The province has got a housing crisis, and the only prescription is… more mayoral powers?? Allison and Jonathan probe the comically flimsy pretense under which Doug Ford has fundamentally, if casually, reshaped how Ontario’s two largest cities are governed. Because what doesn’t quite kill Toronto and Ottawa, apparently just makes their mayors stronger.
Jonathan Goldsbie
News Editor
Allison Smith
Co-host, Wag the Doug
André Proulx
Production Coordinator
Kattie Laur
Producer
Hosted by Allison Smith and Jonathan Goldsbie
Clarification (September 22, 2022, at 8:48 p.m. EDT): Ottawa mayoral candidate and councillor Catherine McKenney uses “they/them” pronouns — not “she/her” pronouns, as used in this episode.
Doug Ford plans to uproot the Ontario Science Centre from the iconic Don Mills home it’s occupied since 1969. But what is the Science Centre other than its iconic Don Mills home?
We surmised that Doug Ford would punish Toronto for picking Olivia Chow as its mayor. But if anything, he seems more sympathetic to the city and its issues than before. So what gives?
Until just a few years ago, staking a mining claim in Ontario demanded banging physical posts in the ground. Now, you can simply head online and click a square on a map.
With his polls diving, housing minister resigning, and ill-begotten Greenbelt scheme unravelling, what’s a Doug Ford to do? Why, talk about anything else, of course!
