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In compliance with council directive EX10-63, the Queen City Improvement Bureau broadcasts their weekly meetings from a forgotten sub-basement office deep beneath city hall of Regina, Saskatchewan. On Twitter as @QueenCityIB. Online at QueenCityIB.com. Broadcasts live on real radio, Thurs 7 to 8 pm CST on 91.3 CJTR Regina's community radio station (CJTR.ca).
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We take a tour of some of the NIMBY arguments being use to obstruct the city's intensification plans needed to access $35 million in federal Housing Accelerator Fund money. Plus, the city releases its financial update for 2023 and it makes Aidan laugh very hard. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR, Regina communi…
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We meet with Laura Pfeifer, the city's manager of city revitalization, to talk about the Housing Accelerator Fund and the changes that hath wrought upon yon Lawes Of The Bye. Then we discuss the city's Vision Zero Framework and a proposal to define the entire Cathedral neighbourhood as a Community Safety Zone — the effect of which would be to reduc…
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This meeting of the Bureau is packed with trivial nonsense, like an attempt to rent land off the city for a dollar that goes nowhere and a Clr Nelson Moment that … goes nowhere. Plus, Globe Theatre gets cash! And! Madame Web! Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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News from the Feb 14 2024 city council meeting: Bylaw changes inspired by the federal Housing Accelerator Fund have passed but there are concerns about how the housing-friendly measures will interact with the city's various housing-unfriendly neighbourhood plans. Then, council unanimously passes the North Cental Revitalization Initiative and it inc…
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The QCIB returns to the CJTR studio for the first time in… a very long time. On the agenda: REAL's finances are fffFFFFfff-f-f-f-fairly bad; Councillor Terina Nelson wins Most Insightful Comment By A Councillor Award; Mayors motion to accelerate housing may face province-sized problems; sky-diving Christian babies. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill…
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We celebrate CJTR’s 2023 Radiothon by taking the Queen City Improvement Bureau out of the subbasement and recording our. meeting before a living-human audience in the Rebellion Taproom in the heart of the Warehouse District. We talk to some of the fine folks who came out to support community radio. On the mic with us, we have CJTR station manager N…
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As homeless people build an encampment on city hall's lawn, Mayor Masters clears Henry Baker Hall of malcontents so council can conclude the LeBlanc/Stevens Saga in peace. Plus: Are you one with the Goat Unanimity? And: Rest easy, citizen! Councillor Hawkins is here to defend your parking! Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on…
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Council watcher, Andrew James Reist, visits the subbasement to talk about what inspired him to take an interest in #YQRCC. Then we take a look at council's latest monster — as in, >700 pages — agenda. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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Journalist Alex Birrell visits the subbasement to discuss his piece in Sask Dispatch, "Sexism & Sandra Masters’ City". We also discuss housing and the collapse of Regina's suburban sprawl Ponzi scheme. Plus, it's another instalment of City Council Teenage Super Drama: Redux as Clr Nelson files an integrity complaint against Clr Stevens for spreadin…
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City hall is contemplating big changes for the Scarth pedestrian mall in downtown. Will they put cars on it? Will they keep it car free? Aidan takes the Scarth Survey live on-air! Does it really matter? Yeah… probably not. Plus, from the (tragically thin) Good News folder, the city is applying for $36 million to be used to get 1,100 new homes ready…
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Don Young, executive director of the Cathedral Village Arts Festival, visits the sub-basement to give us a preview of this year's festival. Plus, more cringe at council as there's been an integrity complaint against councillors Dan LeBlanc and Andrew Stevens over their court action against the city manager. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Origi…
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Julian Wotherspoon, the author of the letter supporting Councillor Dan LeBlanc's lawsuit to put an ending-homelessness line item in the 2023 budget, is in the sub-basement to set the record straight about some scurrilous aspersions cast by A Certain City Councillor about the intellectual autonomy of the people who signed said letter. Plus, electric…
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CJTR station manager Neil Adams, aka Salami Dan, visits the subbasement to talk about community radio and the station's membership drive. Then, the Queen City is getting new ward boundaries and some folks are not happy, council takes a third stab at appointing a liaison to the Community & Social Impact Regina board, and the Warehouse District pitch…
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We talk with Derek Pho of CJTR's Rock Mollusk about Regina's Kaiju Prairie Dogs (as one does on a news show). Plus, Aidan is away so we play some audio kludge that's been clotting up my hard drive: • Clr Stevens wants a Municipal Land Development Corp, Clr Nelson has questions • Clr Zachidniak is none too stoked on admin's answers to her Catalyst q…
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How downtown revitalization threatens to eject two of downtown's most vital elements: The Folk Fest & The Farmers Market. Plus, the city ran a "scientific" survey about a prospective downtown arena that told us the same thing we've heard many times before — but somehow it's being spun otherwise. Music by Ryan Hill (Guidewire). Originally broadcast …
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Julian Branch, expert on the city's having of asbestos concrete pipes, is in the sub-basement. Plus, the Transit Challenge and another more-newer survey on whether Regina wants a downtown arena. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcats on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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An interview with Catalyst Committee co-chair and REAL CEO, Tim Reid about the Committee's recommendations, such as their commitment to building a new arena downtown. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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The Catalyst Committee released their highly anticipated recommendations on Feb 24 so we run through the key ones. Plus, Catalyst Committee co-chairs, Tim Reid & Bob Hawkins, conducted a technical briefing for the media and we were there. So you get to hear some of that too. Yay! Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJ…
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Devon Anderson visits the Bureau. She is one of the signers of a letter supporting Councillors LeBlanc & Stevens. We talk with her about why she felt it was important to put her name on that letter. Then, we talk about 2023's Budget That Did Not Balance & how last week admin released a Very Detailed Budget Update With Several Very Detailed Points T…
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We have some good news and bad news. What do you want first? Well, we recorded this already so you're getting the good news first — a tetralogy of good news stories from city hall. Then we have a whole second half of bad. Plus, News Of Yesterday, Today! for Feb 16 1923. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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We had a lot of topics on the agenda but the whole thing ended up being about the Catalyst Committee’s arena proposal and downtown. We brainstorm arena names then talk about "elite projection", the horrendously awful Transform Downtown website & fare-free transit for youth. It's all connected. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire) Originally broadcast…
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Activist extraordinaire, community organizer & Twitter trash-talker, Kale MacClellan, visits the bureau to talk about the homelessness crisis and the city’s various responses to it. Also, we create a word horde of local swears for 2023: The Year Of Creative Cussing. Plus: News Of Tomorrow, TODAY! from the pages of the Jan 26 1923 Regina Morning Lea…
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We look back at some of the big stories from 2022 including some unfinished business around the re-car-ification of FW Hill Mall. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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A discussion of the 2023 to 2024 budget process (that I'm pretty sure we refer to as the 2022 to 2023 budget process throughout … that's A Mistake!) and the results of the Catalyst Committee survey. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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This is one QCIB meeting you’re not going to want to miss! Aidan fills in the Catalyst Committee's online survey! For a full hour! For real! Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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It's all catalyst content in the latest meeting of the Queen City Improvement Bureau. We talk with University of Regina geography professor Vanessa Mathews about day one of the Catalyst Committee's public consultation — that was the day dedicated to the proposed downtown arena. Then, we discuss the shifting plans for the new aquatic centre. Will it…
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The Catalyst Committee was formed in July to develop a long-range plan for the siting and financing of a new downtown hockey arena to replace the Brandt Centre, a new aquatic centre to replace the Lawson, and a new, pro-quality baseball facility to replace the Red Sox’s home at Currie Field. It will also be considering the plans to rebuild the main…
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We talk about the slow-motion demise of the amusement tax, the rise of the Affordable Fun Policy and the appointment of a new city manager. Plus, parking minimum switcheroo! Councillor Bresciani turns a motion to remove parking minimums into an amendment to make them bigger! Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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The Bureau talks Shawbacle, proposed library central branch rebuild, Regina's old-timey movie tax. Plus, song by Wade Sakundiak. Theme by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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Councillor Shaw issues an apology (of sorts) though neither integrity complaint against her resulted in any sanction. Plus, council votes to continue its red light camera program. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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Eric Hill visits the sub-basement with a wrap-up report on Swamp Fest’s return to live shows. Plus, the Shawbacle continues. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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What does Mayor Masters hate more than anything? If you were going to say "walk on motions", NOT SO FAST! We look at an instance where Mayor Masters was pretty OK with a walk on motion. Also, added bonus this episode: Parking lots. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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We chat with folk who’ve turned out to the 2022 Regina Folk Festival. Theme music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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Jacq Brasseur is back in the sub-basement with a bee in their bonnet about the proposed Community Safety & Well-Being Organization. Plus, we talk parking lots and the Taylor Field Neighbourhood Promise that council seems to be forgetting. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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We all knew this day was coming. Two formal complaints have been lodged with the city's Integrity Commissioner over things ward 7 councillor Terina Shaw has said. Plus, we look at plans for a new hockey arena that could be placed at a secret location downtown and we talk about the council's density loophole and their decision to permit more surface…
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Jennifer Fix is the founder of Ahne Studio, an urban design and community engagement firm that works with cities across Canada to build OCPs, heritage districts, downtown plans and neighbourhood plans. Jennifer is also a Regina resident. So, as Regina city council looks set to crack open their OCP to give themselves the ability to lower density tar…
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Administration has dropped their "Density Target for New Neighbourhoods Report" in which they recommend giving council discretion to lower the OCP's density targets for certain development proposals. We speak with UofR geography professor about that recommendation and about Regina's sprawl problem.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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No regular meeting this week because the bureau is on holiday. Aidan has gone fishing with Morgbot and the Leopard in the weeping tile. I had planned to go on a climbing expedition into the air conditioning vents but then… the reports for the July 6 executive committee meeting dropped. They were significant. To say the least. So I cut my ductwork s…
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We talk with Kale MacLellan about … strange remarks by Councillor Terina Shaw (natch). Plus we talk about changes to the agreements that govern Regina Exhibition Association Ltd and Economic Development Regina. And! Fire sprinklers! Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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Aidan creates his own AI replacement. It goes as expected. Then, an interview with Hamilton singer-songwriter BA Johnston about his new album and tour, his show Ham Jam and his kid book. Finally, an interview with ward 3 councillor Andrew Stevens about infrastructure funding, the proposed new aquatic facility, water treatment and other stuff. Music…
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Spring is now fully well sprung and the Bureau runs through all the spring news releases from upstairs, including: The Queen City is a Tree City, the Public School Board needs a by-election, spray pads are turned on, bugs are gonna die. Plus, a look at an administration recommendation to try to use federal transit money to fund a new aquatic centre…
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Councillor Zachidniak visits the sub-basement to discuss her appointment to the Green Municipal Fund Council while I gush about what a stone-cold hotty Canada's environment minister is. Steven Guilbeault? More like Steven Dreamboat, am I right? Plus, with Eurovision season over, it's time for the Cathedral Village Arts Festival which is coming back…
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Want some Eurovision cool mixed in with your city hall hot takes? Then you came to the right municipal affairs podcast. It's all Eurovision Song Contest, parking minimums & bylaw enforcement funding on the QCIB this week. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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We speak with the Duke Of Moose Jaw about a vile attempt by the Ramona Dudoolio, the Queen Of Canada, to invade his domain. Then, we visit the Queen City's new indoor skate park and talk about the Transit Master Plan. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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We took a week off so it's a catch up day for the Bureau. We have some happy news on the Energy & Sustainability Framework front and there was a new Waste Plan report released that's pretty much identical to all the old Waste Plan reports (and that's not a good thing). Plus, we look at the steamy romantic entanglements between the City of Regina an…
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The Energy & Sustainability Framework wends its way from council and committee. We look at some of the twists and turns it has taken. Even more importantly! We speak with an unsung superhero of the Queen City media scene: Graham Condo, the guy who videos council and committee meetings for Access TV. We are big fans. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hil…
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Our former intern, Sharrod Claerg returns. (Though he insists it's spelled "Jared Clarke" but that looks wrong.) He brings Yvette Crane from Regina Energy Transition with him and they talk about climate action and the city's just-launched Energy & Sustainability Framework. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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Regular guest, Jacq Brasseur, is back in the sub-basement to discuss the Ottawa Occupation saga. Plus, the city manager was let go, what's up with that? And we have a look at — and through — Councillor LeBlanc's transparency motion. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.…
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The Bureau connects with current Ottawa resident and former Leader Post reporter, David Fraser, to find out how life is going in our occupied capital. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM CJTR.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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On the agenda: a look at the Ottawa Freedom Convoy and a consideration of what we actually need to do to live with COVID. Plus, and interview with Erica Beaudin from Regina Treaty/Status Indian Services about the rapid housing project on north Broad Street.Από τον Queen City Improvement Bureau
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