Episode 11: Hope and Betrayal – the human stories and human cost of Ontario’s cancelled Basic Income Pilot
2020-10-06
Deirdre Pike and Jessie Golem give a fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking account of the Basic Income Pilot.Read More …
Lorraine Sommerfeld – What’s Up With Hamilton?
2020-09-22
We’re joined by Hamilton Spectator columnist, National Post auto journalist and onetime city hall volunteer Lorraine Sommerfeld, as we discuss some of the themes from the last few weeks in light of the behaviour we are seeing in Hamilton, and the general problem of how to get citizen voices heard in ways which are respectful and don’t waste anybody’s time.Read More …
Episode 6: Who runs our cities? Burlington’s Official Plan and the struggle to control local government.
2020-09-01
This week we discuss the provincial background to how our cities are run with Zac Spicer, Director of Research at the Institute of Public Administration in Canada. Zac provides a wealth of insight, based on his years as a researcher into Ontario’s municipalities, about the background context which shaped how Burlington’s controversial OP was written and then rewritten, and how debates in other 905 cities are taking shape.Read More …
Episode 5: Crisis and Community: Can Hamilton’s hospitality industry innovate itself back to health?
2020-08-25
This week we speak to Jason Cassis, founder and partner of Equal Parts Hospitality Inc which owns some of Hamilton’s best known eateries, about the experience of having to shut down operations almost overnight as Covid hit, and his new venture Mamma Rossa Italian Kitchen (mammarossa.ca) – a new type of restaurant that has no physical location and sells exclusively through Uber Eats.Read More …