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Greg Brady and the panel of: Stephanie Smyth, Toronto—St. Paul MPP, Brad Bradford, Toronto city councillor for Beaches - East York, Mark Saunders, former Toronto police chief, Discuss: 1.This number is new this morning - $1.1B for housing migrants waiting for asylum/refugee claims. 2.Home invasion crime ring responsible for ‘traumatic' thefts disbanded: This is the second big bust in the span of a week, how come Peel is so successful at this and Toronto not so much? Is it even a success when they will be out on bail and half of the stolen property is still missing? 3.Olivia Chow vows action for East York tenants living in ‘unacceptable' conditions: What remedial actions should be taken? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Greg Brady and the panel of: Stephanie Smyth, Toronto—St. Paul MPP, Brad Bradford, Toronto city councillor for Beaches - East York, Mark Saunders, former Toronto police chief, Discuss: 1.This number is new this morning - $1.1B for housing migrants waiting for asylum/refugee claims. 2.Home invasion crime ring responsible for ‘traumatic' thefts disbanded: This is the second big bust in the span of a week, how come Peel is so successful at this and Toronto not so much? Is it even a success when they will be out on bail and half of the stolen property is still missing? 3.Olivia Chow vows action for East York tenants living in ‘unacceptable' conditions: What remedial actions should be taken? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the latest episode of 'This House Has a Podcast,' where we delve into the stories behind some of the most remarkable properties in East York, Toronto, and the Greater Toronto Area. This episode takes you through the journey of a unique home nestled in East York, crafted with meticulous attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to quality. Unlike typical market-ready houses, this home is a testament to the owner's vision and dedication, featuring high-end materials and thoughtful design elements. From the robust three-quarter inch plywood construction to the luxurious finishes, every aspect of this home speaks to a lifetime of comfort and elegance. Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this $3 million dream home, complete with hidden gems like a secret bookshelf door, two spacious laundry rooms, and a top-floor master retreat. Discover how every choice was made with care, anticipating not just a home, but a lifetime sanctuary.
MONOLOGUE Health Canada's Deadly Deception: Complicity in mRNA Vaccine Carnage NEWSMAKER Trump: Golden Dome will cost around $175B, be ‘fully operational' in three years https://defensescoop.com/2025/05/20/trump-golden-dome-cost-175-billion-fully-operational-three-years/ Douglas Ernest U.S. Army war veteran and entrepreneur. Author of The Spirit of a True Patriot: The Inspiring Story of Ret. Captain Douglas J. Ernest OPEN LINES THE SOFA CINEFILE Nick Soter reviews Back to the Future, the 1985 sci-fi family favourite starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd THE LIMRIDDLER Folks at the TableFixture to fit all the folks at the table.Organ of nature to sunlight enable.Flip through a bookWith a cursory look.Emblem of ice hockey's frustrating fable. NEWSMAKER Israeli embassy staffers killed in Washington DC, suspect yelled ‘Free Palestine' https://www.westernstandard.news/international/israeli-embassy-staffers-killed-in-washington-dc-suspect-yelled-free-palestine/64932 Christopher Oldcorn is the Managing Editor of the Saskatchewan Standard. OPEN LINES NEWMAKER Canada can save the planet by feverishly pumping natural gas, report says https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-report-canada-save-planet-producing-lng Dan McTeague, former longtime Liberal MP and President of Canadians for Affordable Energy affordable energy dot C-A. LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The Answer to this week's Limriddle is: Leaf The first 5 to answer correctly were: 1. Christine De Civita, Stoney Creek, Ontario 2. Michael Dibblee, Vancouver, British Columbia 3. Amy Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 4. Thomas LeBaron, Haliburton, Ontario 5. Joan- Marie Dibblee Markham, Ontario Fixture to fit all the folks at the table. A leaf is an extra section inserted into a dining table to increase seating capacity. There is no specific reference in the Bible to a leaf in the table at the Last Supper but Leonardo likely needed one so he could fit everybody in the painting. Organ of nature to sunlight enable. The leaf is considered an organ of a plant, performing the essential function of photosynthesis. Flip through a book With a cursory look. To leaf through a book is to casually flip the pages without paying much attention to content. Emblem of ice hockey's frustrating fable. The maple leaf is the emblem of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who last won the Stanley Cup in 1967. Technically, a fable is a short, fictional story with a moral. Sadly, the Leafs' story is none of these. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
MONOLOGUE One Last Desperate Plea to Save Canada NEWSMAKER Small-scale Alberta egg farmer arrested for selling eggs outside quota system https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/small-scale-alberta-egg-farmer-arrested-for-selling-eggs-outside-quota-system/64263 Sheila Gunn Reid – Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News, Host of The Gunn Show, Wednesdays 9pm ET. www.rebelnews.com OPEN LINES THE SOFA CINEFILE Nick Soter reviews the 1987, Coming of Age film, Some Kind of Wonderful THE LIMRIDDLER Spy's Disguise Running for shelter to safety defend. Offer to pay for what others expend. Underground spy's Nom de guerre or disguise. Rock band whose playlists on others depend. MONOLOGUE Rage Against the Dimming of the Light NEWSMAKER The Privy Council “Dystopia” Report on 2040 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/warmington-poilievre-addresses-dystopia-predicted-224424106.html Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun Columnist OPEN LINES THERE'S SOMETHINGHAPPENING HERE Greg Carrassco – Host of The Greg Carrassco Show – Saturday Mornings9-11am on SAUGA 960 and Holy Shift a Christian Ministry Radio Show 11 to 12pm Saturday and Sunday Mornings LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The Answer to this week's Limriddle was: Cover The first 5 to answer correctly were: 1. Michael Dibblee, Vancouver, British Columbia 2. Amy Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 3. Thomas LeBaron, Haliburton, Ontario 4. Christopher Dube, Toronto, Ontario 5. Christine De Cevita, Stoney Creek, Ontario Running for shelter to safety defend. We “run for cover” when we're under attack from thunderstorms, gunfire, or malicious criticism. Offer to pay for what others expend. Isn't it great when someone else (or your employer) decides to cover your expenses? Underground spy's Nom de guerre or disguise. A spy tries to remain under cover or incognito by using an alias or a secret agent number or a nom de guerre or maybe eyeglasses and a fake nose and moustache. Rock band whose playlists on others depend. A cover band relies on a repertoire of songs by other artists rather than original material. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to a visionary property in one of Toronto's historic communities, showcasing an innovative three-level design with a bedroom on each floor. This remarkable home offers endless expansion possibilities, including a solarium that can serve as an additional office space. Interestingly, the basement was once configured with two bedrooms, adding to the rich possibilities of this property. What makes this place extraordinary is the custom-built above-ground pool, designed to offer the luxury feel of an in-ground pool. Surprisingly, all these features come together at an incredible value, priced under $1 million. It's a rare opportunity to own such a distinct home in a sought-after location. Make sure to arrange a visit today to witness everything this future-forward property has to offer. Ask your realtor to show you 527 Sammon Ave today in East York. PS Future you will thank you for buying this home today....
Join us in this new podcast segment as we embark on a virtual tour of an exquisite property located at 102 Frater Avenue, East York. This prime real estate is now on the market, and we are offering you an exclusive opportunity to explore it from the comfort of your home. In this episode, we introduce a groundbreaking feature in real estate marketing technology known as 'hide furniture,' allowing prospective buyers to envision the property in various styles. This innovative approach provides a fresh perspective on home viewing, enabling you to see the potential of spaces in their unfurnished state. Join our host as they guide you through this beautiful home, from the basement's unique features to the sunlit upper levels. Don't miss the chance to experience this celebrated house, which has even made appearances on television. Remember to book an in-person tour or join us for the grand opening event this weekend, where you'll enjoy local treats, prizes, and a chance to provide feedback on the property.
Welcome to today's podcast, spotlighting a stunning modern detached gem! Picture this: a 4+1 bedroom, 5-bath family haven with an open-concept vibe that screams sophistication. Sunlight pours through grand windows, spotlighting 6.5-inch engineered oak floors and a jaw-dropping white oak open-rise staircase. The main floor's built for hosting—imagine cozying up by the sleek Continental gas fireplace with its chic tile feature, or stepping out onto a private deck with glass railings for summer BBQs and chill evenings. The chef's kitchen? A total show-stealer. We're talking a massive 10-by-3-foot waterfall island, quartz vein counters, and top-tier LG appliances—your inner foodie's dream. Upstairs, four roomy bedrooms each tie into gorgeous bathrooms with heated floors, plus a handy second-floor laundry with tons of storage. The 2022-renovated basement's a game-changer—radiant heated floors, a 3-piece bath, and a bonus kitchen, perfect for a home office, gym, or even a separate apartment. Dual laundry options? Total flexibility. This place isn't just a house—it's a lifestyle. Full details and tour via paul@realestatepodcastshow.com
Jerry opens the show by talking about how the Liberals are changing their stance on many things to be re-elected. Then, Nik Nanos weighs in on the latest political polling numbers. And Steve Ryan discusses the dump truck collision in East York. Plus, Keanin Loomis of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction explains how 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum this will impact the industry.
MONOLOGUE Mark Carney's Carbon-Tax Con NEWSMAKER Mark Carney to announce plan to kill consumer carbon price https://torontosun.com/news/national/mark-carney-to-announce-plan-to-kill-consumer-carbon-price Dan McTeague – President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, longtime former Liberal MP https://www.affordableenergy.ca OPEN LINES THE SOFA CINEFILE Nick Soter Reviews "Ground Hog Day" the 1993 Fantasy/Comedy starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell THE LIMRIDDLER Private Desk Drawers Island of coral with beaches of sand. Ivories dance as the fingers command. Access for doors And private desk drawers. Down under winner with wicked forehand. MONOLOGUE Trump's Tariffs and Canada's Self-Inflicted Wound NEWSMAKER What Led to Fatal American Airlines Plane and Army Helicopter Crash Over D.C.'s Potomac River? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crash-reagan-national-airport-washington-dc/ https://www.wnd.com/2025/01/staffing-in-washington-air-traffic-control-center-under-scrutiny-after-fatal-crash/ John Gordon National political analyst and host of syndicated radio show, The Truth with John Gordon https://www.youtube.com/@JohnGordonTruth STEELHEADS TALK Mike Karafilidis - Commentator for the Brampton THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE! Liberal Leadership Front Runner, Mark Carney, Vows to Scrap Consumer Carbon Tax, But Will Anyone Trust Him to Actually do it? Greg Carrasco – Host of The Greg Carrasco Show, Saturday Mornings 8-11am on SAUGSA 960 AM LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The Answer to this week's Limriddle was: Keys The first 5 to answer correctly were: 1. Michael Dibblee, Vancouver, British Columbia 2. Andrew Blair, Toronto, Ontario 3. Amy-Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 4. Will McNair, Ottawa, Ontario 5. Warren Griffin, Kitchener, Ontario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
MONOLOGUE Why Nearly Half of Young Canadians Eye Stars and Stripes NEWSMAKER Mark Carney Launches Campaign for Liberal Leadership and PM by Throwing Out Independent Journalists Chrystia Freeland Swears She'll Scrap the Consumer Carbon Tax if She's PM Sheila Gunn Reid, Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News, Host of “The Gunn Show” Wednesdays 9pm ET. OPEN LINES THE SOFA CINEFILE Dr. Strangelove Nick Soter, Founder of a Toronto community cinema club THE LIMRIDDLER Four-Footed Friend Four-footed friend on the duck hunter's wing. Sisters of song, so excited to sing. Locus conveyed With a lecturer's aid. Helpful suggestion good counsel can bring. MONOLOGUE Olivia Chow's War on Scarborough Families NEWSMAKER Mark Carney Launches Bid to Become Liberal Party Leader and PM By Removing Accredited Journalists from Event https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/watch-calgary-liberal-mp-george-chahal-lies-about-media-access-at-carney-campaign-launch/61278 James Westgate Snell is the Alberta Legislative reporter for the Western Standard. He was escorted out of Carney Leadership launch by Edmonton Police STEELHEADS TALK Tonight Brampton hosts the Owen Sound Attack, the former team of recently acquired defenceman Konnor Smith. Mike Karafilidis, Brampton Steelheads Commentator Sauga 960 NEWSMAKER What's Going on with Pickering Town Council? OPP investigating after Pickering council launches complaint against Lisa Robinson https://www.durhamregion.com/news/opp-investigating-after-pickering-council-launches-complaint-against-lisa-robinson/article_610f5c5d-be80-5196-a07e-bddf6b5b28ce.html Embattled Pickering Councilor Lisa Robinson LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The Answer to this week's Limriddle was: Pointer The first 5 to answer correctly were: 1. Christine De Civita, Stoney Creek, Ontario 2. Bill Heller, Edinburg, Texas 3. Amy- Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 4. Sue Somerville Calgary, Alberta 5. Linda Blee, Ottawa, Ontario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join me for a trip back in time to 1953. This wonderful East York home was built during a very important time in this community. Hope you enjoy the story.
Join me for a trip back in time to the year 1927 as we explore the history of this wonderful home in the East York community.
This is the amazing story of a wonderful East York home built in 1922. This podcast starts with what all the big events happening in Toronto in the 1920s including Union Station and the city of East York in 1924. This home has survived over 100 years and has even been on the tv show "Love it or list it". Hope you enjoy this journey through the decades.
In this episode of the Real Estate Podcast Show, host Paul Indrigo takes listeners on a journey through the rich history of a property in the East York community, built during the significant year of 1929. Delve into the historical context of the Great Depression and discover how it shaped the lives of Torontonians, alongside the construction of iconic landmarks like the Royal York Hotel. Explore the architectural evolution of this East York home, from its original design to various extensions and modifications over the years. Learn about the intricate details of property boundaries and easements, and how these can impact homeowners today. Join Paul as he uncovers untold stories, local legends, and community insights that could enrich John's understanding of his home's legacy, offering a unique perspective on ensuring its story continues to resonate in the hearts of potential buyers.
Welcome to a fascinating journey through the rich history of a property in the East York community, presented by realestatepodcastshow.com. This episode takes you back to 1925, a pivotal year when East York was just a fledgling community bursting with innovation and transformation. From the electrifying illumination of Niagara Falls to groundbreaking radio broadcasts networked across the Atlantic, discover the vibrant canvas on which this neighborhood evolved. Dive into a treasure trove of backstories, uncovering details about previous homeowners, property upgrades, and intriguing developments over the decades. Learn about the importance of accessing detailed surveys and protecting your property's boundaries through invaluable historical records. These insights offer a unique perspective into the additions and transformations that shaped homes from the early '20s to today. Explore the captivating saga of easements and the varied historical narratives your property holds. Whether you're a history enthusiast or a proud homeowner, this episode offers a compelling look at the legacy of East York homes and insights into the art of preserving and celebrating your own property's heritage. Enjoy a blend of nostalgic storytelling and practical advice for any real estate aficionado.
Welcome to an intriguing episode of our home history podcast, where we explore the historic charm of your East York property. This episode delves into the captivating stories from when your home was built in 1928, and how it has evolved over the years. We start by providing essential details about your home, its initial configuration, and the historical context of that era with noteworthy events from 1928. We continue by unraveling the ownership records and highlighting the names that shaped its legacy. Listeners will also learn about the unique aspects of East York properties like easements and land complexities, which are crucial to understand for maintaining the beauty and integrity of your home. Join us in this journey of discovery as we bring the stories of your beloved residence to life. Don't miss the chance to uncover fascinating details and ensure your connection with your home is as strong as ever.
In this episode of "This House Has a Podcast," Paul Indrigo takes you on a captivating journey through the history of your property. From its construction in 1926 to the intriguing events in Canada during that era, discover the unique stories and developments that have shaped your home. Uncover unseen maps, survey reports, and fascinating tales of previous owners. Dive into the archives and explore the evolution of your home over the decades, including potential hidden features and historical insights. Learn about the significance of the property's subdivision plan and the easements specific to East York homes. Gain a deeper understanding of your real estate and how it has transformed over the years.
Join Paul as he takes you on a captivating journey back to the 1930s, exploring a classic Toronto home with a unique story to tell. This episode delves into the rich history of the era, from the Great Depression to the Golden Age of Hollywood, highlighting the technological and cultural shifts that shaped the time. Discover the untold stories of homeowners and the incredible architecture within East York, specifically in the Danforth area, where historic charm meets modern-day living. Learn about the transformation of local landmarks like the Toronto East General Hospital into today's Michael Garron Hospital while walking through one of the city's finest properties. Experience the allure of a bygone age and uncover the community's deep-rooted history. With potential beyond belief, this property and its hidden backyard retreat provide a glimpse into a world of timeless elegance. Perfect for history buffs and real estate enthusiasts alike. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Any questions or feedback? Email me at paul@realestatepodcastshow.com.
Welcome to the latest episode of this popular series. This story starts in the 1930s just after East York was incorporated. This wonderful detached home is just 10 doors down from the local hospital. I sat down with the owners and asked them about the history of the home and what they have done to the home over the last 20+ yrs. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Any feedback? Email me at paul@realestatepodcastshow.com
MONOLOGUE Time to Jail Flag Burners? Liberal MP has profanity-filled meltdown in Commons committee as tensions boil over https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_mp_has_profanity_filled_meltdown_in_commons_committee_as_tensions_boil_over Poilievre pledges to 'ban the terrorists' if elected — much to the Trudeau Liberals' chagrin https://www.rebelnews.com/poilievre_pledges_to_ban_the_terrorists_if_elected_much_to_the_trudeau_liberals_chagrin Sheila Gunn Reid, Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News. Host of The Gunn Show – Wednesday's 9pm Eastern KEEPING AN EYE ON YOUR MONEY PBO confirms carbon tax costs more than rebates https://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/pbo-confirms-carbon-tax-costs-more-than-rebates Kris Sims Alberta Director of The Canadian Taxpayers Federation taxpayer.com THE SOFA CINEFILE Maid in Manhattan - (2022) Romantic Comedy Starring Jennifer Lopez, Ray Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress. Nick Soter is the founder of a Toronto community cinema club. THE LIMRIDLLER Sketching Moses Ponderous burden for Moses to bear. Means to consume pharmaceutical care. Mobile device Without keyboards or mice. Bound paper pad for a sketch to prepare. Aftermath of Hurricane Milton Joe Kovacs Executive News Editor at WND.com is the author of the new best-selling book, "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything." Joe lives and works in Florida. OPEN LINES STEELHEADS TALK The Brampton Steelheads went 2-1 over this past weekend including a big 6-3 win against the London Knights at home. And they will look to continue their hot start and get back into the win column tonight against the Windsor Spitfires Mike Karafilidis, Commentator for The Brampton Steelheads THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE! Burn our beautiful Canadian flag? Get out! https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/slobodian-burn-our-beautiful-canadian-flag-get-out/58554 Greg Carrasco, Host of “The Greg Carrasco Show, Saturday mornings 8-11am Sauga 960 AM THE LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The answer to today's Limriddle is: Tablet The first five to answer correctly were: 1. Thomas LeBaron, Haliburton 2. Amy Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 3. Bill Heller, Edinburg, Texas 4. Ben Demianiuk, Greater Sudbury, Ontario 5. Darcy Andrews, Oakville, Ontario Solution: Ponderous burden for Moses to bear. According to tradition, the first Yom Kippur took place after the Israelites' exodus from Egypt and arrival at Mount Sinai, where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, these were inscribed on heavy stone tablets, which he then had to carry all the way down the mountain. Means to consume pharmaceutical care. Pharmaceutical dosage is often administered in the form of a tablet, which is a small, compressed disk containing a measured amount of a medicine. Mobile device Without keyboards or mice. In modern times, a tablet is a portable computer pad, which typically has a large screen but no external mouse or physical keyboards. Bound paper pad for a sketch to prepare. Many years after Moses, the tablet took the form of a bound paper pad, sometimes with tear-away sheets – much easier to transport than large stones and considerably easier to write on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Richard Syrett Show, September 6th, 2024 Subscribe to Richard's newsletter, "Why I Fight" Scroll to bottom of page https://sauga960am.ca/programs/the-richard-syrett-show Crack pipe vending machines and home delivery do not reduce harm https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-zivo-crack-pipe-vending-machines-and-home-delivery-do-not-reduce-harm Adam Zivo - Columnist National Post. Director of the Centre For Responsible Drug Policies KEEPNG AN EYE ON YOUR MONEY Ford's finance minister's record is bad and getting worse https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/jay-goldberg-fords-finance-ministers-record-is-bad-and-getting-worse Jay Goldberg – Ontario Director of The Canadian Taxpayers Federation Taxpayer.com THE SOFA CINEFILE The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film starring Warren Beatty, with Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss directed by Alan J. Pakula. Nick Soter has enjoyed a lifelong passion for movies and is the founder of a community cinema club in Toronto. THE LIMRIDDLER Time Bomb Tools Defusing a time bomb requires the right tools. Ultimate, absolute, consummate fools. Respectable kind Who's polite and refined. Noun type that tends to offend Scrabble rules. Kamala Harris not answering questions on whether she will sign into action her own EV mandate https://mailchi.mp/3d574764d472/kamala-harris-not-answering-questions-on-whether-she-will-sign-into-action-her-own-ev-mandate Gregory Wrightstone Geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition in Arlington Virginia. Bestselling Author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity. https://convenientwarming.com Trump confirms plan to audit the ENTIRE U.S. government https://www.wnd.com/2024/09/trump-confirms-plan-to-audit-the-entire-u-s-government Gretchen Wollert Author of Born to Fight: Lincoln and Trump and The Magic & Mayhem of Donald Trump https://www.gretchenwollert.com THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE! Singh Pulls Out of Coalition Agreement with Trudeau and Liberals: Hero or Zero? https://globalnews.ca/news/10732510/ndp-pulls-out-of-liberal-deal/ Greg Carrasco, Host of The Greg Carrasco Show, Saturday mornings 8-11am on Sauga 960 https://www.gregcarrasco.com THE LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS Time Bomb Tools Defusing a time bomb requires the right tools. Ultimate, absolute, consummate fools. Respectable kind Who's polite and refined. Noun type that tends to offend Scrabble rules. The answer to today's Limriddle is: Proper The first five to answer correctly were: 1. Michael Dibblee, Vancouver, British Columbia (winner of $100 Farm Boy coupon) 2. Jack Fallon, Toronto, Ontario 3. Amy-Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 4. Thomas LeBaron, Kingston, Ontario 5. Karen Kirton, Bridgenorth, Ontario Defusing a time bomb requires the right tools. Diffusing any bomb is a tricky undertaking and should not be attempted at home without supervision. Wire cutters are considered the proper tool according to Hollywood movies. The choice often comes down to the red wire or the blue wire, with dire consequences for getting it wrong. Ultimate, absolute, consummate fools. A proper fool is an absolute, complete, consummate and unqualified fool. This rather negative use of the word “proper” is more common among Britons. Respectable kind Who's polite and refined. A proper lady or gentleman is generally well-mannered, respectable, polite and refined. Noun type that tends to offend Scrabble rules. Scrabble is a game involving the placement of lettered tiles on a game board in a crossword fashion. Subject to some variation in rules, proper nouns are not permitted. Proper nouns name a specific person or place and tend to be capitalized. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Richard Syrett Show, August 23rd, 2024 Subscribe to Richard's newsletter, "Why I Fight" Scroll to bottom of page https://sauga960am.ca/programs/the-richard-syrett-show RCMP lay terrorism charges on a suspect in the GTA https://tnc.news/2024/08/22/rcmp-terrorism-charges-suspect-gta/ Ross McLean – Crime and Security Specialist, Host of The McLean Chronicles podcast RFK Jr. Ends Campaign for President and Endorses Trump Scott McKay, Political Journalist, Pundit, Contributor to The American Spectator and publisher of The Hayride. He is the author of Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama and his new work of fiction, a political satire called, King of the Jungle. B.C. Tories propose bold plan to reform health care https://financialpost.com/opinion/bc-conservatives-bold-plan-reform-health-care Colin Craig – President of Second Street https://secondstreet.org/ THE LIMRIDDLER Stressed Calf Spot where stressed calves get their tension release. Iliad's symbol of rage and caprice. Calcaneus cause Of one's critical flaws. Mightiest mortal of mythical Greece. RFK Jr Suspends Campaign and Endorses Donald Trump https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-speech-arizona-a2638f89ddcb5de03edbe4574ca17d45 Tony Lyons Co-Founder of American Values 2024, the RFK Junior SuperPac. Attorney and president of Skyhorse Publishing Multiple Jewish organizations, hospitals across Canada receive identical bomb threats https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/multiple-jewish-organizations-hospitals-across-canada-receive-identical-bomb-threats-1.7008918 Daniel Bordman, Senior Correspondent with The National Telegraph CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn doubles down after calls for resignation over anti-Israel post https://tnc.news/2024/08/23/cupe-president-hahn-doubles-down/ Noah Jarvis – Journalist at True North Wire LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The answer to today's Limriddle is: Achilles The first five to answer correctly were: 1. Will McNair, Ottawa, Ontario –(winner of the Farm Boy voucher) 2. Gianni Cata, Keswick, Ontario 3. Amy Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 4. Tracy Bonafica Georgetown, Ontario 5. Tracie Curtis, Guelph, Ontario Spot where stressed calves get their tension release. The calf muscle (gastrocnemius) tenses and releases with the shortening and stretching of the achilles, which is the tendon just below the calf. BTW, calves (cows) have a gastrocnemius muscle somewhat similar to ours. Iliad's symbol of rage and caprice. As portrayed by Homer in the Iliad (8 th century BC poem), Achilles was the impulsive, angry and capricious protagonist who lost control of his pride and emotions. Calcaneus cause Of one's critical flaws. The calcaneus is the heel bone. Our modern-day reference to one's “Achilles heel” as a critical flaw or failing comes from Achilles the Greek warrior, who was killed by an arrow to his vulnerable heel. When he was baby, his mother had tried to make him indestructible by dipping him in the magical River of Styx, but she missed the spot on his heel where she was holding him. Doh! Mightiest mortal of mythical Greece. In Greek mythology, Achilles was considered the greatest of all mortal warriors and the hero of the Trojan War. Yes, Hercules was a pretty mighty Greek too, but he was only half mortal, since his Dad was Zeus. Stressed Calf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
THE MEDICAL RECORD: A CONCERNING STUDY ON ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and a former head of the BC Cancer Agency, Dr. Fahad Razak, a Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Data and Analytics at the University of Toronto and General Internist based in Toronto, and Dr. Alisa Naiman, a family doctor practicing comprehensive primary care in Toronto. Today on the show: our experts weigh in on concerning research linking a certain artificial sweetener--erythritol-- to an increased risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke. And, they explore an alternative treatment to the epipen when it comes to allergic reactions. CANADA'S POLICE CHIEFS CALL FOR HELP AMID A RISE IN PROTESTS Libby Znaimer is now joined by Thomas Carrique, Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police and President of The Canadian Association of Police Chiefs. Commissioner Carrique explains the call by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police on all levels of government to provide additional "financial" and "moral" support as they face an increase in protests. And, he reacts to the news of bomb threats sent to Jewish organizations, synagogues and some hospitals across Canada this morning. MORE LOCAL TORONTO BUSINESSES HURTING DUE TO CONSTRUCTION Libby Znaimer is joined by Chris Theofanidis, Owner of Rise and Dine Eatery and Christine Fedirchuk, Owner of Urban Renewals, both of which are located in East York. Construction in East York is hurting local businesses--many of them mom and pop shops. And according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), within the last five years, almost 75 percent of small businesses in the country say they've taken the hit from construction projects.
The Richard Syrett Show, June 28th, 2024 Biden's Debate Disaster https://globalnews.ca/news/10592733/u-s-presidential-debate-biden-and-trump-takeaways/ Mark Moyar Author of Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency MSM Turns on Biden. Are They Plotting to Oust Him? Drew Allen, Author of “America's Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 2024?” Host of The Drew Allen Show podcast drewallen.substack.com The LimRiddler Ill-Fated Lamb Destiny feared by the ill-fated lamb. Skillset to tackle a feat or exam. Sous-chef prepares His fruit salad wares. Site for insertion of biscuits and jam. https://limriddles.com Biden's Mental Deterioration on Full Display at First 2024 Debate https://publiusnationalpost.substack.com/p/bidens-mental-deterioration-on-full Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D. America's Psychiatrist the host of Dr. Carole's Couch on VoiceAmerica.com, and The Terrorist Therapist® Podcast. She is a forensic psychiatrist/expert witness, bestselling-award-winning author of 4 books - 2 on terrorism and 2 on relationships. SCOTUS Destroys Jack Smith's J6 Case Against Trump w/ Ruling...Just After Democrats Face Humiliating Defeat on the Debate Stage https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-boosts-jan-6-rioters-bid-challenge-obstruction-charge-2024-06-28/ John O'Connor U.S. Attorney and author of Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deepthroat, Covered Up Watergate and Began Today's Partisan Advocacy Journalism; and Mysteries of Watergate: What Really Happened, and host of The Mysteries of Watergate Podcast Jack Smith Admits FBI Doctored Evidence to Produce Stunt Photos of Classified Docs During Mar-a-Lago Raid https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/jack-smith-admits-fbi-doctored-evidence-produce-stunt/ https://www.postgatebook.com THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE Biden's Disastrous Debate Greg Carrasco, Host of The Greg Carrasco Show, Saturdays 8-11am on Sauga 960AM THE LIMRIDDLE ANSWER AND WINNERS The answer to today's Limriddle is: Chops The first five to answer correctly were: 1. Amy Lou Hoo, East York, Ontario 2. Dave Dibblee, Oakville, Ontario 3. Erin and Joe, Stoney Creek, Ontario 4. Astrid Lakats, Milton, Ontario 5. Tracy Bonifacio, Georgetown, Ontario Destiny feared by the ill-fated lamb. The smell of fresh mint and burning charcoal is a bad omen to any lamb. It foreshadows lamb chops. Skillset to tackle a feat or exam. Chops refer to expertise or skill in a particular field or activity. Sous-chef prepares His fruit salad wares. A sous-chef chops the fruit to put in the fruit salad. Site for insertion of biscuits and jam. The chops are the mouth and jaws, an ideal spot to insert biscuits and jam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ana Konda is a Macedonian born musician based in Toronto. She's an odd jobs-woman, a daughter and a friend, currently 27 years old. Her no-f*cks-given attitude has earned her a reputation as someone to not f*ck with. Raised in the Balkan organized crime underbelly known as East York, she is no stranger to salacious scandals and disturbed individuals. The dimly lit alleys and dubious characters make for an atmosphere so deeply unsettling, Kafka-esque, and Lynchian, that even huge dudes feel unsafe. For Ana, though, it's no big deal. She's never felt fear. I asked her if she knew what fear meant and she said she'd never heard that word before. Her upcoming solo EP, Trauma Porn, is a coming-of-age narrative-based exploration of sexuality and violence in early womanhood. Her sound, which is unique as hell, weaves together Euro-style beats, intricate guitar riffs, and deeply personal lyrics. The EP will be dropping this summer but if you listen to this episode, you can hear a sneak preview (which is exclusive, by the way.) When she's not making music or strolling through the east end, Ana is likely hanging with her fabulous group of girlfriends who text regularly in an iMessage group chat. They like to share and describe their dreams with one another and hardcore analyze them. The dreams that these gals are having at night are extremely vivid, much more so than my dreams or yours. Like, super vivid... Topics Discussed: Edibles Silent Hill Raves Lotion Magazine Catfishing Judge Judy PMDD Lois and Meg Ajax, Ontario Low Bar and Farside People on Feeld Loitering Spiritual Psychosis https://linktr.ee/picturetimeoclock https://www.instagram.com/picturetimeoclock/ https://twitter.com/daeveud
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In this 1458th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with Rob Butler about growing up in East York with his brother Rich, playing for the Toronto Blue Jays and winning the 1993 World Series, retiring from MLB as a Blue Jay, playing in the IBL, managing the Toronto Maple Leafs and more. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada, The Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Team and RecycleMyElectronics.ca. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Toronto Mike at mike@torontomike.com
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Show hosts interview Kelly Brown from Saint Joseph's Council in East York about what their council is working on in the parish.
TUNE INTO THE TOWN: FORD GOVERNMENT SETTING UP WORKING GROUP TO DEAL WITH AG REPORT 12:00-12:30 Marissa Lennox is joined by Lisa Raitt, former deputy leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Glenn De Baeremaeker, a former Toronto City Councillor and Deputy Mayor and George Smitherman, former Ontario Liberal MPP for Toronto Centre who also served as a health minister and deputy Premier. Meanwhile, it's Tuesday, and we're kicking things off with our assembly of Recovering Politicians and a lot has happened since we last spoke with them, none more conspicuous than the lingering Greenbelt issue, which doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. The very latest is an announcement by the Ford government to establish a working group to deliver a quote “comprehensive response to the report” – a top priority for the government. But what's the actual deal here? Is this just a sideshow to divert attention from the fact that they're resolutely treading the path toward development – the result is the same. We'll also delve into fresh numbers from Angus Reid: Trudeau's crew is trailing Pierre Poilievre's opposition by a seven-point gap. And we're halfway home in this federal election cycle. So, how much weight should we give this? And what do you think about Pierre Poilievre's new look? Is he beginning to resonate with you personally? CANADA'S INFLATION RATE UP AGAIN 12:30-12:45 pm Marissa Lennox is now joined by Moshe Lander, Senior Lecturer of Economics at Concordia University in Montreal. Let's shift our attention to the economy for a moment. Canada's inflation rate climbed to 3.3 percent come July. It's a drop from the peak of 8.1 percent we saw last summer, but it's a step up from the 2.8 percent just last month. So what's the key takeaway from these numbers? Let's bring in Moshe Lander, Senior Lecturer of Economics at Concordia University in Montreal. SOME TORONTO TENANTS ARE RENT STRIKING 12:45 to 1 pm Marissa Lennox is now joined by Khalil, a resident at Thorncliffe Park Drive and an organizer of Thorncliffe Park Tenants and Adnan Subzwari, Associate with Mills and Mills LLP. Tenants in a Thorncliff Park apartment complex, situated just North of East York in Toronto, have taken a stand by refusing to pay rent. Their protest stems from rental increases of nearly 10 percent over the past two years. The rent strike has been going on for four months now, and is the second in Toronto spurred on by above-guideline rent increases. One of the residents of the three-building apartment complex, who lives there with his family, Khalil Aldroubi, joined us to discuss.
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Another guest episode! Last year, as part of Urban Agriculture Week in Toronto, I visited Maria Solakofski's garden in East York, and I found myself signing up for a workshop just so I could return days later. Listen in and I think you'll get a sense of why. Maria is an herbalist and educator growing a wildly abundant garden according to permaculture principles. She sells tisanes, skincare, and other herbal products, and runs workshops and a mentorship program out of her East York yard.You'll find this episode runs a bit longer than the other guest episodes, because we covered three gardens — and if you like listening as much as I liked being there, I don't want to cut it short. Tune in to learn a bit about permaculture, but also unique berries, growing in containers, soil amendment, and cooperating with wildlife. The episode also feature's the pod's first-ever groundhog guest. If you'd like to learn more about Maria and her garden, check out her website, Wild by Nature, to learn more about her offerings. I hope you enjoyed soaking in her knowledge and enthusiasm, and you too always remember her prompt to enjoy something you don't strictly need: “But wouldn't it be nice?” Lastly, I can't seem to record a guest podcast without an audio problem (
In our last episode, I was joined by Mike Gregotski of High Park Club in Toronto and Mike Smith of Lindsay Curling Club. We shared strategies to help manage different ages and skill levels in our youth curling programs. In Part 2, we let loose! We continue our discussion of "Hit Draw Tap," talk about practice structure, obsess over attendance, and share our plans for the end of the curling season.NOTE: Interview recorded February 13/23Some of the topics we discuss:* The "behind the scenes" work organizing "Hit Draw Tap" (1:02)* East York Little Rocks uses "stations" for practice (2:19)* "Structure builds success" for practice planning (6:00)* Promoting older "Little Rocks" curlers to Junior program (13:04)* High Park Mike: Put the kid in the place "where they'll have the most success" (20:13)* Lindsay Mike: Kids that enjoy your program will be your "best recruiters" (22:53)* East York's "Try Curling" Event in March 2023 and Coach Glenn's son will be there! (28:27)Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:High Park Club (Toronto, Ont.) Web sitehttps://www.highparkclub.com/Lindsay (Ont.) Curling Club Web sitehttps://www.lindsaycurling.comMike Smith's E-mail:lindsayyouthcurling@gmail.comMike Gregotski's E-mail:littlerocks@highparkclub.comMike G's Twitter handle:@mgregotski"Hit Draw Tap" Curling Canada Web sitehttps://www.curling.ca/hitdrawtap/Follow our podcast on Twitter: @kidscurlingGlenn Gabriel is an NCCP-certified curling coach and coach developer who lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has been the coordinator of the Little Rocks (U12) program at East York Curling Club in Toronto since 2011. If you have a question or feedback on the podcast, send us an e-mail at coachingkidscurling@gmail.comThe intro and outro music is "Golden Sunrise (Instrumental Version)"https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunriseBy Josh Woodwardhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_WoodwardLicensed under CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Support the show
Early in 2023, I set up a Zoom call for several youth coaches in the Greater Toronto Area. We were there to talk about practice ideas and it was a successful meetup. Some of us wanted to do a follow-up, but I was at a loss for a topic to discuss.That's when I heard from Mike Smith of the Lindsay (Ont.) Curling Club. He wanted to know how other people handled a wide range of kids with different ages, skill levels and experience. How do you run a curling program that fits all those kids?Mike Gregotski, longtime friend of the podcast from High Park Club, joined us on Zoom. But our conversation didn't just stay in one place – we talked about other topics like "Hit Draw Tap," youth in adult leagues and the fun of youth bonspiels. This episode is Part 1 of a 2-part series. NOTE: Interview recorded February 13/23Some of the topics we discuss:* How a 13-year-old potential curler motivated "Lindsay Mike" to start a conversation about managing different ages and skill levels (3:11)* Lindsay Mike's "Learn To Skate" story (5:19)* High Park's youth practice structure (8:42)* Lindsay Curling Club's youth practice structure (13:44)* Lindsay Mike coaches on his own! (18:38)* East York's youth practice structure (21:05)* Lindsay Mike gets youth into adult leagues (24:05)* How "High Park Mike" divides the kids on the ice based on age/experience (29:53)* How Lindsay Mike divides the kids in his program (33:21)* The challenge of using "Hit Draw Tap" in our programs this season (36:02)Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:High Park Club (Toronto, Ont.) Web sitehttps://www.highparkclub.com/Lindsay (Ont.) Curling Club Web sitehttps://www.lindsaycurling.com"Hit Draw Tap" Curling Canada Web sitehttps://www.curling.ca/hitdrawtap/Follow our podcast on Twitter: @kidscurlingGlenn Gabriel is an NCCP-certified curling coach and coach developer who lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has been the coordinator of the Little Rocks (U12) program at East York Curling Club in Toronto since 2011. If you have a question or feedback on the podcast, send us an e-mail at coachingkidscurling@gmail.comThe intro and outro music is "Golden Sunrise (Instrumental Version)"https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunriseBy Josh Woodwardhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_WoodwardLicensed under CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This podcast episode uses: "buttonchime02up.wav"By JustinBW of Freesound.org (http://Freesound.org)Support the show
Toronto police have released an image of a man they say is harassing young girls in East York; a Brampton man has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges of human smuggling across the Canada-U.S. border; and, an Ontario woman says a 'rope toy' almost killed her puppy and cost her more than $8,000 in veterinary bills.
Today's guest has a special place in the HIROC archives. Sarah Downey was our first guest on Healthcare Change Makers when we turned on the mike in 2018. The years that followed that fun interview have been busy for Sarah. For 7 and a half years she was the CEO of Michael Garron Hospital where she shepherded the hospital through a major redevelopment project that included the newly opened Thomson Centre. Six months ago, Sarah made the decision to move into the President and CEO position at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, better known as CAMH. Leaving Michael Garron and the East York community was tough, but the pull to the mission of CAMH was stronger. Sarah believes mental health is the most important health issue of our lifetime. It's a new place and a new culture to learn about, but Sarah always comes back to the importance of being human and being vulnerable in a leadership role. Where talking to people in the coffee line-up is one of the most important things you can do as a CEO. Quotables “You forget until you have to make those transitions how emotional they are.” – SD ”It's thrilling to see these latest two buildings. The spaces are bright and airy. They're respectful, and focused on recovery, healing and dignified care.” – SD “It's not just a one in five who will get mental illness in their lifetime. It's in everybody's family. It's in all your social circles, in all your employees. It's everywhere.” – SD “I had forgotten until I came back how many people call to get advice on how to navigate the system.” – SD “Who's more important for us to invest in than our young people? They are our future and we need them to be healthier and more resilient.” “You need to regularly connect with people, use a bit of humour. They want to know that their leader is real.” – SD “It's become even more important the last few years to find a break and a space, but what an opportunity to learn.” - SD “I hold my dad's lessons in my heart every day and try to act in a way that would always do him proud.” – SD “We should tell people every day in the moment how much they mean to us and how they're helping us change our lives.” – PDS Mentioned in this episode: Michael Garron Hospital CAMH: The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health The history of the Toronto Lunatic Asylum Dr. Hilda Tremblett Princess Margaret Cancer Centre - UHN Dr. J. Downey, Past President, University of Waterloo (1993-1999)
Greg welcomed Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Liberal MP for Beaches/East York to talk food banks and maybe a run for the Provincial Liberal Leadership.
Greg spoke with Liberal MP for Beaches-East York. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, about Rising costs for food, assisted dying &Bill 124.
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Liberal MP for Beaches-East York, joined Greg to discuss the tentative education settlement and the Greenbelt development.
In episode two we chat about our current favorite candle brands under $30 with the disclaimer that we are two women in a world with thousands of candle companies - we haven't even scratched the surface yet so consider this our first of many chats about affordable candle brands we love. In this episode we chat about four companies we've tried and wholeheartedly recommend. Roen - favorite scents: Ojai Nuit and Bisou Bisou East York Street - favorite scents: Tomato & Tobacco Leaf, Rosemary & Oud, the entire limited Wes Anderson collection - fingers crossed Hannah makes more! PF Candle - favorite scents: Teakwood & Tobacco, Swell, Dusk Borough Home - favorite scent: Night Fever Unofficial Sponsor: PF Candle - use the promo code HOSMER to save 15% on pfcandleco.com Ashley's favorite PF Candle items: large Teakwood & Tobacco candle, incense cones, hand & body wash Diane's favorite PF Candle items: Dusk & Moonrise candles from the Sunset collection And a huge shoutout to friend of the pod, Dominique, for helping name our candle rating system. We will be reviewing candles based on our Triple Wick theory. This looks at the overall aesthetics (which includes the vessel, packaging, branding and unboxing experience), the quality (ingredients, throw, how well it burns, and scent complexity), and lastly the price point - is it affordable, mid tier or luxury - to determine how many wicks get awarded to each candle. So a candle that just has one thing going for it will have small wick energy, a candle that has two out of the three will have big wick energy and a candle with all three will be our elusive magnum. Thank you so much Dominique for helping us name this! Give Dominique a follow on instagram @dommdotcom. Send us an email at candlechats@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @candlechats @ashleyhosmer @dianezeise --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/candle-chats/message
Nate Erskine-Smith, Liberal MP for Beaches-East York talked with Greg about the CUPE work stoppage and the Federal Government's fall fiscal update.
Greg spoke with Brad Bradford after he was elected to second term as councillor for Beaches-East York.
More information on how renewable use less land that fossil fuels and aren't destroyed permanently in the process. Nikola Motors CEO found guilty of 3 of 4 charges. Some thing EV charging at night won't always be cheap. Greece runs on 100% renewables for five hours. VW has hired Ewan McGregor to help them sell EVs. Brian expolores a graphic novel that illustrates life in the Canadian Oil Sands. “A masterpiece, a heartbreak, a nightlight shining in the dark.”—Patricia Lockwood Here's a link! UK PM Truss not doing well after I called her dumb last week for not wanting to see solar panels on farmland. Scrapped her whole economic reform plan. Tesla might remove downtown Toronto geofence with FSD Beta 10.69.3. Kia EV6 Wholesale GLOBAL Shipments In September 2022 Amounted To 6,109. Worse than last year. What's up with Kia and EVs? They make great cars, advertise the hell out of them but never make enough. Carbon Capture Projects Hit Record but still only 1% of global carbon emissions when built. Tweet of the Week responds to criticism of climate protesters in recent days. Offshore Construction Starts on Japan's First Floating Wind Farm. JinkoSolar achieves 26.1% efficiency in panels. Rewewable energy workforce as more female representation than fossil fuels. Researchers develop a 10 minute EV charging method by adding a thin strip of nickel to batteries for cooling. Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript Hello, and welcome to episode 135 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. I'm James Woodingham. This week, some facts to compare fossil fuel and land use with renewables. Your racist cycle is not going to be happy. The founder and former CEO of Nicola Motors has been found guilty of fraud. Turns out rolling a truck down a hill and pretending it works can get you in trouble. It may get more expensive to charge an EV overnight. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I now get up to pee six times a night. The country of Greece runs on 100% renewable energy. For the first time, the Olympic torch is lit by the sun. So why not all the lights in the country, too? Oh, that is so much more on this edition of The Clean Energy Show. Well, welcome to the podcast, everyone. Also this week, VW has hired you and a Gregor to help them sell EVs. Brian has his first ever book report. Looking forward to that. And a corporation based where Brian and I live is betting big on nuclear revival thanks to the war in Ukraine and other factors. You sound funny this week, Brian. Are you under the weather? Yeah, I got a cold. How do you know? I thought colds were eradicated. Yeah, this is my second cold since the start of the pandemic. Are you looking telephone poles? What's going on here? Yeah, well, we took a plane trip, as you know, last weekend, to Whistler. I knew you would get diseased. Yeah, I mean, I was kind of worried we'd get coveted. Didn't get coveted, but we caught a cold. My partner got it first. I was a few days behind. I thought I may have escaped it, but it's starting kind of yesterday and my head is slowly filling up with fluid. It's rather unpleasant. Oh, no. You remember before COVID when you used to fly? No. It always seemed like I would always get a cold whenever I flew somewhere. I don't know. I mean, everybody trapped on an airplane like that and not wearing that. They say that air is recirculated and filtered, but I don't think it's just too close to quarters. Do you put on an air in your face? Because I'm always a bit warm on planes. Like I make sure I get the air going on my face. Do you do that? Yes. And we discussed that as we got on the plane because I said to my partner, well, wait a minute. Is this like, COVID filled air that I'm putting in my face or is this fresh, clean air? And it has just gone through the filter. So presumably that is the fresh, clean air. It always smells fresher to me. It always smells like it's mixed like a car vent, like it's mixed in with outdoor air. I don't know that it is. It'd be nice if it was, but there's not enough oxygen up there at 35 0ft to do that mixed in with new plain smelling. I think I would just wear the oxygen mask. Just drop the oxygen mask and put that on for the trip. Well, that would be fantastic. They should just let us have those. It should be enhanced air with nice, relaxing demerol vaporized or something that just puts you at ease and wake up wherever you're going. Guess what? The pipeline plane flew over the other day. I walked up my front door and there it was looking at me. Well, so it's mac, which is a relief. Perhaps why I haven't noticed it is I noticed because I went to my app and it's fine a few hundred feet higher than it was before. It's fine at 200ft before. Yeah. Now it's up to 500ft. I don't know if that has anything to do with the crash that was fatal. Yeah. To recap, James has a pipeline behind his house and there's a plane that inspects it pretty much every day. But, yeah, there was a crash of one of these planes not that long ago and so it disappeared for a while. And you say now that it's back, it's actually flying higher? Yeah. I mean, it could be the same plane. I don't know that it's the one that crashed or if they were grounded or if they re looked at how they did these things, but it seemed like it was gone for a few weeks because I noticed it. It's hard to say how often it came. It seemed to vary, but it was multiple times a week, I would say, and I do live in a city, it doesn't inspect it that often outside the city? Just inside the city. It has frequent flights and that goes right back to the airport 10 minutes later. Well, you always hear about these pipelines and I don't know, sometimes they're leaking for probably hours or even days before anybody notices. Well, let's get to some updates to some of the stories that we've talked about over the past. There's a few. This week we were talking about PM Trust. Yeah. The new UK prime Minister. And I called her dumb dumb dumb last week. Yeah, she's really dumb. And that's because she doesn't like the site of solar panels on farms and she was going to kibash solar everywhere. How dumb can you be? I ask. And, well, turns out the country is in agreement. Not for that reason, but mostly for other reasons. In fact, how is this Trust doing? 83% say badly, 15% say, well, should she resign? 55% say yes, and I'm in that 55%. Although who knows who they're going to get in their place. But come on. There's so much data for renewables being a good thing in this energy crisis, like saving billions over the summer, reducing the amount of Russian gas imports by 13% from the growth of it. It's just crazy. I mean, there's all kinds of numbers you can look at. We talked about Tesla not having their full selfdriving beta software, which you use, being applicable in downtown Toronto. You mentioned that before, but now it sounds like it will be. Yeah, this is a while ago. So Toronto has streetcars, one of the few, maybe only city in Canada that has streetcars. Yeah. The full self driving software thus far has not known how to deal with streetcars. And so, just to be safe, Tesla has basically geofenced the software. So anywhere downtown Toronto, where there is streetcars, you can't use full selfdriving beta until they figure out how to program in streetcars. And yeah, apparently they're getting close because rumors that the geofence will be removed soon. Yeah. I was watching one of these informational videos on YouTube about how Toronto is a car city. And these streetcars everywhere, these have them in Mount Pleasant, where my friend Dan lives up north and all kinds of different places, and they had a vote to get whether they keep them or not. Everybody resoundingly wanted them. So what they do, they get rid of them. They wanted to make room for more cars. They built the subway to make room for more cars. That's what I was thinking. Was it's too bad, because out here in the west, canada is kind of sparsely populated, and our cities are kind of spread out. But in the central or eastern part of Canada, like Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, that's the densest population that we have in Canada. So Toronto, particularly, there's several million people that live in Toronto, a lot of them in the concentrated in the downtown core. So public transit is a no brainer. Subways and streetcars are a no brainer, and, you know, they've done fairly well at that. But yes, surprisingly, it is still kind of a car city. But I have been watching a YouTube channel, can't think of the name of it right now, but there is a guy, a transit nerd in Toronto, who's reporting on all of the transit projects. So things actually do look bright. I think things are improving. There are subway expansions planned and streetcar light rail expansions planned. They have lots of stuff in the works. And they've added a lot of bike lanes, too. That's really a positive sign. Definitely. You and I lived there ten or 15 years ago, and there wasn't that many bike lanes 20 years ago. I guess more than 20 years ago for me. Jesus. Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. I mean, it was still kind of fun to bike in Toronto. I remember you and I biked there's a nice path down by the waterfront. You and I bike down and watch the fireworks one night. That was a lot of fun. The only thing is that it borders the Dawn Valley Parkway, which is a freeway, and you get all the exhaust and all the pollution. Yeah. As a prairie boy, it was very disconcerting to see the distant trees obscured by smog, which just sort of gathered in the valley like that and Stunky. There's a smell to it always. But a lot of people die. Cyclists die in Toronto, so it's not a safe place. But I remember cycling downtown. I lived adjacent to downtown, and East York used to take a half hour to get to the heart of downtown by bike, which was more enjoyable in the summertime than taking the subway and waiting and getting stuff like Sardines somewhere and whole noise of everything. But, yeah, bike lanes are tough in cities like that. But it's also got the busiest freeway in North America, too. The 401 is national. Yeah, massive, massive freeway. Dozens of lanes. It seems like the Kia EV six. Now, I was shocked to learn that that came out almost 18 months ago now, on the spring of 21. I thought it was in the last three quarters of a year for some reason. Maybe it's because I heard about it and I didn't pay much attention to it because it was a similar vehicle to the Onik Five. Although it's not a direct comparison, necessarily, in aesthetics and appeal. They sold only 6100 units of that worldwide in September. And if that isn't shocking enough, that's actually down from the year before. Down? Yeah. Well, I assume it's just because it's production, not sales. I mean, I'm sure they can sell everyone that they make. They just need to make more of them. Yeah, they're not but that's a major problem. Brian, that gets my trombone of the Week. Yes, thank you for the emphasis. I'm very disgusted by this. So the narrow EVs sold 4500. The sole EVs outside of this is outside of South Korea. The sole EV sold a whopping. Are you sitting down? Yes, you are. The Sole EV. Tell me something. You can't sit there and your pompous Kia asked and tell me that they're not Asianizing EVs, that they're not taking the same sort of ideas Japan and saying, we don't believe in them because they're making great avs and pisses me off so bad. I watched a football game and NFL game, and there was nothing but EV ads, including the Onik Five. Great ad, great car. Can I buy it? Nope, you can't buy it. Why are you advertising it? There's lots of other stories like that, too. Why are they selling them? Why are they pretending that they can sell them? Are they trying to get people into the dealership to sell combustion engines? I mean, what's going on? Are they just trying to look like they're advanced or do they just not give a crap? And I think they're probably trying to stop people from going to EVs that are available. So if you're a loyal Kia or Hyundai owner, then you can think to yourself, okay, well, there's Kias on the horizon. There's some reviews out lately on the web of the Ionic Six, which is the upcoming Hyundai. But it's not coming till next year. But they've let out some sort of review models and there's lots of YouTube reviews and yeah, it looks like a great car, but again, it's not going to be available for at least a year. It's premature to even do that. I'm going to forget about it by the time I could actually order one. I mean, it's going to be ancient history. But it also looks like a great car. Well, yeah, of course it is. That's the frustrating part. If they weren't great cars, it wouldn't be so frustrating. Wouldn't it? But they're making great cars. They seem to know what they're doing. But have they secured the batteries? Do they want to make them? Doesn't seem that way. Yeah. Well, we have an update coming up later on from VW that addresses some some of these issues. And when you can buy them, you certainly can't buy them where Brian and I live because we're not in a Zev zero emission vehicle jurisdiction or anything like that, and we're not in Europe, so that kind of sucks. Yeah. You have one here. Greece was powered by renewables. Yeah, I just always like good news stories like this. It's going to become more prevalent. So at a certain point, we will have to stop reporting on these because it's just too common an event. But yeah. Greece, for around 5 hours ran on 100% renewables on October 7. Yeah, I just love stories like that because it's a sign of things to come. It shows us that this stuff is working. I assume the people who are against clean energy take it the opposite way, like, well, it only ran for 5 hours. That doesn't count. We get the 2050 people. I tell you, when our jurisdiction runs on 100% renewables for 10 seconds. I'll soil my dance on the podcast. No, that'll be a day for celebration. We'll have some championships. Tell you what, dig up my corpse and put a birthday cake on it when that happens because it's going to be something from Bloomberg. Carbon capture projects hit a record. So the pipeline of carbon capture projects rises to 153. Pardon me, 30 are operational right now, including one in our jurisdiction, which is at a coal plant, one of the first in the world. And it's not performing up the specs at all. Planned projects that are planned, remember, not existing, but planned, would mitigate less than 1% of CO2 emissions. And the problem, in addition to just being 100%, is that it continues investments in fossil fuels. It's another way of prolonging fossil fuels, which, as anyone who listens to the show on a regular basis knows, makes James angry. James doesn't want to be angry. Takes days off my life. Brian well, as I've said before, I was kind of in favor of this because we are a coal burning place where we live. And they started talking about this 2025 years ago, and back then, it's like, oh, that kind of makes sense because we just didn't know enough back then. It was exciting. I was excited. It was very exciting at the time. But also, bureaucracies are lumbering and slow, so it took them forever to get it off the ground. And now that these things are running, we know that they're just too expensive and they don't produce the results. So let's just buy solar panels with the money instead. I remember when they opened it, they invited dignitaries from around the world into a tent. But it has a weird vibe. It's like there was no one commenting on it, no one's had anything to say. And they were hoping to export the technology. Not only did they invest billions of dollars, but they wanted to export that technology, which I'm sure they've learned a couple of things that they can export and maybe patent. But critics argue that it's expensive, ineffective technology that just prolongs the life of fossil fuels, which I'm sure our local governments here would love to do. Yeah. And I guess there was a possibility that they could take what they learned and refine the technology and make it cheaper and make it more viable, but so far, that has not been the case. Well, I'm excited, Brian, because it's time for a brand new segment on the show. the first time you've sang on a sink and probably the last. Hey, I harmonize with myself. Yeah, I watched my friend Who Can Sing do that for video projects that I used to work on. So I tried it and it kind of worked. But, you know, next time you got multiple tracks there if you want to let's play that again. Yeah, because we may never hear it again. So yeah, I have to play it twice. Well, it seems unlikely. Yeah. It's not often that it's going to be appropriate to talk about a book. I mean, how many can you read? You're just retired. Yeah, and I certainly don't typically read books about climate or clean energy or climate change or whatever, but this one is an exception because it's a picture book, which barely even counts as a book. It's a graphic novel, really. It's a graphic memoir. So this is a book called Ducks my memoir. Two Years in the Oil Sands. Yeah. Ducks. Two years in the oil sands. And it's by Kate Beaton, and it is published by my favorite publisher, which is Drawn in Quarterly. They publish graphic novels of all different kinds. That's a good name for a publishing company that publishes Drawn In Quarterly. They're the best. But yeah, this book is really great. So Kate Beaton is an artist from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. From here in Canada. The east coast of Canada. And she graduated from university with a history degree around 15 years ago or so. And graduated with a mountain of student debt. And so she was kind of looking at the jobs that were available to her with a history degree, like working in museums and stuff, and she was like, oh my God, I'm going to be 90 years old by the time I pay off my student debt. So she like a lot of people from Cape Breton, from Newfoundland, from the east coast of Canada, took a job in the oil sands of Canada, which is here in Alberta, next door to us in Alberta. This is kind of based around the city of Fort McMurray, kind of northern Alberta. That's the kind of base for many of these oil sands operations, which are, as we discussed before, the dirtiest oil on the planet comes from there. The amount of energy you have to expend to extract this oil because it's all mucked up with sand and everything. So it's a very, you know, carbon intensive, energy intensive way to get oil out of the ground. But, you know, with the price of oil, it's been a lucrative place for many years. So, yeah, she spent two years in the oil sands, paid off her student debt, which is the happiest part of the book, like she did completely after two years. Wow. Yeah, you make a lot of money. You're often provided housing. Sometimes you live in the town of Fort McMurray, which is a fairly big town, so that's kind of civilized. But quite often you work on site or you work in these work camps where the oil rigs are and all this stuff. So it's kind of isolated work, and you'll often work like twelve days on and have two days off, that kind of thing. And yeah, with your housing kind of paid for, you can just bank a lot of money or spend it on cocaine, which is apparently a thing that also happens a lot. I never said that again. Yeah, it's a really beautiful book. There are many things about it that are heartbreaking, but yeah, it's just awesome. Highly recommended. It's a real honest portrait of what goes on in the oil sands. So there's sad parts about it, but also funny parts and fun parts, and there's a real humanity to it. Highly recommend. Well, send me a link and I'll put it in the show notes for Gosh. Thanks. So check your show notes, people. I assume that there will be a link close to the top of the notes there. Okay. Because my son's got a buddy who was in psychology at our local university. He switched over to history and I just, my God, that's worse than film. You and I did, I felt chills come over me. It was kind of bad, like, you poor bastard. Psychology. We need lots of people in psychology more than ever. History, not so much. Yeah. And the author, Kate Bean, she's most known for a book and a website called heart of Vagrant, which is history based. She sort of did these humorous cartoons about history, which she knows a lot about because she has a history degree. But if you've ever wondered what life is like in the oil sands, this is probably your best chance to find out what that's like. Well, there's a new Stanford University study that Forbes had a piece about. It about EV charging at night may not stay cheap through the EV adoption curve. Now, the thinking is that with everybody having EVs, they're all going to charge at night. So the power, they're not going to have excess power at night. They're going to have enough or they're going to have to keep up even. I don't know how much you drive, but I might charge like an hour or two a day. You know, a lot of things that I'll just charge an hour or two. I'm not talking to people with long commutes or buying EVs to save money, and that's obviously a different story. And highway travel and vacations. But typically, I mean, statistically people travel 2030, 40 miles a day, and that's an hour or two of charging, essentially. And, you know, we come home and we turn on our clothes dryers and our ovens every night and the grid doesn't go down. So we've gained a lot of efficiencies in those things too, right? Yeah, I guess the only issue would be that they're used to having very low usage overnight. So a lot of the systems within the grid are planned for that. But they should be able to tweak those plans and make more power available overnight. Well, here's what they said. They said that the researchers estimate the impact of rising EV ownership in the western United States could boost power demand by as much as 25% by 2035. That's the year when California has banned the sale of new gasoline vehicles. Doesn't mean they're all going to be EVs by then, of course. It just means that you can't go out and buy one. So charging after eleven will get more expensive, they figure, and push utility operators to boost their power generation. They say that more EV charging should be done during midday hours, ideally at work or public stations. Now this is when maybe this is not necessarily every day, right, but when the solar. There's days when they have access. Solar. It's already happening in California. We talked about it. Lots of news stories talk about it. So when wind and solar power suppliers are at their peak, sometimes producing more energy than the grid can even handle. So California is set to have 5 million EVs by 2030. That's about 30% market share level. It's coming. And at that point, the electrical grid will experience significant stress, they think, according to that, unless there's increased capacity or behavioral changes. But this gets me to thinking, Brian, that we're going to just need a smarter grid, we're going to have to start thinking and being incentivized to charge when there is excess solar, when there is, because if I had a normal EV that you could buy for 4500 range, I would probably charge it once a week in the summertime, right? I mean, I wouldn't charge it very often. Well, maybe I wait until I get a note on my app saying power is free for the next 2 hours. So I take up my other app and my EV starts charging. Maybe something like that, maybe that's a little too cute and easy, maybe, but we're going to have to maybe in order to accommodate renewables start because we're always doing it. They're already experiments, like you had a story a week or two ago about government's utility controlling thermostats as an experiment, right. So when they have access, when they don't have enough power, they adjust your thermostat a little bit and they did that voluntarily in California. So I know by having electric vehicles capable of charging to the grid, discharging to the grid, that's another thing, right. I mean, that would maybe even offset a lot of the problems when you have those little peaks because these that are charged might be able to backfire and if they make it worth your while financially and I think they would, that could help flatten the curve. Yeah, downsides to having all those EVs on the grid, but also potential upsides. Yeah. And then there's school buses on city buses and things like that that will be sitting around and able to pick up because a lot of times you build a grid for the worst case scenario. Now if you got a million EVs out there that can cover that, worst case, 10 minutes or something like that, then it really changes the game. So, yeah, I'm just starting to think like that. The average mileage per day, by the way, is 20 miles in the UK, 37 miles in the United States, and EVs won't be charging more than once or twice every week or two. So looking forward to that. Plus your battery doesn't get messed with as much if you're not charged as much. Certainly a lot more charging for us in the winter when it's deadly cold. So Nikola is back in the news now. We used to talk about Nicola all the time when we started our podcast two and a half years ago. Anyway, I mean, it was an exciting potential good thing. It was the rivian of, let's say long distance semi trucks. But no. Yeah, so this has been going through the courts for quite a while, but Trevor Milton was the founder of Nikola Motors and one of the founders and was the CEO. And yeah, he's now guilty of fraud, three of four counts, guilty on three or four counts, basically guilty of pumping the stock. So Nicola was working on like a hydrogen semitruck and this is the most fun story is that they just rolled it down a hill and shot video of it and sort of tricked everyone into believing that they had a working prototype, which they did not. And then at other things, like they would show these trucks and vehicles at shows, and people with an eagle eye would spot that there would hey, wait, this is plugged into an electrical cord underneath there. So they were just fudging the truth. But when you're a publicly traded company, you're not really allowed to fudge the truth like that, and it ends up with fraud charges and guilty. But Nicola still exists. This is a real company. They still have hundreds or perhaps even thousands of employees working on, I think, less hydrogen and more battery electric now, but they are do you think they'll try to dig themselves out of this hole? You think they'll come up with an electric pickup truck anytime soon? I'm not picking up truck with a truck long distance. Yeah, I think there's a good chance. Like, even when all this controversy was happening, I sort of thought to myself, well, wait a minute, I mean, there's still a giant headquarters here and there's still hundreds of people working there. They have to be working on something. It's not like they're all just sitting around drinking coffee all day. I still hope for the best for Nikola, because the more players we have in this space, the better. Yeah, especially with long distance trucking. But they were hoping to have hydrogen powered trucks and build out their own hydrogen network of not just seem like a daunting prospect financially and logistically, and they would get an awful lot of people backing them in order to do that because it's tough. Just like Tesla, they could start with pre prescribed routes between bottlers and distribution centers and stuff like that. Grocery stores and distribution centers that are unknown length and maybe not even too long, but it's just even had places that were going to fix them on the road, too. We even had a series of shops that were ready to fix them. Yeah, and also at the time, like, it really wasn't clear that even though this is just a few years ago, that battery electric semis, people weren't sure how viable that would be. So as we reported last week, the first deliveries of the Tesla semi are going to be on December 1. I think there are other big trucks out there, so we'll know soon that battery electric should work for semi truck. Now, last week, I touched on sort of this myth that goes around that land use of renewables is a bad thing. How can we possibly power grid? What are we going to do, cover every square inch of solar and wind turbines? And then I pointed out the fact, and this is the fact that there is more land use by oil and gas right now than what it would take to. Have a renewable energy in the world. So there's no recent studies. But I came across, and this is actually when I was making the TikTok video for that segment, I came across a study which I found interesting, and now it's already seven years old. It was published in 2015. It was peer reviewed and published in the scientific journal Science. And it estimated that 30 0 km² have been lost to oil and gas well pads, storage tanks and associated roads just in the period from 2000 to 2015, just in that 15 year period, 30,000 km² just for oil and gas. So the amount that that is the equivalent of lost range lands is equivalent of approximately 5 million animal units per month. I don't want to think about what that is. I think I know. And the amount of biomass lost in croplands is equivalent of 122,000,000 bushes of wheat, something we have here where we live. Lots of wheat. So the thing is, the 3 million land lost is likely, unlike renewables, long lasting and potentially permanent. Permanent, yes. Because this is toxic. What's left is toxic. Yeah. We mentioned a hydrogen plant that's trying to build on an old oil and gas, I don't know, what do they call it? A gray site or there's a brown site. Brownfield. They call it brown field. It's like a gas station, a corner gas station type of house. Where there was a corner gas station, that land is contaminated forever. Yeah, but if you put in an EV charging supercharger there, you take it out, it's fine. You take a wind turbine out, fine. Solar farm. You can not only have agriculture taking place under the solar panels, you take them out and it becomes a farm again or whatever you want. Disneyland. So the gas power plants themselves occupy a rather small landscape footprint. It says you must take into account that those power plants also require significant infrastructure to operate well pad, storage tanks, pipelines access roads and refineries, just to name a few. The pipeline behind my house goes on for many hundreds of kilometers and I can't imagine the hectares that it in itself takes up. But you cannot do anything on it. I know, because I get a pamphlet in the mail every ten days telling me I can't so much fart on it because they don't want me to. I can't bring in a back loader because I don't have an alleyway here. I can't bring in a small tractor, I can't bring in anything at all they don't want because I talked to them on the phone, because I get, you know how you dial before you dig while I do that. And guess who calls? The pipeline companies actually call when I do that, put out that request to put in my above ground swimming pool and yeah, they tell me you can't do anything like that. Nothing at all. So they kill the gopher. So the ledge is pointless. They mow it. They do go over with a tractor and mow it once a month. But other than that so the Department of Energy estimates the amount of land used by wind turbines would require 3200 square kilometers, or 790,000 acres by 2050 when we met our Paris climate targets. And that's roughly a 10th of the land used by oil and gas, which is yes, electricity could be coming from wind for a 10th of the land used by oil and gas. And that's just in the States, right? So the National Renewable Energy Lab, 1 Ha or two five acres is what you need per gigawatt hour of solar generation, if you want to talk solar now. So for 3 million Ha lost oil and gas in that 15 year period, you could put up solar power that would generate 75% of America's total annual electricity generation output. You can put it anywhere. You don't put on farmland. You can put on rooftops. You can run schools, factories, and you should be and I don't know why they're not. Remember, this is just oil and gas. This doesn't even talk about other fossil fuels like coal or entire mountaintops are removed. So that's my story on that. This is a clean energy show with Brian Stockton and James Winningham. All right, so Volkswagen this week. So we were talking before about Hyundai and Kia maybe not making that many battery electric vehicles, even though they're quite great. But I thought this was worth mentioning. We've mentioned Volkswagen's output before, but, yeah, Volkswagen is on track to make 500,000 EVs by the end of this year. So 500,000 output in a year, that's behind Tesla, which is going to be around 1.4 million. So just between those two companies, that's around 2 million battery electric vehicles. So this is starting to ramp up. Volkswagen is taking this seriously, and they're taking it so seriously, they've hired you and McGregor as their next spokesperson. And of course, we talked about that show that was on Apple TV called The Long Way Down. A long way up. Yeah. Great show. Excellent show. If anyone's interested, you and McGregor likes to do these tours on motorcycles. So that's the newest iteration of that show. I think there's been three seasons, and it's on Apple TV Plus. And they started at the tip of South America and drove up to California, I think it was, on electric motorcycles and with prototype rivian electric pickup trucks just for the scenery, but also to see if it could be done electric. And it turned out to be an awesome show. So, yes, clearly, Ewan McGregor is an EV enthusiast. He's a big Volkswagen enthusiast. He owns several Volkswagens that he's restored, including one that is a 1954 Beetle that he had converted to electric. So he drives a 54 electric Beetle around Los Angeles. And so, yeah, I think that's kind of fun. Yes. I will point out that there are three iterations of this series, but they started like 20 years ago. So when they flash back, he's very young and Same has a buddy that he takes with him. And they both like motorcycles and racing and stuff and live it on the edge. And it was very much a struggle with electricity in South America to charge a prototype Harley Davidson livewire before they became the earlier previous seasons are just like shot on kind of old standard definition video, so they don't look that great. But the newest season that's on Apple TV, it's all in HD, looks fantastic because it is essentially a travel log show. And I became fascinated with South America. What a beautiful continent, if I may. And they were able to shoot it in glorious HD with lots of drones and different things and the technology that is compact and fits in the motorcycle operated and unoperated. And then the first few episodes were the struggle to charge, and then it became more like logistics and things. And the Inexplicably went through Mexico on a school bus that they want to find. Don't think it was too dangerous. There was a nasty tourist murder going. Yeah, Ewan McGregor is a great guy. He's one of the few Hollywood stars I would like to have a beer with. You know, like, he just seems like a great guy, and most people aren't. I'm not. I wouldn't want to have a beer with me. I'm a terrible human being. Somebody flaws. But he seems to have everything worked out. Volkswagen promised such lofty things, right, that they were going to do this, and we were hoping they would cause in dieselgate. They've sort of abandoned everything and said, okay, we're going all into EVs. But are they really? And a lot of people were skeptical, but it seems like are you fairly comfortable that they are? Oh, yeah. I think 500,000 is an amazing figure to hit this year. It's not an easy thing to ramp up all those batteries and new platforms because it's better to start with a new platform than to convert a gas car to electric. So, yeah, Volkswagen is well on their way. When I saw you doing the story, I watched the Star Wars commercial with him, and it sort of he drives off in a Volkswagen ID buzz the Volkswagen EV version of their minibus van, which is by all accounts, horrendously overpriced, but also very cool. And if I was on a money tree, I would certainly have one of the driveway for the cool factor going to be available in Europe very soon, from what I recall. Yeah. Well, the Financial Times has a story on nuclear revival in that Westinghouse Electric, which is a US. Nuclear power company. It's being bought by a private equityback consortium in an almost $8 billion deal for four years. That's four years after it emerged from bankruptcy. So it was nuclear is bad going bankruptcy, not making money because of the war in Ukraine is, in their mind and their view, spurring fresh interest in an industry that had fallen out of investor favor. So we've seen how important energy is and nuclear is available now, but also they're partnering with a company that right here in our own province that doesn't have a lot of companies. We have a big multinational corporation called Chemical which mine uranium in the far north of our province province, you know, hours and hours and hours and hours away that we're into the wilderness where there's a weird little city called Uranium City. You wanted to make a film there once because it was like this abandoned mining town in the middle of nowhere. No, it's a fascinating story, if you want to kind of Google it. Uranium City. It was a whole city that was built around mining uranium, and thousands of people were living there at one point, but it's now been more or less abandoned. So there's a whole abandoned city up there that I don't know, I'd like to just go hang around. It's very interesting to look at it from the air because you see the aerial photos and there are what don't seem like dilapidated houses that are completely caved in because some little water thing got in there and then one thing led to another with an unoccupied house and then they all sort of collapsed and looks like it has 30 years left on the shingles. Kind of a weird image, actually. Yeah. So Chemical is apparently big on nuclear and which is why they are lobbying a few provincial governments in Canada like ours to go with small modular nuclear reactors as the solution and as a way to waste our money and prolong fossil fuels. So the purchasing of Westinghouse, I guess they make 440 nuclear reactors in the world, about half of them. So I don't know, they say it's the best market fundamentals we've seen in a while. I'm skeptical. I would not advance, I would not invest in that. I would not invest in a billion dollars because by the time you put a brick in the ground, I mean, forget about it. It's going to be over. So well, I'm pleased to bring back the tweet of the week. I've had a hard time finding one this week, so I had to go with a thread, I'm afraid. Usually I find an inspiring tweet, something that I really like, but this one, there's been a lot of climate protesters in the news that has made people uncomfortable throwing supine paintings and things like that, and it's become a part of the discussion. So aside, rezook somebody I follow on Twitter, energy Insider, clean Energy Insider, in support of the malign of these climate protesters, he says, we have triggered a once in a hundred million years climate change event. Government falls here on the world, doesn't appear to give a hoot about it or our future. Why? Well, let's read between the lines of what climate science is saying. The probability of 1.5 degrees heating compared to preindustrial times by 2100 is today about 99%. The probability of two degrees is 90%. The probability of four degrees or higher is 10%. And that, of course, is absolutely catastrophic. So it's like playing Russian roulette with a ten chamber gun and one bullet in it. And it's the future of humanity and life on Earth is at least temporarily going to be disrupted if that happens. So three degrees is unadaptable for most people and will result in tens or hundreds of millions of climate refugees. Four degrees or more implies in exile to high latitudes north Canada, Siberia, north New Zealand for millennia. That is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time. Remember that the probability four degrees is actually 10%. So now, if you are faced with these not unlikely outcomes, would you not throw soup at a goddamn painting or stop traffic or strike or block an interest to BP or Shell or Exxon oil terminals? That is his thoughts we like to hear from you on the Clean Energy show. Coming up next is what is it, Brian? It's the lightning round roll. Zoom through a bunch of headlines and get through the show real quick. Contact us right now. Get out, Japan. Get out. Your typewriter is cleanenergychow@gmail.com. And we have the Clean energy pod. That's our handle. Clean Energy Pod. One word on Twitter and TikTok. We've got a YouTube channel with special features, and we have a voicemail option online where you can leave us an online voicemail speak, pipe.com slash clean energy show. lighting round, fast paced look of the weekend clean energy news. Brian, the show's gone by fast. They all go by fast. That's how we're at 135 of them already. I don't know what's going on. Maybe the cocaine from the oil industry has gotten into my coffee in the morning or something. But offshore construction starts on Japan's first floating wind farm. It is, in total pretty small. Now, the biggest wind turbines that we often mention are 14, though, that those are not floating. So I don't think the floating works for turbines quite that big. But it's nice to see Japan is finally getting going with because, remember, they've got a deeper offshore, so they need to do the floating in a lot of cases there. Yeah. Jinko Solar has achieved 26.1% efficiency in their solar panels. This is not Perk solar panels, which we're used to, but NType top con solar panels. So the new record was confirmed by China's National Institute of Metrology. Is it Metrology? Metrology? Sure. Let's say that it's the science of measurement, Brian. And a word that I didn't previously know, because I don't measure things. So Perk adds a passivated film to the back of ordinary solar panels to absorb more light than may have passed the initial cell surface. This is how they get this higher efficiency. Now, the panels on our houses might be, what, 89% efficient or something? Maybe 20%, something like this is significantly higher for the same panel. And they seem to say that the cost will be very close to they're basically adding this ultra thin oxide layer on top as another barrier to contain a absorbed light. They're just trapping more light. And when you talk about bifacial panels picking up stuff on the bottom as well well, normal panels only pick up 70% of light in the bottom direction, but these pick up 80%. So that's a 10% gain, which is nothing to sneeze at if you are making a bifatial solar family farm, which sometimes apparently, can be vertical just to smooth out the curve of the power generation during the day. Yeah, I'm always excited about these advancements in solar panels. Female workforce share in the renewable energy sector, 32%. Oil and gas, 22%. So we're spreading out the jobs a bit better as we transition to renewable. Something to think about. Few markets are electrifying, quite like China, Brian, where EVs have gone from less than 1% of light commercial vehicle sales to 10% in the last ten years. At last, two years. Okay, that's fine. Two years, basically nothing, 10%. And this is like commercial vehicles are not like you and I. They're driving all day and they're bigger. The vehicles use more energy, so they're bigger and they drive all day. So this is a big impact on oil. And I expect very much that this is going to happen soon, because we see it every day in the headlines. New small commercial vehicles and trucks coming online that are electric. Oh, it's time for a CES fast fact. Yes, it costs about $1,300 to install a public EV charger on a lamp post. $1,300. You know, we talk about how we're going to deal with apartment owners and stuff like that. Yeah, that's not much. This is the whole kit and the bootle and the fact that it charges you, too. The whole billing system is built into it. $1,300 us. No. We have tons of cars that park on the street all day long, so why not give them an option to charge? And keep in mind, you use your own cord for stuff like this. It's basically a socket. In Europe, they bring their own cord. Audi wants its EVs to clean the air while they charge or drive. If I had a segment, the weird story of the week, this would be it. Brian this is weird. And by the way, I once saw a thing where they had a train that was going to carbon capture as it drove, but I lost the story. But instead of talking about the show about six months ago so audio wants to do this with their cars. The vehicles will be equipped with the systems of filters particles out of the air. This is a test as an experiment. They'll do it passively when they're driving it and actively with a fan when they're charging. And they're just going to take particles out of the air through I don't know. It's not going to make a difference. It's going to add cost to the car. Why are they doing this, Brian? Why? It seems like the dumbest thing ever. Pennsylvania State University researchers develop ten minute charging method. Now, we hear about this stuff all the time, and we don't mention it on the show. Why? Because we don't know if it's real or not. However, this was published in the journal nature, which is the journal. It's a tough journal. This is no bigger journal than nature. As far as I love it. It's my favorite journal. Absolutely. They have that written on the cover. Brian Starship's favorite journal. And it's only when I mention it because adding a thin layer of nickel to the battery, which is also why I mention it, because it's not a huge, weird thing that may or may not work right. It's a minor thing that is actually helping it cool the battery. Something like Tesla might develop something like that while they're adding a thin layer of nickel in the spooling to help with the cooling. And that means that they can charge in 10 minutes. So that might be a thing. Okay, it might be a thing, yeah. I mean, it might potentially add too much cost because nickel is one of the more expensive materials for batteries, but we'll see. Oh, it's another CAS. Fast fact. All of the lithium mine last year would last just one month. In 2041 month, all the lithium mine last year would last one month. And in 2050, that magical year where we have to get to zero, it would last two weeks. So this is based on, I guess, current projections of how much lithium we're going to need to put into batteries and such in 20 years. It could be wrong. We could be on to batteries that don't require any lithium by then. I'm hoping it's possible, especially for grid and stuff like that. Electric miners are cutting CO2 emissions in half by switching to electric vehicles. So I know that mining was ripe for electric vehicles because you have to clean the air as you go down to the mines. That's an issue to have a diesel truck running or equipment. So if you electrify it and you throw out a solar farm, even better. No. There was a story this week about a hockey rank somewhere switching to electric powered zambonies to clean the ice. If you've ever been in a hockey rink, it's ridiculous. Like, they have these gas powered Zambonies driving around, especially in a smaller community size rink. The fumes are ridiculous. We shouldn't be breathing in those fumes. And it's the same thing with mining. Like, you don't want to be burning fossil fuels down in a mine. You want clean battery, electric. And like every decent Canadian, Brine was born on the blue line of a hi suki rank, weren't you, back in the day, many years ago? Many, many years ago, yeah. But you know what surprises me, though, is it's half the emissions from mining can come from electric fine. The vehicles. That's really good. I didn't know that it would be that great because that's easy. And by the way, we've seen even years ago, early in the podcast, giant super sized trucks that are electrified, that are going up and down, coal mines that just completely recharge on the way down. And they don't even have to charge during the day. They just regenerate. Going down with the regenerative. Branking by dad, three scored five stars in the Euro NCAP safety test. Now, the reason why I bring this up is because I've often pondered with you on the show, what are the Chinese cars going to be like when they come? Are they going to be safe? Now, that's a bit of maybe an unwanted, undeserved prejudice that is coming from bad Chinese manufacturing equality from past decades in the eighties and 90s. But then a lot of people said that about the Koreans. And actually the Korean cars weren't great at first, but they became quite they're among the top reliable cars now. They're great. So this is the first sort of indication that I've seen that the Chinese cars can do and will strive to have high safety ratings because we're all in North America here going to be craving good, safe cars. That affected my buying decision last time. Oh, another fast fact. US. Wind power currently generates enough electricity to serve the equivalent of 43 million American homes. That's right. Now, already just with wind power. Just with wind power. That's what it's capable of. At its best case scenario from carbon tracker, new findings from Rised Energy show that 2022 capital spending on wind and solar could hit almost half a trillion dollars, and that would eclipse the 446,000,000,000 for upstream oil and gas production. So this is kind of the first time that the capital spending has switched from bad to good. And they say it's not going back, that this trend will continue quite rapidly going forward. Absolutely. One last story for you, Brian, the World Meleeurological Organization, rather, is that occurrences of severe weather disrupting the operation of nuclear power plants increased fivefold in the last three decades between 19 92,019, with a notable acceleration since 2009, something that we've been mentioning on the show that I found quite surprising. And yes, climate change screwing things up already. Yeah, extreme weather is not great for nuclear power plants. And that is our time for this week. I mean, we could go on forever, but my throat will start to bleed very shortly. Brian will pass out. I've got a cold. He's got to be barely alive, man. He's probably got some sort of new version of COVID that can't be detected. That's what I think. It's not a cold. We'll hope you're here for next week's show, so we'd love to hear from you. Remember, clean energy show@gmail.com, twitter, TikTok, yada yada, yada. Leave us a voicemail. 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Rhoderie Estrada, a nurse and a mother of three children, was brutally killed in her home in Toronto, Ontario and found by her husband in the early hours of May 26, 2018. Today we discuss the investigation into her death and the arrest of 2 suspects. -K&O Rate, Review and Subscribe on the platforms of your choice. Check us out on Instagram to join in the discussions about the case! Comment on the case related post, we can't wait to hear your thoughts. @podcastbyproxy Use code FREEPODCASTBYPROXY at check out to try a free Classic basket from Goodfood! Goodfood is a Canadian online grocery subscription service delivering meal kits, read-to-cook meals, and grocery products to your door each week *conditions apply Intro music made by: https://soundcloud.com/aiakos Sources: 2 men found guilty in grisly murder of Rhoderie Estrada | CityNews Toronto Rhoderie Estrada was home in East York when she was sexually assaulted and murdered by ‘complete strangers,' Crown says | The Star 2 men guilty of 1st-degree murder in death of Toronto mother during break-and-enter - Toronto | Globalnews.ca Rhoderie Estrada was the victim of two ‘predators,' Crown argues at close of grisly Toronto murder trial | The Star Judge sentences 2 intruders who murdered Toronto nurse to life in prison, no parole for 25 years - Toronto | Globalnews.ca Man on trial for murder of Toronto nurse admits to hitting her with crowbar during break-and-enter - Toronto | Globalnews.ca A "nightmare" murder trial in Toronto has ended. What follows highlights one of the toughest questions facing Canadian prisons. (thecanadian.news) Pair found guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault of East York mother of three in her home | The Star Trial for 2 men accused of murdering, sexually assaulting Toronto mother during break-and-enter begins - Toronto | Globalnews.ca ‘Where's mommy?' The family of Toronto murder victim Rhoderie Estrada describe the night their world fell apart | The Star At East York murder trial, defence argues it's not sex assault if the victim is dead | The Star
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Dr. Kyle Kotchie (@itsdockyle) is a chiropractor and the Owner of Re+Active Sports Medicine (https://www.reactivesportsmedicine.ca/) in Toronto, Canada. Prior to becoming a chiropractor, Kyle was a D1 baseball player and also represented team Canada. His athletic background and personal experience with sports injuries have shaped the way he treats and cares for patients, taking a very active and goal oriented approach to wellness. In the episode we spoke a great deal about prioritizing one's health. There are always reasons why we can't exercise or eat healthy, but in most cases we can do a better job if we make it more of a priority. Kyle spoke about how we can also be very flexible with this. There's no one right way to exercise, and you may not enjoy certain activities. But if you continue to try new activities, eventually you'll find something you enjoy to do. Whether that be lifting weights, swimming, dancing, yoga, or anything else you can think of - there is something out there for you to enjoy and stay active. Kyle also outline his treatment process and discussed his active approach to care. He works with patients to help them move better and return from injury better off than before. Reduce pain, restore function, and then improve physical ability. This goes hand-in-hand with his 7 pillars of health approach. The 7 pillars include: education, manual therapy, optimal nutrition, hydration, sleep hygiene, progressive overload and strengthening, and breathwork. Kyle treats patients from all walks of life along with his multi-disciplinary team at Re+Active Sports Medicine. The clinic is located in East York, Toronto. Check out the clinic website for more information and to book an appointment. You can also connect with Kyle on IG, where he's also very active and engaging. If you're looking for more guidance or coaching for yourself and you're not sure where to begin, I'd love to work with you and be your coach to help you achieve whatever fitness goals you have set for yourself. Contact me on Instagram or Twitter to get started. I would greatly appreciate any comments, questions or feedback. If you could share this with a friend, that would mean the world to me. If you enjoy this podcast, I would be extremely grateful if you subscribed and left a short review on iTunes. It really helps to spread the message and ultimately help more people. Connect with me on Instagram @danielyoresConnect with me on Twitter @danielyores Podcast Cover Art by @octopuslegss
In this May Day double feature, Nashwa and Ryan sit down with Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale Organize. In this May Day double feature, we discuss the state of renovictions in Ontario as well as how people are resisting. Tenant organizers have been working together to resist and fight back. One example is West Lodge Tenants organizing a food bank and winning space from their massive corporate landlord to host it out of. We also have witnessed rent strikes in the city.We recommend people also check out and support Keep Your Rent and People's Defence Toronto, both groups are mentioned on the show and doing amazing work. We also suggest people use and share the Toronto Covid Evictions Tracker if they or their comrades are facing evictions. Anti-eviction action and organizing has an important history. In the second year of the Great Depression, it was so intense that evictions effectively stopped in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Solidarity to those fighting evictions, upcoming episodes looking at the Farmer's protests, and COVID-19 in India.If you want to support the creation of more content like this and and unlock Habibti Please exclusives please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us in continuing to build content like this. Mutual Aid & Community Support:Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to the fundraiser for The East York 50: this fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted.Additionally, here are further resources for communities from Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area facing the results of increased austerity:Encampment Support Network (ESN) is an ad-hoc, volunteer-run network supporting people living in encampments in 6 locations throughout Toronto. This includes ESN Parkdale, ESN Trinity Bellwoods, ESN Scadding Court, ESN Moss Park, ESN LNP and ESN Cherry Beach.RenovictionsTO is a volunteer-run organization that gives tenants the tools they need to organize and fight back against their landlords who are partaking in a renoviction. Keep Your Rent is another vital organization that offers Toronto residents a litany of resources to combat rent evictions.Evictions Ontario is yet another great resource for evictions—it also specifically offers a tracker to see where evictions are taking place across the province.Disability Justice Network of Ontario is a collective that aims to build a just and accessible Ontario through the dissemination of knowledge regarding issues that people with disabilities face—they promote change through legislative action; also, they support community members through a community caremongering program.Additional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode : Doug Ford is Using the Pandemic to Criminalize Tenant Organizing by Cole Webber Ontario is Mass Evicting Tenants, In as Little as 60 Seconds by Cole Webber Above Guideline Rent Increases in the Age of Financialization by Philip Zigman and Martine AugustAnti-eviction mapping project Tenants Rise Up! Fighting for Housing Justice in the Bay Area (short documentary) Online Activism During COVID-19: A Case Study in Rent Strikes by Cierra Bettens Doug Ford is Consolidating the Power of Landlords During a Time of Crisis by Shehnoor Khurram and Ryan KelpinToronto Tenants Seek Leverage on COVID Relief with Rent Strike by Morgan SharpParkdale Tenants Rally Against Goliath Corporate Landlords by Shannon CarrancoToronto Residents Get Their Massive Landlord to Donate An Apartment to Help Feed Tenants by Olivia Little Why Fighting ‘Renoviction' is so HardGuest Information Guests of the Week: Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale OrganizeRenovictionsTORenovictionsTO is a project seeking to document renovictions and above guideline rent increases in Toronto, provide resources and information for tenants, and support tenant organizing. Check out renovictionsto.com to learn more about where in the city renovictions and above guideline rent increases are happening and who are the landlords engaging in these practices. If you're facing a renoviction or above guideline rent increase, reach out to report your landlord and learn more about how you can fight back. In the future they will also start collecting data on the use (N12) evictions and making this information public on their website. You can check out their recent AGI report written by Phil Zigman and Martine August here. You can also find them on twitter @renovictions.Phil Zigman is the co-creator of RenovictionsTO. Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University. He is the co-creator of RenovictionsTO. Parkdale Organize Parkdale Organize is a group of working class people who organize to build neighbourhood power in Parkdale. The organization aims to build working class organizations independent of politicians and social service providers.Cole Webber is a legal clinic worker in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto, who is on Twitter @colefwebberCheckout Parkdale Organize and learn more about them through their facebook page, twitter page, and website.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Candian DimensionProduction Assistance by Canadian Dimension and Johnny ZaprasSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. 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This week, Nashwa and Ryan chat with Laurel Collins, the NDP MP for Victoria, British Columbia. The three discuss the push for climate accountability, the possibility of a Canadian equivalent of the Green New Deal, the perpetual prolongement of water crises within Indigenous communities, and the question of whether or not degrowth is the only way we can save the environment. Other subjects touched upon in the episode include what it's like to advocate for sex work in Parliament, the fallout of the Me to We scandal and the curious case of missing money, as well as the gendered impacts of the COVID pandemic. Mutual Aid Support:East York 50This week, we'd like to highlight a fundraiser for The East York 50: this fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted. Any donations would be deeply appreciated. East York Tenant Union (Crescent Town + Goodwood Unions)We'd like to also bring some attention to the East York Tenant Union, a group situated in Toronto currently fighting against COVID evictions. We highly recommend checking out this post, detailing the Valentine's Day gift the Crescent Town tenants gave to their landlord, Pinedale Properties. Note that tomorrow, Feb. 16th, 2021 at 9am is the Landlord and Tenant Board hearing for Crescent Town. You can show your support by simply joining the video call (with a muted microphone)—don't hesitate to document what you see and/or make social media posts about the event.Link to video callAlso note that the Landlord and Tenant Board meeting for Goodwood is on Thursday, Feb. 18th, 2021 at the same time and can be reached at the same link above, so please appear twice if you can!Peoples' Defence TorontoNote that both the The East York 50 and the East York Tenant Union are supported by Peoples' Defence Toronto. For more resources about the collective, visit the links below:TwitterFacebookLinktreeGuest Information:Guest of the week: Laurel CollinsLaurel Collins is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Victoria in the House of Commons. She was elected in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Prior to her election in the House of Commons, she was a city councillor for Victoria City. Laurel is a community organizer and climate activist. She was an Instructor at the University of Victoria and a city councillor prior to being elected MP for Victoria.Find Laurel online! WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramProduction Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny ZaprasProduction Assistance by Raymond KhananoSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe
In this episode, Nashwa sits down with two tenant organizers to discuss the eviction blitzes we are presently witnessing in Toronto. She's joined with Johnny Dib of the York South-Weston Tenant's Union and Matt Wittman of Parkdale Organize.We recommend people check out Keep Your Rent and People's Defence Toronto, both groups are mentioned on the show and doing amazing work. We also suggest people use and share the Toronto Covid Evictions Tracker. This episode about tenant advocacy happening in Toronto is part of a tiny series of episodes we will be putting out on Canadian activism and social movements. There is presently a grotesque amount of evictions going on. While evictions have always been a problem, presently they have become so commonplace that they are being facilitated through Microsoft Office Teams in blocks. To further illustrate this point, consider that in November 2020 there were over 6,500 eviction hearings— a 21% increase compared to November 2019. Anti-eviction action and organizing has an important history. In the second year of the Great Depression it was so intense in that evictions effectively stopped in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. There is safety in numbers and community, this episode reveals how organizing and community care matter. We will not stand by as our neighbors lose housing. Next episodes will include defunding movements in different parts of Canada and an episode on transit justice in Toronto. If you want to support and unlock full length Habibti Please exclusives like the video and post-show, please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us continuing to build content. If you are able to help support tenants right now there is a gofundme for The East York 50: This fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted.Solidarity is forever and solidarity to those fighting evictions! If you like the show and would like to see a specific politician interviewed or cause covered please find us on social media and drop us a line! Guest Information: Guests of the Week: Johnny Dib of The York South-Weston Tenant Union and Matt Wittman of Parkdale OrganizeThe York South-Weston Tenant UnionThe York South-Weston Tenant Union is named after an electoral district in the northwest of Toronto. It was formed in February of 2020 when 7 tenant associations where tenants had already been organized at the building level came together to ensure longevity and continuity in the organizing efforts in their own buildings as well as to support other tenants who want to organize. The Tenant Union is also an advocacy group for tenant rights and pushes for legislative and policy reform on all issues affecting tenants. Johnny Dib is an active member of the York South Weston Tenant Union, he has played a role since 2017 in knocking doors and connecting neighbours in several apartment tower complexes where landlords were pushing very steep rent increases.Parkdale Organize Parkdale Organize is a group of working class people who organize to build neighbourhood power in Parkdale. The organization aims to build working class organizations independent of politicians and social service providers.Matt Wittman (he/him) is a tenant organizer in Parkdale working with Parkdale Organize. Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Andre Goulet, Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny ZaprasProduction Assistance by Raymond KhananoSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on Substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe
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