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Craig Needles Podcast Episode 222: Friday Round Table with Steve Cordes, Kelly Ziegner and Ryan Gauss

Asylum seekers, LHSC executives taking expensive trips and pedestrian safety in London are this week's topics on the Friday Round Table.

Craig is joined by YOU Executive Director Steve Cordes, United Way Elgin-Middlesex CEO Kelly Ziegner and political insider Ryan Guass join Craig to talk about the big stories.

They begin with concerns about a lack of support for asylum seekers creating resource challenges at London shelters, and the issue being brought to the forefront by councillor Corrine Rahman and Josh Morgan.

Then they look at institutional trust at the LHSC after a story about executives booking nearly half a million dollars in travel, and then they discuss how safe it is to walk in London after two pedestrians were killed in the city this week.

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