Local – The 905er

905 Round-Up – Is Downtown Hamilton Too Dangerous to Work?

Roland Tanner — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 01:41:03 +0000

A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. Joel is away, and for technical reasons the upload is a

Nokha Dakroub Talks About the Mississauga Mayor By-Election

Joel Macleod — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

When Bonnie Crombie stepped down as Mayor of Mississauga to be the Ontario Liberal Party leader, it triggered a by-election

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Lorraine Sommerfeld Returns

Roland Tanner — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Lorraine Sommerfeld, author of the long-running Motherlode column in the Hamilton Spectator and multi-award-winning journalist at Driving.ca returns to discuss

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Chandler Levack: “I Like Movies” in the 905 region

Roland Tanner — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

We are joined by Chadler Levack, writer and director of “I Like Movies”, telling the story of Lawrence Kweller, a 17 year old boy attending Aldershot School in Burlington who is obsessed with movies and movie-making and who is hired to work in his local video store.

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The 905 Round-Up: Brian Lilley Ruins Everything

Roland Tanner — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Brian Lilley waded into the Hamilton Centre By-election with an accusation of antisemitism against the NDP. The Liberals jumped on his bandwagon, and the NDP fought back. Who does it help?

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Joey Coleman Chats on Hamilton City Hall Culture

Roland Tanner — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Joey Coleman of thepublicrecord.ca joins us to share his take on the first 100 days of Hamilton's new council.

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The 905 Round-Up: The Nuclear Option

Roland Tanner — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Another weekly brace of stories affecting the 905. When is disrupting a democratic meeting appropriate? Uncle Doug is building nuclear power plants. Uncle Justin is thowing money at the provinces to spend on healthcare to make up for the fact the premiers won’t throw enough money at it themselves.

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Postcards from the Tram – What Edinburgh Can Teach the 905 About LRT

Roland Tanner — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:05:00 +0000

Roland spent most of January in Scotland, and took the time to record his impressions of Edinburgh's Tram network, which opened it's first phase in 2014. The tram's construction was anything but smooth (sound familiar?), but now it's here, what's it like?

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905 Round-Up – Hurricane Hazel Departs

Roland Tanner — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Laura Steiner sits in for Joel as we discuss the late Hazel McCallion's legacy for Mississauga and the 905 region. And we share some first impressions (recorded before Tuesday's interview with Kate Graham - go and listen to it if you haven't heard it yet) on the 40 Liberal insiders who have put their names to an attempt to co-opt Mike Schreiner from the Ontario Greens.

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Dawn Danko Dishes on the HWDSB’s New Masking Policy

Joel Macleod — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:00:00 +0000

This month, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board reinstituted a masking policy. A decision which, to no surprise, drew the attention of both

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