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Former political staffers Sam Andrey, Chris Martin, Alvin Tedjo and Alexi White used to give advice to Ontario cabinet ministers. Join them for a regular, open, and frank discussion on the p...
We're back baby! Temporarily! Recording an election night pod is just so damn fun that we put one together to talk about the new Liberal Min...
You all sent us so many questions to answer in our END OF SEASON MAILBAG! We talk about catholic schools, electoral reform, ranked ballots,...
We took a bit of a breather this week, but Chris did sit down with Rebecca Jesseman, former chair of the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre Co...
Sam, Chris, Alvin and Garima dive into all the politics that are underway as we head into summer. Between cabinet shuffles, election platfor...
While most Ontarians were out enjoying nice weather and the company of other humans, Doug Ford recalled the legislature to pass a bill to ma...
We talk about the pending cabinet shuffle, Doug Ford's negotiations over school closures with a child, pride, and so much more.
Garima, Sam, Chris, and Alvin talk about the horrendous truth Canadians were faced with, as 215 dead children were found at a residential sc...
Good Bill/Bad Bill/Sketchy Bill returns, as we wrap up all the pending legislation in the Ontario legislature before the session ends for th...
Doug Ford's Premier's Office considers a bold new leadership strategy involving... keeping Doug Ford away from the spotlight. Is this smart...
This week we talk the province's new vaccine plans, paid sick days, and what the long-term care commission had to say about the Ontario gove...
It's been a week of tears, frustration, agony, and many now capitulation on paid sick days? But probably not. Karim Bardeesy joins to talk a...
Folks, friends, we always tell you the truth. We always make the tough decisions. And today is no different. Chris, Alvin, Garima and Sam ta...
The engine light was on for miles before this, but Doug Ford kept driving that car. With the wheels now falling off the car completely, we a...
We talk about the necessary, but late and incoherent announcement of another provincewide shutdown to deal with rising COVID-19 cases, the p...
Despite unprecedented challenges facing the province, Ontario announces a budget that puts our money into... underwhelming healthcare invest...
We discuss the various impacts that Amazon is having in Ontario Politics currently, from almost destroying but then saving a protected wetla...
The crew covers the FAO's report on affordable housing and homelessness, revelations from the long-term-care commission that Minister Merile...
Chris, Alvin, Garima and Sam talk about the Ford government's changes to elections and campaign finance, the secret deal to sell a downtown...
Chris, Alvin, and Sam dive through all the pre-budget legislation on-tap for Spring 2020. From privatization, to paid sick days, to porch pi...
Sam talks to Gayle Nathanson of the Coalition to End Online Hate. Garima, Chris and Sam talk love, romance, upsetting COVID modelling and go...
We talk about the shocking insolvency of Laurentian University with Higher Education expert Alex Usher, the COVID-19 reopening, the governme...
January 2021 continues forever with an exhausting COVID response from the Ford government, attacks on medical experts like Dr. David Fisman,...
Garima, Sam, Chris and Alvin dive back into our government's dismal handling of the pandemic over the last several weeks, the firing of Rod...
Alexi, Sam, Garima, and Chris talk about the year that has been, good things that have happened, the most worrying of the bad things, over a...
There's finally light at the end of the tunnel with a new climate change plan, and a vaccine rolling out in Ontario. We also dive into the F...
Alvin, Alexi and Chris talk about Doug Ford's slipping poll numbers, the slipping economy, mass resignations on the Greenbelt Council, and p...
Alexi, Alvin, Chris and Sam talk about the wild week in Ontario Politics that we just had, including the government's response to the AG rep...
Trapped in our homes once again, Alexi, Sam, and Chris reflect briefly on the lockdown and Mister Lecce's semi-public musing about temporari...
Trapped in our homes once again, Alexi, Sam, and Chris reflect briefly on the lockdown and Mister Lecce's semi-public musing about temporari...
Chris, Alvin, Alexi and Garima vent about the new provincial COVID modelling, try to take apart what it is that brought us to this point, an...
This week we are back to reality! Julia Drydyk joins from the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking to talk about the effectiveness of th...
Your nerves are frayed. You're watching the hours tick by. You're refreshing 538 a few times an hour. It's a big day. So we're promising a l...
Dr. Shiri Pasternak joins the pod to talk about the history and structures behind land theft from indigenous people in Ontario and across th...
Garima talks with Sané Dube and Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi about what looking at disaggregated data can tell us about how the COVID-19 pandemic is...
Toronto, Peel, and Ottawa are back at home, Ford is re-tooling a Ford plant in Oakville, and Harman helps us reflect on the progress of the...
In this one, we talk to a Rhodes Scholar about long-term care. 2020 continues it's relentless beating of our collective sanity by revealing...
Ian and Scott from Politicoast join to talk about the "pandemic election fever" that seems to be sweeping the nation, to similar fanfare as...
Ontario Loud is back! This week, Queen's Park Today reporter Sabrina Nanji joins the pod to talk about how Ontario's parties are nominating...
Chris, Alvin, Alexi, Garima and Sam celebrate Ontario Loud's 100th episode - if you count bonus pods and the Star Trek one (yes we all have...
Talia Bronstein from the Daily Bread Food Bank and Sasha McNicoll from Community Food Centres Canada join the pod to discuss how Canada's so...
Alexi, Garima, Alvin and Chris talk about the latest COVID-19 developments, the FAO autism report, the unexpected floor PC caucus ejection,...
Robin Edger from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment joins the pod to talk about how Canada can bounce back from COVI...
Politics returns to it's normal patter as Doug Ford sets across the province, Trudeau's Ministers are hauled in front of ethics panels, and...
Leadership consultant Christopher Zabeneh joins Alvin and Alexi to talk about how political parties elect leaders across Canada, their role...
Garima, Sam, Chris and Alexi talk about legislative firehose the government is asking us to drink from right now, including massive changes...
Stephanie Procyk from the United Way and Anjum Sultana from the YWCA join to talk about the evolving role of civil society organizations pre...
Sam, Alexi and Chris talk through the week's news, from Stephen Lecce's new math curriculum, to the COVID-19 outbreaks in Windsor Essex migr...
Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo joins the podcast to talk about the Ontario NDP policy paper on ending police violence, and how the pre...
As we celebrate Pride virtually this year, Sam reflects on issues facing the LGBTQ+ community in 2020 with advocates & activists Rachel Clar...
Sam, Garima, and Alvin dive into the latest on the pandemic, including the government's new contact tracing app, Alvin's family getting COVI...