Inside the Village - A weekly podcast featuring newsmakers in Ontario
Where all news is local, and no topic is off-limits. Join us every week for a unique podcast that explores the most important stories of all: the ones right in your neighbourhood. A rundown of the best local journalism—big and small—from Village Media newsrooms across Ontario.
Inside the Village - A weekly podcast featuring newsmakers in Ontario
The ‘green’ in Greenbelt
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Jessica Smith-Cross, Aidan Chamandy, Michael Friscolanti, Scott Sexsmith
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Season 2
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Episode 30
This week on Inside the Village, Scott and Frisco unpack the recent bombshell report from Ontario’s auditor-general, who found that Doug Ford’s government gave “preferential treatment” to prominent developers during last year’s controversial Greenbelt changes. Bonnie Lysyk’s report reads like a hidden camera, explaining how certain developers used their “direct access” to a senior political staffer to push for their plots of land to be removed from the Greenbelt. Here to explain the revelations are two journalists who know the story as well as anyone: Jessica Smith-Cross and Aidan Chamandy of The Trillium, Village Media’s online news source at Queen’s Park.
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