The province has got a housing crisis, and the only prescription is… more mayoral powers?? Allison and Jonathan probe the comically flimsy pretense under which Doug Ford has fundamentally, if casually, reshaped how Ontario’s two largest cities are governed. Because what doesn’t quite kill Toronto and Ottawa, apparently just makes their mayors stronger.
Jonathan Goldsbie
News Editor
Allison Smith
Co-host, Wag the Doug
André Proulx
Production Coordinator
Kattie Laur
Producer
Hosted by Allison Smith and Jonathan Goldsbie
Clarification (September 22, 2022, at 8:48 p.m. EDT): Ottawa mayoral candidate and councillor Catherine McKenney uses “they/them” pronouns — not “she/her” pronouns, as used in this episode.
Live (on tape) from the intersection of Richmond and Spadina, it’s the fifth annual(ish) Douggie Awards, celebrating the most surreal and mendacious moments of the past year in Ford.
When the Speaker decreed that keffiyehs were verboten at Queen’s Park, even Doug Ford agreed that that was a bad call. But that came in the midst of a hotly-contested by-election in the 905 — and now that it’s finished, so is his party’s long nightmare of uncharacteristic open-mindedness.
Doug Ford plans to uproot the Ontario Science Centre from the iconic Don Mills home it’s occupied since 1969. But what is the Science Centre other than its iconic Don Mills home?
