Lockdown Toronto
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lockdown in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.
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Episodes
ClusterSchmuck Onterrible with Special Guest, MPP Tom Rakocevic
April 23, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThe 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 C...
The "Ugly" third wave of Covid-19 with Colin Furness PhD MPH - Lockdown Toronto Ep.15
February 17, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBColin 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 top...
Politician FIRED for opposing Ontario Lockdown - MPP Roman Baber - Lockdown Toronto Ep.14
February 03, 2021 13:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBOn 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 th...
...And Basic Income for All - With Floyd Marinescu of UBI Works Canada - Lockdown Toronto Ep.13
September 03, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes - 33.9 MBFloyd 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 https://CEOsForBasicIncome.ca/ Motion 46...
Covid Conspiracies & Misinfo with Aengus Bridgman - Lockdown Toronto Ep.12
August 20, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBAengus 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,...
$#!+ Covidiots Say - The Anti-Mask Movement w/Brian Tao - Lockdown Toronto Ep.11
July 24, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBBrian 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://...
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied with Joe Killoran - Lockdown Toronto Ep.10
June 25, 2020 17:00 - 56 minutes - 37 MBJoe 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 languishin...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.09 - Density is not to blame; Defund Police & PLAN-demic Part 2 with Matt Elliott
June 11, 2020 17:00 - 58 minutes - 35.1 MBDensity 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 ...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.08 - Defunding Police and Democracy with Toronto City Councillor Shelley Carroll
June 10, 2020 17:00 - 53 minutes - 33.5 MBPolice 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 'defundin...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.07 - Richard White on the REAL Plan-demic
May 29, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes - 31.4 MBRichard 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 p...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.06 - Janet Joy Wilson - Build 100KM of New Bike Lanes in Toronto
May 21, 2020 17:00 - 40 minutes - 25.6 MBShould we immediately build 100KM of cycling infrastructure in Toronto? Janet Joy Wilson and her group organized over 50 groups and organizations to petition the city of Toronto to build 100KM of new cycling infrastructure in the City. Many Cities are rethinking the urban landscape and her group asked the City to take the opportunity and build alternative transportation corridors on our roads to allow cycling and other "last mile" vehicles. That could help establish a safer, healthier alter...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.05 - Geordie Dent - Tenant Abuse, Are $Billion Investment Firms Looking to Seize Housing In This Crisis?
May 18, 2020 17:00 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MBAre $$ billion and $$$ trillion dollar investment firms gearing up to seize housing in this crisis? Geordie Dent is the Executive Director of the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations (FMTA) which is the foremost group representing tenant rights in Toronto. In this incredibly interesting discussion we touch on the unique precariousness that tenants are facing due to this crisis, and the looming eviction crisis coming to Toronto. Additionally, we discuss entities like the future of Air...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.04 - Chris Hudspeth on the fate of Toronto's Hospitality Industry
May 11, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBChristopher Hudspeth is the owner and operator of Pegasus on Church and the Chair of The Village Business Improvement Area, and a letter posted to Facebook last week went viral getting picked up by many media outlets on the inadequate government assistance provided to small businesses who cannot bear to weather the storm of the current lock down alone. Christopher walks us through the current programs, the harm of delivery apps, and a future Toronto where big-bog retail and restaurants are...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.03 - Emily May Rose on the fate of Toronto's artists during lock down
May 08, 2020 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBIn 1938 when the cloud of WWII was looming close Great Britain was questioning the funding of the arts, Winston Churchill remarked: “The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them…. Ill fares the society which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.” Emily May Rose is an award-winning artist and illustrator based in Toronto and she joins the cast in this episode to speak to the fate of To...
Lockdown Toronto Ep.02 - Dr. Warren Wang - Taiwan to Toronto; what doing it right looks like.
May 06, 2020 17:12 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBLockdown Toronto brings in Tiawanese Doctor, Warren Wei-Jen Wang, M.D. to speak about the early days of the pandemic in Taiwan. Dr. Warren Wei-Jen Wang is an emergency medical specialist who has a primary care practise in Taiwan. He is a Member of the Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine, a Member of the Taiwan Medical Association as well as running Taiwan's Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu Academy. He also divides his time between Taiwan and California where his children are currently studying. Dr....
Lockdown Toronto Ep.01 - With guest, Ontario MPP Tom Rakocevic
May 05, 2020 06:42 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBOntario Member of Provincial Parliament Tom Rakocevic (NDP - Humber River—Black Creek) joins Lockdown Toronto for our first vodcast to give us some insight on the current crisis in Toronto and Ontario, and the perspective from Queen's Park as well as his community. We talk about the onset of the pandemic, the NDP's mainstreet plan, a proposed 50% reduction of auto insurance, the vulnerable demographics in Toronto who are uniquely affected by this crisis and more. Launched in April 2020, Lo...