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Hosted by Matt Stickland · news · EN · 134 episodes
A Halifax city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.
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Episode #115
In this episode there is a lot about e-scooters and some stuff about the mayor's office expense scandal that just won't go away. And we also compare and contrast two similarly dangerous activities to explain why this whole e-scooter injury thing has all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
Episode #114
This week is a field trip where host Matt Stickland goes on someone else's podcast to talk about city politics. The Community Game Plan podcast is put on by two real estate agents and they wanted to have Matt on to talk about municipal politics. Which they did. For over an hour. Enjoy the show and don't forget about the survey and the codeword: Farts https://forms.gle/unbbyszBwnDAGnxM6
Episode #113
This week, Matt sits down with Paris Marx to talk about the parallels between tech and transportation and how big tech companies are ruining transportation. Here is that survey I mentioned in the intro: https://forms.gle/48LYfyq5LCsBZYgx8
Episode #112
Halifax's old CAO Cathie O'Toole quit a while ago, and Halifax's long-suffering public servant Brad Anguish has been filling in until a suitable replacement could be found. Well, that replacement was found! Marnie Cluckie, the former CAO of Hamilton, will be Halifax's new CAO come September, and in order to find out what to expect from the new CAO, Matt Stickland interviews Joey Coleman, a city hall reporter in Hamilton, to get a bit of a scouting report.
Episode #110
In another one of the summer series of shows this week host Matt Stickland sits down with the main author of the study "Rethinking traffic safety: the case for reducing kinetic energy exposure, not just speed" Nick Ferenchak link to the study: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/27/ip-2026-046229.abstract)
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