This is it! The eighth and final instalment of Queen City Catch Up! And it’s a special double episode. I ended up with two interviews recorded so instead of using one and tossing the other I mashed them together. In the...
Read MoreFor the penultimate episode of Queen City Catch, I sat down with ward one councillor, Barbara Young. We talked about the civic pension plan that’s in the process of being resolved (in theory) and about the city’s...
Read MoreFor episode six of Queen City Catch Up, I met lawyer, blogger and Leader Post columist, Greg Fingas, at Fresh Café on Hamilton Street. We talked about the state of the NDP in Canada, we made guesses about how the federal and...
Read MoreEpisode five of Queen City Catch Up is my interview with University of Regina professor, Marc Spooner. And it’s the one that’s the most packed with news items that I had to put in the “Holy crap, you’re...
Read MoreChanged up a couple things for this episode of Queen City Catch Up. First, I used different intro music and I think it makes me sound more dopey than ever before. Enjoy it! Also, I recorded my interview with Regina...
Read MoreRecently, Regina Advocates For Design wrapped up their Urbanity 101 discussion series about how people can shape their city. Urbanity 101 was one of the things I was most annoyed to have missed while away so it was really...
Read MoreBefore I say anything about this episode of the Queen City Catch Up podcast… I’ve noticed almost everybody listening is streaming it through the Souncloud window. That’s cool but I want to point out that I’ve...
Read MoreSo I get back from Malta and I’m thinking, I was gone the better part of a year, how the hell am I going to get back up to speed on Regina? And it hits me that the easiest thing would be to just ask people what I missed....
Read MoreIt’s Bryon! Bryon Burnett! In this episode, you’ll get to hear me totally blank on that name! But wily editor, Stephen Whitworth, covers my gaff by dropping an angry scorpion in my lap. Don’t believe me? Listen...
Read MoreIn this episode, we discuss World Town Planning Day (which was November 8, the day this was recorded), we take one last look at the swearing in of our new city council and we discuss the Republican flameout in the American...
Read MoreThe Cathedral Area Community Association hosted a mayoral forum last Thursday that was extremely well attended. And the association decided that they’d get to ask the first several questions of the night which I...
Read MoreAfter the mayoral forum hosted by the Heritage Community Association on October 10, I once again did some quick interviews to get a sense of how people think the candidates are doing. (The clip starts near the end of my first...
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