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AM800 Roundtable with Councillors Renaldo Agostino & Angelo Marignani, & Luciana Rosu-Sieza · Kvetch & Release

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Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, welcome Dan McDonald show. I am John
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Speaker 1: Lyd Keith Fillan in. Dan was in on the Morning
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Speaker 1: Drive this week. I've been in for him all week.
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Speaker 1: A little bit of Jackson five there coming in off
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Speaker 1: the commercial break to start the show. Producer Lexi knows
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Speaker 1: what to spin to get things going well. Nine oh
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Speaker 1: seven here hard to believe already August the second. We
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Speaker 1: have got a great round table to wrap up the week.
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Speaker 1: We have in studio right now, Lucy Razuciza from Banna. Lucy,
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Speaker 1: how you doing.
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Speaker 2: I am doing great, Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: John, so glad to have you here. We also have
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Speaker 1: Ward three Counselor Ronaldo Augustino, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: Good morning everyone you got in here today?
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Speaker 1: We do because last but not least, Ward seven Counselor
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Speaker 1: Angelo Mariniani's here, Buonuti. You know we were chat. I
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Speaker 1: was doing a list of all the Italians that are
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Speaker 1: on council and you guys really like, did you all
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Speaker 1: have a meeting before signing up to run for the
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Speaker 1: election and go? This is the year, right, this is
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Speaker 1: the takeover year. It's so great to see just like
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Speaker 1: you know, it's a there's a large representation of you guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice.
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Speaker 3: I think we think we're on Canadian first.
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Speaker 4: And that's the answer.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was going off with the board, Juno. Hey,
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Speaker 1: it's great to have all of you here. We're going
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Speaker 1: to start things off with a conversation about the Olympics.
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Speaker 1: We're going to keep it on the Canada theme. Ronaldo,
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Speaker 1: Team Canada. You were actually there.
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Speaker 5: I was there for the just before the opening ceremonies.
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Speaker 5: I think a lot of people don't know that the
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Speaker 5: Olympics start a few days prior to the Olympics, prior
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Speaker 5: to the opening ceremonies, and I got to see the
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Speaker 5: soccer game and I got to see the torch run
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Speaker 5: and I got to see the Olympic flame.
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Speaker 3: So it was pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: And you went specifically for that purpose.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I went for a little get a week, took
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Speaker 5: a week off and had it out there and just
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Speaker 5: you know, try to rezone and relax a little bit
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Speaker 5: and recharge.
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Speaker 1: It does not surprise me that for Ronaldo Augustino, relaxing
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Speaker 1: and recharging is to travel to the most densely populated
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Speaker 1: area on Earth at a moment while everyone is coming in.
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Speaker 1: But hey, what what else would we expect from you.
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Speaker 1: You're like the energizer Bunny.
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Speaker 6: It was your NonStop We had great I thought for
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Speaker 6: sure that he'd come back with some ideas from Paris,
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Speaker 6: such as building a knifel tower in our downtown core.
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Speaker 4: To attract people.
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Speaker 6: But I've got lots of agree that hasn't come forward yet.
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Speaker 1: It might be time to bring back a revival for
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Speaker 1: a Detroit bid, but maybe a Windsor Essex Detroit bid.
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Speaker 1: I don't know it's been since what nineteen seventy something.
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Speaker 6: That you know that that is such a fantastic idea,
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Speaker 6: just the international shoreline and how we are one community.
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Speaker 6: That would be such a wonderful message for the world.
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Speaker 1: It could be fun. Are you watching the Olympics this year?
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Speaker 6: Just you know, the important stuff. Whenever a Canadian competes,
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Speaker 6: that's massive. He's playing today, so I'm excited to see
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Speaker 6: her performance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. How about yourself, Lucy, Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 2: I catch it here and there. I've been sort of
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Speaker 2: focused on the team Canada soccer, so I did watch
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Speaker 2: the soccer. I know there was some controversy a bit
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Speaker 2: with that, although I think they've done just an exceptional job.
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Speaker 2: So that's been something that we've been sort of focused
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Speaker 2: on in our house.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the soccer the drone scandal thing has put a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a damper on things, but as the
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Speaker 1: medals start coming out for the other sports, it sort
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Speaker 1: of gets put to a little bit of a back burner.
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Speaker 1: But it is a tough one, Ronaldo. I know you're
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Speaker 1: a big soccer guy, right.
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Speaker 3: Football, I like all sports.
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Speaker 1: What would be the reason for them to have used
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Speaker 1: the drone on the opposing team?
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Speaker 5: Well, if you're using if coaches are using a drone,
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Speaker 5: they're using a drone. I'll give you a perfect example.
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Speaker 5: If you're going into penalty kicks and you want to
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Speaker 5: know the habits of each player, you'll sit there and
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Speaker 5: watch and see when each player goes up and you
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Speaker 5: know they kicking to the left, of they kicking to
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Speaker 5: the right, or they're going hi, they're going low, and
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Speaker 5: you just compile the statistics over a certain period of time,
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Speaker 5: and then when that players coming up to take the
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Speaker 5: penalty shot, then you know, okay, the odds are someone's
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Speaker 5: gonna go low left, and that's that's you know, it's
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Speaker 5: it's certainly again the Olympics have been so controversial, but
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Speaker 5: I give Canada. Full credit women's team. One for the
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Speaker 5: coach to really own the situation. Two for the team
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Speaker 5: to show resiliency and come back and do what it
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Speaker 5: had to do to move on to the quarterfinals. And
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Speaker 5: that's exactly what the women have done and full kudos
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Speaker 5: to them for doing it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and we know that. Just we've been seeing
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Speaker 1: some pretty incredible stuff coming out as well. Team Canada
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Speaker 1: matches best ever Olympic results in women's team artistic gymnastics
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Speaker 1: as well. Just it's so great to see performers at
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Speaker 1: the peak of their caliber, their sportsmanship, and you know,
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Speaker 1: it's about the camaraderie and bringing everyone together. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I just I love the Olympics, Angela. It's fun.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the Olympics are great. I mean it's higher, faster
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Speaker 6: and stronger. It's the excellence of human I mean I
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Speaker 6: watch it and I cheer my team on, but I'm
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Speaker 6: also equally impressed by other countries and how great they
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Speaker 6: can do. So it's really if you look at it
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Speaker 6: from the global village point of view, I would much
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Speaker 6: rather have battles happening on the sports field than on
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Speaker 6: the war field. So this sort of this sort of
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Speaker 6: global activity brings people together, and I think it's really
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Speaker 6: important to sort of participate in and enjoy for what
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Speaker 6: it is the excellence of man and humanity.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I agree with you on that. Have any of
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Speaker 1: you seen the Turkish sports shooter that's been going around
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Speaker 1: social media?
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Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Yes, with a hand in the pocket.
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Speaker 1: Is that with reference just hanging out there? So I
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Speaker 1: came across a post here it talks about him. He
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Speaker 1: last name is Yusef. He recently only took up shooting
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Speaker 1: after having a heated argument with his ex wife. Is
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Speaker 1: what it says here. He credits a success to having
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Speaker 1: a drive to prove his ex wrong. He said, I
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Speaker 1: never thought I would be here. He said, I was
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Speaker 1: just aiming for a weekend with my kids to have
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Speaker 1: some fun. He showed up wearing no special gear, no
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Speaker 1: glasses or anything, and just stood and shot his opponents.
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Speaker 4: He didn't shoot the opponents.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, that's not what the sports. His opponents were
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Speaker 1: wearing all protective gear and glasses and goggles. He shows up,
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Speaker 1: he shoots a near perfect round and people say right afterwards,
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Speaker 1: he goes, I need to go to smoke. Is there
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Speaker 1: anywhere to go smoke around here, just really not completely
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Speaker 1: into it. He gets his silver, he stands up on
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Speaker 1: the podium and he says, Sharon, if you're watching this,
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Speaker 1: I want my dog back. At least that's the post
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Speaker 1: that's going around social media right now. But it was
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Speaker 1: just a it's the peak caliber. It goes to show
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Speaker 1: like there are some sports where you don't have to
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Speaker 1: train at all times at the highest level, but usually
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Speaker 1: that's where you get the best viewing.
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Speaker 5: Right Ronaldo, Well, there's some people that are anomalously gifted,
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Speaker 5: and you know that are just so good at something
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Speaker 5: that you know comes easy to them. But I'm probably
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Speaker 5: going to think that ninety nine point nine nine percent
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Speaker 5: of Olympic athletes has spent their entire life tray yeah
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Speaker 5: and preparing for the game's question.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Lucy, I'll leave the last thoughts with you just
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Speaker 1: about the Olympics generally, Yeah, generally.
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Speaker 2: I just I love the Olympics. I think it gives
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Speaker 2: us sort of that global village and I love bringing
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Speaker 2: people together. I find myself cheering for everybody. I'm amazed
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Speaker 2: at the talent and sort of the work that goes
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Speaker 2: into it. Other than our friend here with his hand
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Speaker 2: in his pocket, shooting just casually. I think for the
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Speaker 2: most part, the training and the dedication to all of
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Speaker 2: those sports is just phenomenal. And to see a play
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Speaker 2: out globally, I think that's my favorite.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. And we're going to be keeping our
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Speaker 1: eyes here on AM eight hundred CKLW for all the
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Speaker 1: breaking news as it continues to happen. Whenever we see
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Speaker 1: that Canada wins a medal, we stop the show and
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Speaker 1: go right to live announcing on that. So stay tuned
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Speaker 1: here on AM eight hundred KLW for all of that.
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Speaker 1: Just about nine to fifteen. We'll take a quick break
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Speaker 1: right now. When we get back, we'll continue our Friday
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Speaker 1: roundtable conversation with counselors Ronaldo Augustino, Angelo Marignani and Lucy
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Speaker 1: Razu Sieza. We're back after this, Hey, We're back, John
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Speaker 1: Lucky here amate hundred CKLW. A little bit of Duaalipa
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Speaker 1: coming in after the break right there. Hey, if we're
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Speaker 1: gonna shift our sites to Walkerville. One of the most
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Speaker 1: notable features assets in the neighborhood is, of course, the
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Speaker 1: Low Martin House, which is on the market right now.
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Speaker 1: Built in nineteen twenty eight, for Harry Low, who was
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Speaker 1: a rum runner, was visited by al Capone bought by
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Speaker 1: Paul Martin Senior, the father of the former Prime Minister
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Speaker 1: Paul Martin, and the owner Vern Mischichuk is saying, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I want to get rid of it now, it's time
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Speaker 1: for me to move on to other things. I've put
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Speaker 1: a lot of money into it. I restored the entire
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Speaker 1: thing from my company Better Made Cabinets, and I think
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Speaker 1: that I shouldn't just send it sell it to anyone.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the city should pick it up and it could
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Speaker 1: be transformed into a museum or some kind of a
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Speaker 1: cultural asset. And there's a little bit of a I
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Speaker 1: don't know how they're saying, Look, we'd hate to see
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Speaker 1: this thing, you know, potentially gut it on the inside
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Speaker 1: and just turn it into an open concept. It would
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Speaker 1: be difficult to tear it down. It's on the Heritage
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Speaker 1: Registry and counselors would have to go and make some
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Speaker 1: pretty unpalatable decisions. So I don't think that would happen.
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Speaker 1: But it does raise some good questions about should this
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Speaker 1: become part of the cities' assets. Angela, let's bring your
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Speaker 1: voice in first on it. It's such a gorgeous building,
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Speaker 1: it's such an important part of our heritage, culture and community.
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Speaker 1: But it's a pretty big price tag at three million dollars.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is.
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Speaker 6: It really really is, and it already is part of
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Speaker 6: our history, like and they will always be as you said,
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Speaker 6: it is on the heritage. You can't simply tear it down.
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Speaker 6: And kudos to Verne in the sense of he's trying
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Speaker 6: to sell a product and he's now marketing the product,
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Speaker 6: so he's getting that word out to the public using
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Speaker 6: media that this house is for sale. I wasn't aware
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Speaker 6: that it was for sale until this story came up.
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Speaker 6: So as far as as a businessman or a business
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Speaker 6: person is concerned, he is doing the right thing in
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Speaker 6: the sense that he's promoting his product. Good on him.
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Speaker 6: He brought up the possibility of the city buying it.
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Speaker 6: I'm bringing up the possibility of the city or him
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Speaker 6: vern donating it or something in between, something where we
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Speaker 6: could work a deal out. But with that price take
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Speaker 6: I'm not really confident with. I mean, I rather spend
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Speaker 6: it on housing in our city that's needed, affordable housing
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Speaker 6: or something that would help our housing situation. As far
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Speaker 6: as changing it into a banquet area. I mean, we
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Speaker 6: shouldn't compete against private business other banquet halls. We should
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Speaker 6: allow private business to do what private business does. So
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Speaker 6: I mean the conversation is open, the conversation is great.
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Speaker 6: It's great to be talking about it. But yeah, Vern,
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Speaker 6: you can donate it to the city, and that's always
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Speaker 6: an option as.
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Speaker 1: Well, probably get some kind of tax right of or
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Speaker 1: something if it's a donation. Ronaldo, how about you, what
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Speaker 1: do you think about this?
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't think it's something that we want to
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Speaker 5: look at. Like me personally, it's not something I would
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Speaker 5: look at. I think that if there was a use
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Speaker 5: for the facility and that use would fit into the neighborhood,
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Speaker 5: then there's a possibility. But Councilmannia any set of the
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Speaker 5: best right now, Like rather than buying another museum home there,
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Speaker 5: we need affordable housing, and I don't think that we
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Speaker 5: could convert that building into affordable housing. So just the
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Speaker 5: fact that there's very little use for it because the
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Speaker 5: parking doesn't exist, the neighborhood isn't conducive to an event
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Speaker 5: center like it's it's it's just not going to work.
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Speaker 5: So I think we got to pass on this one,
11:47
Speaker 5: and again great job by vern to get it out there,
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Speaker 5: and hopefully somebody picks it up and maintains it and
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Speaker 5: keeps it going the way it is and loves living there.
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Speaker 5: Because it's a beautiful home, and anybody who can afford
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Speaker 5: to live in that home would sure love to live
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Speaker 5: in that home. It's just not something I don't think
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Speaker 5: the city should look at.
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Speaker 1: It's beautiful, but again it comes down to that conversation
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Speaker 1: of wants and needs, and there's a lot of other
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Speaker 1: very important priorities. Lucy, you'll bring your voice in on
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Speaker 1: this one. I mean, there's only so many tax dollars available,
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Speaker 1: and there's so many organizations and charities that would love
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Speaker 1: to see the city throw three million dollars at them.
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Speaker 1: That could probably make it go a lot further than
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Speaker 1: just having a banquet hall.
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Speaker 2: I guess yeah, I definitely agree. I think with all
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Speaker 2: the comments that were made today, I think it's definitely
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Speaker 2: a big price tag.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 2: A beautiful home, and I think Verne has done an
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Speaker 2: incredible job with the transformation of it. I've seen photos
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Speaker 2: of inside the home. I mean it's spectacular, but I
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Speaker 2: don't think that the city committing three million dollars would
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Speaker 2: make sense, and I think that affordable housing is definitely
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Speaker 2: on the forefront of what everybody's looking for in our city.
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Speaker 2: If there was an investment, I think that three million
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Speaker 2: dollars can definitely go a long way. I do agree
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Speaker 2: that if there is a buyer out there that would
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Speaker 2: be ready to preserve. I think the maintenance of that
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Speaker 2: house as well. There's a lot to sort of take
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Speaker 2: on wonderful neighborhood, and we do have Willis and Manner
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Speaker 2: that is sort of the gem sort of in that
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Speaker 2: area as well, that serves as some of the same
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Speaker 2: purposes that are sort of been thrown around for this house.
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Speaker 2: So definitely supporting the idea that great advertising sort of
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Speaker 2: a great ask, but a donation of the house would
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Speaker 2: be probably more feasible for the city.
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Speaker 1: Well, it is noted that the Duff Bobby House is
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Speaker 1: also another prominent historical building in the city that is
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Speaker 1: not owned by the city, that's owned provincially by the
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Speaker 1: Ontario Heritage Trust. So hey, if any of our members
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Speaker 1: of provincial Parliament are listening right now, Andrew Dowie and
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Speaker 1: Anthony Leardi and Lisa Gretzky, you guys could solve this
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Speaker 1: problem for us. This could be a good win for
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Speaker 1: any of you guys listening. Angelo.
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Speaker 6: It's something you are absolutely correct with that statement. I mean,
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Speaker 6: we can bring it to the provincial level. This is
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Speaker 6: part of our province's heritage and a big part of it,
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Speaker 6: a really big part of it. So yeah, that's a
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Speaker 6: great option as well, is bringing it to other levels
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Speaker 6: of government.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I'm gonna go one step even further.
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Speaker 1: This was the owned by the father of a Prime minister.
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Speaker 1: We have an issue right now with twenty four Sussex
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Speaker 1: and with rats in it, and why don't we make
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Speaker 1: this the prime minister's residents, upload it all the way
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Speaker 1: to the FEDS. They can take on the cost. It's
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Speaker 1: just a little bit longer of a community.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's a historical building, and typically with
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Speaker 6: a heritage historical building you're going to have to make renovations,
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Speaker 6: not renovations in the peers of the building, but just
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Speaker 6: maintenance of the bricks, of the mortar, of all that
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Speaker 6: sort of thing.
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Speaker 4: There's some costs in that.
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Speaker 6: So, I mean it's not just the ownership of the property,
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Speaker 6: it's the maintenance of the property as well. And the
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Speaker 6: programming of the property. There would be a lot of
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Speaker 6: elements involved if the city were to get involved.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and again the issue being that it's a house
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Speaker 1: that was designed for a single family that hosted events
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Speaker 1: at some points, but the neighborhood is not conducive to
15:08
Speaker 1: have seventy five cars show up to start parking on
15:11
Speaker 1: residential streets and then have counselor Mackenzie Mark start getting
15:16
Speaker 1: a lot of phone calls going my parking issues are bad.
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Speaker 3: Hey.
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Speaker 1: One fun fact here that our producer Lexi shared with
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Speaker 1: me about the Low Martin House is that the roof
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Speaker 1: is wavy because it was built that way to specifically
15:28
Speaker 1: resemble the waves of the Great Lakes Wow, which is
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Speaker 1: something that I did not know and I thought I
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Speaker 1: knew a lot about the walker Hill area. So thank
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Speaker 1: you for that, Lexi. We're aald'll bring your voice in
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Speaker 1: last on this. If we were to take three million
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Speaker 1: dollars and just throw it at any endeavor initiative in
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Speaker 1: the city, where would you throw it?
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Speaker 5: Oh, no question about it. In my mind, it's a
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Speaker 5: supportive housing. It's the biggest thing that we lack in
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Speaker 5: this community, and it's the biggest thing that is lacked
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Speaker 5: in probably every community across this country is full time
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Speaker 5: supportive housing. It's you see you playing out on our
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Speaker 5: streets every day. And what doesn't matter what city you
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Speaker 5: go to. We need housing with supports and you know,
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Speaker 5: just housing alone. Adding the housing inventory stock to the
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Speaker 5: housing inventory, certainly it will help the situation. But there's
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Speaker 5: a certain community out there that needs full time supports
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Speaker 5: and we have to do whatever we can to get
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Speaker 5: that full time supportive housing. And unfortunately it's not the
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Speaker 5: city's coffers that are going to pay for that. It's
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Speaker 5: kind to be a full core press by federal, provincial
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Speaker 5: and municipal governments to have this full time supportive housing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we need so much more supportive housing, affordable housing,
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Speaker 1: attainable housing, market based housing, housing, housing housing is what
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Speaker 1: it comes down to. Lucy, you're not an elected official,
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Speaker 1: but in this segment, you got three million dollars. Where
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Speaker 1: are you putting it?
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Speaker 2: I'd say put it in the same place. I definitely
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Speaker 2: think housing supportive housing. There's a lot of complex individuals
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Speaker 2: that are homeless or don't have a home currently. I
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Speaker 2: think market value rent is a big issue as well,
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Speaker 2: so having affordable housing, supportive housing, and I think all
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Speaker 2: levels of government need to get involved because we definitely
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Speaker 2: need to look out for a community and I think
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Speaker 2: that is a place that I would put my money.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hey, angela three million bucks, where are you tossing it?
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Speaker 4: Good question.
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Speaker 6: Roads would get a part of it, Housing would get
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Speaker 6: a part of it. Yeah, basic response. But I think
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Speaker 6: with housing, let's continue with that. I think just like
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Speaker 6: the Ontario Heritage Fund would purchase properties because of the
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Speaker 6: heritage sort of nature of that property. At the same time,
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Speaker 6: I think it's important that the province and the federal
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Speaker 6: government take responsibility for this crisis that's happening nationwide as
17:48
Speaker 6: far as housing is concerned, especially the provincial government.
17:51
Speaker 4: With the health aspect.
17:53
Speaker 6: So you know, we have to We have individuals who
17:57
Speaker 6: need services, but we have no place to bring them.
18:01
Speaker 1: A lot of complex problems in the city. Money is
18:03
Speaker 1: the thing that solves those problems. Well, it doesn't solve
18:06
Speaker 1: the problems, but it certainly helps get to that point
18:08
Speaker 1: and it makes it easier. But allocating cash and I
18:11
Speaker 1: just I don't know if three million dollars to buy
18:13
Speaker 1: the Paul Martin House, the Low Martin House at this
18:15
Speaker 1: moment is the thing to do, but we're gonna take
18:17
Speaker 1: a break right now. It is just about nine thirty
18:19
Speaker 1: nine thirty Information Update with Paul mcdonald'll be coming up next.
18:22
Speaker 1: I am John Lidkey. It's the Friday Roundtable with counselors
18:24
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Speaker 1: our Friday Roundtable. We are joined by counselors Ronaldo Augostino
19:04
Speaker 1: and Angelo Marinani, as well as Lucy Razu Sieza from Banna.
19:09
Speaker 1: We are going to be shifting our sites from Walkerville.
19:13
Speaker 1: But first one person texted in and said, what we
19:16
Speaker 1: can spend ten million on a train car and another
19:18
Speaker 1: ten million but on a fountain, but we can't buy
19:21
Speaker 1: the house. Another person says the city should buy the
19:23
Speaker 1: house and turn it into a rum runners museum in
19:25
Speaker 1: a themed event center, and then another says that city
19:28
Speaker 1: should buy it to keep the heritage strong. Sorry, counselors,
19:32
Speaker 1: right now we've heard from the electorate. They're offside. If
19:35
Speaker 1: it's at least these three are the only ones voting.
19:37
Speaker 3: We figured out, we figured out the problem.
19:38
Speaker 6: D what's the standard of thera on that?
19:41
Speaker 4: On that sample there, we're not give me the details.
19:44
Speaker 4: We're not getting to the statistics on it.
19:47
Speaker 3: Contest, let's just raffle off the house.
19:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, give me the auction. You know it is a
19:50
Speaker 1: it's a pretty interesting idea, Renaldo.
19:53
Speaker 3: That's what I would do if I was burning.
19:54
Speaker 5: I'd team up with a charity and sell tickets for
19:56
Speaker 5: one hundred bucks, and you know what, once you reach
19:58
Speaker 5: your three million dollars, somebody wins the house, you get
20:01
Speaker 5: your money back at charity gets a chunk of change,
20:03
Speaker 5: and you go from there. Because I just don't think
20:05
Speaker 5: anybody's gonna buy it.
20:07
Speaker 1: Imagine buying the Low Martin House for one hundred dollars.
20:10
Speaker 1: That would be historical amazing, It would be wild. Okay,
20:14
Speaker 1: let's shift our sites downtown though, Ronaldo, I saw that
20:17
Speaker 1: you put up a post about that there's going to
20:20
Speaker 1: be some Grand Prix cars showing up in our downtown corps.
20:24
Speaker 1: I called you up yesterday and I said, what's going
20:25
Speaker 1: on with this? How does this all work? And you
20:27
Speaker 1: basically said, I called up the Grand Prix ands that
20:29
Speaker 1: I wanted some cars and they're going to be coming here.
20:32
Speaker 1: You've been doing so much, not just you, of course,
20:34
Speaker 1: I apologize. There's been so much that's happening downtown with
20:38
Speaker 1: these block parties and the activations there every couple of weeks,
20:41
Speaker 1: just staggering stuff. Tell us just briefly, just about the
20:45
Speaker 1: car and why you think it's important and how it's
20:48
Speaker 1: going to bring people in.
20:49
Speaker 5: Well, anytime you can hit your wagon to big events
20:52
Speaker 5: that are happening over.
20:53
Speaker 3: The border or anywhere else, you should do it.
20:56
Speaker 5: And it's something that you know through my history as
20:59
Speaker 5: being a new entertainment business, it's low hanging fruit and
21:02
Speaker 5: sometimes if you don't ask, you don't get. Then I
21:05
Speaker 5: think kids are gonna love coming to downtown Windsor on
21:08
Speaker 5: the ninth of August that are a like car cruise
21:10
Speaker 5: and com going to take pictures inside a race car.
21:12
Speaker 5: It's something that we've probably never had on our streets.
21:15
Speaker 1: And why not to take pictures inside the race car.
21:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, kids will be able to come down, sit inside
21:20
Speaker 3: the race car, take their photos.
21:21
Speaker 1: What about what about adults?
21:23
Speaker 3: Adults could do that too.
21:25
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to get thank you, Ronaldo, and like,
21:29
Speaker 1: if this is just like a for me kind of thing,
21:32
Speaker 1: that's fine, We'll just we can just bill it though
21:34
Speaker 1: for everyone. Hey Angelo, what do you think is the
21:38
Speaker 1: key to continuing this revitalization of our downtown core and
21:44
Speaker 1: our city activated streets.
21:46
Speaker 6: Well, I think Council Augostino is doing a great job
21:50
Speaker 6: as far as programming, and I think one of the
21:52
Speaker 6: key components that we need to focus on is programming
21:55
Speaker 6: of these public spaces. For example, this CIVILCID we could
22:01
Speaker 6: have that filled or well now it's being under construction,
22:05
Speaker 6: or areas of the city. We can fill those areas
22:07
Speaker 6: every week with some event. And kudos to councilor Agostino,
22:12
Speaker 6: I mean as far as taking the bowl by the
22:16
Speaker 6: horn and getting those events to our city, you're doing
22:19
Speaker 6: a great job. And there's also the realization that the
22:23
Speaker 6: city center, the downtown area is the heart of the
22:26
Speaker 6: city and as the heart of the city. If the
22:30
Speaker 6: heart is not healthy, the rest of the body isn't healthy.
22:33
Speaker 6: So what Ronaldo's doing is trying to trying to bring
22:38
Speaker 6: back that health, that vitality to that core, which will
22:41
Speaker 6: then it was a concern. Like on the campaign trail
22:45
Speaker 6: where people are saying, you know, what would you like
22:47
Speaker 6: to see the city improve on the downtown, came up
22:50
Speaker 6: a lot in East Riverside and Forest Glade.
22:53
Speaker 4: That's interesting, Yeah, it really is.
22:54
Speaker 6: So people will want to enjoy it, but they have
22:57
Speaker 6: to have a reason to go, and that's programming. So
23:00
Speaker 6: we need to focus way more on programming in our
23:04
Speaker 6: city and our public spaces.
23:06
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting all the three of us counselors, Marignanni,
23:10
Speaker 1: Augustino and myself, Lucy. I don't mean to isolate you
23:13
Speaker 1: on this one, but the three of us all owned
23:14
Speaker 1: businesses on the same block. Pretty well, that's right. And
23:20
Speaker 1: it is the programming that gets people out. That's what
23:22
Speaker 1: makes it so much easier to have the foot traffic
23:24
Speaker 1: that just walks in, because when the people aren't out
23:27
Speaker 1: on the streets, you're going. Now, I've got to do
23:30
Speaker 1: every aspect of that programming. Myself and it gets difficult.
23:33
Speaker 6: It does, but it also proves successful. Like the Monday
23:37
Speaker 6: Night milkmen. Yeah, Monday Night was dead downtown except for milk.
23:44
Speaker 6: It was jammed so and that that kind of taught
23:47
Speaker 6: me like, okay, now you have this venue. Well now
23:49
Speaker 6: you have to colorate with people. So how do you
23:52
Speaker 6: get people here? So you do that programming. And if
23:55
Speaker 6: you do the programming constantly, you're constantly busy. It's you
24:00
Speaker 6: get the positive reinforcement of doing something right, you get
24:05
Speaker 6: the reward. So what we need to do as a city,
24:08
Speaker 6: it's about programming. It really is about programming. I'd like
24:11
Speaker 6: to see more programming in our public spaces. The Windsor
24:14
Speaker 6: Symphony is doing a dynamite job with their symphony in
24:17
Speaker 6: the parks.
24:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I love it. It's so cool. It's so
24:21
Speaker 4: very cool.
24:23
Speaker 1: It really is. And I mean even city supported just
24:26
Speaker 1: Cake Productions. Kristen Ciappas, who's here on AM eight hundred,
24:29
Speaker 1: she's doing the Jazz in the park events. I mean,
24:31
Speaker 1: it's the Soupy program even just at Mitchell Park. It's
24:35
Speaker 1: about having that activation if the city can provide, whether
24:39
Speaker 1: it's the funding or the events themselves. In certain cases,
24:41
Speaker 1: it makes it easier for the businesses. Lucy, what do
24:44
Speaker 1: you think, like, what is it that makes for a fun,
24:47
Speaker 1: enjoyable city when you go traveling? What are the things
24:49
Speaker 1: that you see where you go? We should be doing
24:52
Speaker 1: this more often. Why aren't we?
24:54
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think one of the things that people are
24:56
Speaker 2: concerned about is safety, and so I think the program
25:00
Speaker 2: being allows for sort of an organized opportunity for people
25:03
Speaker 2: to come downtown. I love the idea you don't ask,
25:06
Speaker 2: you don't know, right, so you have to make those asks,
25:10
Speaker 2: and I think that that's been something in our city.
25:12
Speaker 2: I love the block parties. I love that people are
25:14
Speaker 2: coming into downtown. I particularly love when I go to
25:18
Speaker 2: different communities and I see that the roads are closed
25:21
Speaker 2: and there's an opportunity for families to feel like they
25:24
Speaker 2: can walk the space and have that sort of that safety.
25:28
Speaker 2: Parking is always sort of, you know, I guess a
25:32
Speaker 2: positive thing if you know, if you can find the
25:35
Speaker 2: parking I think are downtown. I mean, I'm a big
25:38
Speaker 2: advocate for our riverfront. I think we have one of
25:40
Speaker 2: the nicest riverfronts that I've ever seen. And I've been
25:43
Speaker 2: around in many different communities, and so I would love
25:47
Speaker 2: to see more programming, more organized activities such as what
25:51
Speaker 2: we've been experiencing in the last couple of years. I
25:54
Speaker 2: think that's bringing people downtown. Also, I think it supports
25:57
Speaker 2: the businesses that are trying to thrive. Right, So people
25:59
Speaker 2: are investing time and grit, I think in terms of
26:03
Speaker 2: keeping open and keeping those doors open. So when we
26:05
Speaker 2: do have those organized opportunities, it provides an opportunity for
26:09
Speaker 2: them to thrive. And therefore maybe more investors will look
26:12
Speaker 2: at sort of opening up their businesses. And I think
26:16
Speaker 2: that's how you get sort of the wheel spinning, and
26:18
Speaker 2: it just starts with those ideas and kind of bringing
26:20
Speaker 2: them to fruition.
26:22
Speaker 1: The safety component is so important, and we talk here
26:25
Speaker 1: on AM one hundred often with windsor police, and I
26:28
Speaker 1: know that one of the issues is perceptions of safety,
26:32
Speaker 1: perceptions of crime. And that's not to say there isn't
26:34
Speaker 1: of course crime. Crime exists everywhere, but counts to Augustin
26:38
Speaker 1: know it's that perception component. By being able to overcome
26:42
Speaker 1: the perception, and that's only done through you know, constant
26:45
Speaker 1: f arts and constant events, I suppose to showcase we
26:49
Speaker 1: can get to another place.
26:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're going to have a little bit
26:51
Speaker 3: of a broader conversation. Well, just later on.
26:54
Speaker 5: But there's a vision, right, and this all plays into
26:57
Speaker 5: the plan for downtown. And you got to fight fire
27:00
Speaker 5: with fire, and you know it's when you look at
27:03
Speaker 5: the situation of downtown.
27:04
Speaker 3: Windsor and it's my job.
27:08
Speaker 5: This is part of a bigger plan, right, It's not
27:11
Speaker 5: just block parties events to bring people downtown. It's part
27:14
Speaker 5: of a bigger plan. And hopefully later on we can
27:16
Speaker 5: talk more about it.
27:17
Speaker 1: We can talk a little bit right now.
27:19
Speaker 5: Sure, sure, when you look at a downtown corn you know,
27:24
Speaker 5: I got to spend a lot of time thinking about
27:27
Speaker 5: it as you're on the campaign trail, because you've got
27:30
Speaker 5: a lot of time to yourself, right, you think of
27:34
Speaker 5: all the issues that downtown has been going through over
27:37
Speaker 5: the last decade, including COVID, homelessness, addictions. You've kind of
27:43
Speaker 5: start zeroing in on what could you do right as
27:46
Speaker 5: a municipality, what could you do? And you kind of
27:48
Speaker 5: keep it simple, right, And for me, it's real simple.
27:52
Speaker 5: There's a component of perception, but there's also a component
27:55
Speaker 5: of reality because things are happening as well. So you
27:59
Speaker 5: look at the first thing for me was really nailing
28:02
Speaker 5: the safety and security aspect of it all, changing that conversation.
28:05
Speaker 5: And I was harkening back to listening to Mayor Eddie
28:09
Speaker 5: Francis for a married France to say, change the conversation,
28:11
Speaker 5: can you? And that's always rolling in my head. So
28:14
Speaker 5: for me, the first thing was, Okay, how do we
28:17
Speaker 5: get to that? We got to it at the same time.
28:22
Speaker 5: Once you have that, it's like if a tree falls
28:24
Speaker 5: in the forest, nobody hears. How are you going to
28:25
Speaker 5: show people that things have changed downtown? Where you got
28:28
Speaker 5: to bring them downtown? Because how did people find out
28:31
Speaker 5: that the ailements, the ailments, what was hurting downtown for
28:35
Speaker 5: the most part, what it was through conversations, through people
28:38
Speaker 5: talking trash about downtown windsor and how do you change that?
28:42
Speaker 5: You got to bring them downtown and show them that
28:44
Speaker 5: things have changed.
28:45
Speaker 3: So to me, it was keeping it simple.
28:48
Speaker 5: Clean it up, bring people downtown for exciting events, show
28:52
Speaker 5: them that there's something new and something happening downtown that
28:55
Speaker 5: they have to see. And then the third part of
28:57
Speaker 5: it for me is housing, get people to live downtown.
29:01
Speaker 5: How do we get more people living downtown? Those three things,
29:05
Speaker 5: as simple as it sounds, if we nail those three things,
29:09
Speaker 5: you call it a day right. For the most part,
29:12
Speaker 5: problem solved in downtown Windsor. And those are things that
29:15
Speaker 5: are in our grasp right as a city councilor.
29:18
Speaker 3: I work with real.
29:19
Speaker 5: Good people, real smart people, all the way from the
29:22
Speaker 5: Mayor's office, administration, the rest of the councilors.
29:24
Speaker 3: I work with them all. But I'm gonna tell you.
29:26
Speaker 5: None of them are going to solve the addictions crisis.
29:29
Speaker 5: None of them are going to solve homelessness, mental health,
29:31
Speaker 5: none of us. That's out of our grasp. It's gonna
29:34
Speaker 5: get solved. But in the meantime, what do we do
29:38
Speaker 5: to make things better?
29:40
Speaker 3: Right?
29:40
Speaker 5: And to me, it's keeping it simple right, make it safe,
29:44
Speaker 5: keep it clean, keep it active, and get more people
29:47
Speaker 5: living downtown and call it a day.
29:50
Speaker 3: Right. My job would be done if I could get
29:52
Speaker 3: all those done.
29:53
Speaker 1: You know, I do like the idea of just focusing
29:56
Speaker 1: on the things that we can focus on and achieve
29:59
Speaker 1: and actually, you know, get a positive outcome from rather
30:01
Speaker 1: than I guess, you know, sort of just throwing up
30:04
Speaker 1: our arms. And yet we continually yelling and pointing fingers
30:06
Speaker 1: at each other, going, well, you have to do this,
30:09
Speaker 1: you have to do this well. The reality is we
30:11
Speaker 1: could all be pointing fingers up to the provincial level
30:13
Speaker 1: and the federal level and demanding it from them. But
30:15
Speaker 1: you're you're absolutely right.
30:16
Speaker 5: Now we're gaining ground. We're gaining ground. You're seeing businesses
30:19
Speaker 5: reopen that we're close. Sure, you're seeing businesses leaving that
30:21
Speaker 5: are in unique situations, no question about it. But you're
30:24
Speaker 5: seeing the momentum is changing.
30:26
Speaker 3: Now.
30:26
Speaker 5: Can that momentum go backwards too, of course it can.
30:29
Speaker 5: But we're fighting and we're winning. And the more we fight,
30:32
Speaker 5: the more we dig in, the more we do together. Right,
30:35
Speaker 5: everybody working together is also a key component. We're going
30:39
Speaker 5: to continue to see positive results. And these block parties
30:41
Speaker 5: are just again like I said, they're just another step
30:44
Speaker 5: in the right direction, but another part of a bigger
30:46
Speaker 5: plan to revitalize our downtown core.
30:48
Speaker 3: And I could see it. I see it all the
30:50
Speaker 3: time out out there. It's working.
30:51
Speaker 5: We're getting families, we're getting kids, we're getting people downtown
30:55
Speaker 5: that no one ever thought we would get down there,
30:57
Speaker 5: and they're having a positive experience. So next time that
30:59
Speaker 5: they hear some one say, well downtown sucks, so downtown
31:02
Speaker 5: Hosy was there last week. I didn't see that all right,
31:05
Speaker 5: So it's a battle, but I feel we're winning.
31:08
Speaker 1: The positivity is infectious and it can even take a
31:12
Speaker 1: cynic like me and bring me to a better place.
31:14
Speaker 1: So thank you for that, councilor Augustino. We're gonna take
31:17
Speaker 1: a quick break rate here. When we get back onto
31:18
Speaker 1: the side, we're gonna have a little bit more of
31:20
Speaker 1: a conversation about housing with our federal NDP leader uh
31:24
Speaker 1: saying that there needs to be federal support for city
31:27
Speaker 1: anti renneviction by laws. We'll find out what the roundtable
31:30
Speaker 1: thinks about that. John Lidke here on AM eight hundred.
31:32
Speaker 3: Banking you lonely, you can't always go.
31:37
Speaker 4: Downtown.
31:38
Speaker 1: Hey, we nine fifty one. We're keeping our roundtable going
31:43
Speaker 1: with counselors. We're Aaldo Augustino and Angelo Mariniani as well
31:47
Speaker 1: as Lucy Razu Sieza, and we're just really quickly gonna
31:50
Speaker 1: keep a conversation about housing going right now. NDP leader
31:54
Speaker 1: jig Meet Singh was in London and he says that
31:57
Speaker 1: he would support providing cities with more federal funding to
32:00
Speaker 1: be used to create bylaws to prevent reno evictions. What
32:04
Speaker 1: do you think about this one, kylet Ler Marinani.
32:08
Speaker 6: I mean, uh, yeah, you need you need to protect
32:11
Speaker 6: people who.
32:12
Speaker 4: Who live, who rent from renters.
32:16
Speaker 6: At the same time, if, for example, if they want
32:19
Speaker 6: to do intensification, if they want to build a uh
32:22
Speaker 6: a bigger unit that would help with the housing crisis
32:26
Speaker 6: that we have. I'm kind of for that as well.
32:28
Speaker 6: So maybe there could be some sort of compensation or
32:31
Speaker 6: when the new unit is completed, Uh, those residents get
32:35
Speaker 6: first choice at the rate that they they were paying
32:39
Speaker 6: before or at a rate tier level.
32:41
Speaker 4: They have to work that out.
32:44
Speaker 6: As far as protecting tenants, yes, we need to protect tenants.
32:47
Speaker 6: We need to use the powers that the government has
32:51
Speaker 6: in order to ensure that everyone has shelter, a basic
32:55
Speaker 6: biological need.
32:57
Speaker 1: It's a tough one, I mean, because you're you're dealing
33:00
Speaker 1: with the rights of the tenants but also with the
33:02
Speaker 1: rights of the owner. And in this case they're saying, look,
33:05
Speaker 1: specifically in London, the owners were starting out with some
33:08
Speaker 1: renovation of some units, but then they were like, you
33:10
Speaker 1: know what, we actually just want to take the whole
33:12
Speaker 1: thing down and go and build a multi story apartment building.
33:15
Speaker 1: So how do you balance those things out. What do
33:16
Speaker 1: you think about this councilor Ugustina.
33:18
Speaker 5: The Landlord Tenant Act, everything about it, everything that's going
33:21
Speaker 5: on right now. There's an absolute disaster. And I think
33:24
Speaker 5: whether it's the next federal or provincial election, if somebody
33:28
Speaker 5: makes this one of their campaign points, they're gonna get
33:34
Speaker 5: some votes because I thought I did's something I do
33:37
Speaker 5: with every day, right whether it's an angry landlord or
33:39
Speaker 5: an angry tenant, or someone who's you know, can't be evicted,
33:43
Speaker 5: or someone who's getting evicted for the wrong reasons.
33:45
Speaker 3: The whole thing needs.
33:46
Speaker 5: To be relooked at and reexamined because it's an absolute disaster.
33:51
Speaker 1: Lucy, how about yourself.
33:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I think that we do need to protect tenants.
33:55
Speaker 2: I think one of the issues is that people have
33:57
Speaker 2: been renting in the same place for many, many years
34:00
Speaker 2: and obviously paying under market value for rent, and I
34:04
Speaker 2: think the issue comes where these people are by purchasing
34:06
Speaker 2: these properties for probably two or three times what original
34:10
Speaker 2: owner purchased it for, so there's a lot of conflict.
34:12
Speaker 2: They can completely see the conflict there and then sort
34:15
Speaker 2: of promising some renovations with the idea that they're going
34:17
Speaker 2: to renovate and then the you know, the tenant's going
34:20
Speaker 2: to have this rental increase exponentially, which creates another unaffordable
34:25
Speaker 2: housing and sort of the whole spiel of housing is
34:28
Speaker 2: a crisis. So I definitely think there's been some deals
34:32
Speaker 2: not in good faith. I think in terms of you know,
34:35
Speaker 2: minor renovations with major you know hikes and rent, I
34:40
Speaker 2: think this is what people are experiencing. Definitely, it would
34:44
Speaker 2: be nice to see more units available, but I think
34:47
Speaker 2: the cost of rent is more the issue here because
34:50
Speaker 2: I think what happens is market value and then people
34:53
Speaker 2: are trying to sort of make up the money that
34:55
Speaker 2: they've invested into the property. So I think these there's
34:58
Speaker 2: a lot of conflict there. I think it's a really
34:59
Speaker 2: complex issue dealing with that.
35:01
Speaker 5: Across the street right now, right our little pratz in
35:03
Speaker 5: the GCC, and there's issues there and we're trying to
35:07
Speaker 5: figure out a way forward to keep everybody happy. But
35:09
Speaker 5: how do you, like you said, if you run and
35:13
Speaker 5: maintain a property that isn't paying for itself, right.
35:17
Speaker 2: He doesn't work either, absolutely, it's.
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Speaker 1: Math, right, Yeah, math doesn't work. It doesn't work. Well, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to solve this in the next few minutes,
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Speaker 1: so we can just put a pin in it and
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Speaker 1: move on to our plugged in segment, where we let
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Speaker 1: everyone around the table shout something out that they think
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Speaker 1: needs some attention. Let's start out with you, Counselor MARINIANI.
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Speaker 6: Well, thank you, John, I'd like to plug the emancipations
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Speaker 6: you believe that's happening. This weekend, August first is Emancipation
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Speaker 6: Day and it is the story of Windsor. We are
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Speaker 6: the terminus of the underground railroad. When you got to Windsor,
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Speaker 6: when you got to Sandwich, you got to the finish line.
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Speaker 6: And I think we need once again this is programming.
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Speaker 6: We need to promote our story. The Emancipation Festival is
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Speaker 6: something that history Workley was a big event in the
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Speaker 6: city of Windsor. People from all over North America came
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Speaker 6: and celebrated freedom in Windsor with the opening of the
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Speaker 6: Gordy Howbridge. I think we should start bringing back that
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Speaker 6: whole emancipation festival. So this weekend, it starts today at
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Speaker 6: the Hellenic Club Culture Center on Walker Road with a
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Speaker 6: dinner at nine, but the big event is tomorrow Saturday
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Speaker 6: at the Caribbean Center at six pm, where there'll be
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Speaker 6: a fashion show and there'll be speakers and it's going
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Speaker 6: to be a great event. This Monday too. This Monday
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Speaker 6: is a holiday guys, Jackson Park family gathering, pot luck, barbecue,
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Speaker 6: food and drink festival.
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Speaker 1: Sounds great.
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Speaker 6: That does sound great. Last week my wife and I
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Speaker 6: were in Detroit. We took bikes along the Detroit waterfront
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Speaker 6: and we passed families having barbecues with music. It was
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Speaker 6: the most full experience I had, one of the most
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Speaker 6: beautiful experiences in Detroit. So come on out to Jackson
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Speaker 6: Park this Monday if you have time, and Happy Emancipation Day.
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Speaker 1: That sounds great. Thank you for that. How about your self,
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Speaker 1: counter Augustino, I think.
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Speaker 5: For me today, I just kind of want to caution
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Speaker 5: everyone to educate yourselves. There's a lot of stuff going
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Speaker 5: on around social media right now over the Olympic boxing scandal,
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Speaker 5: and I think that no one knows that the media.
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Speaker 5: When you look at social media, I don't think people
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Speaker 5: understand that everything you read isn't true, But everything you
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Speaker 5: read isn't you either, And it's up to you as
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Speaker 5: a person to educate yourself about X Y chromosomes about DSD,
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Speaker 5: about what's really happening there.
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Speaker 3: They don't just like and share something.
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Speaker 5: Because you see a lot of people right now out
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Speaker 5: they're rolling stuff back that they liked and shared yesterday.
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Speaker 5: So be careful with what you do on social media
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Speaker 5: and what you see, and take the time when you
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Speaker 5: see this stuff. Don't get angry, get curious and educate
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Speaker 5: yourself about what's going on out there.
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Speaker 1: That's so important. I think everyone could take a beat
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Speaker 1: every now and then when it comes to responding very
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Speaker 1: quickly and letting I guess you know what is it?
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Speaker 1: The lizard brain part of our brain respond to things
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Speaker 1: immediately rather than trying to engage the logic centers to
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Speaker 1: take over. Thank you for that, Ronaldo. How about yourself, Lucy,
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Speaker 1: I'd like.
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Speaker 2: To plug in a local musician. Her name is Adri
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Speaker 2: I know her personally. She's a very passionate musician, deep
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Speaker 2: rooted sort of connection to the Latin culture. So today
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Speaker 2: mark's the release of her fourth and final single for
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Speaker 2: highly anticipated Summer Singles, and for the last four weeks
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Speaker 2: she's sort of dropped new songs in collaboration with local
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Speaker 2: artists Juliano Soliz in traffic, so I wanted to sort
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Speaker 2: of plug her in. You can find her at VDRI
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Speaker 2: Music and she's on all kinds of streaming platforms.
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Speaker 1: So way to go add the RI Absolutely well, Hey,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. Big thank you to
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Speaker 1: the entire roundtable today. Ward three Councilor Ronaldo Augustina, Ward
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Speaker 1: seven Counselor Angelo Mariniani, and from Banna Lucy Razu Sieza.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to all three of you. Have
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Speaker 1: a great long weekend. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you. Okay, we're gonna take a quick break right now.
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Speaker 1: We've got the ten o'clock news coming up next. Don't
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Speaker 1: go anywhere, John Lydkey here on AM eight hundred