Regional – The 905er

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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The 905 Round-Up: Liberal Rebirth and Third Party Validation

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

Have the Ontario Liberals turned a corner? Meanwhile, the PCs are swimming in corporate money in a world where corporate donations are illegal. What gives?

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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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Kate Graham Talks About That Liberal Letter

Roland Tanner — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:06:00 +0000

At 10am on Sunday former Ontario Liberal leadership hopeful Kate Graham posted an open letter on her Twitter account which certainly achieved something Ontario's Liberals have not done too often lately--it got people talking about the Ontario Liberals. The letter was a public invitation, signed by forty prominent Liberals, including such noteable party grandees as Greg Sorbara, Deb Matthews and Lyn McLeod, for Mike Schreiner, leader of the Ontario Green Party, to throw his hat into the ring to run for the Ontario Liberal leadership. Kate Graham joins us today to answer these questions and more in a fascinating exclusive interview.

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Greenbelt Sell-Off Scandal: Tim Gray of Environmental Defence discusses the call for a Police Investigation

Roland Tanner — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Joining us this week to discuss the reasons Environmental Defence and Democracy Watch are calling for a police investigation is Tim Gray of Environmental Defence.

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