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    August 18, 2021
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    Wag the Doug
    #31 Ghosts of Ontario Place: Past, Present, Future
    Opened in 1971, Ontario Place was an idealistic effort to celebrate and cement a provincial identity. Fifty years later, and having been left to rot, it’s about to be carved up and privatized by the Doug Ford government.
    Jonathan Goldsbie
    News Editor
    Allison Smith
    Co-host, Wag the Doug
    Damilola Onime
    Producer, Wag the Doug
    Tristan Capacchione
    Audio Editor & Technical Producer
    Join Allison and Jonathan as they take a trip to Ontario Place, where past, present, and future collide in an awkward mishmash of ambitions.
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    #54 A Deep Dive Into Doug Ford’s Obsession with Smile Cookies
    This month, Allison and Jonathan peer into Ford’s parallel fixations on law enforcement and cookies. To him, there isn’t a problem that one or the other (or both) can’t solve.
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    #53 TVO Pursuit: After Ontario Place, Is TVO Next?
    Doug Ford claims he’s all about building, but he sure has a thing for enthusiastically bulldozing the utopian public projects of yesteryear.
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    #52 The Douggie Awards: Recognizing Stag & Does, The Greenbelt and That Rogue Bee
    It’s every-Ford everywhere all at once, as we celebrate the year’s most absurd and distressing developments in Ontario politics.
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    #51 Ford Weddings and a Free-for-all
    It turns out Doug Ford and his "developer buddies" are more than just a metaphor.
    February 15, 2023
    #50 “Leveraged” Health Care on Ontario’s Dime
    Conservatives don’t like Canada’s public healthcare system. They think it makes us like Cuba and North Korea.
    January 18, 2023
    #49 For Whom the Greenbelt Tolls
    Allison and Jonathan look at who benefits from dismantling the Greenbelt and then trade fav findings from the latest Auditor General’s report.
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    #48 CUPE Ki Yay, MotherFORDer!
    This week, Doug Ford learned that while it’s stunningly easy to toss out constitutional rights, it’s a heck of a lot harder to get away with that.
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    #47 The Power of the Doug
    With electricity demand set to rise and Pickering’s nuclear plant set to close, Doug Ford’s government is now scrambling to keep the province’s lights on.
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