Lockdown Toronto Pod6ix

The failure of Ontario's pandemic response is palpable. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has dropped the ball with what seems like reactionary and nonsensical policy measures from closing down playgrounds, to arbitrary stop and search powers given to police, to permitting Covid hotspots such as construction and warehouses to continue operating. Ontario it seems has has had enough.  

Sitting member of the official opposition, Member of Provincial Parliament Tom Rakocevic (NDP - Humber River—Black Creek) returns to Lockdown Toronto for our one-year anniversary episode and helps us understand the current frustrations with Ontario's terrible leadership. 

You can follow Tom at:
https://twitter.com/RakocevicT


Cited in this cast:

Washington Post: Doug Ford Must Resign


Ottawa Citizen: COVID-19 science advisory table says it did not select hot spot postal codes


CBC: Doug Ford's popularity plummets as pandemic takes its toll


CBC: The inside story of Doug Ford's COVID-19 climbdowns


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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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Colin Furness is an infection control epidemiologist, and has spent the bulk of his work developing tools that track the spread of infectious diseases and he currently works at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor at the faculty of information.

He joins us in this episode to speak on Covid 19, what its potential "ugly" third wave looks like, and the future of how Toronto and the world will and should deal with this disease. We go local to global in our exploration of this topic, infection spread, opening of schools, and more.

It's a great show and informative on the new variants of Covid-19 and what to expect with society opening up.

It's a long overdue discussion on Lockdown Toronto and a great listen. Enjoy.

Colin Furness, contact info.

Cited in this cast:
New York Times: In Hunt for Virus Source, W.H.O. Let China Take Charge

Time Magazine: Taiwan Says It Tried to Warn the World About Coronavirus. Here’s What It Really Knew and When

Globe and Mail: China points finger at U.S. as WHO experts offer vindication to Wuhan lab

Globe and Mail: White House cites ‘deep concerns’ about WHO COVID-19 report, demands early data from China

NPR.org: Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says

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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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On Jan 15, 2021, MPP Roman Baber (York Centre) made public a letter to his boss, Premier of Ontario Doug Ford just as Ontario was at the height of its second wave of Covid-19 cases and announced its second Provincial Emergency. Roman Baber is a member Doug Ford's progressive conservatives and argued in his letter for the exact opposite approach: end lockdown. He was fired from his party as a result, and now sits in Queen's Park as an independent.  

In this episode we explore why he wrote the letter, the politics of opposing your own party and the fallout. We also go into why he believes a lockdown is doing more harm than good. 

NOTE: Lockdown Toronto is a show that explores aspects of our collective experience in lockdown during the pandemic. It has always been a show that elevates nuance over absolutes. It is not about validating one viewpoint over another but providing a space for conversations happening around the policies and effects of lockdown in Toronto. 

Cited in this cast:

MPP Roman Baber's Letter:
https://twitter.com/Roman_Baber/status/1350039239090601984

Government of Ontario's Fact Sheet issued in response to Roman Baber's letter.
https://www.scribd.com/document/490849502/Government-s-fact-sheet

MPP Roman Baber's Petition
https://www.romanbaber.ca


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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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Floyd Marinescu is the co-founder of InfoQ and QCon - a conference on software innovation and also the CEO and activist for UBI Works Canada, an organization that encourages the support of a universal basic income (UBI)  Canada.

We discuss the need for UBI, the criticisms of it, the effect of automation on Canadian jobs, and why the time is now to implement UBI during a pandemic and economic crisis. 

Cited in this cast:

CEOs Case For Basic Income
https://CEOsForBasicIncome.ca/

Motion 46 on UBI in Canada, 43rd Parliament
https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/leah-gazan(87121)/motions/10852236

Recovery UBI
https://www.ubiworks.ca/recovery

UBI Works
https://www.ubiworks.ca

UBI Works Twitter
https://twitter.com/ubi_works

Floyd Marinescu on Twitter
https://twitter.com/floydmarinescu

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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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Aengus Bridgman is a Political Scientist and PHD Candidate at McGill University, a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and works with the Media Ecosystem Observatory.

Aengus is also the co-author of the study "The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media" and joins Lockdown Toronto to discuss its findings and futher implications and ideas regarding coronavirus, conspiracy theory in a larger context, data sharing, and the role of social media companies and governments in regulating misinformation.

It is an incredibly interesting discussion. Enjoy.

Aengus Bridgman can be reached at:
https://abridgman.ca/

https://twitter.com/aengusbridgman

Media Ecosystem Observatory
https://mediaecosystemobservatory.com/

Cited in this cast:

STUDY: The causes and consequences of COVID-19 misperceptions: understanding the role of news and social media

CBC: COVID-19 conspiracy theories creating a 'public health crisis' in Canada, experts say

CBC: When it comes to COVID-19 misinformation, even some health-care workers fall prey, study finds


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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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Brian Tao is a professional photographer and amateur documentarian of the anti-mask movement in Toronto. His videos depicting some of the anti-mask rallies have gone viral and we spend this episode discussing them, the anti-mask movement, the motivations of its participants and other forces at play.

Cited in this show:

Brian Tao's Youtube Page

https://www.youtube.com/c/BrianTao/videos



$#!+ Covidiots Say Video Series

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax0ZWF30Wow

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5kgNM_Fr4s

Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TInQ0CpSY6A



"Ontario Civil Liberties Association" 

http://ocla.ca/



Letitia Montana at CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-hospital-masks-refusal-1.5639057



Brian Tao Coverage at the Toronto Sun

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/my-iq-is-195-video-of-karen-at-toronto-anti-mask-protest-goes-viral



Dunning–Kruger effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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Launched in April 2020, Lockdown Toronto is a new vodcast/podcast series hosted by Robert Andreacchi that focuses on the experience of living under lock down in Toronto. Lockdown Toronto will feature various guests from the medical, political, cultural, and business community, and everyone in-between.

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