Ontario Premier Doug Ford has asked the federal government to put an end to the issue of approving new centers that provide safe opioids. Ford wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking the federal government to review Health Canada-approved safe consumption sites across the country. The province of Ontario has told child care centers that starting in 2025 it will implement a new way to fund the national $10-a-day program, something center operators have urgently called for. New data from the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) shows that stolen vehicle claims have risen to a "record" $1.5 billion in 2023. Self-proclaimed "crypto king" Aiden Pleterski, 23, of Whitby, Ontario, was arrested in the Durham region after... how he allegedly launched a Ponzi scheme worth more than $40 million. Canadian writer Alice Munro, an internationally recognized master of the short story and Nobel Prize winner in literature, has died at the age of 92 at her home in Port Hope. This and other Canadian news is in the episode hosted by Mark Vayntrub.