Dawn Danko Dishes on the HWDSB’s New Masking Policy
2022-12-13
This month the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board reinstituted a masking policy. A decision which to no surprise drew the attention of bothRead More …
905 Round-up: Another Fight with the Teachers is Brewing; Corporate Donations Still Dominating Politics
2022-09-08
Back to school and the province wants another fight with the teachers. Because two years on the COVID frontlines says ’pay cuts’, right? Oh and corporate donations were banned years ago. So why are corporate donations still a thing?Read More …
Maureen Wilson and Rory Nisan: Where was the Debate over Mask Mandates?
2022-03-30
Rory Nisan is city and regional councillor for Ward 3 in Burlington and Halton and Maureen Wilson is councillor for Ward 1 in Hamilton. Both of them join us today to give their perspective on why the municipal votes in Hamilton and Halton to repeal mask mandates were so one-sided, when the public seems far from united on the wisdom of abandoning masks.Read More …
The 905 Round-Up: Fewer Masks & Why Can’t Parties Get Along More Often?
2022-03-24
Milton Reporter, Laura Steiner returns to The 905er to share her insight on 905 politics, as we discuss the Liberal/NDP federal agreement and its implications for the proviincial election. And something, something, the pandemic is over, right? Yeah, right.Read More …
The Canadian Way: Eleanor McMahon and the Trans Canada Trail
2022-03-15
Among the unexpected consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, surely one of the better ones is a nationwide rediscovery of the Canadian outdoors. Eleanor McMahon describes the numerous ways in which in the first thirty years since the Trans Canada Trail concept was born, it has come to embody and symbolize something truly important for our heterogenous nation.Read More …
The 905 Round-Up: Paying Tribute to Mayor Mulkewich
2022-03-05
This week, Burlington lost an elder statesman of local politics. Former Mayor Walter Mulkewich passed away this week. His legacyRead More …
Todd Coleman Explains the Future of COVID-19
2022-01-25
As the Omicron variant continues to paralyze the 905 and all of Ontario, we asked epidemiologist Dr Todd Coleman what we should be doing to live with COVID-19 as we enter the third year of this pandemic.Read More …
A Polite Suggestion to Ontario’s Big City Mayors: Shut Up
2022-01-17
The mayors are at it again. What don’t they understand about political interference in a public health issue?Read More …
The 905 Round-Up: Covid Deja Vu, Lawn Sign Loopholes and More Pride for HCDSB
2022-01-13
Our first episode of 2022, has our intrepid hosts looking down the barrel of another lockdown and shutting of schools to mark the start of the year. Plus how City Halls hide things in plain sight and Halton Catholtic School Board is having another crack at the Pride flag debate.Read More …
Urz Heer Shares How a Peel Community Turned the Tide on COVID-19
2021-12-22
Peel was hit hard by COVID-19, but today, the region is the top spot in Canada for vaccination rates. Urz Heer of the Canadian Muslim COVID-19 Task Force joined us to explain how the Peel community came together to make a great thing happen.Read More …