Ontario Morning Podcast January 3rd 2025

Ontario Morning

The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre in Midland is urging visitors to refrain from hand-feeding chickadees, due to the spread of the H5N1 avian flu. The visitors are used to around with handfuls of birdseed and having chickadees swoop down to feed. We spoke with Craig Pezik about the situation. He is the Stewardship & Conservation Manager at the Wye Marsh Conservation Centre in Midland, Ontario.

Between 2016 and 2021, the town of Innisfil saw an almost 50% increase in its newcomer population. That creates a lot of different needs including for more diverse language collections and services at the local library. To better understand those needs, the Innisfil ideaLAB & Library is inviting residents to participate in a new survey, to gather more information on those needs. We spoke to Mandy Pethick, director of Public and Information Services at the library, about the new found dilemma