Closer Look
In cities and towns across Ontario — and at Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill — our journalists work for you. Their mission is to dig for answers and tell you what they find. This new podcast from Village Media — ‘Closer Look’ — is all about the stories we tell. Every weeknight, hosts Michael Friscolanti and Scott Sexsmith go beyond the headlines with insightful, in-depth conversations featuring our reporters and editors, leading experts, key stakeholders and big newsmakers.
Closer Look
Inflation is skyrocketing—and the worst is yet to come
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The cost of living in Canada continues to soar at the fastest rate in decades, and the sticker shock you’re feeling at the grocery store and the gas pumps is going to get worse before it gets better. On this episode of Inside the Village, Frisco and Scott are joined by Jean-Paul Lam, a former assistant chief economist at the Bank of Canada and now a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo. Also on the program: a big change at the iconic French River Trading Post, a nostalgic stop for countless summer travelers. Finally, we take a closer look at a deadly trend: Toronto-area street gangs branching out into rural and northern Ontario in pursuit of hefty drug profits. Antonio Nicaso, one of the world’s leading organized crime experts, tells us the story behind the story.
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