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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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...
49 min
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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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905 Round-Up: Cowardly Candidates and Who’s Win...
For this episode of the Round-Up we examine a disappointing trend in Halton of candidates for public office not showing up for debates.In the race for Halton Catholic School Board Trustees, a major debate was cancelled due to numerous candidates dec...
50 min
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Halton Regional Chair Race - Andrea Grebenc
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, ther...
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905 Round Up: Activists, Coyotes and Politics W...
It seems that in the 905, it belongs to the coyotes and we just live here. Coyotes continue to dominate the discussion around dinner tables in Burlington where 4 coyotes have been put down. Response from City of Burlington has been its people's fault...
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Taking the P Out of Politics: Racing to the Bot...
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 sto...
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905 Round-Up: When the Landlords Make the Rules
It's rare that we get to focus on federal politics when talking about the 905 region. However, we found our chance to with a story by Davide Mastracci over at Readpassage.com. His hard work discovered that close to 40% of all MP's were either landl...
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Caryma Sa’d On Why the Freedom Convoy Came to O...
Last week, a picture shared to social media of a trans woman teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School erupted into an international controversy. The showed the teacher in question wearing overly large prosthetic breasts covered with a tight sweater...
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The 905 Round-Up: Corruption, When it Fits
It was brought to our attention that Burlington Councillor Paul Sharman's campaign was collecting donations from developers, which was helping to fuel his fourth time being elected to Burlington City Council. It brought people claiming that he was co...
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The Race for Milton: Zeeshan Hamid
It may be over 20 years since Gord Krantz faced a serious challenger in Milton. Back then it was Colin Best who got as close as 1000 votes to beating Krantz, before settling for a long career as a Milton councillor. Zeeshan Hamid, first elected in 20...
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