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This episode was supposed to have show notes but host Matt Stickland had to start going to early morning minor hockey practices again.

This episode was supposed to have show notes but host Matt Stickland discovered that the old MMORPG City of Heroes was still alive and now free.

This week's show is all about road safety because there were no meetings to cover this week and Halifax's road safety strategy isn't and will never work and we here at Grand Parade think that needs to change. Right now. Thank you for your help in this matter and we look forward to seeing you on September 24.

It's a minute long. You can listen for detail as to why that is.

Big weekend in the garden and solo parenting means show notes just aren't a thing today, but are they ever? No, not really, but you get what you pay for.

Real show again next week! Book club is Sept 20th at 2pm at the 5k Cafe

In this episode there is a lot about e-scooters and some stuff about the mayor's office expense scandal that just won't go away. And we also compare and contrast two similarly dangerous activities to explain why this whole e-scooter injury thing has all the hallmarks of a moral panic.

This week is a field trip where host Matt Stickland goes on someone else's podcast to talk about city politics. The Community Game Plan podcast is put on by two real estate agents and they wanted to have Matt on to talk about municipal politics. Which they did. For over an hour. Enjoy the show and don't forget about the survey and the codeword: Farts https://forms.gle/unbbyszBwnDAGnxM6

This week, Matt sits down with Paris Marx to talk about the parallels between tech and transportation and how big tech companies are ruining transportation. Here is that survey I mentioned in the intro: https://forms.gle/48LYfyq5LCsBZYgx8

Halifax's old CAO Cathie O'Toole quit a while ago, and Halifax's long-suffering public servant Brad Anguish has been filling in until a suitable replacement could be found. Well, that replacement was found! Marnie Cluckie, the former CAO of Hamilton, will be Halifax's new CAO come September, and in order to find out what to expect from the new CAO, Matt Stickland interviews Joey Coleman, a city hall reporter in Hamilton, to get a bit of a scouting report.

Sorry, ran out of time for a real EP this week!

In another one of the summer series of shows this week host Matt Stickland sits down with the main author of the study "Rethinking traffic safety: the case for reducing kinetic energy exposure, not just speed" Nick Ferenchak link to the study: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2026/05/27/ip-2026-046229.abstract)

Matt and council are both on vacation this week, so please enjoy this interview with book club book author Thi Nguyen.

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 Matt Stickland breaks down the story Fillmore is trying to tell about how being invesitaged by the RCMP is all a big misunderstanding. In an administrative note, there will be no paper next week and we are blaming Canada Day for this.

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.