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AM800 CKLW Tuesday Roundtable with Luciana Rosu-Sieza, Murad Erzinclioglu, and Ryan Richardson - June 25, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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Good morning, Welcome to the Dan McDonald Show. John, let'd keep fillin
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in here for Dan McDonald nine oh six on this twenty fifth of June.
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Can't believe how quickly this month has gone by. Quick. Little weather update,
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We've got a severe thunderstorm watching effect right now. It's not looking all
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that nice outside quite frankly, with a little bit too indicative of rain for
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me. But that doesn't mean we're not going to be having some fun here
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inside the studio for the Tuesday round table top of the show. Kicking things
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off with Lucy Razu Sieza of the Bilina and Arexian Vosa Association. How you
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doing, Lucy, I'm doing great, and you can call me Lucy from
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Banna. John, as Dan calls me Lucy from Banna, it is here.
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Well, update the doc immediately. We also have I'm gonna mess it
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up, Marad. I don't want to get your rad or zinc leo glue,
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zinch leo, glue, tragic fate. How you doing me, I'm
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good, I'm good. Thanks for having us, Thanks for joining. Ryan
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d Sin go tell someone podcast. How you doing, Ryan, I'm doing
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okay. It's a little cooler today. I like the break in the weather.
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Yeah, it's twenty three right now, seventy three fahrenheit. It feels
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a little bit warmer with the humid X, but it's nice. There's nothing
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to complain about how it feels, albeit how it looks is a little bit
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of a different story. Not the case last night, gorgeous night. So
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much was going on, not just in the city but quite frankly everywhere.
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We had the fireworks, which drew thousands and thousands and thousands of people,
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and then depending on who your pick was, there was the Stanley Cup game
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at seven, resulting in the Panthers winning and the Oilers losing. So if
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you're an Oilers supporter, you're probably wallowing in misery today. Or if you
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really don't like the Oilers because you have a different Canadian team you root for,
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you're going that went the way that I wanted it to. Hockey rivalries
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are good, Murad. What'd you get up to last night? Did you
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take anything in? Uh? We just hung out in our basement. We
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watched we watch we're watching Dexter. Oh yeah, like the original, Yeah,
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the original, not even the new. Yeah. My wife had never
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seen it, and so I said, do you like Serial Killers. You
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might like this, So we've been watching that. Well, I don't know.
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The last couple of years, we just haven't gone to the fireworks.
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My wife works early in the morning on Mondays or on Tuesdays, and I
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had to be here. I had to be fresh and ready. Can't be
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out till all hours of the night getting wild at fireworks parties. I don't
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know. I've just seen so many fireworks displays in my life and I really
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wish that maybe they put it on like a Friday or Saturday. Why do
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we do it on a Monday. Well, it was always that they didn't
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want it to be on Canada Day or Independence Day, so they found a
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different day that worked around then. But yeah, I don't know why we
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decide like it's got to be a Monday night to kick things off. Yeah,
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weekend would be nice. I watched the tail end of the hockey game,
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the last period, so you're the reason why the Oilers lost. Yeah.
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Yeah, he did the dexter thing and they decided to come in at
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the very end. Yeah. He came in at the end to see what
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was happening, and yeah, I saw, well this was this was a
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great little segment. Thanks for that, Marad. We should probably do a
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pre chat next time before we start things off. Lucy, I did attend
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the fireworms. I really liked it. I found the grand finale. It
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was probably one of the best ones I've watched. Beautiful night. The weather
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couldn't have been better last year. I know there was some air quality issues
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so people didn't see them as well, so I feel like it was very
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clear. It was a beautiful night, the temperature was great, and I
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went and I really enjoyed it. And my husband stayed home and watched the
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hockey game, but I went with my daughter. We really liked it,
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and I told her how I used to go to the fireworks every single year
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and I haven't, like, really didn't miss any as a teenager and into
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my twenties. So okay, it's a magical experience for those who attend,
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Marad, it is, you know, I think because during COVID we had
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them on television for those couple of years, and then last year, as
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you were saying, Lucy, there was the wildfires and it made it difficult
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to view from quite frankly, most of the riverfront unless you were in one
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certain area. Is why Dan MacDonald said today best fireworks display he's ever seen.
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I think we were all just like lusting for what we remember and to
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get back to that. And this was still feels sort of like the first
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real year post COVID. To be honest, everything's open, there aren't any
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restrictions whatsoever. So yeah, it was nice to see so many people down
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there. Ryan, did you take anything in last night? You know what?
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It felt like the magic was back. I actually have this magical thing
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at our house called a balcony where I can just sit on the balcony and
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watch the fireworks, which is which is amazing. But yeah, it felt
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like I mean when I'm hearing stories of people that were crossing the border again
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to come to watch the fireworks from this side of the border, like it
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used to be. Like my grandmother's house was downtown growing up, and we
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used to have just fifty or sixty people come over to our house and then
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we'd all walk down to the river. And then I wound up working for
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the Hilton that's no longer the Hilton. It's the best Western now, but
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they used to close down. We would work hard building up to the fireworks,
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and then we would go to the roof during the fireworks and watching from
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the top of that building. It's it's quite the view, it really is.
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And again it's just a great opportunity for people to gather together have fun.
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The weather was nice, Like it really sounds like it was just an
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amazing night. I mean because I hear saw from a distance, but the
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excitement that was happening building up to it was was pretty amazing. And it's
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still jarring to me to have a Florida team take home the Stanley Cup.
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That just sounds weird to me. It doesn't make very hot face value,
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you know, but it exactly like what were we doing. It was a
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night of highs and a night of lows, depending again on which side of
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things you're on. I just I love seeing the amount of people that come
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down. Riverside Drive shut down, the vast majority of streets shutdown, pedestrians
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take it over. We have so many conversations in this city about doing more
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things like that. We've got open streets and then there were conversations about road
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diets and what more could be done, and it seems like we really like
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our open streets and our fireworks night, and that's really the only time that
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we're shutting down large connected corridors. Marad, what do you think about that?
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I mean, I love when the city gets shut down. I know
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I didn't it'send the fireworks, but I have in the past. I like
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when the streets open up. I always think those are some of the best
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events that happen around the city, like something like dropped on Jewelerd when they
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close down the street for the day, or open streets or the fireworks,
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you know, a lot of like the big kind of celebratory things that happen
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downtown around specific events. Yeah, I like a closed street. Well,
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it's so much more vibrant. And then you also realize, oh, there
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could be twenty cars here with twenty people, but right now there's like six
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hundred people in like the same footprint. It's completely different. Lucy, what
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do you think? Yeah, absolutely, I'm a big supporter of closing the
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streets. I mean, I see in other countries they close them regularly,
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So there's kind of like this, you know, fascination with closing the streets
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on the weekends, people gather, there's you know, open markets, things
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like that. I love that. I think we should do more of that.
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I think it brings people walking. We were kind of talking about like
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they bike, people on scooters, all kinds of different transportation modes as well
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as just hearing laughter and happiness and joyfulness. And that's what I heard last
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night, which I thought, this is we need more of this in our
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community. Absolutely, And you know it's a free event as well, which
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is so nice. Albeit it's a very expensive event to produce and put on
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on both sides of the border. And I really don't know why they haven't
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found a way to put up like a big wall to block us from being
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able to see it. I mean, we're not contributing nearly as much as
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Ford Foundation is quite frankly, but I know Ronaldo Augustina, our Word three
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councilor Ryan has been talking about ballards and putting them into the streets so we
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could have some of our main streets shut down far easier than we do right
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now, because you could almost just push a button and the ballards would rise
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up, protecting people from vehicles who might otherwise have found themselves into those areas.
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What do you think about that? It's interesting, like even you know,
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looking at like Woodward Avenue in Detroit when they started to close off,
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Like there's sections that used to be open and that are completely closed for you
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know, almost for festival traffic. For people to walk around. I think
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that's a good thing. I think the ability to is said for people to
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either be on a scooter or be on a bike, or just kind of
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make their way around and learn the downtown core is fascinating. I really also
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like the fact that the transit windsor offered shuttles for people to get to and
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from the fireworks. I always I thought that keeping up that tradition has been
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it was a good idea for sure, but getting people downtown is amazing.
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Well. It demonstrates that people are willing to utilize public transit when it's a
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direct route from A to B that gets them there in a quick fashion.
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It's a really interesting content, except that everybody is willing to just hop on
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a bus rather than try to go the other way. And it's the convenience
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factor of course as well. Nobody wants to get stuck in that traffic trying
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to go out of the downtown core to spend an hour and a half to
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get home. It's already late quite frankly, after the fireworks, Marad wouldn't
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have been able to make it. No right for bad at two in the
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afternoon, just a few more dexters. Okay, we get through them.
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Well, let us know what you did last night. Did you watch the
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Stanley Cup game? Did you check out the fireworks? Did you do both?
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Let us know you can text us at five one nine, seven nine
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two c KLW the numbers five one nine, seven nine two two five five
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nine. We're going to take a quick break right now and we get back
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on the other side. We will keep the round table going. We are
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back Tuesday roundtable. Hope you're all doing well. Nine twenty one. We
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are going to keep things going with Lucy Razu, Sieza, marad Or zinch
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Leyoglu and Ryan Richardson. We are looking at today's AM eight hundred newspol question
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right now, should Canada impose a surtax on Chinese made electric vehicle imports?
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On Monday, our Finance Minister Christia Freeland announced that the country is investigating whether
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to impose a surtax on Chinese made EV's. It's a thirty day consultation.
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It will begin July second. To counter what the Finance Minister who's also our
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deputy Prime minister, says is a clear effort by Chinese companies to generate a
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global oversupply. Just last week, the Premiere of Ontario, Doug Ford,
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urged Ottawa to impose a tariff of at least one hundred percent on Chinese EV's,
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which would double their price, following in line with the United States.
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Wondering what the panel thinks about this? Is it a smart move to make
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Chinese EV imports more expensive to protect our domestic industry. Those vehicles coming in
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are going to be selling without a tariff at ten thousand dollars roughly US now
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with the tariff twenty thousand dollars. A US smart idea, bad idea,
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Ryan, I think we have to have a healthy balance when it comes to
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protecting our industries. You know, I think that it's a good idea,
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I really do. It's when you know something going to come in and sell
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for half. I mean, people go to different grocery stores because they save
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twenty cents on something like like the Some people are loyal to their grocery store.
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I don't know if this is good analogy out, but I'm going to
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go with it. Some people are loyal and they'll go and but others will
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check the flyers and go, Okay, I want to go to that store
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because that's on sale here. That customer loyalty is I think it's I think
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it's a good thing of you know, wanting to support local, wanting to
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support you know, Canadian products. And I think that we have to really
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really look at when when something's coming in and saying, look it's a great
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deal, it's half off. We see it online all the time. Right,
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products that you know are are you know, one hundred dollars, They're
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being sold for twenty and thirty dollars. You got to wonder about the quality.
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You got to wonder about a lot of things. But I think we
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do have to take some level of ownership and protection to to you know,
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guarantee jobs. Yeah. I saw a figure of a just astronomical figure that
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the Chinese government has subsidized their ev industry too, all the tunes of hundreds
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of billions of dollars nowhere approaching the level that we are even contemplating here,
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but they are overproducing intentionally. I mean, this is not just a trade
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issue, it's also a national security issue. Quite frankly, if you allow
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for someone to come in and hollow out an entire sector. It's a tough
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one though, Lucy, because on the one hand, you have people who
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are dealing with pretty you know, I'm going to say, still relatively dire
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economic straits. Things are not the best that they've been here, so people
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want to have the best deal possible. But at the same time, we're
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looking at massive investments in our local economy and we don't want to see that
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up ended. What do you think? Yeah, I definitely agree with Ryan.
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I think we need to protect our jobs and I think, frankly,
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we need to protect our country. I think we make quality products here.
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I think we have quality producers, and I think that offering something at a
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very low cost, I mean it's a very action of the cost. I
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agree with it, and I think it will definitely say to people, do
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I have loyalty to Canada, to the people that are producing these items?
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Or do I say inflation is really you know, detriment to sort of living
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a quality of life right now? So do I purchase this thing that's in
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front of me? Even with the teriff it seems like a deal. So
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personally, I think we have to really give it some consideration. I think
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the government has to do their due diligence and sort of you know, having
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this analysis and making a decision that works for our country. I think we
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need to. I like shopping local. I think supporting local is the way
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that we keep our personal economy going. I also know that going to China
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to sell something has a lot of restrictions. So it's interesting how us as
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Canadians allow a lot of things I think in Canada without a lot of restrictions
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on other people. And we need to be a little bit more like other
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countries which are saying, you know, fifty to fifty or they're contemplating putting
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those restrictions on us. Why do we not put them on those people as
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well. I'm glad I'm not a policymaker or an elected official, because trying
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to balance out free market capitalism and protectionism and domestic forces is like just no
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thank you at all, but rat I mean, what we're talking about here
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at the end of the day is again, you know, a ten thousand
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dollars car versus a twenty thousand dollars car, these Chinese evs versus our domestic
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made cars, which are still far more than that. When you hear something
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like that, is it enticing to you? Yeah, you know, it's
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difficult. If I can draw any comparison on a personal level, is that
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at Tragic Fate we make these novelties and gag gifts. There are a number,
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and I try to keep the items that we make in North America whenever
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I can. But then I started to notice, like a lot of the
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companies in North America, we're just having them made in China and ship to
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them and then ship to me. And I also noticed that there are a
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lot of products like lapel pins. For example, there's like only one or
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two companies in all of Canada that make lapel pins. And if you want
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to make lapel pins with them, the cost in comparison to making them in
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a place like China is like astronomical to the point where it wouldn't make sense
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for us to make them and try to sell them unless we wanted to sell
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lapel pins for twenty five dollars or thirty dollars when everyone else is selling them
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for ten. So we make our lapel pins in China. But it's really
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because it's the only option the industry for lapel pins in Canada's gotten so hollowed
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out over the years that it's basically impossible to make them here now. And
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so if they wanted, if they're going to do this with the batteries,
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you can see how an industry could be kind of erased inside of a country
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if you allow this to kind of this free for all type of market.
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So I don't know what the perfect answer is, but I do know that
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you know, once an industry gets hallowed out, there is no there is
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there. It comes to a point where there is no other choice and you
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have to go. Coming back from that is a very very difficult thing.
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But again, it's not like you're like you're still having the artwork designed here
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in Canada, You're still selling the products here in Canada. You still put
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on events like your Mosa Trap pop up. Yeah, I mean there are
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lots of things that are still happening here in Canada. But it's unfortunate to
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me that I can't make the products here, that I have to go somewhere
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else, that there is really no option for me to do it here in
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a way that is profitable. It's definitely an interesting one. For sure.
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We're going to take a quick break right now. We got the nine thirty
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information update coming up next, So don't go anywhere, folks. John Letkey
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here on AM eight hundred. Hey, we're back nine thirty four. It
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is the Tuesday round Table. Glad to be joined by Lucy Razu, siezamrad
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Or zinch Leoglu, and Ryan and Richardson. I am John Lidkey. We're
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gonna keep things going here. At summertime, we have a severe thunderstorm warning
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and effect that does come and we get some pools of water throughout the area,
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never the greatest. We're talking right now about mosquitoes. Why While the
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Windsor Essex County Health Unit says routine monitoring for West Nile virus has identified one
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positive mosquito pool in the region, this is the first sign of West Nile
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in Windsor in Essex County this year. We know that certain types of mosquitos
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can spread it and it's potentially serious for humans due to the infection that can
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come. So far in twenty twenty four, there's been no human cases of
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West Nile virus identified here in Windsor in Essex County, but this positive mosquito
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pool is an indicator that the virus is in the community. Are you ever
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concerned about West Nile virus? I just I can't stand mosquitoes as a whole.
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I don't think of West Nile at the forefront. When I think of
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a mosquito, I think of like just scratching my arms or slapping them.
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Got down, Ryan, Was this something that's on your mind? Well?
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As a kid, mosquitos were always a problem. That's why I just wore
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mesh over my face all the time. Just makes life a whole lot easier
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just to have it, you know, the face protect I didn't really,
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I was just kidding, Like when I was fencing, you know this fencing
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masks kind of like that. I think that's the way we do it.
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People are like, are you fencing? No, no, no, But
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I'm wearing the mask because I really like it. But I used to complain
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more about mosquitos and the little ones until I went up to a thunder Bay
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area during the summer and met the black flies, and then I was like,
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you know, those mosquitos aren't too bad. Changed my perspective a little
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bit, for sure. I just needed a time away. I don't like
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them, don't want them especially those but the bites and all that kind of
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stuff. But I don't I don't know. It seems like some years mosquitos
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are really bad and the others they're okay. Black flies are definitely so whole
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different. They will keep me away from an area if I know that they
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are there. They are aggressive, Ye, they hurt No, thank you,
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Lucy. What's your take on this news that we have here of a
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positive mosquito pool in the region. Well, interestingly, and I was talking
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to my husband about this. Mosquitoes don't like me, and so I never
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get bit by mosquitos, so I don't know what. They just don't like
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me. So we will go to places like forest areas, will go to
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Jibwei anywhere, and my husband and my daughter are probably the ones that get
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bit the worse, and my son and I are sort of exempted myself,
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and they're always like, you don't get one bite, you don't have one,
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not one, and they're just walking out of there, and they're just
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in disparity of how many bites they have. So I don't know. I
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don't have that personal connection, I guess in terms of not getting bit but
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I will say that definitely West now, I think even as these years,
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as we keep talking about it, it's scary. I mean when you look
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at the illness that it can obviously provoke, scary. I don't think about
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it at the forefront either. I find them just a little bit more pesty
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and like annoying and when you're sitting at the soccer field and they're sort of
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everybody's jumping around trying to knock them off, and that's how I think about
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them. But definitely spraying yourself and wearing those clothing. I mean, there's
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all those recommendations from the Healthy Unit. I would say, yeah, definitely
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if you want to avoid it, and you know, I don't have a
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fear of it, but I definitely think avoiding and prevention is good. Well,
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Lucy, I'm going to need you to think long and hard about what
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might make you exempt from the mosquitos, and when you figure that out,
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let us know we will well spool up a business and will all become super
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rich if we can figure this one out. Marad, what's your thoughts about
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this? Yeah, I mean I think when mosquitoes come out, it's not
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the first thing that I immediately think of as West Nile virus. But I
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mean, I mean it's certainly a concern, I'm sure for especially for families
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and people with kids. They want their kids to be able to go out
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and play and not you know, worry about them coming back with getting sick
20:56
from mosquito. I think it might be regional. I mean, I get
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eaten alive down here. But then I was up in Kingston, and you
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know, everyone I was with, who usually doesn't get bit down here,
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was getting eaten alive and they were leaving me alone. So I think the
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mosquitoes have like certain tastes that they go after and on a regional level.
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I'm just I'm making this up, but it might be real, Okay,
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because of personal experience. I like the theory. This is, this is
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why people come to the show. I like a fan. I use a
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fan to keep them away. We have a bottle of bug spray, like
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on the porch. A lot of times we will dip out for dusk,
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you know, like, oh we're sitting outside having a nice time, let's
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go inside for half an hour at this worst time of the evening. And
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yeah, just like keeping an eye on your yard and making sure you don't
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have standing water and places for mosquitoes to breed. And actually, coincidentally,
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I was scrolling through Facebook last night while I wasn't watching the fireworks or paying
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attention to decks there, and I saw somebody posting in the South Windsor Facebook
22:07
group saying, you know, here at Central Park, the splash pad is
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not functioning. It's been closed down, but there is this massive pool of
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water in the center of it, just standing and getting worse and worse and
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worse. And so I do think it's important that not just ourselves and our
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own personal properties, but the city itself be checking the parks, checking these
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spaces. Find that if you don't want to revamp and have a splash pad,
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but you shouldn't be leaving it to become this cesspool where mosquitoes can you
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know, proliferate, especially when the health unit is making these type of warnings.
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Well, if we're told that it's a whole community effort to get rid
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of it, you would expect that, you know, the largest group of
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the community, the city itself. Yeah, Yeah, we need the municipality
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to kind of take charge and ensure that these shared public spaces that we have
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are kind of you know, taken care of first and foremost, but then
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also have bylaws in place to ensure that you know, residents are doing their
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part as well. Let's really quickly move on right now, the historic straf
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Kona building in Walkerville has been transformed and renovated. It's now got grand canteena
23:19
in it looking quite frankly, just gorgeous. And there's a plaque that's been
23:23
unveiled this weekend that speaks about the past. It was built for the walk
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of a land and building company in nineteen oh seven. It is a certified
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Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation property the historic architect Do we do enough to preserve our
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historic architectural gems in the city or is there more that we could do?
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Morad probably not. We probably don't do enough. I've always felt like Windsor
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doesn't have as many old buildings as like a lot of other cities that I'll
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visit. I mean, geez, as I was walking up to this studio
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right next to or there's like this hundred year old building that is in disrepair,
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I guess is how I would continual process? Yeah, I mean it
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doesn't look great. It is a gorgeous building, though, and you take
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a step back and you know, ignore the rust and the unkempt grass and
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stuff. You take a look back and you say, wow, like this
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is actually a really gorgeous piece of architecture, but it's been let go.
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And I do think that there is like you see a lot of that what
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is that stuff they slap on the side of the old buildings. Yeah,
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the stucco with the styrofoam and stuff, And I think it's the worst kind
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of thing, but you see so much of that throughout the city. Just
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you know, it's where you want to go around with covering up the history.
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You want to get a hammer and chisel and break the stucco off to
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see what's underneath. At a lot of places, for sure, Lucy,
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what do you think about what we do here? Again, to say we
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is a tough thing because it's privateiness owners in most cases that are doing things.
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But you know, we are still a collective community. What do you
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think about our historical architecture? Yeah, I definitely think we can do more.
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I think that we do have a lot of really great buildings. I
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look at some of those old banks and just places that you drive by walk
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by, and I love the plaque idea I think that people it's very easy
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to read. It's something that just gives you a little bit of history right
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there and you can just look at it. I think they've done a phenomenal
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job with that building on Devonshire there, and my mom used to live on
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Devonshire, so I'm very familiar with that area. It's had lots of different
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looks, I guess, but this is probably the best it's looked. But
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I do see other communities where there's a lot of bylaws and sort of you
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know, they force people into keeping the integrity of properties in history. And
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I think that's what we can do a little bit better here where there are
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some opportunities to you know, maybe grants things that can help people to actually
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keep that integrity and not you know, sort of slapping on the stucco and
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sort of taking the integrity. Because I think we do have a lot of
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history here, especially with Detroit. I think there's just you know, I
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was looking sort of at Albert, you know, con and looking at all
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of the beautiful buildings that he's contributed to you and sort of looking at that
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and learning a little bit about our history. I think it's really relevant and
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important and I love the ploque. I think we could do more. Yeah,
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I got to agree with you on all that. And I look to
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you know, the Norwich Block for example, Ryan, which we lost down
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on the river front at Overlet there, and just the architectural gem that it
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was. And even like you go to somewhere like Kingsville or to London,
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Ontario even and just the building structures are just all those old eighteen eighties type,
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you know, just reminiscent in a different era. And we got rid
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of pretty well all of those. But if you look through some of the
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old photos of downtown windsor those were our streets, right, what do you
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think, Ryan, I love photos of like I think we should spend more
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time on the history and educating people on the history of the buildings and of
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you know what way and know that kind of stuff. I mean, certainly,
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I remember for years that corner the Strathcona was a convenience story and it
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was my dad's friend was in there, and it almost like an old like
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a diner kind of thing. It was to get ice cream there. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a great place and there's a lot of history there.
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I started doing shows in the nineties at the Walkerville Theater before when it was
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it was called the Tibolt, right, that was the original name and that
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had been let go. And then you find out the history is that the
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person that designed the Fox Theater also designed that theater. I don't think we
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give enough weight to the history behind some of the buildings that we did,
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the the the you know, really cool places that we have in Windsor.
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I love the fact that the discussion of the Jackson Park bandshell is live again
27:45
because I think that's another one that we have to keep on the table because
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we need to talk about preserving that history there and talking about it. But
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I think we have to talk about the history and the significance of some of
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these places so we don't just tear them down or cover them over, but
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we actually celebrate him as you know, like I've talked about it at nauseum.
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Watching the Michigan Central Station come back to life and being at that concert
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that night and watching that that thing that had been just decay be alive again
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should inspire all of us to kind of look at what's going on in our
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city because we have so much connection with with you know, with Detroit and
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that rich history of architecture on both sides of the border. Well, yeah,
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that cross border architecture. I did not realize about the Tivoli was the
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same designer as the Fox. But yeah, Albert conn as well. I
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mean, there's numerous buildings throughout our city and he utilized that as an opportunity
28:37
while he was setting up his practice on the other side there before moving up
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to what Chicago I blue is where he ended up settling. Fully nine,
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We're going to take a quick break right now. We'll get back to the
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Tuesday round table right after this. Hey, everyone, we're back John let'key
28:51
here on AM eight hundred CKLW Tuesday round Table, joined by Lucy Razu,
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Siza murrad Ers, Inchley Oglu, and Ryan Richardson. We were we're just
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sitting here during the last segment, and you might have thought John was your
29:03
stomach grumbling. That was not the case. There was a large thunderclap that
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went on for a little bit in here. All of us sort of looked
29:11
at each other like, is that in the building or outside of the building.
29:14
Right now, we've got that severe thunderstorm warning and effect. Right now,
29:18
I'm looking at the radar and it's coming in from the northwest right towards
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us in multiple bands right now. I love a good summer thunderstorm. As
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of late, some of the summer thunderstorms we've had has resulted in flooding throughout
29:30
the city, which is not so great. But a nice thunderstorm in the
29:34
afternoon and you can take it in and maybe fall asleep to it, like
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ten out of ten. Definitely recommend Murrad. How about you? Ah yeah,
29:42
I mean my neighbor and I will be like, oh, storm's rolling
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in your porch, my porch, like, can we watch it close up
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and watch the porch? But I don't know if it's well. It probably
29:56
is global warming. But the storms are rolling in, or at least last
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summer, throughout June especially, they were rolling in so fast and so hard
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it felt more like a tropical storm. Like every day at about four point
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fifteen pm, the skies would darken and it would roll in so hard and
30:17
so fast and be over half an hour later. But you see the remnants
30:22
in the trees, because we've got a lot of tall trees in our neighborhood
30:26
and we watched a tree break in half and just luckily it didn't fall on
30:32
our neighbor's house, but it crushed their entire fence, their entire patio set.
30:37
It was pretty terrifying actually, like watching it happen in real time,
30:42
and you know, twenty feet turn the other direction, it would have gone
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straight through their house. So yeah, I do love a good thunderstorm,
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but they're getting pretty pretty intense. They're whipping up a little bit stronger.
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Lucy, how about yourself? Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think
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I've been saying that, like the tropic go feel like it comes and it
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goes. It's like ferocious and it seems to go. I just don't really
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like precipitation. I feel like that's where I'm at. I feel like the
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thunderstorms. I guess my concern is more the damage sort of as you were
31:14
saying, like I think of flooding, I think of insurance, you know,
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I think of destruction to the cars, or something potentially falling on somebody
31:22
and hurting somebody, or the cleanup after, right, like we've seen that
31:25
the big the big cleanup after, So not a super big fan. I
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do like the idea of sort of going for a nap, like you were
31:32
kind of mentioning like, you know, being cozy and having you know,
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it gives you a little bit of freedom to say, like I'm gonna I'm
31:37
gonna chill, like I'm gonna relax. I'm gonna take it easy because there's
31:41
a thunderstorm, so I'm not gonna go outside. There's no pressure to do
31:42
anything. So I kind of like that, but not a not a huge
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fan, okay, And how about yourself, Ryan, You know, I
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became a fan years ago. I used to help my buddy. He had
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a windsor Star paper route and it was mainly in our neighborhood, but in
31:59
the summer he would fill in for other people in different neighborhoods and there was
32:02
actually like a block from here. We did a route for a week and
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it was the middle of the week and all of a sudden, this huge
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almost just massive, I want to say tsunami, but this huge storm hit
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and we've we're picking up the papers and the papers are ruined right away,
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and it wasn't like I could go home that was right around the corner.
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It was like it was gonna be a ten block walk to go home.
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And we just stood there in the rain and just kind of just enjoyed it.
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It was like, there's nothing we can do at this point. We
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can't even go into the house. There were pre cell phones. Let's just
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stand in the rain and just like wait for the new papers to come.
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And then that's when I learned how to just kind of sit in the middle
32:38
of a storm and just kind of let it kind of begin and end.
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So sometimes, like you said, Murad was saying, you go sit on
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the porch and you watch the storm like you'd watch fireworks. A good summer
32:50
rain is really there's a smell to it. There's there's a presence to it,
32:53
for sure. But these massive storms that we've had for the last couple
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of years that have been blowing you know, trees and all that kind of
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stuff, just and I find they really they come in quick and then they
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then they leave, right, these big, big storms. Well, it's
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different than what we've experienced in the past. That's for sure what we're going
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to do now. End of the show. We liked end of the segment.
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We like to drop our plugged in segment where people can shout out something
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that they think needs some attention. Ryan, let's bring you back in.
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Hey, I'm very excited that windsor Eats is in my neighborhood. We've been
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back like we are in my old neighborhood. We moved up eight back eight
33:30
years ago into kind of the center of town, and I'm so glad that
33:32
windsor Eats is so close because there's there's activity, and there's things going on
33:37
all the time, different themes, different food trucks. I can't endorse enough
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all the cool things. I had a chance to work with Adriano on this
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we ride and Dine project that we're getting ready to launch, and I just
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learned so much about what windsor Eats does and how they do it, and
33:53
I'm just in fascinated by their presence in our neighborhood and I'm glad that.
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I'm glad that they're doing what they do. Want to support them, and
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it's going to be a heck of a little area there once craft heads yea
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and fog ends up opening up there as well, completely going to change the
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area absolutely. Lucy. How about you? What needs to be plugged in?
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Yeah? And I just want to plug in. I mean, the
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carousels just took place for the last two weekends and I just want to see
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how an exceptional job everybody has done. And it felt a bit of that
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revitalization after you know, COVID and people were out, there was lineups and
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I heard so much buzz about it, which was so nice, and it's
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really the representation of our diverse community. So I just wanted to say shout
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out to living in a community that really celebrates diversity. So shout out to
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MCC and to the Carousel Nations. What a fun event. Carousel is a
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great excuse to pop around the entire region and sample the foods of the world.
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Quite frankly, Marad, what needs to be plugged in? I'm going
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to plug in a really great rock show that's happening in Windsor tomorrow night.
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Pony and Talking Violet and Eerie Perennial, all really great Windsor based indie rock
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bands of various persuasions, all playing together at the Meteor Bar, and yeah,
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it should be a fun one, right on. What time is that?
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I think it starts at nine ish t Yeah, yeah, showtime?
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Check Facebook, yeah yeah, look up those bands on Facebook. Off time.
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I'm sure you'll find all the details. And also go pick up a
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DVD box set of Dexter because there's a lot of good shows there too,
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just not for tonight. Go to or stream it, yeah, or stream
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it you can stream of course. Want to thank the Tuesday Roundtable for joining
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me in the studio today, Ryan Richardson of the Go Tell Someone Podcast,
35:40
Lucy Razu, Sieza of Banna, and Murrad or zinch Leoglu Tragic Fate.
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Thank you so much, all of you. We're going to take a break
35:49
right now ten o'clock. We've got the news coming up next. After that,
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we're gonna be joined in studio by Canada's Health Minister Mark Holland to discuss
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investments in our new dental care plan as well as investments to strengthen healthcare,
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and we'll probably get up to some conversations about by elections as well. Don't
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go anywhere, folks, John Lidkey here on AM eight hundred