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.
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!
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.
