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The Grand Parade
A Halifax city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.
Episodes
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Transportation Advisory Committee Bangers
Municipal engineer Paul Young has a vision for a “major behavioural change” within Halifax: Converting all urban speed limits in the HRM to 30 kilometres per…
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Wasting good money on bad outcomes
In this episode, Matt and Martin talk at great length about Otego Drive (https://maps.app.goo.gl/4VNHawhGx99YwVrr6) and what that little street can teach us…
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Should Halifax de-amalgamate?
In this Grand Parade episode, Coast reporters Matt Stickland and Martin Bauman dive into the HRM's Integrated Mobility Plan and what it secretly…
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Why isn't the IMP working?
In this week’s episode of The Grand Parade, Coast reporters Matt Stickland and Martin Bauman discuss Halifax’s Integrated Mobility Plan, and Matt convinces…
The Grand ParadeWanderers President Derek Martin Wants a Stadium
Halifax Wanderers CEO Derek Martin has dreams of a permanent 8,500-seat stadium in Halifax's downtown. Last week, the Canadian Premier League soccer club…
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More tents coming to Halifax parks
Matt and Martin are back to walk through the council's antics from last Tuesday's meeting. Was council's reaction just theatrics? Do they bear more…
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Robbing ourselves to pay the Irvings
In this epidsode of the Grand Parade Matt catches Martin up on all of things that have and have not been happening at city hall over the summer. The two talk…
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Answering your Qs about Olivia Chow
During the live Grand Parade recording, two listeners asked what Matt thought Olivia Chow's election as mayor of Toronto would mean for the city. The answers…
The Grand ParadeFriends of the Common vs Wanderers
This episode of the Wanderer Grounds is a crossover episode! Last week the Friends of the Commons local advocacy group put a post on their website letting…
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Full on tragedy of the commons
Take heed of the old phrase, “Be careful what you wish for.” Back in 2005, when Nova Scotia introduced its Capped Assessment Program, the stated goal was to…
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Live show: Regional plan and carbon tax
In this episode Matt and Martin head to the Central Library to do a live show on a Tuesday night. They talk about the regional plan review, the upcoming carbon…
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We're doing a live show June 27!
Come on down the Paul O'Regan Hall at the public library to watch Marting and Matt suffer through an hour or so of imposter syndrome as we do a live recording…
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The fires in Tantallon
In this episode of The Grand Parade podcast, Coast reporters Matt Stickland and Martin Bauman reflect on the harsh lessons learned from the Tantallon…
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Realism of loud car mufflers
In this episode Matt and Martin talk mainly about cars and apartments. The first bit of the episode is devoted to Matt telling Martin how foreign policy theory…
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Regulate me like one of your French girls
In this episode Matt and Martin go over a climactic end to the budget season as council sticks it themselves. They passed a climate tax and a carbon subsidy in…
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A few bad apples
In this episode Martin and Matt break down the budget, the land lord registry and talk about parking. Again. Arts editor Morgan Mullin comes on to tell us how…
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Budget preview: Utopian high school hockey
Can you dunk on Matt? In this episode Martin has the full city budget adjustment list in front of him, and Matt only has a mic. Did he screw up? Also in this…
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Big budget talks
This week Matt and Martin talk budget at city hall. It was a big few weeks so the two try and walk us through some big budget talks. Matt is joined later in…
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A Grand don't come for free
In this Episode Matt is joined by Co-worker Martin Bauman and the two talk about city council, budget season, the police commissioners breaking the law and UK…
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Won't somebody think of the landlords?
In this episode Coast journalists Matt and Martin talk to Halifax resident Paul about the province's plan to hamstring the city, and the city's plan to…
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Budget, Bike lanes, Battlestar Galactica
The Coast's city hall reporter Matt Stickland is joined by his fellow Coast reporter Martin Bauman and Halifax resident Ben MacLeod. They talk bike lane cost…
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Dalhousie smack down and a trip to Ontario
Morning fellow Haligonians! Today's episode I have on my co-workers Kaija Jussinoja and Martin Bauman. We talk about how councillors clapped back at Dalhousie…
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Does Nathan Fielder make HRM policy?
This week Matt is joined by guests Hannah Bing and Jenn Lee to talk about policy changes, World Juniors, the lack of oversight for police and adult equivalent…
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Pizzagate but unironically
This week Matt has returning guest Stephen and new guest Paul on to talk communism, austerity and pizzacornergate.
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Spring Garden failures and secretive police
In the Coast's inaugural episode host and Coast reporter, Matt Stickand is joined by guests Ben MacLeod and Steve MacKay to talk about everything that council…