National Post Posted Toronto Podcast show

National Post Posted Toronto Podcast

Summary: National Post staffers, including Toronto editor Ron Wadden, columnist and noted urban explorer Peter Kuitenbrouwer and Marni Soupcoff of the National Post editorial board, will talk about whatever Torontonians are talking about.

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Podcasts:

 Posted Toronto Podcast: Stintz’s stumble and Ford’s finesse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:07

Matt Gurney and Rob Roberts join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer to discuss the ups and downs of city politics.

 On university dropouts and overachievers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:36

Our Posted Toronto panel — national editor Rob Roberts, reporter Megan O’Toole and Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer — weighs in on Rob Ford’s incredible shrinking mayoralty and on Karen Stintz’s problems with pushing through her OneCity transit plan.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On the Stintz plan and why transit nirvana may never arrive. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:27

Our panel dissects the ‘arts and crafts’ OneCity sketch and expresses skepticism over its odds for completion.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On Game of Hoods, hot dogs and Little Italy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:17

Our panel mends wounds caused by the Riverdale v. Little Portugal showdown, asks if we’ve gone too far on the pooches in cars patrol, and wonders if Toronto can still be considered safe

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On (what else?) the plastic bag ban | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:53

Our panel calmly discusses city council’s decision to ban plastic shopping bags by 2013, while the rest of the city goes all OMG crazy about it.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On tall buildings and short transit construction | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:40

Our panel discusses whether 83 storeys is too tall for Bloor-Yonge and who should be in charge of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Consensus? The Swiss. Or Swedes. Maybe the Chinese. TTC or the province? Not so much.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On road hockey, falling concrete and great sandwiches | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:58

Our panel discusses the insanity of proposals to bypass the street hockey bylaw, why the sky (aka Gardiner Expressway) is falling and what’s next for St. Lawrence Market.

 On riot police, civil rights and Rob Ford’s surprise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:39

National Post Toronto columnist Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the editorial board, discuss the report of the Independent Police Review Director, and the mayor’s presence at a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall.

 On guns, f-bombs and one-way streets. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:50

Join host Peter Kuitenbrouwer, national editor Rob Roberts, Matt Gurney from the editorial board and Natalie Alcoba, the city hall bureau chief, in a discussion of the Sportsmen’s Show and plans to change traffic patterns in downtown Toronto

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On Mayor Ford and his property line | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:14

Our panel debates whether both parties in The Fence Peek Incident acted appropriately. Conclusion? Get security guards already. For everyone’s sake.

 On the new war on the car, 8000 bus delays and the slaughter of city trees. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:47

Peter Kuitenbrouwer, Toronto columnist, Toronto editor Ron Wadden, National Editor Rob Roberts and Marni Soupcoff, from the National Post editorial board, chew the fat on news topics that weigh on the mind of Toronto.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On green bins and KFC | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:01

Our panel wonders how much raccoons will insist on learning in order to eat at midnight, and why anyone would care what the mayor eats at lunchtime.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On injection sites and “the wrong gravy” | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:25

Our panel discusses whether the city should allow safe injection cites; and who should be cleaning Toronto’s police stations.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On islands in Humber Bay, the Air-Rail-Eglinton Link and not a word about His Worship | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:34

Our panel takes a holiday from references to Mayor What’s-his-name and instead discusses proposals for a western spit and eight more stops on the Union-Pearson rail line.

 Posted Toronto Podcast: On labour, libraries and roasted goose | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:21

Our panel wonders if Rob Ford can take credit for quelling labour unions, and why the Canada goose isn’t a foodstuff.

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