This week on NOW and NEXT

Our C.A.S.T. (Comms and Strategy Team) is here!

We go deep on the grassroots ground game that's grooming the political landscape at Toronto City Hall. Was Anthony Furey a victim of a voter suppression campaign or did he just lose the Don Valley West byelection to a well oiled Orange Machine?

Donald Trump's photo op with RFK eating a Big Mac says all you need to know about the president-elect's next administration.

Who's on Bluesky Social? 

And who considers a banana taped to the wall as ART? And who's going to pay 7 figures for it?

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Meet the NOW and NEXT C.A.S.T!

Brad Ross has made a career leading the communications strategies for the City of Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission.

Lindsay Broadhead brings her comms experience and insights base on her time leading teams at the Toronto Region Board of Trade and, most recently, the Chief Communications Officer at the City of Toronto.

Bob Reid applies his earned experience as a major market journalist and a Senior Advisor to the Premier of Ontario to his analysis of the communications "Touchdowns and Fumbles".

Anne Marie Aikins is a "media relations maven", a sought after pundit and speaker, and a strategic comms adviser specializing in public transit in Ontario.

Dave Trafford is a “Podcast Journalist”, the Chief Executive Producer at Story Studio Network, and a Recovering News Director, (having led the news operations at Global News Toronto, Newstalk 1010 and AM640 radio in Toronto) with more than forty years of experience in Canadian media.