Rose City Politics

On Rose City Politics we have a change up. Don is not writing this tease ensuring it is void of whatever futile attempts at humour are made. Guests hosts Sarah Morris and Kate Isley join Mark and Paul to give a perspective from everything the regular RCP panel is not. Topics include Downtown Living aka "running the gauntlet" and Mayor and Council salaries, where do candidates sign up or should we...

Chamber of Commerce says Minimum Wage Hike will cost jobs. Fortunately Windsor leaders only focus on assembly jobs, and robots work for free. Made in Windsor solution number 437. Mayor Dilken's doesn't show up at Pride Parade. Obviously he missed it trying to find parking downtown!!. (You knew that was coming). Should we raise the HST 1% to fund infrastructure? Speaking of Infrastructure, nobody o...

Chamber of Commerce says Minimum Wage Hike will cost jobs. Fortunately Windsor leaders only focus on assembly jobs, and robots work for free. Made in Windsor solution number 437. Mayor Dilken's doesn't show up at Pride Parade. Obviously he missed it trying to find parking downtown!!. (You knew that was coming). Should we raise the HST 1% to fund infrastructure? Speaking of Infrastructure, nobody o...

We will recap last nights marathon council meeting and discuss the Pelissier St. Parking Garage Vote and councillors rationale for their votes. Deciphering this is some serious Dan Brown mystical symbol stuff. Someone call Tom Hanks. Pillette St. bike lanes, Terror on Two Wheels, Ouellette Ave. streetscaping comes in $1.2mil over estimate. This is why we can't have pretty things. Snout Houses, rui...

We will recap last nights marathon council meeting and discuss the Pelissier St. Parking Garage Vote and councillors rationale for their votes. Deciphering this is some serious Dan Brown mystical symbol stuff. Someone call Tom Hanks. Pillette St. bike lanes, Terror on Two Wheels, Ouellette Ave. streetscaping comes in $1.2mil over estimate. This is why we can't have pretty things. Snout Houses, rui...

Pat Papadeas and Doug Sartori conduct a phone interview with Premier Kathleen Wynne regarding her recent visit to Windsor and the roundtable discussions she conducted. Related to that, we take a critical look at what was or wasn't discussed and some politicians recollections of the discussions.

This is a partial version of episode 27, as we were having some technical problems during the broadcast. The full version is available as Premier Wynne and the Mayor's Communication Misunderstandings.

Rose City Politics. 8PM. TONIGHT! Estimate to construct 43 parking spots come in almost $400,000 more than the bogus estimate that was used to sell a false business case to the taxpayers from the people we elected to handle our tax dollars. Mayor says in CBC article today "$507,000 figure was calculated five years ago". If only the voters could fix today mistakes we made years ago. Sadly for the M...