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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Myles Rusak Jams withThe 905er about the Sound ...
It's time to look forward to summer again.One of the largest music festivals in Canada happens right here in the 905. This year bands like Finger Eleven, The Trews and The Tea Party are playing to crowds of hundreds of thousands on Father's Day wee...
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Join Us On YouTube For Our Live Election Webcast
Join us on YouTube at 9pm this evening (2nd June) when the polls close as Roland, Joel and special guests discuss the Ontario election results and what they mean for the 905 region. Here's the link you'll need: https://youtu.be/AMBnJb-JqT0
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905 Round-Up: Ontario’s Election is Missing, Pr...
Don't miss our election night live stream on Thursday. We'll spice up this election or die trying. Either way, it should be a fun evening for our listeners, and we're hoping to have some special guests. Join us and drown your sorrows or unexpectedly ...
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The 905 Round-Up: Bateman Highs and Lows
The saga surrounding Robert Bateman High in Burlington continues!First off we look at the Aird & Berlis report clearing the City Council of wrong doing in the Shawna Stolte disciplinary matter. While technically they are in the right, there is a bi...
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The 905 Round-Up: The Proof is in the Polling
Here is The 905 Round-Up!Coming off our episodes on the Green Party, NDP and Ontario Liberal Party platforms, we get a chance to dive into some polling data! Abacus Data issued a poll on Monday, May 16th, which seemed to back up a lot of what Rolan...
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2022 Provincial Election - The Ontario Liberal ...
In keeping with our coverage to date of the Ontario Provincial Election, here is Joel and Roland's take on what works and what doesn't in the Ontario Liberal Party Platform.This episode of The 905er is brought to you by our sponsor:South River Brew...
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The 905 Round-Up:Tory Riding Bonuses and Scanda...
This week saw the media and political parties foam at the mouth at the revelation by the NDP that Lisa MacLeod, Ontario PC MPP in Nepean was given an allowance of $44,000 over the last four years from her riding association. Further investigation sa...
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2022 Provincial Election: The Green Party Platform
The Green Party of Ontario's platform gets the 905er treatment today. But first, are we even smart enough to manage to download the darn thing? Listen to find out.This episode of The 905er is brought to you by our sponsor:South River Brewing. List...
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The 905 Round-Up: Elections Season is Here, so ...
Joel and Roland take a look away from the Ontario election beginning and focus on the municipal candidates declaring their candidacy for this falls election. Why is there such ridiculousness around the public property not being used for campaigning?...
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2022 Provincial Election - The NDP Platform
Following our interviews with the leaders of the Greens and Ontario Liberals in the last two weeks, we take a look today at the NDP's platform for the election which gets properly underway on Thursday. The NDP are first out of the gate with their ful...
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The 905 Round-Up: A Mayor’s Response and COVID’...
The 905 Round-Up is up and running!Coming off our coverage of the Burlington City Council's decision to reprimand Councillor Shawna Stolte we look at the very public and lengthy response to the situation from Mayor Marianne Meed-Ward. The Mayor pin...
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The Party Leaders Speak – Steven Del Duca
In the second of our interviews with Ontario party leaders, this week we are joined by Steven Del Duca, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. Steven Del Duca was first elected to the legislature in 2012 when he became MPP for Vaughan following the ret...
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The 905er Asks the Leaders the Tough Questions ...
As promised, we are bringing you our talks with the leaders of the major Ontario political parties prior to the campaign starting next month.We had wanted to do this for some time leading up to the election. A chance to sit down with the various le...
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The 905 Round-Up: The Downside of Nomination Me...
This episode of the 905 Round-Up is short and sweet this week. Due to Joel feeling under the weather it was decided to keep this episode to the point. As well, despite Joel's assertions, the day after recording this episode he tested again and disc...
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Halton Police Chief Steve Tanner Discusses the ...
[The incorrect file was initially uploaded with this episode. It has now been corrected.]At the same time as society has been dealing with COVID-19, another public health crisis has been taking place. This is the epidemic of deaths being caused acro...
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The 905 Round-up: Keanin, Bob and Judi too.
The mayoral race is heating up in Hamilton as a familiar face finally throws his hat into the ring. Meanwhile, Waterdown and Flamborough area councillor Judi Partridge announces she’s not running again, bringing the remaining Hamilton council to ...
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Maureen Wilson and Rory Nisan: Where was the De...
Rory Nisan is a city and regional councillor for Ward 3 in Burlington and Halton and Maureen Wilson is a 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...
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The 905 Round-Up: Fewer Masks & Why Can’t Parti...
We are joined by a special guest on this Round-Up. Milton Reporter, Laura Steiner returns to The 905er to share her insight on 905 politics!Doug Ford and the PC government is lifting mask mandates across the province, however...they forgot to t...
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The 905 Round-Up: Absent Mayors and Leadership ...
On this episode of The 905 Round-Up, it's all political.Mayor Patrick Brown has announced his campaign to become the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. One might think this would make his being mayor of Brampton rather difficult. We a...
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The 905 Round-Up: Paying Tribute to Mayor Mulke...
This week, Burlington lost an elder statesman of local politics.Former Mayor Walter Mulkewich passed away this week. His legacy in Burlington and Hamilton's civic as well as political life will be missed by many. If you were involved in local poli...
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The 905 Round-Up: Boundary Issues and Missing P...
Coming off our well-received episode on the #halton boundary debate, Joel and Roland look at both sides and how we think the debate over land use needs to progress in #the905.After that, we look at recent statistics provided by our friend Al...
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Ted McMeekin Discusses the Hamilton Alliance fo...
Last Thursday we mentioned a new idea that had been mooted in Hamilton media the same day as a way to solve the current homeless crisis. That idea is being advocated by the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters - HATS - an alliance of poverty reduction...
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The 905 Round-Up: Convoys and HATS for the Home...
On this episode of The 905 Round-Up:Of course, all we can talk about is the trucker convoy in Ottawa. While the eyes of the country are on Ottawa right now, the convoy passed through the 905 drumming up supporters demonstrating at overpasses. One ...
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The 905er Takes Time to Reflect on National Alz...
January is National Alzheimer's Awareness Month.Alzheimer's is the most common form of a range of diseases that is collectively referred to as dementia. In Canada, dementia affects over 500,000 Canadians. The annual costs to the Canadian healt...
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The 905 Round-Up: Pride and Progressive Housing
On this episode of The 905 Round-Up:Roland and Joel look at the long journey to raise the #prideflag at #HCDSB schools, and the perils of live-tweeting 5-hour long board meetings.Then Roland reviews the leaked proposals from the Housing Afforda...
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