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Welcome In!This is NOW and NEXT: What’s happening NOW and how does that inform what’s happening NEXT? Veteran journalist and “Recovering News Director”, Dave Trafford hosts and produces this weekly news commentary podcast. It offers made-in-Canada, independent, unique analysis of the current stories and issues affecting your family, your business, your health, and your pocketbook. Based in Toronto, NOW and NEXT offers insights on local, provincial, national and international issues.Regular contributors include our bi-weekly RoundTable with the Now and Next C.A.S.T (Comms and ...

The Ledge, n: slang for the legislature. Mostly used by members of the legislative press gallery. On the Ledge posts weekly when the Ontario Legislature is sitting. But there have been times when we've had to "recall" the Ledge for an emergency session to address pressing matters of Ontario politics when Queen's Park isn't sitting!Our OTL team includes former Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne, former Progressive Conservative Leader, (and Wynne's erstwhile parliamentary sparring partner), Tim Hudak, Queen's Park broadcast commentator Keith Leslie, John Wright, our veteran pollster and co-founding...

Welcome to the Daily Brief with Dave Trafford. It's our Monday to Friday morning offering from Story Studio Network. If you're new to Dave's show - Welcome in! If you're a repeat offender, we're glad to have you along for the ride. We appreciate you including us in your podcast routine. From politics to parenting, from sports to cyber threats, from Bay St. to banjo music - there's nothing that's off limits.

NORMAL:Characterized by what is considered usual,TypicalRoutineExpectedIt sounds safe and staid.But our NORMAL, usual, typical, expected, routine – turnedChaotic, dislocated, disorderly and out of control when COVID 19 hit us.The pandemic sent the world reeling, forcing us to shut down economies, forcing us to recalibrate our NORMAL, forcing us to confront the WHAT’S NEXT? What’s next for jobs, for education, for families and our health and well-being.This podcast ponders how we will live in this COVID era. What’s on the horizon? What should we expect? Where are the opportunities?Our ...