Mississauga – 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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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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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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905 Round-Up: Bad Trustees, MEXIT and Who’s Ahead in Hamilton?

Roland Tanner — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:17:00 +0000

Halton Catholic Trustees behaving badly, ’MEH-XIT’ for Mississauga, and Hamilton has a mayoral race where either likely winner is ... pretty good actually? Shurely shome mishtake?

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905 Round-Up: Alan Kan talks about what to expect this falls Municipal Elections

Roland Tanner — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:07:21 +0000

Alan Kan writes the #munipoli matters newsletter, focusing on the news and politics of municipalities not just here in the 905 but across the country as well. Today we talk with him and ask him to share his take on what he predicts will be the more interesting municipal elections in the region.

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The 905 Round-Up: The Tories True Colours on Development

Roland Tanner — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:59:59 +0000

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.

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The 905 Round-Up: Boundary Issues and Missing Populations

Roland Tanner — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:26:00 +0000

Halton's boundary, Mississauga's missing population growth, and Burlington's MPP quits to run for regional chair.

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Mississauga Councillor’s Resignation Shakes City Hall to its Core

Roland Tanner — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:02:18 +0000

Alan Kan writes on the scandal surrounding the resignation of Karen Ras in Mississauga following repeated incidents in which her car was vandalized.

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The 905 Round-Up: Peel Trouble and Green Steel in Hamilton

Joel Macleod — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:06:46 +0000

On this episode of The 905 Round-Up, we have a special guest. Alan Kan writes a municipal politics blog titled

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