Alexi, Sam and Chris dive into the latest in Ontario politics, including the continued bungling of autism, Minister Lisa MacLeod's continued bungling of public life, a victory for the carbon tax in court, Stephen Lecce's goading of Ontario's teachers, oh - and Whitney Houston.

Kate and Chris sit down with North99 co-founder Taylor Scollon to talk about the impact of social media in our politics. North99 is an online community of progressive political activists that's pushing Canada's left-leaning political parties to adopt a bolder policy agenda, as well as taking on the right-wing social media machine. Can social media be used for good? Find out.

Kate, Alexi, Sam and Chris pick apart Doug Ford's massive cabinet shuffle, and try to take you into what the Premier and his senior staff might have been thinking when they made these high-profile moves. Kate, Chris and Sam outline how they would have shuffled Cabinet.

Kate, Sam and Chris dive into thorny listener-submitted questions on everything from parliamentary reform, to social media, to the conversations we should be having about revenue in Ontario. A new Ontario Loud fan club president is named.

Chris and Sam take you inside the 2019 Ontario Liberal Party general meeting, but more importantly inside the movement for change that came to the convention looking to reform the party, and ultimately fell short. This is a story about hope, disappointment, and needing to move forward because the stakes are too high.

As the Ontario Liberal Party kicks off it's leadership race, former Premier Kathleen Wynne sits down with Chris, Sam, Alexi and Kate to talk about what it takes to run, what you need to win, and what it's going to take to take on Doug Ford in 2022.

Kate, Alexi, Alvin and Sam reflect on Sam Oosterhoff's very bad, no good, terrible May, and some of their own mistakes as young political staff. Alvin makes a special announcement.

As a bonus episode to take you into your weekend, Kate, Sam, Alexi, Alvin and Chris talk about all the cuts that we read about in the province's release of the 2019 budget estimates, which are the gory details of the budget they release three weeks after the pomp and circumstance of the actual budget document.

Abacus Data CEO unveils new data that the Green Party of Canada is getting some of it's best polling results ever. Chris, Alvin, Alexi and Kate talk with David to understand what's driving this trend, and why the progressive movement in Canada is so prone to splintering.

So we took a short break this week, but shortly after recording our last podcast, Doug Ford released new legislation that gives the province new powers to upload new transit projects outside of any agreement with the city of Toronto. Chris sat down with Cam from CodeRedTO to dive into the new legislation, while the rest of the pod re-calibrates and gets ready for a whole Spring and Summer's worth of new content for you.