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The Grand Parade

Politics

The Grand Parade

Matt Stickland

RCMP investigates Fillmore and other more important things

June 29, 2026 3:03am 1:04

Last week was a big one down at city hall with two bombshell Auditor General audits as well as a cricket debate, and parking fare increase. All of that is in the first half of the show. In the back half of the show host...

Halifax is under a scandal advisory

June 22, 2026 3:01am 1:32

In this week's episode of the show host Matt Stickland breaks down what went down at last Tuesday's council meeting. Then, after an ad break, Matt explains Fillmore's upcoming office expense scandal.

People are dying and nobody cares

June 15, 2026 3:03am 16 min

Sorry for the yelling and swearing. Turn down your volume. The next book club meeting is July 12 at 2 p.m. at MacDonald House on Lawrencetown Road.

How council makes housing unaffordable

June 08, 2026 3:03am 36 min

This is a research deep dive episode where host Matt Stickland goes into the weeds to explain how low property taxes make housing less affordable. Did Matt get anything wrong? Here are his sources: Oates (1969): the effe...

The lies we tell about development fees

June 01, 2026 3:54am 29 min

Very sorry about the lack of show notes here. Personal life being what it was this past week proper show notes will be added (maybe). No one expects show notes from analog radio. This double standard is unfair! Or I'm ju...

The lies we tell about property taxes

May 25, 2026 3:53am 44 min

In this episode, host Matt Stickland goes deep on property tax policies and is forced to confront the fact that two of his long-held beliefs are, in fact, wrong. And a bit about last week's community planning and econom...

Five minutes once a month

May 18, 2026 3:07am 33 min

You can take Halifax's road safety survey right here, if you want: https://www.halifax.ca/home/surveys I can't rememeber what else I said I'd link in the show notes. I'm honestly not even sure I said I'd link this road s...

An award winning podcast episode

May 11, 2026 3:06am 36 min

A slow week at city hall, but a big week for the podcast, as the Grand Parade is now (or will be on June 20) an award-winning podcast! But you can check out the BOPC presentation referenced here: https://www.youtube.com/...

It's not corruption, it's the implication

May 04, 2026 3:05am 1:09

Did you know that show notes are like dinner? At first, they're super fun. You get to tell people about the show, but then it's like, eventually, you realize you have to do it, like every day, three times a day, and then...

What if we had a plan to integrate our mobility?

April 27, 2026 3:04am 53 min

If you are a subscriber, you may have noticed that this episode didn't drop early for ya on the website. This is because something that Substack does as part of it's platform is private podcast RSS feeds for subscribers....

David Hendsbee progressive tax champion

April 20, 2026 3:38am 48 min

If this placeholder text is still here, that means something went wrong with the website swap over the weekend, and I've run out of time to fix everything.

Jurisdictional scan: Portland's transportation utility fee

April 13, 2026 3:32am 1:06

Things referenced: This Strong Towns PDX post Councillor Mitch Green’s Motion The agenda page with links to all of the transportation utility fee reports: https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/establish-ne...

Halifax's passable, mediocre, very mid budget

April 06, 2026 3:58am 56 min

Behold the episode in which host Matt Stickland recaps the glorious week that was March 30 until April 3, 2026, and be entertained. Want to know what else is entertaining? Book club. Which is meeting May 3 at the Old Tri...

Integrated Mobility Failures (feat. some good news), a Mar 23 - 27 council recap

March 30, 2026 3:53am 58 min

In this episode host Matt Stickland comes in hot with some big opinions on Halifax's new Integrated Mobility Plan. The audio quality in parts of the first half of the show are not the best, and this podcast's original mi...

Wanderer Grounds podcast is coming back Soon™

March 23, 2026 3:54am 7 min

I did take the week off as threatened. But I did throw this together for reasons I explain in the show. Book club May 3 at the Old Triangle in Halifax. The book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735252/the-sco...

Halifax (mostly) has a budget, a March 9-13 council recap

March 16, 2026 3:57am 48 min

This week is a return to normalcy which is to say clipped shows. This week starts off host Matt Stickland's opinion of this year's budget. And then after the ad break there's a recap of the the final budget debate and ...

HRM's debt crisis is finally here

March 09, 2026 4:01am 1:17

It's been a full week of budget committee and a full weekend of SEDMHA hockey and a birthday party or two. Our team is taking a nap instead of writing show notes. We do hope you enjoy this week's show. Enjoy? Enjoy mig...

The politics of austerity, a Feb 23-27 council recap

March 02, 2026 4:02am 51 min

In this episode host Matt Stickland recaps last week's council meetings, the good, the bad and the austerity. Even by our lax standards these show notes are sub standard because there's just too much on the go in real l...

Book club bonus: Interview with Wes Marshall

March 01, 2026 12:25pm 56 min

Can't make book club today? Don't worry about it! Here's an interview with the author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer, Wes Marshall, who wrote this month's book

We need to talk about Joanne Macrea, a Feb 16 - 20 budget ctee recap

February 23, 2026 4:01am 1:43

Man what a week that was! Mayor Andy Fillmore is on a tear during budget season and is clearly working as hard as he can to tank the city so we get a good draft pick next season. Or something. These show notes are writte...

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