#20 How Green Was My Dougie

September 23, 2020

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With large swaths of the continent on fire, we look at how Doug Ford’s government recently took a torch to environmental regulations under the guise of a “Covid-19 Economic Recovery Act.”

Allison Smith

Co-host, Wag the Doug

Jonathan Goldsbie

News Editor

Damilola Onime

Producer, Wag the Doug

Andréa Schmidt

Managing Editor, Podcasts

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Jonathan and Allison speak with Greenpeace lawyer Priyanka Vittal, who’s leading one of the lawsuits against the changes. And in examining what the government has accomplished on the environment front, we find it involves a lot of shooting of birds and trucking of wolves.

This episode is sponsored by CullensFoods.com.

Clarification (September 24, 2020): In a discussion of COVID at universities, an earlier version of this episode included a statement that “the government started publishing a list of every school” with at least one case. In fact, the statement was in reference to public primary and secondary schools.

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