A monthly podcast grappling with the reality of four more infuriating years with the Fords and what that means for Ontario.

Wag the Doug

Hosted by Allison Smith and Jonathan Goldsbie
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#58 Roll Up for the Mr. X Tour

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!
September 20, 2023

#57 Greenbelt: The Movie

Allison and Jonathan look at the ways the Greenbelt story could be told on screen and who’d be best suited to star in it.
August 16, 2023

#56 Students in Strip Malls

How did a Doug Ford policy move from 2019 lead to 10,000s of international students schlepping their backpacks to strip malls across the GTA?
July 19, 2023

#55 102 People Who Are Not Doug Ford

Toronto is in the midst of its most exciting election in a decade, tickling us with the possibility of hope.
June 21, 2023

#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.
May 17, 2023

#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.
April 19, 2023

#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.
March 15, 2023

#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
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