concerns raised by residents and what comes next after the data centre proposal was withdrawn

Det.-Insp. Jennifer Noel discusses a new partnership with NotInMyCity aimed at strengthening efforts to combat human trafficking

Ryan Aarts explains how J-AAR Construction's new children's book is helping raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario

With three weeks remaining before nominations close, we look at who's in, who's out and what to watch in London's municipal election

We highlight Ribfest and other events taking place across London during the Civic Holiday weekend

We look at New York's efforts to attract Canadian visitors again and whether travellers are ready to head south

We discuss the lawyer placed on leave after being caught kissing a colleague and whether filming strangers in public crosses a line

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