TORONTO POLICE REPORT ON RACE-BASED DATA COLLECTION

Jane Brown is filling in for Libby Znaimer today. She is joined by civil liberties lawyer Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP Dr. Wesley Crichlow, Professor, Critical Race Intersectional Theorist in the faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ontario Tech University.

Today: the Toronto Police released its report on race-based data collection today. Our guests weigh in on that and Chief James Reimer apology.

COVID-19 TESTING AT AIRPORTS AND VACCINE MANDATES FOR TRAVELLERS TO END

Jane Brown is joined by Dr. Barry Pakes, Medical Officer of Health for York Region, Martin Firestone, President, Travel Secure Inc., Trevor McPherson, President and CEO, Mississauga Board of Trade.

This week we learned that Ottawa will be ending the vaccine mandate for federal employees and workers in federally regulated sectors as well as air travellers on domestic flights and those going on outbound international flights. Late last week, we also learned that the feds are getting rid of random COVID-19 testing at airports. So, will these policy changes alleviate the bottlenecks, delays and other issues at Pearson and other major airports? Our experts weigh in from a scientific, business and leisurely travel standpoint.