What's the Point
By The Pointer
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The Pointer is an online media outlet providing world-class journalism to the cities of Brampton and Mississauga. In its weekly podcast, reporters, editors and publisher break down major issues impacting the Region of Peel and invite the voices of Peel to share their stories.
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#189 - Weaving a safety net for victims of crime
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May 17, 2024 |
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#188 - Plastic is polluting our world, how do we stop it?
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May 10, 2024 |
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#187 - Public backlash exposes developer- fuelled agenda in Caledon
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May 03, 2024 |
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#186 - Are the PCs selling out our public healthcare system
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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#185 - Brampton needs help: A discussion with NDP Leader Marit Stiles
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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#184 - Is democracy dying in Caledon?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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#183 - Mississauga By-election: Interview with candidate George Tavares
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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#182 - Mississauga By-election: Interview with candidate Carolyn Parrish
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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#181 - Mississauga By-election: Interview with candidate Alvin Tedjo
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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#180 - Mississauga By-election: Interview with candidate Stephen Dasko
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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#179 - Studying tornadoes in the Great White North
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#178 - Fading away: PC's supporting widespread harm to Ontario wildlife
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#177 - Homeless encampments are a human rights crisis
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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#176 - The disturbing state of Ontario's schools for the deaf and blind
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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#175 - The bright, challenging future for the Brampton Library
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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#174 - How to finance a dissolving Region
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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#173 - A battle for the heart of Caledon
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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#172 - Ontario is failing those with disabilities
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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#171 - Part 2: Saving families from the devastation of child exploitation
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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#170 - Part 1: Saving families from the devastation of child exploitation
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#169 - What is driving unhappiness in Brampton?
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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#168 - Saving Ontario's sick and injured wildlife
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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#167 - A climate change wish list for municipal budget season
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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#166 - An avian symbol of the PC's repeated environmental tragedies
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#165 - A victory for food security in Brampton
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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#164 - Are municipal incentives to developers a waste?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#163 - Youth climate action sidesteps politics
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#162 - The cost of violence against women
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#155—Mental Health in a new world
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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#161—The first Black man to sit on the Peel police board
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May 19, 2023 |
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#160—Broken political promises are a threat to us all
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May 12, 2023 |
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#159—How to save Peel’s natural world
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May 04, 2023 |
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#158—The unbelievable death toll caused by our growing cities
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#157—Inside The Mississauga Food Bank’s effort to help a community in need
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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#156—A Mississauga councillor on the struggle for equity & inclusion
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#154 - Protecting Canada's water needs to be a national priority
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#153—Calling out climate hypocrisy
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#152—Peel police struggles with anti-Black racism
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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#151—Brampton set to ball out
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#150—Trafficking humans in your backyard
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#149—Tackling ‘municipal madness’ in local government
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#148—Pushing back against the PC attack on wetlands
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#147—Bonnie Crombie on the lessons of Hazel McCallion
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#146—A survivor takes the fight to human traffickers
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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145—When our own government destroys our environment
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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#144—Protecting students from educators who sexually exploit them
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#143-Don’t let Doug Ford ruin your holidays
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#142—Fireworks in Canada’s complex post-multicultural world
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#141-Searching for compassion to battle Peel’s deadly opioid crisis
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#140—How one citizen changed an election
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#139—Two local union presidents on what the Ford PCs are trying to do
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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#138-Carolyn Parrish on Diwali night in Malton
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#137-Bonnie Crombie lays out her plan
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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#136 - Nikki Kaur wants Queen’s Park to investigate Patrick Brown
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#135—Patrick Brown is a disaster; more scandals emerge
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#134 - Meadowvale candidates want more housing, fewer cars
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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#133—Cheryl Connors doesn’t want Caledon to become a freight-town
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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#132—The Pointer launches in Niagara!
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#131 - No, the growing dysfunction in today's politics is different
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#130 - The fight to end racism inside the PDSB
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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#129 - Cary Kaplan wants to make Brampton the cricket capital of Canada
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#128 - Rethinking the environmental movement
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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#127 - The Liberals & the NDP are not young or progressive
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#126 - The man in the middle of Mississauga’s waterfront transformation
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May 27, 2022 |
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#125 - Patrick Brown, ethnic communities are tired of you
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May 20, 2022 |
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#124 - Patrick Brown’s continued abuse of Brampton taxpayers
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May 13, 2022 |
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#123-Peel's auto sector gets an electric lifeline
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May 06, 2022 |
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#122 - MADD, Brady Robertson & cannabis laws
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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#121 - Brampton’s deadly illegal apartment problem
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#120 - Developers dictate Peel’s latest push for more sprawl
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#119 - Does anyone in power even care about debilitating house prices?
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#118 - Transit dreams in Mississauga; nightmares in Brampton
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#117 - Patrick Brown’s House of Cards Falls Apart
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#116 - ‘Love shouldn’t come with a cost’: Ending sex trafficking starts with fostering healthy relationships
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#115-Homelessness in Mississauga & Brampton
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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#114 - Brampton’s controversial CAO is gone, but Patrick Brown is the real threat
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#113 - Why are so many residents leaving Peel?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#112 - Watching Our Democracy: A new feature on The Pointer
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#111 - Let’s be real about greening air travel
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#110 - Local governments moving in the wrong direction on climate change
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#109 - Budget season—Is your money making your life better?
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#108 - How to fight modern slavery in the growing human trafficking market
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#107 - Shady trucking schools pop up across Peel
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#106 - The stakes for Mississauga’s massive waterfront plan
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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#105 - A Mississauga youth talks about Peel's housing crisis
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#104 – Ford’s planning takeover wreaks havoc on environment & democracy
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#103 - Management of child welfare in turmoil
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#102 - Confronting Islamophobia in our schools
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#101 - The citizens of Brampton will have to clean up City Hall
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#100-Peel's international student crisis
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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#99 - What can we learn from the defeated candidates?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#98 - Canada's politicians ignore modern-day slavery
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#97 - The debate and what you should know
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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#96 - Are Peel's white leaders tone deaf to the problems of their communities?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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#95- A champion of equity in education explains how some PDSB trustees are failing Black students
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#94 - Are political leaders taking the climate crisis seriously?
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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#93 - The latest on Brampton’s City Hall corruption probe
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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#92 -Want better food? — Grow your own! (Pt. II)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#91 - Can Urban Farming Take Root In Peel?
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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#90 - Will the driver who killed a mother & her daughters get what he deserves?
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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#89 - The ripple effect of Peel’s affordable housing crisis
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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#88 - Will PDSB ever eradicate its systemic racism?
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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#87 - Smart growth, climate change and a hard urban boundary
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#86 - Sports will be fine but will fans forgive it?
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#85 - Twitter wars in Mississauga–PC MPPs serve Doug Ford, not their city
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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#84 - A Brampton family’s avoidable loss & a city’s crumbling healthcare
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#83 - Why is it so hard to plan a downtown?
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May 28, 2021 |
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#82 - If you’re not white, good luck getting a job inside Mississauga City Hall
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May 21, 2021 |
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#81 - Patrick Brown is destroying City Hall
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May 14, 2021 |
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#80 - Can Mississauga become the next Hollywood North?
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May 07, 2021 |
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How do we move forward with policing?
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#78 - Brampton City Hall is in turmoil
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#77 - Peel’s pandemic real estate frenzy
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#76 - Racism & Union leaders – Peel teachers abandoned by their own
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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#75 - A Niagara citizen's group tells Brampton how to win back City Hall
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#74 - Will Brampton voters buy Doug Ford’s plan for 250 hospital beds?
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#73 - Just give Peel its damn vaccines!
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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#72 - A downtown Brampton 7-Eleven wants to serve alcohol
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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#71 - No paid sick days and a trickle of vaccines
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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#70 - Is the death of hockey in Peel inevitable?
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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#69 - India’s farmers & its failing democracy
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#68 - Parents: Pornhub is part of a much deeper crisis
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Feb 11, 2021 |