The 905er Podcast
The 905er is a news, politics and discussion podcast for the GTHA region focusing on the region outside central Toronto where 4 million people live, but where news coverage and discussion hardly exists. Presented by Roland Tanner and Joel MacLeod, long-time activists, volunteers and sometimes even wannabe-politicians, we aim to provide a lively weekly podcast featuring interviews with people in the news, round-table discussions, analysis and more. It aims to be intelligent, though-provoking, lively and entertaining. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
905 Round-Up: Crombie’s Housing Plan and Ford Hits Back on Trump
Why the Ontario Liberals Are Going to Have a Hard Time in the 905
Mayor Carolyn Parrish Breaks her Silence on Police Funding
Councillor Haley Bateman Stands Against the Notwithstanding Clause
Mayor Mat Siscoe backs his decision to request the Notwithstanding Clause
Is Mississauga Changing the Ways Hospitals are Built in Ontario?
905 Round-up: The Malicious Incompetence of Doug Ford
Is Ontario Facing a Teaching Shortage?
Does Marineland Have a Future in Ontario?
Ahmad Elbayoumi on What Happened at the Ontario Liberal AGM
905 Round-Up: We Call Out Doug Ford on his A-S-S
Downtown Hamilton’s Future
Walking for Mental Health In Burlington
905 Round- Up: Ontario is Failing It's Children
It's the End of Summer, Where are Bonnie and Marit?
Will a San Francisco Start-Up Make EVs Cheaper in the 905?
905 Roundup - Is Downtown Hamilton Too Dangerous to Work?
905 Round-Up: Climate Change Doesn't Affect the 905
The 905 Flooding Is Only the Beginning
What's Behind the LCBO Strike?
We ask Emma McIntosh: Where are the plans for Highway 413?
905 Round-Up - Doug Keeps Teasing Hamilton's LRT
Ajay Sharma on the Raw Deal of Ontario's Cities
Nokha Dakroub on the Mississauga Mayor By-Election
905 Round-Up: Doug Shuffles Cabinet then Takes a Break
Sabrina Nanji Talks Early Ontario Election Rumours
Is the 905 Pushing Back Against More Housing?
Are Loblaws Days Numbered?
Pam Damoff Talks Civility in Politics
Milton Votes Tory, So We all Get the Highway 413
Taking Ontario to Court over Basic Income
Are Ontario Municipalities Safe Against Cyber Attacks?
Sabrina Nanji Talks About the Milton By-Election
Cameron Kroetsch Vs the Hamilton Police Board
What Happened to the Hamilton Jewish Film Festival?
Mayor Liz Roy Asks Where's Whitby's Hospital?
Scott Radley on Hamilton's Looming Gridlock
Paolo De Buono on Catholic Education in Ontario
905 Round Up - York Catholic Sex Ed and Higher Education Woes
How to Fix Political Culture in Ontario?
Lorraine Sommerfeld Returns
The Coming Change in the 905
Laura Babcock on Mayor Horwath Abandoning Hamilton's Homeless
The 905 Round-Up: Niagara & Gaza, Foreign Student Shortfalls and Liberal Milton
Doug Ford Sells Us Out to Staples
Confronting Anti-Semitism in The 905
Life with Peel Region: Doug Ford Goes Back On His Word for Mississauga
Merry Christmas 2023! A year-end Recap and Whats Next for 2024!!!
905 Round-Up: Proof of What We've Been Saying All Along
What is the Future of the Ontario Liberal Party?
Michael Geist on the Hypocrisy of Bill C-18
Why Does Milton Want Doug Ford's Boundaries?
Mayor John Taylor on Why Ontario's Housing Plan Falls Short
FORGEing a Dynasty in Hamilton
The Story of Corruption in Ontario
What Comes Next in the Greenbelt Scandal?
Joey Coleman Weighs in on Doug Ford Silencing Sarah Jama
It's a Housing Crisis...Who's Doing the Building?
The Myths and Realities of Housing in Ontario
Ontario High Schools Face 16 Bomb Threats and Ford Says Nothing?
**Special**A Follow Up from the Frontlines
From the Frontlines of the 1MillionMarch
Can Hamilton Find a Place to Hang it's HATS?
Jennifer Keesmaat Draws the Line on the Greenbelt Scandal
The Hon. Kathleen Wynne on What is at Stake with Student Pronouns
Our Libraries Tell the Stories of The 905
Are 905 Cities Able to Deal with our Homeless?
**Special!!!** 905 Round-Up: We were all right about Doug Ford!
The Summer of the Tent is a Failure of Housing Policy
The 905er Looks for a New Liberal Leader - Adil Shamji
Matt Cundill on How Bill C-18 Hurts Podcasters
Nathaniel Arfin Asks Why Are Teachers The Last to Be Asked on Teaching?
The 905er Crosses Over With The Breakdown AB
The 905er Looks for a New Liberal Leader - Ted Hsu
David Moscrop on Why Catholic Education Needs to End in Ontario
The 905er Looks for a New Liberal Leader - Yasir Naqvi
The 905er Looks For a New Liberal Leader - Nate Erskine-Smith
Chandler Levack: "I Like Movies" in the 905 region
Frank Domenic Returns to The 905er
The End of Peel Region
Dale Bracewell Shows How Vancouver Could Help the 905 Get Around
Can the Ontario Biking Summit Show the Way Forward?
Mike Moffatt Critiques Canada's Housing Plan
Do Police in the 905 Need More Power?
Karen Brown of ETFO Talks Violence in our Schools
Are 905 Cities Being Set Up to Fail?
What is the State of Healthcare in Ontario?
How Project Arrow is Going to Change Canada
The 905 Round-Up: Big Change Announcement
Why You Are Going to Need Climate Change Insurance
Has the 905 Turned into Car Jack City?
905 Round-Up: Brian Lilley Ruins Everything
The 905 Round-Up: Liberal Rebirth and Third Party Validation
Stella Ambler Explains What is Municipal Watch
Joey Coleman: The First 100 Days of Hamilton's New Council
The 905 Round-Up: Halton School Board Fails and Highway Follies
The 905 Round-Up: Hey Doug, Where’s our Housing?
Kojo Damptey on Why Black History Month Matters
How Did The 15 Minute City Become a Conspiracy Theory?
The 905 Round-Up: Stag and Doughs and Resignations
The 905 Round-Up: The Nuclear Option
Postcards from the Tram - What Edinburgh Can Teach the 905 About LRT
The 905 Round-Up - Hurricane Hazel Departs
Kate Graham Talks About That Liberal Letter
The 905 Round-Up: Roland Returns to the Show!
Michael Twigg Shares with The 905er a New Vision for The Greenbelt
The 905 Round-Up: Laura Babcock Guest Hosts
Frank Domenic Chats with The 905er
The 905 Round-Up: Laura Steiner Guest Hosts
Karl Dockstader and The 905er Ponder the Thin Blue Line
The Year That Was 2022
Greenbelt Sell-Off Scandal: Tim Gray of Environmental Defence discusses the call for a Police Investigation
The 905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Vs. Women
Dawn Danko Dishes on the HWDSB’s New Masking Policy
Our 200th Episode Spectacular with a Special Guest
Amber Crawford from AMO talks with the 905er about Bill 23
905 Round-Up: Sewage Leaks, HATS in Hamilton and Greenbelt Spin
Nick Morrison Shares Safe Streets Halton’s Vision for The 905
905 Round-Up: Is Doug Ford Good for Democracy?
Franz Hartmann Talks to The 905er About Saving the Greenbelt
The 905 Round-Up: Health Care Collapse and Land Grabs for the Rich
Sex Workers Rights in The 905
905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Rolls Over for CUPE
Heidi Bernhardt: ADHD Mythbusting
905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Uses the Nuclear Option to Get his Way
Lorraine Sommerfeld: Auto Destruction.
The 905 Round-Up: Doug Ford Ignores the Municipal Election
Municipal Election Live Stream Catch-up
905 Round-Up: Bad Trustees, MEXIT and Who’s Ahead in Hamilton?
Kojo Damptey Talks to the 905er About Why He Won’t Quit
905 Round-Up: Cowardly Candidates and Who’s Winning in Hamilton?
Halton Regional Chair Race - Andrea Grebenc
905 Round Up: Activists, Coyotes and Politics What More Do You Need?
Taking the P Out of Politics: Racing to the Bottom in ’Bramton’ and the Hammer
905 Round-Up: When the Landlords Make the Rules
Caryma Sa’d On Why the Freedom Convoy Came to Oakville
The 905 Round-Up: Corruption, When it Fits
The Race for Milton: Zeeshan Hamid
905 Round-up: Scrooge McFord and the Coyotes
The Race For Hamilton - Keanin Loomis
905 Round-up: Another Fight with the Teachers is Brewing; Corporate Donations Still Dominating Politics
The 905er Asks: ”What Makes a Strong Mayor”
Alan Kan and Laura Steiner Bring The 905er Up to Speed
The 905 Round-Up - We’re Back from Summer!
Rebroadcast - The 905 Round-Up: Mayoral Rumours and Hamilton Social Media Hijinx
Rebroadcast - The 905 Round-Up: Bully Councillors and Secret Sales
Rebroadcast - The 905 Round-Up: The Tories True Colours on Development
Rebroadcast - A Stony Silence? Sarah Harmer, Graham Flint and Greg Sweetman debate the call for a moratorium on gravel mining.
Rebroadcast - 2022 Provincial Election: The Ontario PC Platform (Somewhat)
Rebroadcast - Flavio Volpe Discusses the Aftermath of the Truck Blockades
Rebroadcast - The 905 Round-Up: Peel Trouble and Green Steel in Hamilton
Rebroadcast - Denise Davy Discusses the Root Causes of Homelessness in the 905
Rebroadcast - 905 Round-Up: Patrick Brown wants out of Brampton; and is the 905er anti-Urbanist?
Rebroadcast - Mayor John Taylor Takes on the Housing Affordability Taskforce
Glyn Bowerman of Spacing Radio
Halton’s Boundary Expansion Vote - Paul Sharman and Jane Fogal Share Their Perspectives
Rebroadcast - Grandmother’s Voice - Indigenous Women Leading a New Type of Healing and Reconciliation
Rebroadcast - Alex Bishop: Whatever Happened to Vision Zero In Hamilton?
Rebroadcast - The 905 Round-up: The Shawna Stolte Saga
ReBroadcast - The Canadian Way: Eleanor McMahon and the Trans Canada Trail
905 Round-Up: Rent’s Up, Gary’s Back, and Peel School Board is Dysfunctional
905 Round-Up: Alan Kan talks about what to expect this falls Municipal Elections
905 Round-up: Withering House Prices / Whither the Ontario Liberals after a Second Electoral Calamity
Myles Rusak Jams withThe 905er about the Sound of Music Festival
Join Us On YouTube For Our Live Election Webcast
905 Round-Up: Ontario’s Election is Missing, Presumed Dead
The 905 Round-Up: Bateman Highs and Lows
The 905 Round-Up: The Proof is in the Polling
2022 Provincial Election - The Ontario Liberal Platform
The 905 Round-Up:Tory Riding Bonuses and Scandal in the Red Hill Valley
2022 Provincial Election: The Green Party Platform
The 905 Round-Up: Elections Season is Here, so Off My Lawn!
2022 Provincial Election - The NDP Platform
The 905 Round-Up: A Mayor’s Response and COVID’s Unfinished Business
The Party Leaders Speak – Steven Del Duca
The 905er Asks the Leaders the Tough Questions - Mike Schreiner
The 905 Round-Up: The Downside of Nomination Meetings
Halton Police Chief Steve Tanner Discusses the Opioid Epidemic
The 905 Round-up: Keanin, Bob and Judi too.
Maureen Wilson and Rory Nisan: Where was the Debate over Mask Mandates?
The 905 Round-Up: Fewer Masks & Why Can’t Parties Get Along More Often?
The 905 Round-Up: Absent Mayors and Leadership Contests
The 905 Round-Up: Paying Tribute to Mayor Mulkewich
The 905 Round-Up: Boundary Issues and Missing Populations
Ted McMeekin Discusses the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters (HATS)
The 905 Round-Up: Convoys and HATS for the Homeless
The 905er Takes Time to Reflect on National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
The 905 Round-Up: Pride and Progressive Housing
Todd Coleman Explains the Future of COVID-19
The 905 Round-Up - Poor Media & Last Development of Mississauga
Brenda Agnew Tries to Fly the Pride Flag at the HCDSB One More Time
The 905 Round-Up: Covid Deja Vu, Lawn Sign Loopholes and More Pride for HCDSB
The Year 2021 in Review
Urz Heer Shares How a Peel Community Turned the Tide on COVID-19
The 905 Round-Up: Cabs, Council and Politics
Scott Wallace of Burlington Taxi Sets the Record Straight
The 905 Round-Up: Hospital Short Changes and Bad Calls
Graham Crawford Shares what Hamilton Thinks of its Politics
The 905 Round-Up: Park Protests and Political Plans
Lisa Kearns Discusses Why 905 Cities Need a Better Deal
The 905 Round-Up: A Grassroots Victory & First Nations Solidarity
How Do We Get Daycare Funding in Ontario?
The 905 Round-Up - Bad Democracy and Civil Wars
The Need for a Living Wage in the 905
The 905 Round-Up - Bad Councillors and Redrawn Maps
The 905 as Inspiration for Thrills
The 905 Round Up -Disappointing Development and HCDSB Bad News
The Fight To Protect the Greenbelt from Highway 413
905er Round-Up - Sprawl, Bikes, Vaccines and Persistence
Nancy Hurst of Stop Sprawl HamONT Draws the Line on Hamilton‘s Boundary
905 Round Up - Del Duca Makes a Statement, and the Tories have Boundary Issues
Kristin Archer Tells Us What‘s Cool About Hamilton
Rebroadcast - Jason Cassis Opens Up About Opening Ontario Up
Rebroadcast - 905 Round-up: Homage to Caledonia?
What is Happening on Ontario University Campuses?
905 Round-up: Vax, Tracts and Macs
905-Round-up: Lauren Wallis of Halton Parents for Change
100: HCDSB Chair Patrick Murphy Discusses Dysfunction at the Board
The 905 Round Up - Vaccine Passports are finally here, and what the Election results tell us about Hamilton
905er Election Night Special!
Election 2021: Adam van Koeverden on the Liberal Party‘s Record in Government and Platform for the 905
Keith Brooks of Environmental Defence Reminds Us Why Climate Change is Important This Election
Thursday Roundup - Who‘s afraid of the 905er? Why won‘t CPC candidates speak about their platform?
Election 2021: Roberto Henriquez Discusses the NDP Platform
Election 2021: How not to suck at politics
Election 2021: Mike Moffat discusses what the parties should do to end the housing affordability crisis
Rebroadcast: Paradise Lost?
Rebroadcast: Hassan Basit and Janet Sumner - Throwing Conservation Under the Omnibus?
Rebroadcast: 905 Round-up: Bratina Announces Plan to Quit in a Huff Over LRT, Eventually.
Rebroadcast: Alyssa Brierley Fights for the Right for Affordable Housing
Rebroadcast: Mike Moffatt - A Moving Story of Ontario's Rising House Prices
Rebroadcast - Laura Babcock Asks: Why Can't Hamilton Have Nice Things?
Rebroadcast - A Lack of Integrity in Hamilton, Cameron Kroetsch
Rebroadcast - Graham Crawford Explains How iElectHamilton.ca Can Change Hamilton- Part 1
Rebroadcast: A Question of Pride for Halton Catholic School Board
Rebroadcast: Back to School in a Pandemic
Gerry Kavanaugh and the Importance of the 905 to the Canadian Economy
905 Round-up: Hotspots in Burlington, Go Transit in Hamilton, Confrontation in Thornhill
905 Round Up - Division at Burlington City Hall
Flavio Volpe targets the future of the Car Industry with Project Arrow
10,000 Reasons For Better Cities
Taking Names: Roundtable with Laura Steiner of the Milton Reporter.
Jay Kana of Modern Mississauga Shares His Take on the Flavour of the 905
The 905 Round Up - Whats in a Name? Talking about John A Macdonald Statues and Ryerson Public Schools Renaming
Lisa Kohler of Halton Environmental Network asks "how do we have a sustainable economy?"
905 Round-up: Two steps forward, one step back?
Sarbjit Kaur Joins The 905er to Explain How our Institutions Need to do Better on Racism
Graham Crawford and iElect Hamilton Part 2 - Positively Main Street (and King Street)
Graham Crawford Explains How iElectHamilton.ca Can Change Hamilton- Part 1
905 Roundup: Clown Cars and Crosswalks
The 905er Gets Real about the Pride Flag, and the Power of Symbols in Halton Region
Look Out Larry, It's the Leftists!
Justin Chandler Reports on Hamilton's Rebecca Towers
905 Round-up: Bratina Announces Plan to Quit in a Huff Over LRT, Eventually.
Laura Babcock Asks: Why Can't Hamilton Have Nice Things?
Crisis? What Crisis? Why Do Local and Provincial Responses to Climate Emergency And Pandemic Suck?
The 905er Checks on the State of Our Mental Health
Can't We Do Better Than NIMBY or YIMBY? With Shannon Gillies
The 905er Returns to 1492 Landback Lane with Karl Dockstader and Sean Vanderklis
Pride and Prejudice: The Aftermath of the HCDSB Pride Flag Debate, plus Vaccinations and Sick Days
The 905er asks: "What is the true cost of COVID-19"
The 905er Tries To Figure Out What Happened at the HCDSB
A Question of Pride for the Halton Catholic School Board
Paradise Lost?
"They Don't Know How The System Works" - Andrea Grebenc and Patrick Murphy Speak Frankly About Provincial Education Mistakes
Parks and Vaccination: failures of logic and imagination by multiple levels of government
San Grewal of The Pointer talks about the politics of the 905.
50 Shades of Grey - Is Ontario Heading Into A Third Lockdown?
Shawna Stolte: The Myths and Reality of Life as a Councillor
Election Fever?
Mike Moffatt - A Moving Story of Ontario's Rising House Prices
Brick (Thick as A) - Who is Paying for Bad Opinions and Bad Decisions at Queens Park?
Briar Emond paints a picture of being an artist in the pandemic
What the fraternity can do about equality.
The Hon. Paddy Torsney talks International Women's Day and 25 Years of the IWD Breakfast
Our 50th Episode!
Queen's Park Round-up - Three Stories About the Provincial Government and the 905
413 Reasons Why: A Vision For Vibrant Cities In A Post Commuter World
How Green Is My Greenbelt?
Racism in Our Schools (Part 2) - Students Speak Up YCDSB and Hamilton Students For Justice
Racism in Our Schools (Part 1) - Students Speak Up YCDSB and Hamilton Students For Justice
Cindy Cosentino - Who Wins from School Boards Employing Non-Teachers as Directors of Education?
Joey Coleman Returns to talk about the Charter of Rights and Hamilton City Hall
Rage Against the Machine - Are Ontarians directing their anger where it is most deserved?
Jeff Knoll, Chair of Halton Police Services Board, addresses the Chief Tanner controversy
Joel and Roland Ride the Road to Nowhere
Sarah Buchanan Defends the Greenbelt from Highway 413
Joel and Roland look for an affordable solution to housing
Alyssa Brierley Fights for the Right for Affordable Housing
Joel and Roland Wonder Where Have our Leaders Gone?
Dr. Amanpreet Brar Makes the Case for Multicultural Media During the Pandemic
Shannon Gillies gives us the inside scoops of being a political candidate
Shannon Gillies joins us to start off a new year on The 905er
32: The 905er Looks Back on the Year That Was, Part 2
31: Review of 2020 Part 1 - 'A New Hope'
30: A Rabbi and a Reverend walk on to a Podcast...
29: Vaccination Nation
28: Trevor and Sandy Take the905er to Their Favourite Restaurants
27. Let's start the holidays on a good note this year
26: Dylan Buskermolen Shows Us The Kids Are Alright
25: All the Premier's Men - Developers, Donations and the Destruction of Environmental Protections
24: Hassan Basit and Janet Sumner - Throwing Conservation Under the Omnibus?
23: Seeing Red - Could the Stricter COVID Regulations Have Been Avoided with more Foresight?
22: Laura Meffen and Jill Davis explain the Forgotten Costs of COVID-19
21: The 905er Remembers the Battle of Normandy
20. The 905er Remembers the Battle for Europe's Skies
19: How to Win Friends and Influence Premiers.
18. Sean Vanderklis and Karl Dockstader Converse about Caledonia
17: Mayor Meed Ward Makes the Case for Ranked Ballots - and Halton's Letter to the Public Health Officer
16: Jesse Helmer Helms our Chat on Ranked Ballots
15: Wave of Obfuscation. Has the Province made the Second Wave Worse?
14: Mike Gibbs Makes Sense of COVID-19 Communications
Episode 13: A Lack of Integrity in Hamilton - Part 2, Joey Coleman
Episode 12: A Lack of Integrity in Hamilton - Part 1, Cameron Kroetsch
Episode 11: Hope and Betrayal - the human stories and human cost of Ontario‘s cancelled Basic Income Pilot
Episode 10: Trouble on the Grapevine?
Episode 9: What's Up With Hamilton? (With Lorraine Sommerfeld)
Episode 8: Dave Meslin - Fixing Democracy in the 905
Episode 7: 90 minutes from Toronto - what do people moving to the 905 want to find in their new home towns?
Episode 6: Who runs our cities? Burlington's Official Plan and struggle to control local government.
Episode 5: Crisis and Community: Can Hamilton's Hospitality industry innovate itself back to health?
Episode 4: Pandemic Planning Part 2 - The Trustees Perspective
Episode 3: 10,000 statements that Black Lives Matter
Episode 2: Back to School in a Pandemic - Is Ontario's Back to School Plan Safe?
