The 905er Podcast

You can support the work we do by visiting our website at https://905er.ca Last week a civic meeting at the Bennetto Community Centre in Hamilton was shut down due to attendees' disruptive behaviour. The issue of the meeting was to inform the local community about the proposed site for the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters, or HATS. We've spoken about the HATS project before on the podcast. Howe...

You can support us by visit our website: https://905er.ca The Greenbelt scandal continues to grow and become a bigger and bigger albatross around his government's neck. Each day new revelations add a new level to the scandal. How deep does this scandal go? And how is it undermining our belief in good and responsible government? Our guest today wants to examine exactly that. Jennifer Keesmaat is th...

Please support our work at our website https://905er.ca As families and students get prepared to return to school for another year, the LGBTQ+ community is coming under undo scrutiny once again. Over the summer, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan provincial governments changed their policies regarding notifying parents of a student's wish to change their pronouns or assigned name from birth. Here in O...

Please support our work at https://905er.ca Now and again we come across what seems to be a small idea that could have a significant impact. The Burlington Public Library has one of those ideas. Their Digital Archive was recently launched, putting their collection of historical documents online for the world to see. Now while most would see this as just an added service that the library would offe...

Support us at https://905er.ca We bring to you our second part of our dive into the homelessness crisis in the 905. In our previous episode we talked with Michelle Bilek of the Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness, to get the grassroots perspective of the issue. This episode, we speak with two councillors of two of the largest cities in the 905 to find out what barriers our cities are facing to ad...

Support the Podcast at https://905er.ca We know we were supposed to bring you the second episode in our discussion about homelessness this week. That is still coming however something really important happened in the week between. Ontario's Auditor General, Bonnie Lysyk released her report on the Ontario PC Government's Greenbelt opening, and it did not go well for Premier Doug Ford and Minister S...

This summer and this year has seen tent encampments spring up across not just the 905 but across the entire country. As housing prices continue to skyrocket and wages remain stagnant, a very real and very immediate economic crisis has emerged. More and more people are being forced out of their rental properties and homes due to them becoming more and more unaffordable. The result has seen a crisis...

Support our work at our website https://905er.ca We complete our interviews with the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership candidates by sitting down with the last candidate to jump into the fray, Adil Shamji. Adil is one of two leadership candidates who currently has a seat in the Ontario Legislature. He is also a doctor who was on the front lines of COVID and ran and won in the last provincial electi...

Support our work by visiting us at https://905er.ca A few weeks ago, we received an alarming notification on our Instagram page. Meta would no longer be sharing our content in Canada, in retaliation against the Federal government's Bill C-18. We had though that maybe we'd be too small to be affected by this move, however it turns out we were wrong. Instead we have found ourselves to be reduced to...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! The Ontario government recently announced a new curriculum for teachers to implement this fall concerning literacy. While it is based on updated techniques and science concerning children's development, it is of course not without controversy. Usually in developing and unrolling curriculum, it is a slow p...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! We are venturing outside the 905 today. In fact outside the province all they across the prairies to the great province of Alberta. Don't worry we aren't changing our address, but in light of the aftermath of the recent Alberta provincial election of Danielle Smith we wanted to look at the effects of it o...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! Our conversations with the Ontario Liberal Leadership contenders keeps going! We sit down with the only Ontario Liberal Leadership candidate who currently holds a seat in the legislatures. Kingston and the Islands MPP Ted Hsu joins us to discuss why he wants the top job in the Ontario Liberal Party. In th...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! In May, the York Catholic District School Board voted to not fly the Pride flag at it's properties for Pride Month. Followers of this podcast will know of our coverage of the Halton Catholic School Board's year long debate over raising the flag at it's properties and how contentious that proceeding was. T...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! Our conversations with the Ontario Liberal Leadership contenders continues! On his episode we sit down the Federal Liberal MP, Yasir Naqvi to talk about his career and why now he wants to run for the top job in the party. Yasir is the Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre, and was the Parliamentary Secre...

The Ontario Liberal Party leadership race is finally kicking off. For the last two election cycles, the Ontario Liberals have failed to attain even official party status in the Legislature. The party has failed to seemingly capture the imagination and the support of the Ontario public. Many are seemingly writing off the party as a shell of it's former self. No longer a contender in Ontario politic...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! “I Like Movies” is the debut film from Chandler Levack, set in 2003, and 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. Levack grew up in Burlington and attend...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! We welcome back to the podcast Frank Domenic! Frank joins Roland and Joel to recap two previous episodes and look at where we stand now on their issues. Previously we had on Karen Brown, President of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario to discuss violence in Ontario schools against teachers. Fra...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! Well its happening. Last week, the Minister of Municipal Affairs Steve Clark announced that they would be tabling legislation to break up Peel Region. The Town of Caledon, City of Brampton and the City of Mississauga after 50 years together will now be going their separate ways. What will this mean for th...

Continuing from our previous episode on cycling in the 905, we are taking a trip outside of the region. All the way across the country to Vancouver to speak with Dale Bracewell. Metaphorically of course. Dale was in attendance at the Ontario Bike Summit in Hamilton that happened earlier this month. He was there to showcase the work he did in Vancouver to transform that city into a more cycling-fri...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! Last week, in Hamilton the Ontario Biking Summit was held. A conference to discuss how we can implement new policies and build infrastructure to create safer biking communities. This is a topic that comes up frequently in the 905. As we become a more denser and urban community, biking is a more and more v...

Now on Fountain.fm fountain.fm/the_905er987 Support us there and help keep the podcast going! We are welcoming back to the podcast for his third time at the microphone Mike Moffatt. We’ve been wanting to do this episode for sometime now but had trouble with scheduling. Finally the stars aligned and we were able to make it happen. As no doubt you are aware both the provincial and federal government...

An article on the CBC caught our eye. The Hamilton Police Services has spent $30,000 to purchase drones for use. According to the report the drones have been used for simple search and rescue missions, as well as for use to monitor university parties, and protests against Justin Trudeau. This is such a wide range to use this tool we pondered what was the criteria for it being implemented? More imp...

Over recent months there have been some high profile stories in the media that concern Ontario’s schools, and even specifically schools in the 905 region. Some attracted a lot of media attention, and some attracted the sort of attention from far right groups that makes our stomach sink.  But here’s the thing. Speak to a teacher, and it’s unlikely that the issues that have been prominent in the med...

Today we are joined by Laura Steiner once again from the Milton Reporter! The Ontario government is in a race to build 1.5 million new homes by 2031 in the province. In an effort to do so Minister of Municipal Affairs Steve Clark has reached out to the various municipalities to get them to pledge to build a specific number of homes by the provinces deadline. What is surprising to us is the number...

It is impossible to ignore the headlines on the state of Ontario's healthcare system.  In Doug Ford's second term as Premier, despite a promise not to privatize the system, it seems that is exactly what is happening in Ontario. For private clinics are now part in parcel for healthcare in this province. Brought in under the pretence that it would help to alleviate the overburdened and crumbling sys...