Ontario Morning Podcast - July 30th, 2024.

Ontario Morning

Imagine you just survived a human trafficking scheme, only to find out you have thousands of dollars of debt, incurred in your name by your perpetrator.

Unfortunately, that is the reality affecting most human trafficking survivors.

As we mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Paula Laughlin the executive director of Victim Services of Kingston and Frontenac sheds some light on fraudulent debt.

Free salsa classes have been getting people moving and grooving every Tuesday evening in Kingston.

Bonnie Wannamaker is the organizer of these lively dance sessions.

She tells us what she loves about salsa dancing.

Construction is now on pause for an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant near Kingston.

We get a breakdown on why the nearly three-billion-dollar project was shelved from Jim Hegadorn, the mayor of Loyalist Township, and from Ian Lee, an Associate Professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.