The 905er Podcast
The 905er is a news, politics and discussion podcast for the GTHA region focusing on the region outside central Toronto where 4 million people live, but where news coverage and discussion hardly exists. Presented by Roland Tanner and Joel MacLeod, long-time activists, volunteers and sometimes even wannabe-politicians, we aim to provide a lively weekly podcast featuring interviews with people in the news, round-table discussions, analysis and more. It aims to be intelligent, though-provoking, lively and entertaining. Get bonus content on Patreon
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Michael Twigg Shares with The 905er a New Visio...
The Greenbelt continues to be front stage in Ontario politics. Doug Ford's reversal on his stance to allow developers to begin building inside the Greenbelt is proving to be rather unpopular to say the least.According to the Ontario Progressive Con...
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The 905 Round-Up: Laura Babcock Guest Hosts
Joel is joined by guest host Laura Babcock for this episode.The last municipal election saw Hamilton being the only municipality which saw real change. An old council was effectively replaced by fresh blood. Bringing in new ideas and perspectives ...
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Frank Domenic Chats with The 905er
While searching for stories to cover on this podcast, we often look through social media to keep an eye on what we think is relevant to life in the 905. In that process, we come across various personalities online.If you’re on Tiktok and follow any...
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The 905 Round-Up: Laura Steiner Guest Hosts
With Roland on a break for a bit, we reached out to a former guest of the podcast, Laura Steiner to come on and fill in on the mic.We pick up on our closing story of 2022, and how Doug Ford's greenbelt troubles are only starting. This week the OPP ...
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Karl Dockstader and The 905er Ponder the Thin B...
We are back from our break for 2023.Just prior to the New Year, word spread around the province of the tragic killing of OPP Officer Gzregorz Pierzchala in the line of duty, just outside of Hamilton. The accused in that case have been apprehended a...
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The Year That Was 2022
This is our last episode for 2022 folks!As per a yearly tradition, Roland and Joel look back at what they saw as their top stories of 2022. Without going too much into detail, the Halton Catholic School Board's fight over the Pride Flag as well as ...
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Greenbelt Sell-Off Scandal: Tim Gray of Environ...
(Updated with corrected interview file.) Once again we are looking today at the Ford government’s attack on environmental protections, and its handing of power and financial windfalls to a small number of major developers who just happen also to be m...
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The 905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Vs. Women
Doug Ford in a public interview shot back at criticism of his Bill 23 from Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, by saying she should 'quit her whining'. Earlier this month he shot back at Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk's analysis of his government's hand...
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Dawn Danko Dishes on the HWDSB’s New Masking Po...
This month the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board reinstituted a masking policy. A decision which to no surprise drew the attention of both sides of this contentious debate. After a few pauses in the meeting, and a few removals of people by th...
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Our 200th Episode Spectacular with a Special Guest
This podcast started as a bit of a passion project at the start of COVID-19. We wanted to be able to talk about the issues and news of the region in a way that legacy media just wasn't able to. A podcast seemed to be the best option to do that.Two...
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Amber Crawford from AMO talks with the 905er ab...
The latest law to upset Ontarians by the Doug Ford government is the More Homes Built Faster Act. Or Bill 23 as it's more affectionately referred to. This act is going to carve up 7,400 acres of the Greenbelt for developers to use free from oversi...
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905 Round-Up: Sewage Leaks, HATS in Hamilton an...
It turns out that the city of Hamilton continues to have problems with sewage. This time it appears that for 26 years raw sewage has been emptying out into Hamilton Harbour. The good news in this situation is that it also appears that Hamilton City...
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Nick Morrison Shares Safe Streets Halton’s Visi...
A question we constantly come back to on this podcast is what do we want our communities to be like. One of the ways to accomplish this is to ensure that our streets are pedestrian focused and safe for all who are on them. This year a grassroots org...
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905 Round-Up: Is Doug Ford Good for Democracy?
There is a disturbing trend emerging in Ontario politics from the Doug Ford government.As Doug Ford pursues his vision of paving over the greenbelt to help out his developer friends, resistance is popping up in unexpected places. Most recently the ...
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Franz Hartmann Talks to The 905er About Saving ...
Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act is the latest controversy from the Doug Ford Ontario PC Government. It is an abrupt violation of a promise Premier Ford made to voters last election to NOT touch the Greenbelt under any circumstances. Well a...
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The 905 Round-Up: Health Care Collapse and Land...
There is a lot to get to on this episode of the 905 Round-Up!We start off with a brief summary of the Halton District School Board's inability to come up with a dress code for it's teachers in light of the enormous controversy it found itself in las...
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Sex Workers Rights in The 905
In 2012, the supreme court handed down a landmark ruling which struck down many of the laws surrounding prostitution and sex work in Canada, citing that the laws violated sex workers charter rights as they imposed a greater risk of harm on sex worker...
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905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Rolls Over for CUPE
WOW!!! What a week!Doug Ford blinked before the entire province this week by capitulating to CUPE and revoking Bill 28. Meaning the imposed contract on CUPE workers is nullified as well as the use of the Notwithstanding Clause to trample worker's r...
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Heidi Bernhardt: ADHD Mythbusting
I’m writing this introduction at 1am, about 6 hours before this episode goes live. I’m doing so despite the fact I could have written and recorded this introduction more conveniently at almost any time in the last five days. Instead, I left it to the...
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905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Uses the Nuclear Option...
In Ontario there is only one thing anyone is talking about right now.As negotiations with CUPE hit an impasse, Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce are forcing a contract on CUPE members and invoking the Notwithstanding Clause in the process. The Clause ess...
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Lorraine Sommerfeld: Auto Destruction.
We welcome back multi-award-winning journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld to the podcast. For readers in the Hamilton and Halton area, Lorraine may be most loved for her long-running Motherlode column in the Hamilton Spectator, but she is best known across ...
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The 905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Ignores the Municip...
We recap a three and a half hour live stream of coverage of the municipal election results in the 905 region. What did we learn from Monday night's results? Also what should we expect from council tables in the region. All eyes are on Hamilton as ...
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Municipal Election Live Stream Catch-up
Did you miss the fun of the live results show on Monday? You did? Well do we have a treat for you. Over three hours of talk and analysis as the election results came in from across the province. We know you'll want to listen to every minute.And, you...
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905 Round-Up: Bad Trustees, MEXIT and Who’s Ahe...
This week, for your listening pleasure, we look at the contents of two previously confidential code of conduct reports against two controversial Halton Catholic School Board trustees and ask what it says about them and the trustee system; Mayor Bonni...
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Kojo Damptey Talks to the 905er About Why He Wo...
Racism has entered the Hamilton municipal race.Last week in Ward 14, candidate Kojo Damptey's bus shelter ad was vandalized by a poster saying "White Lives Matter" along with a link to a social media platform advocating white supremacist literature....
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