Trial #1

Matt Gurney and Rob Roberts join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer to discuss the ups and downs of city politics.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our Posted Toronto panel — national editor Rob Roberts, reporter Megan O’Toole and Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer — weighs in on Rob Ford’s incredible shrinking mayoralty and on Karen Stintz’s problems with pushing through her OneCity transit plan.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel dissects the ‘arts and crafts’ OneCity sketch and expresses skepticism over its odds for completion.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel mends wounds caused by the Riverdale v. Little Portugal showdown, asks if we’ve gone too far on the pooches in cars patrol, and wonders if Toronto can still be considered safeโดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel calmly discusses city council’s decision to ban plastic shopping bags by 2013, while the rest of the city goes all OMG crazy about it.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses whether 83 storeys is too tall for Bloor-Yonge and who should be in charge of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Consensus? The Swiss. Or Swedes. Maybe the Chinese. TTC or the province? Not so much.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the insanity of proposals to bypass the street hockey bylaw, why the sky (aka Gardiner Expressway) is falling and what’s next for St. Lawrence Market.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

National Post Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the editorial board, discuss the report of the Independent Police Review Director, and the mayor’s presence at a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer, national editor Rob Roberts, Matt Gurney from the editorial board and Natalie Alcoba, the city hall bureau chief, in a discussion of the Sportsmen’s Show and plans to change traffic patterns in downtown Torontoโดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel debates whether both parties in The Fence Peek Incident acted appropriately. Conclusion? Get security guards already. For everyone’s sake.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Peter Kuitenbrouwer, Toronto columnist, Toronto editor Ron Wadden, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the National Post editorial board, chew the fat on news topics that weigh on the mind of Toronto.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel wonders how much raccoons will insist on learning in order to eat at midnight, and why anyone would care what the mayor eats at lunchtime.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses whether the city should allow safe injection cites; and who should be cleaning Toronto’s police stations.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel takes a holiday from references to Mayor What’s-his-name and instead discusses proposals for a western spit and eight more stops on the Union-Pearson rail line.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel wonders if Rob Ford can take credit for quelling labour unions, and why the Canada goose isn’t a foodstuff.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

During one last swipe at the never-ending Toronto transit debate, Peter Kuitenbrouwer determines that his fellow panelists are nuts.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the legal effort to end the Mayor’s reign over football pads, the new app that has taxi owners nervous and what Toronto has that New York doesn’t.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses why a Mayor should never have a rookie councillor as his closest advisor, and why some people these days can’t appreciate the joys of being attached to their neighboursโดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel achieves rare unanimity in rejecting Councillor Janet Davis’s fears of ads in libraries and marvels at the Mayor’s transformation now that he has three weeks until his Sheppard subway dreams could be crushed by rivals.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel looks for something positive to come out of the Gary Webster firing; revisits (yes, again) the merits of subways over streetcars; and Peter Kuitenbrouwer warns his head might explode if decisions aren’t made over which transit option will be built.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Drummond Report suggestion that we need more LCBO stores; why the outside workers don’t want to let angry paramedics break away; and why the suburbs are growing faster than downtown.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Peter Kuitenbrouwer joins Matt Gurney and Marni Soupcoff from the National Post editorial board, and national editor Rob Roberts, in dissecting Rob Ford’s big loss at City Council on his subway vision. We ask why no one remembers his big victory this week, with the outside workers tentative labour agreement.…

On subways, bullies and amusement parks Our panel discusses the Mayor vs. the TTC chair; whether Doug Ford was a bully or just a loudmouth; and what Ontario Place should, or shouldn’t, be in five years.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Eglinton LRT and how long Karen Stintz can stay TTC chair; what smells bad about the backyard hen debate; and what to do with the Sam the Record Man signs.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel wonders whether the 2012 budget vote was a repudiation of Mayor Rob Ford, or whether he won long ago by altering everyone’s expectations, a move that seems to be happening again in labour talks.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

National Post Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National editor Rob Roberts and Matt Gurney from the editorial board debate which, if any calls to 9-1-1 for Rob Ford’s address are newsworthy, whether Mississauga council has a point in blaming CBC comedian Rick Mercer for an uptick in graffiti, and a Toronto Board of Trade suggestion that the c…

Our panel discusses the state of the city in 2011, concluding that our economy is strong, our citizens are engaged and our murderers are less, well, murderous.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses industrial wards, the budget (yes, again), and why anyone would ever do it on the cold tile of a Toronto subway station.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel wonders if the proposed operating budget is as draconian as some would have us believe, whether you should be able to borrow movies from the library, and what to make of Mattamy Home Ice.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses whether the Toronto Police handling of the Occupy eviction helps an image still tarnished by the G20; why the City of Toronto shouldn’t be in the condo business; and why the proposed stadium in Markham might be a tough sell.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Africentric high school vote; the terror of soccer balls in the schoolyard; and what to believe or not to believe about Occupy Toronto.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the tragic death of Jenna Morrison, the case — or lack thereof — for ousting protesters from St. James Park, and why city residents should brace for a long labour war.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel wonders whether Toronto’s most notorious neighbourhood will ever change; Adelaide and Richmond will share the road with cyclists; and how the city’s human rights office could possibly justify looking into a complaint about the presence, as memorabilia, of a former mayoral candidate’s campaign poster.…

Our panel manages to evoke images of Spiderman, the Jetsons and tribal commuting in today’s discussion about congestion in its many forms.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel offers some rants and suggestions on customer service, debates the merits of using surplus revenue to close the budget gap and professes little love for sharks.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel recaps the madness from this week’s city council meeting and wonders what impact Ford Nation will have on next week’s provincial election.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the shenanigans at City Hall, David Miller’s suggestion that Transit City is not dead and how cool it would be to buy parking time using your phone.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel suggests a hybrid Waterfront Toronto/Ford Brothers vision for the Port Lands, and questions which suggested budget cuts make sense and which don’t.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the briefly available job of choosing art for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Giorgio Mammoliti’s keen sense of smell and Hazel McCallion’s salmon presentation to Mayor Rob Ford.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Mayor and his new best buddy, the right to protect your home from burglars, and the burning need for Toronto’s french speakers to have their own dedicated neighbourhood.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel returns from vacation, just in time to discuss the executive committee free-for-all, raised fingers, lowered expectations and Margaret Atwood. Oh and EdgeWalk, too.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

On the Posted Toronto Podcast for Thursday, June 22, 2010. City columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer. Rob Roberts, National editor, Megan O’Toole, local news journalist, and Matt Gurney from the National Post editorial board, discuss Rob Ford staying away from the Pride parade, Mississauga calls for abolishing the OMB as it inaugurates a civic square, and…

Our panel weighs in on Premier McGuinty’s GO Train refund musings; the city’s flirtation with selling naming rights to public property; and asks whether Torontonians would react any better than Vancouverites if the Leafs were ever make it to a Stanley Cup final.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses whether the city should be landlord for 900 single-family homes; why road construction plans never mesh with the timetable for gas, hydro and TTC; and why natural burial and golf may not mix.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses raccoons and shovels; Doug Holyday’s trial balloon on street begging; and Josh Colle’s pitch for a second NHL team.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Junction couple who are keeping their youngest child’s gender a secret; what should be done to address the city’s budget gap; and whether an underpass is the best place for a park.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the Toronto District School Board’s decision to allow cellphones in the classroom, the city’s decision to allow natives to set up tents in High Park and what council should decide to do with Casa Loma.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Our panel discusses the former TTC chairman’s free metropass; whether the city’s pennypinching ways spell goodbye to attractive infrastructure projects, like the Fort York bridge; and whether the swift resolution of the case of the stolen dog is a sign of good policework or could their time have been better spent elsewhere.…

Our panel discusses the unexpected positions of two of Toronto’s most prominent councillors on separated bike lanes; the federal election aftermath; and what the future holds for Mayor Rob Ford.โดย National Post Posted Toronto Podcast