At the same time as society has been dealing with COVID-19, another public health crisis has been taking place. This is the epidemic of deaths being caused across North America by overdoses above all from synthetic opioids like Fentanyl. To discuss the scale and nature of the problem, we spoke to Halton Regional Police Service Chief Steve Tanner.Read More …
This week had huge news in Hamilton. Local area MPP Donna Skelly earned some local headlines, by saying that #Hamilton city council made the wrong call in not expanding its urban boundary earlier this year. And the PC government tabled legislation based on the Housing Task Force report, and this gives a lot of power to developers, restricting municipalities in how they respond to proposals, and puts it all basically on the Ontario Land Tribunal to sort it out.Read More …
The mayoral race is heating up in Hamilton as a familiar face finally throws his hat into the ring.
Last week the announcement that Halton District School Board was re-allocating all its librarian teachers caused a stir online. What’s it all about?Read More …
Rory Nisan is city and regional councillor for Ward 3 in Burlington and Halton and Maureen Wilson is councillor for Ward 1 in Hamilton. Both of them join us today to give their perspective on why the municipal votes in Hamilton and Halton to repeal mask mandates were so one-sided, when the public seems far from united on the wisdom of abandoning masks.Read More …
Milton Reporter, Laura Steiner returns to The 905er to share her insight on 905 politics, as we discuss the Liberal/NDP federal agreement and its implications for the proviincial election. And something, something, the pandemic is over, right? Yeah, right.Read More …
Multiple environmental groups have recently formed the Reform Gravel Mining Coalition aimed at province-wide change to the aggregates industry. They are calling for an immediate moratorium on all new gravel mining approvals in Ontario.
We are joined by Greg Sweetman, to put the aggregate industry’s case, and Sarah Harmer and Graham Flint, co-chairs of the Reform Gravel Mining Coalition, to explain their case for a moratorium.Read More …
Among the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, surely one of the better ones is a nationwide rediscovery of the Canadian outdoors. Eleanor McMahon describes the numerous ways in which in the first thirty years since the Trans Canada Trail concept was born, it has come to embody and symbolize something truly important for our heterogenous nation.Read More …
Patrick Brown wants to run for the federal CPC leadership, while his actions in Brampton see his mayoralty face huge questions.
Were we tough enough on Mayor John Taylor on Tuesday? Is the Affordability Task Force Report “good” for Urbanists?Read More …
We are joined by John Taylor, Mayor of Newmarket, who as part of the Small Urban GTHA Mayors group has been at the forefront of opposition to the dramatic recommendations contained in the Provinces Housing Affordability Task Force recommendations. We dive into the recommendations and ask what they would mean for 905 region cities and towns.Read More …
This week, Burlington lost an elder statesman of local politics. Former Mayor Walter Mulkewich passed away this week. His legacyRead More …
