905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Ignores the Municipal Election
2022-10-27
We recap a three and a half hour live stream of coverage of the municipal election results in the 905Read More …
Public Spat Between Kearns and Parr Intensifies
2022-10-26
Kearns states that Parr was unwelcome at a campaign event because of Parr’s prior “disgusting use of language designed to incite hurt and embarrassment”. At the event, she claims he “shoved his phone in my face in front of my children, family, friends and supporters telling me to ‘call the cop’s’ …. Which we did.”Read More …
Ward 2’s Kearns slams behaviour of Gazette’s Pepper Parr as “disgusting”, “unacceptable”
2022-10-25
Parr “published a comment about me by a competitor that I should have my mouth duct-taped. He once again used this language directly in a more recent article – first hand.”Read More …
905 Round-Up: Bad Trustees, MEXIT and Who’s Ahead in Hamilton?
2022-10-20
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?Read More …
Kojo Damptey Talks to the 905er About Why He Won’t Quit
2022-10-18
Racism has entered the Hamilton municipal race. Last week in Ward 14, candidate Kojo Damptey’s bus shelter ad was vandalizedRead More …
905 Round-Up: Cowardly Candidates and Who’s Winning in Hamilton?
2022-10-13
If a candidate skips debates, interviews, media opportunities, and, er, everything, why on earth should we vote for them?
And if Andrea Horwath and Bob Bratina are concentrating their fire on Keanin Loomis in Hamilton, what does that tell us about the Keanin Loomis campaign?Read More …
Halton Regional Chair Race – Andrea Grebenc
2022-10-11
As we’ve mentioned before, we can’t cover every race, but we can highlight some of the races we think are most interesting. This week we’re focusing on the Halton Regional Chair race. For the first time since the position became elected in 2000, there are three candidates in the race with clearly established credentials and contrasting platforms. Andrea Grebenc, former chair of the Halton District School Board did reply, and joined us to set out why she thinks she’s the right choice for the job.Read More …
Taking the P Out of Politics: Racing to the Bottom in ’Bramton’ and the Hammer
2022-10-04
Regular guest Alan Kan joins us again to chat about the latest news from the municipal election trail. And leading the pack for ‘oh, good grief, really?’ moments in this election are the good cities of Brampton and Hamilton.
We look at the latest stories from those two cities, asking whether Patrick Brown’s main challenger is much of an alternative, and whether what some assumed was a ‘slam dunk’ win for Andrea Horwath is being undone by, well, Andrea Horwath.Read More …
Caryma Sa’d On Why the Freedom Convoy Came to Oakville
2022-09-28
Last week, a picture shared to social media of a trans woman teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School erupted into an international controversy.
Covering that demonstration was Caryma Sa’d. You are no doubt aware of Caryma’s work on covering the Freedom Convoy. Well today she joins Joel and Roland to share what she saw and why this high school attracted so much attention.Read More …
The 905 Round-Up: Corruption, When it Fits
2022-09-28
As politics becomes more polarized, the gap between ‘disagreement’ and ‘enmity’ is blurred to the point of invisibility.
But when you use words like ‘corruption’, you had better know what you’re talking about. Words matter. And it also matters that, even if we disapprove of a particular action, even if we wouldn’t do it outselves, we notice the difference between acting legally and without hypocrisy and acting ‘corruptly’.
We look at two examples today …Read More …