Posted Toronto Podcast: Stintz’s stumble and Ford’s finesse
Matt Gurney and Rob Roberts join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer to discuss the ups and downs of city politics.
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Staffers including Toronto editor Ron Wadden, columnist and noted urban explorer Peter Kuitenbrouwer and Marni Soupcoff of the National Post editorial board, talk about whatever Torontonians...
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20 of 50 episodesOn university dropouts and overachievers
Our Posted Toronto panel — national editor Rob Roberts, reporter Megan O’Toole and Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer — weighs in on Rob...
Posted Toronto Podcast: On the Stintz plan and why transit nirvana may never arrive.
Our panel dissects the ‘arts and crafts’ OneCity sketch and expresses skepticism over its odds for completion.
Posted Toronto Podcast: On Game of Hoods, hot dogs and Little Italy
Our panel mends wounds caused by the Riverdale v. Little Portugal showdown, asks if we’ve gone too far on the pooches in cars patrol, and wo...
Posted Toronto Podcast: On (what else?) the plastic bag ban
Our panel calmly discusses city council’s decision to ban plastic shopping bags by 2013, while the rest of the city goes all OMG crazy about...
Posted Toronto Podcast: On tall buildings and short transit construction
Our panel discusses whether 83 storeys is too tall for Bloor-Yonge and who should be in charge of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Consensus? The...
Posted 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...
On 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 r...
On 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 ch...
Posted 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...
On 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 ed...
Posted 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 lu...
Posted 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.
Posted 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 o...
Posted 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.
Posted 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.
Posted 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...
Posted 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 appreciat...
Posted Toronto Podcast: On the cocaine that is library advertising, and the plate of crow that is the Rob Ford subway-funding drive
Our panel achieves rare unanimity in rejecting Councillor Janet Davis’s fears of ads in libraries and marvels at the Mayor’s transformation...
Posted 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;...