Ontario Today's Gardening Show: May long weekend planting

Stories from listeners on their best summer job to inspire those who are on the hunt right now. Our guest is Tim Lang, President and CEO of Youth Employment Services.

Your stories about street racing in Ontario. Our guests are Brampton Regional Councillor Rowena Santos and we hear from OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt with the highway safety division.

We hear your stories about the importance of food in the care for people with dementia and we hear from Navjot Gill-Chawla about what she has learned researching dementia care in the South Asian community through her work at the University of Waterloo.

We get your calls about Tuesday's throne speech and we are joined for analysis by Royal Military College professor Christian Leuprecht and David Paterson, Ontario's representative in Washington D.C.

Ahead of King Charles's first visit to Canada since becoming King we hear from royal commentator and author Carolyn Harris about the significance of the visit and hear your views on the monarch and whether they have shifted over time.

Our expert gardener, Paul Zammit, takes your gardening questions. Paul is a professor of horticulture and environmental studies at Niagara College.

We are joined for the hour by two Americans who moved to Canada during two different periods of political change -- Ken Greenberg arrived in Toronto in the late 1960s as a Vietnam War draft resistor and Anne Sullivan, who arrived in late 2024 to teach at York University. We also hear calls from Americans about their choice to leave the United States and any regret they have about that decision.

A tragedy on Highway 401 that killed three children on the weekend is turning our province's attention on impaired driving and what can be done to stop it. We hear from the Steve Sullivan, CEO of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) about how the organization is trying to reach young men who drive under the influence and we hear your calls about times when you made the decision to drive while impaired. 

The province has tabled new legislation aimed at making it easier for municipalities to crack down on encampments of homeless folks. Some cities are on side, others are not. What about you? The head of the Big City Mayors Association, Marianne Meed Ward - the Mayor of Burlington hears your stories. Also joining the show, Kaitie Burkholder Harris, the executive director of the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa.

We hear from callers about how tariffs on the auto industry are affecting their lives and we hear from Greg Layson, digital editor with Automotive News Canada.