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Less parking, more transit.  That's the message in a report released Thursday by the Toronto Region Board of Trade that says the city's parking authority should consider selling off some of its parking lots as a way to fund transit. The report, titled Unlocking Value: A Strategy to Finance Transit Expansion with Existing City Assets & Revenue, says parking lots and other city assets could generate up to $1 billion to go toward Toronto's pressing transit needs. Jan De Silva, President of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, joins the Afternoon Drive to discuss the reasonings for this new report.

The Ontario Chamber of Commerce wants marijuana to be available at stores other than LCBO's.

In Kathleen Wynne's throne speech today, she announced that the provincial Liberal government will be offering an 8% rebate on Hydro bills, which will cover the HST portion. Ian Lee, professor at the Sprott School of Business, discuses how this move is the opposite of a band-aid effect.

Filling in for Chris Chreston, Mike Stringer presents the best (and worst) noise the internet has to offer every day at 5:40-ish.

More than 1,000 children in Toronto are either getting to school late or not going at all due to an “unanticipated” bus driver shortage. Two Toronto school boards said they are scrambling to get as many children to school with drivers doubling and tripling up on routes, calling in extra drivers and buses and taxis – even some principals are using their cars to help out.

Doug Elliott describes what happened at the Pride Toronto townhall meeting Tuesday. 

Kelly Cutrara is joined by Anthropologist Professor John Kapplem about the newest findings on our famous ancestor, Lucy. 

Dwayne Reed has gone viral as he welcomes his students to 4th grade

A mortar shell was found by a man with a metal detector at the old Camp X training grounds. This was a secret traininig facility used during World War II.  Mark Ellis, executive producer of X Company, joins host Kelly Cutrara, on Afternoon Drive, about why Camp X is important to Canada's military history.

Mike Nagy joins Kelly to updated her on the Nestle bottling plant.

Leonard Bell was shot nine times in 2004 by the leader of the Galloway Boys, one of Toronto's most notorious street gangs. Tyshan Riley not only shot Leonard Bell nine times, but he shot and killed Brenton Charlton right in front of Leonard Bell. Tyshan Riley was in Toronto last Thursday to attend his father's visitation. Bell had no idea that Riley was going to be in Toronto, and found out a day after he drove by the funeral procession. Bell said "Our tax dollars is going into paying for his transportation? Totally ridiculous, totally ridiculous," "It just comes like a complete slap in the face." How would you feel if you were Leonard Bell?

Environmentalists say Ontario should drop a Nestle bottling plant's permit to extract water. Mike Nagy, the Chair of Wellington Water Watchers joins Kelly to talk about Nestle's bottling plant.