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The failure of Ontario's pandemic response is palpable. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has dropped the ball with what seems like reactionary and nonsensical policy measures from closing down playgrounds, to arbitrary stop and search powers given to police, to permitting Covid hotspots such as construction and warehouses to continue operating. Ontario it seems has has had enough.
Sitting member of the official opposition, Member of Provincial Parliament Tom Rakocevic (NDP - Humber River—Black Creek) returns to Lockdown Toronto for our one-year anniversary episode and helps us understand the current frustrations with Ontario's terrible leadership.
You can follow Tom at:
Washington Post: Doug Ford Must Resign
Ottawa Citizen: COVID-19 science advisory table says it did not select hot spot postal codes
CBC: Doug Ford's popularity plummets as pandemic takes its toll
CBC: The inside story of Doug Ford's COVID-19 climbdowns
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Colin Furness is an infection control epidemiologist, and has spent the bulk of his work developing tools that track the spread of infectious diseases and he currently works at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor at the faculty of information.
He joins us in this episode to speak on Covid 19, what its potential "ugly" third wave looks like, and the future of how Toronto and the world will and should deal with this disease. We go local to global in our exploration of this topic, infection spread, opening of schools, and more.
It's a great show and informative on the new variants of Covid-19 and what to expect with society opening up.
It's a long overdue discussion on Lockdown Toronto and a great listen. Enjoy.
Colin Furness, contact info.
Cited in this cast:
Time Magazine: Taiwan Says It Tried to Warn the World About Coronavirus. Here’s What It Really Knew and When
Globe and Mail: China points finger at U.S. as WHO experts offer vindication to Wuhan lab
Globe and Mail: White House cites ‘deep concerns’ about WHO COVID-19 report, demands early data from China
NPR.org: Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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On Jan 15, 2021, MPP Roman Baber (York Centre) made public a letter to his boss, Premier of Ontario Doug Ford just as Ontario was at the height of its second wave of Covid-19 cases and announced its second Provincial Emergency. Roman Baber is a member Doug Ford's progressive conservatives and argued in his letter for the exact opposite approach: end lockdown. He was fired from his party as a result, and now sits in Queen's Park as an independent.
In this episode we explore why he wrote the letter, the politics of opposing your own party and the fallout. We also go into why he believes a lockdown is doing more harm than good.
NOTE: Lockdown Toronto is a show that explores aspects of our collective experience in lockdown during the pandemic. It has always been a show that elevates nuance over absolutes. It is not about validating one viewpoint over another but providing a space for conversations happening around the policies and effects of lockdown in Toronto.
Cited in this cast:
MPP Roman Baber's Letter:
Government of Ontario's Fact Sheet issued in response to Roman Baber's letter.
MPP Roman Baber's Petition
Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Floyd Marinescu is the co-founder of InfoQ and QCon - a conference on software innovation and also the CEO and activist for UBI Works Canada, an organization that encourages the support of a universal basic income (UBI) Canada.
We discuss the need for UBI, the criticisms of it, the effect of automation on Canadian jobs, and why the time is now to implement UBI during a pandemic and economic crisis.
Cited in this cast:
CEOs Case For Basic Income
Motion 46 on UBI in Canada, 43rd Parliament
Recovery UBI
UBI Works
UBI Works Twitter
Floyd Marinescu on Twitter
Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Aengus Bridgman is a Political Scientist and PHD Candidate at McGill University, a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and works with the Media Ecosystem Observatory.
Aengus is also the co-author of the study "The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media" and joins Lockdown Toronto to discuss its findings and futher implications and ideas regarding coronavirus, conspiracy theory in a larger context, data sharing, and the role of social media companies and governments in regulating misinformation.
It is an incredibly interesting discussion. Enjoy.
Aengus Bridgman can be reached at:
https://twitter.com/aengusbridgman
STUDY: The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media
CBC: COVID-19 conspiracy theories creating a 'public health crisis' in Canada, experts say
Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Brian Tao is a professional photographer and amateur documentarian of the anti-mask movement in Toronto. His videos depicting some of the anti-mask rallies have gone viral and we spend this episode discussing them, the anti-mask movement, the motivations of its participants and other forces at play.
Cited in this show:
Brian Tao's Youtube Page
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianTao/videos
$#!+ Covidiots Say Video Series
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0ZWF30Wow
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5kgNM_Fr4s
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInQ0CpSY6A
"Ontario Civil Liberties Association"
http://ocla.ca/
Letitia Montana at CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-hospital-masks-refusal-1.5639057
Brian Tao Coverage at the Toronto Sun
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/my-iq-is-195-video-of-karen-at-toronto-anti-mask-protest-goes-viral
Dunning–Kruger effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Joe Killoran associate lawyer at Jensen Law in Kamloops British Columbia, practising criminal defense, and writes frequently for many publications including the Sun, the Star, Ottawa Citizen, Huffington Post and more with a focus on law, politics, social justice and constitutional rights.
In this episode we discuss how lock down has affected the criminal justice system, how the Courts have unilateral decision making powers over their operations, how many accused and convicted are languishing in intolerable conditions simply because of the timing of the pandemic, the concept of prison abolitionism, the lack of supports and recidivism and how reform is necessary at all levels.
Cited in this cast:
Contact Joe Killoran directly at: [email protected]
Vancouver Sun: Joe Killoran: Police and Crown counsels must avoid detaining people for petty crimes whenever possible during pandemic
The TYEE: Bars Are Open. Why Aren’t BC’s Courts?
Joe Killoran At The Huffington Post
Lockdown Toronto Ep.02 - Dr. Warren Wang – Taiwan to Toronto; what doing it right looks like
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Density is not to blame; Defund Police & PLAN-demic Part II with Matt Elliott
Matt Elliott is a Toronto-based freelance contributing columnist for the Toronto Star, also writes for CBC Toronto, and is the author of City Hall Watcher, an independent City Hall newsletter. You can follow him on twitter @graphicmatt
In this episode we go over the ideas around Defunding the police, the effects the lockdown and the pandemic is having on the future of the city, debunk the idea that density is a multiplier variable for Covid-19 (it's poverty) discuss developer exploitation, sidewalk labs, the fate of the financial district, and much more. We go deep and it's interesting!
Cited in this cast
Subscribe to Matt Elliott's City Hall Watcher Newsletter
Matt Elliott on Twitter:
Toronto Star: With investors shying away from condos, developers are marketing to end users
Toronto Public Health: COVID-19: Status of Cases in Toronto
HuffPost: Rich Torontonians Eyeing An Exodus From City After Pandemic: Agency
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Police mafia tactics? Defund the police? What is going on?
Toronto City Councillor Shelley Carroll, Ward 17 Don Valley North joins Lockdown Toronto to discuss the challenges of democratic process in the time of lockdown, including developers gaming the crisis to their advantage, technical limitations, and public engagement.
Councillor Carroll was also a long-time member of the Police Services Board and oversaw their budgeting and speaks to the concept and different models of what 'defunding police' looks like. She also discussed the nature of Toronto Police, how they have targeted her and her family in the past, necessary reforms, the outgoing Police Chief, and other Police Politics.
The "Camden Model" of defunding police examined in this show:
Cited in this show is the "density done right" report which is worth a read on that subject:
It is a fascinating show and worth a listen.
You can reach Councillor Carroll at one of the links below.
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Richard White is a Toronto historian and regular lecturer in Canadian History at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of the book, "Planning Toronto" which is a historical analysis of the city’s planning and how it contributed to Toronto becoming a functional, world-class city.
Richard and I touch on the impact public health has had on urban planning practises and attitudes in the past, what is happening in the present and what kind of urban planning changes may transpire in a post-pandemic Toronto.
Some sources discussed in this conversation:
Covid-19 Cases neighbourhood by neighbourhood in Toronto (heatmap)
Huffington Post: "Rich Torontonians Eyeing An Exodus From City After Pandemic: Agency"
Globe and Mail: "Will cities stay healthy, or will the coronavirus mean the end of density?"
City News: City council approves 40 km expansion of Toronto's cycling network
City News: "New bill could open Greenbelt to development, critics say"
UofT News: "Urban density and disease"
Lockdown Toronto Ep.04 Chris Hudspeth on the fate of Toronto's Hospitality Industry
Richard White's Blog on Urban Planning History
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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.