Monkey Pox / Canadian Blood Services / Blake Adam / Bibi's Got Game / Ms. Marvel

• Ann Rohmer opens this episode with information about Monkey Pox, its origins, signs, symptoms, transmissibility, treatable. The medical facts from The W.H.O. & York Region Public Health. • Tina Cortese reminds us that Canadian Blood Services says it is struggling to replenish a critically low national supply caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization says the virus that has persisted since March 2020 has resulted in the smallest donor base in a decade. • Jim Lang speaks with Blake Adam, CEO of Medimap, a Canadian technology company that publishes wait-times online for walk-in clinics, about how the growing doctor shortage in Ontario is impacting walk-in clinics and how his company is helping frustrated patients find the care they need as quickly as possible. • Kevin Frankish discusses "Bibi's Got Game: A Story about Tennis, Meditation and a Dog Named Coco", the first picture book written by and based on real-life tennis star Bianca Andreescu, a young athlete learns how to work through life's toughest moments through inner strength and meditation. Shaliza Bacchus looks into the Markham teen who stars as Disney’s Ms. Marvel (Disney+ series that features Marvel Studios' first Muslim superhero). The newest Marvel limited series, follows Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old Pakistani American girl from New Jersey who struggles to fit in at school and home until she’s endowed with superpowers.