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Toronto editor Ron Wadden, columnist and noted urban explorer Peter Kuitenbrouwer and Marni Soupcoff of the National Post editorial board, talk about whatever Torontonians are talking about.
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On road hockey, falling concrete and great sandwiches | Our panel discusses the insanity of proposals to bypass the street hockey bylaw, why the sky (aka Gardiner Expressway) is falling and what’s next for St. Lawrence Market. | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn riot police, civil rights and Rob Ford’s surprise | National Post Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the editorial board, discuss the report of the Independent Police Review Director, and the mayor’s presence at a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall. | 17 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn guns, f-bombs and one-way streets. | Join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer, national editor Rob Roberts, Matt Gurney from the editorial board and Natalie Alcoba, the city hall bureau chief, in a discussion of the Sportsmen’s Show and plans to change traffic patterns in downtown Toronto | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On Mayor Ford and his property line | Our panel debates whether both parties in The Fence Peek Incident acted appropriately. Conclusion? Get security guards already. For everyone’s sake. | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn the new war on the car, 8000 bus delays and the slaughter of city trees. | Peter Kuitenbrouwer, Toronto columnist, Toronto editor Ron Wadden, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the National Post editorial board, chew the fat on news topics that weigh on the mind of Toronto. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On green bins and KFC | Our panel wonders how much raccoons will insist on learning in order to eat at midnight, and why anyone would care what the mayor eats at lunchtime. | 19 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On injection sites and “the wrong gravy” | Our panel discusses whether the city should allow safe injection cites; and who should be cleaning Toronto’s police stations. | 12 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On islands in Humber Bay, the Air-Rail-Eglinton Link and not a word about His Worship | Our panel takes a holiday from references to Mayor What’s-his-name and instead discusses proposals for a western spit and eight more stops on the Union-Pearson rail line. | 5 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On labour, libraries and roasted goose | Our panel wonders if Rob Ford can take credit for quelling labour unions, and why the Canada goose isn’t a foodstuff. | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On Sheppard, and wondering when the subway will arrive. Answer? Never | During one last swipe at the never-ending Toronto transit debate, Peter Kuitenbrouwer determines that his fellow panelists are nuts. | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On ousting Ford, catching Uber and, curiously, hot dogs | Our panel discusses the legal effort to end the Mayor’s reign over football pads, the new app that has taxi owners nervous and what Toronto has that New York doesn’t. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On the future for Rob Ford and the joy of semis | Our panel discusses why a Mayor should never have a rookie councillor as his closest advisor, and why some people these days can’t appreciate the joys of being attached to their neighbours | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On the cocaine that is library advertising, and the plate of crow that is the Rob Ford subway-funding d | Our panel achieves rare unanimity in rejecting Councillor Janet Davis’s fears of ads in libraries and marvels at the Mayor’s transformation now that he has three weeks until his Sheppard subway dreams could be crushed by rivals. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On Webster, Rob Ford, sunshine and Montreal subway babes | Our panel looks for something positive to come out of the Gary Webster firing; revisits (yes, again) the merits of subways over streetcars; and Peter Kuitenbrouwer warns his head might explode if decisions aren’t made over which transit option will be built. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: On booze and CUPE and why the 905 is beating the 416 | Our panel discusses the Drummond Report suggestion that we need more LCBO stores; why the outside workers don't want to let angry paramedics break away; and why the suburbs are growing faster than downtown. | 16 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn light rail, Ford’s loss and the Stintz love-in | Peter Kuitenbrouwer joins Matt Gurney and Marni Soupcoff from the National Post editorial board, and national editor Rob Roberts, in dissecting Rob Ford’s big loss at City Council on his subway vision. We ask why no one remembers his big victory this week, with the outside workers tentative labour agreement. | 9 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn subways, bullies and amusement parks | On subways, bullies and amusement parks Our panel discusses the Mayor vs. the TTC chair; whether Doug Ford was a bully or just a loudmouth; and what Ontario Place should, or shouldn’t, be in five years. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn changing plans, chickens and time capsules | Our panel discusses the Eglinton LRT and how long Karen Stintz can stay TTC chair; what smells bad about the backyard hen debate; and what to do with the Sam the Record Man signs. | 26 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn budgeting and negotiating | Our panel wonders whether the 2012 budget vote was a repudiation of Mayor Rob Ford, or whether he won long ago by altering everyone’s expectations, a move that seems to be happening again in labour talks. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn 9-1-1 calls, graffiti and tax hikes | National Post Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National editor Rob Roberts and Matt Gurney from the editorial board debate which, if any calls to 9-1-1 for Rob Ford’s address are newsworthy, whether Mississauga council has a point in blaming CBC comedian Rick Mercer for an uptick in graffiti, and a Toronto Board of Trade suggestion that the city raise property taxes and TTC Fares. | 12 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPosted Toronto Podcast: The year in review | Our panel discusses the state of the city in 2011, concluding that our economy is strong, our citizens are engaged and our murderers are less, well, murderous. | 29 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn taxes and transit and totally tasteless sex | Our panel discusses industrial wards, the budget (yes, again), and why anyone would ever do it on the cold tile of a Toronto subway station. | 15 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn the armageddon budget, Blockbuster libraries and the remade Gardens | Our panel wonders if the proposed operating budget is as draconian as some would have us believe, whether you should be able to borrow movies from the library, and what to make of Mattamy Home Ice. | 1 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn patient cops, condo rookies and Markham concerts | Our panel discusses whether the Toronto Police handling of the Occupy eviction helps an image still tarnished by the G20; why the City of Toronto shouldn’t be in the condo business; and why the proposed stadium in Markham might be a tough sell. | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn schools, balls and Occupiers | Our panel discusses the Africentric high school vote; the terror of soccer balls in the schoolyard; and what to believe or not to believe about Occupy Toronto. | 17 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn cycling safety, de-occupying Toronto and pink slips | Our panel discusses the tragic death of Jenna Morrison, the case — or lack thereof — for ousting protesters from St. James Park, and why city residents should brace for a long labour war. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Jane-Finch, separated bike lanes and Goodfella Rocco Rossi | Our panel wonders whether Toronto’s most notorious neighbourhood will ever change; Adelaide and Richmond will share the road with cyclists; and how the city’s human rights office could possibly justify looking into a complaint about the presence, as memorabilia, of a former mayoral candidate’s campaign poster. | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn electric bikes, Yonge and Eglinton, and the occupiers | Our panel manages to evoke images of Spiderman, the Jetsons and tribal commuting in today’s discussion about congestion in its many forms. | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn TTC service, councillor snacks and so much more | Our panel offers some rants and suggestions on customer service, debates the merits of using surplus revenue to close the budget gap and professes little love for sharks. | 13 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn City Hall budgets and Queen’s Park politics | Our panel recaps the madness from this week’s city council meeting and wonders what impact Ford Nation will have on next week’s provincial election. | 29 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn the Port Lands, a past mayor, and parking. | Our panel discusses the shenanigans at City Hall, David Miller's suggestion that Transit City is not dead and how cool it would be to buy parking time using your phone. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Port Lands and Wheel Trans | Our panel suggests a hybrid Waterfront Toronto/Ford Brothers vision for the Port Lands, and questions which suggested budget cuts make sense and which don't. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn art consultants, communists and fishy politics | Our panel discusses the briefly available job of choosing art for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Giorgio Mammoliti’s keen sense of smell and Hazel McCallion’s salmon presentation to Mayor Rob Ford. | 11 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Ford’s fishing trip, self-defence and the French Quarter | Our panel discusses the Mayor and his new best buddy, the right to protect your home from burglars, and the burning need for Toronto's french speakers to have their own dedicated neighbourhood. | 5 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn the City Hall circus | Our panel returns from vacation, just in time to discuss the executive committee free-for-all, raised fingers, lowered expectations and Margaret Atwood. Oh and EdgeWalk, too. | 28 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Pride, Pomp and Pop | On the Posted Toronto Podcast for Thursday, June 22, 2010. City columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer. Rob Roberts, National editor, Megan O’Toole, local news journalist, and Matt Gurney from the National Post editorial board, discuss Rob Ford staying away from the Pride parade, Mississauga calls for abolishing the OMB as it inaugurates a civic square, and the TDSB presents its new soft-drink free vending machine selections. Think juice. | 23 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn naming rights, refunds and riots | Our panel weighs in on Premier McGuinty’s GO Train refund musings; the city’s flirtation with selling naming rights to public property; and asks whether Torontonians would react any better than Vancouverites if the Leafs were ever make it to a Stanley Cup final. | 16 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn community housing, the Dundas West boondoggle and death in Ajax | Our panel discusses whether the city should be landlord for 900 single-family homes; why road construction plans never mesh with the timetable for gas, hydro and TTC; and why natural burial and golf may not mix. | 9 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn pests, pandhandling and pucks | Our panel discusses raccoons and shovels; Doug Holyday’s trial balloon on street begging; and Josh Colle’s pitch for a second NHL team. | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn gender, core services and urban parkland | Our panel discusses the Junction couple who are keeping their youngest child's gender a secret; what should be done to address the city's budget gap; and whether an underpass is the best place for a park. | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn cellphones, urban camping and club Loma | Our panel discusses the Toronto District School Board’s decision to allow cellphones in the classroom, the city’s decision to allow natives to set up tents in High Park and what council should decide to do with Casa Loma. | 19 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn dogs, bridges and Giambrone | Our panel discusses the former TTC chairman's free metropass; whether the city’s pennypinching ways spell goodbye to attractive infrastructure projects, like the Fort York bridge; and whether the swift resolution of the case of the stolen dog is a sign of good policework or could their time have been better spent elsewhere. | 12 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn bike lanes, the crumbling Liberal Fortress and Prime Minister Ford(?!) | Our panel discusses the unexpected positions of two of Toronto’s most prominent councillors on separated bike lanes; the federal election aftermath; and what the future holds for Mayor Rob Ford. | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn GO, voting and Ontario Place | Our panel wonders why the red rocket can’t be more like the green rocket; why orange might be a popular colour in Toronto on Tuesday; and why Ontario Place might need more than free admission to regain its popularity. | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn the waterfront (the place, not the movie), City Hall (the politics, not the building) and the Ontario Legislature (the build | Our panel discusses this week’s criticism of the pace of waterfront development; the many hot topics from this week’s city council meeting and next week’s executive committee agenda; and why condos would, or wouldn’t, ruin the view of Queen’s Park. | 14 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn OCAP, bunny suits and architecture | Our panel discusses the propriety of an elementary school sending its students to OCAP protests; the limits that should be imposed on councillor expenses; and the reviews of Ryerson’s new Yonge Street addition. | 7 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn nudity and incredulity at City Hall | Our panel discusses how Now Magazine is treating Rob Ford; how Doug Holyday is defending his request for help with legal costs; and why not everyone is thrilled about the revamped transit plan. | 31 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Parkdale, prostitution and political priorities | Our panel discusses the assaults on the mentally ill; Giorgio Mammolitti’s immodest proposal for Toronto Island; and whether Rob Ford’s business should be dealing with the city. | 24 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn compost, Case Ootes and casting Rob Ford | Our panel wonders if councillor expense analysis is over the top; if the interim head of the TCHC is overpaid; and if the Mayor can act his way out of Sir Topham’s hat. | 17 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn housing, heritage and Hazel | Our panel discusses jazz hands and the fate of the Toronto Community Housing board; the late Paul Oberman and the need for other developers to follow his business model; and Mayor McCallion’s alleged rudeness. | 10 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
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