March 10, 2025 • 31 mins
Norm Murray speaks with Mississauga Ward 1 Councillor, Stephen Dasko about the new U.S. Tariffs imposed upon Canada, as well as what else is happening in his part of the city!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stream us live at SAGA nine sixty Am dot C.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm Nora Murray. You're listening to news Talk SAGA nine sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Great to have you long today. Well, it's that time
of the month when we get to speak with our
friend Stephen Dasco. He is the Ward one counselor in Mississauga.
Go to Stephendasco dot com and I get caught up
on everything happening in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
His part of the city. And of course, as you know.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
When we chat at the beginning of every month, like
we do, we talk about Ward one and also just
you know, Council in general, I guess, and a little
bit about Peel and sometimes international matters. Not that there's
anything exciting internationally going on these days, is nudge, nudge,
wink wink. But anyway, Stephen Dasco, great to have you today.
How are you today, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm doing terrific. Great to hear your voice. Norm. I
can't believe another month has gone by again.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I know here we are. That's right at the beginning
of March. The IDEs of March out.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like a lion in like a lamb. No wait a minute,
I missed that. I messed that up.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
In like a lion out like a lamb March I think, yeah, anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Something like that. But you know the happy part of
that is it's March break, That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, Now does that affect matters in ward one in
your part of the city in any way other than
the obvious when school's out, But I mean, what's going
on for March break?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What's going on in March Break? Well, we actually do
have some activities happening throughout the city very locally. We
do have the Port Credit, BIA is going to be
hosting this Saturday. It's going to be called Wicked Winter
in the Port and it's a nice, a nice theme
on wicket of course, and they've got some great things
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all planned up for everybody, so it should be it
should be a really nice, really nice time of things
down in Port Credit if you're up for something. And
then we've also got with our skating trail. We're probably
getting into the last week next week of our skating trail.
Shortly thereafter is when they is when they shut it
down and start to get things all prepared and all
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ready for the upcoming season of spring and summer.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, the tree is still up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
The tree is still up. Yeah, it'll be coming down
right after the March break kind of interval there, and yeah,
that'll come down. And then shortly thereafter, as I say that,
the wrinkle come down. And also the Lakeview Walking Trails,
the two trails that are there, they have been opened
since January, and they'll they'll get wound down as well,
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and they'll start getting the course already the upcoming golf season.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, yeah, we're talking about the skate trail by the
Way Memorial Park for those wondering. And the fabulous tree that's.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Lit and went up.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I guess it went up around Christmas time and it's
been up ever since, right Stephen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It has, it has and we've kept it. So it
was our it's our Christmas tree that we put up.
It's a twenty five foot tree with over twelve thousand
lights on it, and we kept it up at Christmas time.
It added in very nicely to all the other trees
that have been lit up down in the park. And
so the decision was, Okay, we've got our Christmas tree,
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and then after Christmas, we can't call it a Christmas
tree because that's for next season, so we're just calling
it our winter tree, so it's remained up there, and
it's actually in pretty good shape. I was out there
yesterday walking through the park with staff looking at a
few different things, and we're checking out actually how resilient
the tree has been.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Very nice. Stephen Dasco joins us Stephen as the ward
one counselor and Miss Saga. We chat with them at
the beginning of every month just to find out what's
happening in ward. One go to Stephendasco dot com for
all the updates and meetings and such, some of which
you can take part in, and he and his staff
are amazing at giving everybody the updates on this sort
of stuff. But you know what, the talk of the
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town around here is not the wicked winter so to speak,
that we've had Steven so much, although yes, it has
been a bit of a wicked winter for a couple
of weeks there temperature wise, and may still. But everybody's
talking about what's happening south of the border and now
here in Canada because we are greatly affected by the tariffs,
of course, imposed upon us by the Donald Trump administration
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in the United States, which is going to affect a
lot of people. And I wonder what your thoughts are
on that, if you could touch upon that, because there
are many serious issues that this approaches, number one being
jobs and such. I would imagine what has been the
talk around council as far as you've been able to determin.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sure, this is one that we hear, whether we like
it or not. And I think, well, the vast majority
of us, for very good reason, we never thought that
we would hear something like this. We had a whole
election fought actually in Canada back in nineteen eighty eight,
which was the free trade election. And here we are
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decades later, where we've got one of our closest allies
essentially coming out with an all out economic assault on
us and completely unacceptable, and even the mere inference that
we're becoming some sort of other appendage to the United
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States is beyond defensive. And we are Canada. We're true,
nor strong and free and very proud of who we are.
That's who we are as a country. And it's incredible
to see that ground swallow, the amount of people that
have come up purchasing flags, and and also the calls
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that we get in asking about our procurement policies. For example,
at the City and at the region and and these
are ones that were very very conscious UH as we're
going forward to UH to ensure that is wherever we
can buying buying Canadian, we're going right along with what
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Ontario and UH in Canada UH to our doing. So
there's a unified front out there. I actually was going
to bring forward a motion that was going to say
that we purchased local and and that being Canadian, Ontario
and Mississauga, and these are kind of the ones that
we look at predominantly and UH. And then what's ended
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up happening is UH our Economic Development team along with
the mayor and and and others around council, we're all
united in that. And and this is something that I
think everybody is is wrangling with right now. We had
the President speaking in the United States speaking last night
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to Congress, and you know, so here we are. But
this is one that I don't think anybody in you
know that that's that's rational, is going to think lightly of.
This is one that that we'll tackle head on. But unfortunately,
this is this is going to be, you know, a
situation that is going to negatively affect everybody, at least
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in the short run. See how this all plays out
and and hopefully cooler heads prevail and and acknowledge that
we're much better together, working well and getting things done.
You know, we get a lot of talk happening about
Fenton al going from Canada over to the United States.
Quite frank personally, I'd like to hear a lot more
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talk about that two way street where we're finding far
too many guns coming from the United States illegally into
Canada as well. And that's what we tend to contend
with when it comes to, for example, Mississauga and Peel
Regional Police to be able to give them some of
those tools that they need to be able to deal
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with issues like Fentannel because we deal with that as well.
But we're also dealing with guns that are very porously
coming over from down south to the north as well.
So a lot of issues to deal with. But at
the same time, if we roll up our sleeves and
do what united together, we'll get through this, and we'll
get it through it stronger at the end of it
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all too.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So are you not of the belief, like Donald Trump
has said, that Canada has taken advantage of the United
States and treated the States very poorly over the years.
You're not buying into.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That truly feel that this is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You know, it sounds sounds ridiculous bargaining positions.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think that that one likes to put forward. You know,
you try to come up with something over the top,
and then you know that's your you know, kind of
your foot in the door to try to work on something.
I don't feel we've been been bad neighbors. Quite the contrary.
I think we've been exceptional neighbors. Areas like the state
of Florida profit immensely, uh during the winter seasons. Uh,
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you know, with a lot of the snowbirds that are
going down between Florida and UH through Arizona, et cetera.
And and we've always had respect for the United States
and and UH and there has been a respect from
the United States to Canada. And I think by and large,
the American people look at us that way and we
look at them that way. And it's just more of
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a politics of personality right now that is unfortunate causing
us some problems.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
One last thing on the tariffs. We're speaking with Stephen
dasco Ward one councilor Mississauga. All the municipalities are chiming
in with their own opinions. I'll just quickly mention two
of them. Mayor Patrick Brown of Brampton said the retaliatory
strategy for Brampton is twofold with their made in Canada response,
starting with a review of the city's current procurement you
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use that word, which he said totals one point nine
billion dollars, and then by blocking American businesses from future
contracts in favor of Canadian ones. Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish,
I'm sure you're aware of this, Stephen. In a letter
to Mississauga residents and businesses today apart me yesterday, I
should say, it was said that the city will be
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impacted by Trump's tariffs, with the manufacturing sector particularly vulnerable.
Initial projections estimated about six hundred thousand job losses, she
wrote in her letter, which amounts to a two to
three percent increase in the unemployment rate. And then finally,
she said, the mayor says that this is Carolyn Paris
saying the city will pass amendments to its procurement by
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law today Wednesday, which will allow us this is her quote,
which will allow us to prioritize Canadian and non US
suppliers when possible, especially for medium and high value projects,
and streamline the process to support more local, diverse and
smaller businesses unquote. Now she said Mississauga spent over seven
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hundred and thirty million dollars on procurements last year, and
she also says the city will support local businesses in
diversifying into new markets beyond the US. That's Carolyn Paris
Steven any thoughts on that just you probably heard about this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yesterday, absolutely, and as I was saying, this is this
is the direction that we all need to be moving
in a united way, and you know, adding it all up,
it will it will make an impact, no mistake about it.
America is of significant size and they are a massive
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economic power, as you know. But the largest trading partners
that we have is Canada to the United States and
the United States to Canada. And that's just how it is.
So all of these things adding up with everybody going
in the same direction is really what we need right now?
Is unity?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well put? Definitely so and moving on.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I mean, we could talk about this for hours and
we probably will as the months go on. That's the thing,
because this is apparently a malleable or what's the word
fluid situation potentially as well, So we don't know if
this will change going forward in the days sometimes even
the hours to come. Steven, it's a bit frustrating for me.
That's the way I look at it is. You know,
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we call this show the Norm. What's the norm? What's
the new norm? You know what's normal? Change is normal,
and it seems to be a lot of change every
day as anyway. So that's that we're going to have
to hold onto our seats here and see how this
all plays out. But I know you and Mayor Carroll
and Parrish and everybody else in council will have your
ear to the ground and making sure that you're doing
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the very best in the interests of Mississauga residents and businesses.
Talking about businesses, what's going on in import credit or
along ward one in general? You've got any new businesses
piping up here? I mean it's just getting into March.
So is that a good time?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh? We've got yeah, we've got some great things. And
I will say, you know, in times of uncertainty, that's
why more than ever we need your show The Norm
to know that that there is a norm out there
and what is going on right now is far from it.
So keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Thanks really, I appreciate that very much. But you know what,
there must be some frustration and confusion amongst the businesses
in Ward one and everywhere, but in your ward, Stephen,
they must be coming to you sometimes with hopes for answers.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, oh absolutely, we do get questions of all different
sorts and wherever we can, we will always go to
bat for everybody in the community. And if we don't
have the answers, we'll get them. If it's at a
different level of government, we'll get them exactly to where
everybody needs to be. And if there's a you know,
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anything that we can work on together, we'll certainly be
able to do that as well. So you're saying what's
happening locally, Well, I've got a friend of mine. His
name is a King. A King has a restaurant called
a Means Kitchen and it is a wonderful Nigerian restaurant.
It's at Dixie and Dundas on the north easterly end
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of the ward and for just last month it was
our Black Excellence Awards happened up at City Hall and
he actually we won for the best restaurant and just
a really interesting spot. It's always very welcoming and they
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make very traditional food. It's very good. If you're a
fan of Jolliffe, well, they probably make the best in
the city. And so that's a local one, probably my
first local plug to make for you. There.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Nice, it sounds really good. I'm always open for the
idea of restaurants, new restaurants, of course, and we wish
them all the best going into springtime. They should get
a lot of traffic, I certainly hope.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's a great spot of family
run restaurants. They've actually got another location as well in
Cooksville at Dixie Air Sorry at Here Ontario and Dunbass
as well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Awesome, very good. Have you been.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Do you get out to cut many ribbons lately or
is it too cold for that?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Lately?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The ribbon cutting has not been as fluid as you
would say up to now, however, speaking of fluids, a
place that has been reopened is as I think last
time we were chatting, the Brogue in the Brogue, Irish
cub owned by the Donnelly family had closed down the
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Donnelly's decided that they were going to retire after years
of serving the community. And we now have the Donegal
Arms which has just opened up and they will be
up open. They're open now and they're going to be
welcoming people for Saint Patrick's Day coming up. And it
is right at here, Ontario and Lake Shore and Mike
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and the gang will be more than happy to welcome everybody.
They've made some minor changes to the place, but as
you walk in, you'll definitely have that warm welcome of
a traditional old Irish pub.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, it sounds good. Stephen Dasco joins us. Go to
Stephen Dasco dot com. He is the Ward one counselor
in Mississauga and there's always something going on on the website.
Two great photos there and you can follow along with
any meetings that are coming up or any announcements that
need to be made. That may not be the most
exciting thing to talk about, but you always have it
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up there and your team does a great job to
ensure everybody in.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Ward was Ward one is informed. So you do a
great job with that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Thank you, thank you, And speaking of which we do
have coming up, and that's tonight you can get the
information on how to log on my website. There is
going to be a call, a virtual call that's being
hosted by the province and this is with regards to
the Disaster Relief Fund Disaster Relief Ontario Fund. It was
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awarded to folks that are along the little of Toboco Creek.
There's a few other areas, but this is one that
affects Ward One. I wanted to mention and so this
is from the floods that happened this past summer. With
a lot of the damage that happened. We had over
three hundred homes in Ward one that were affected by it.
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And so that call is going to be held. I
know counselor Fonseka in Ward three, she was significantly impact
with her residents and so that call is for both
both wards and so I really encourage everybody if you can,
and if you were affected by these floods, to find
out what type of relief you're able to get and
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how to get that information into the province, what the
protocols are. And you just go to my website at
Stephen Dasco dot ca and once you get on that
you'll find out how that you can log on to
that call and that will be starting at seven pm.
So please all are welcome that would like to attend that.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Awesome, that's great, Thank you for doing that. Well, that's great.
So I mean, is this a bit of a quiet time.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Of year overall compared to fornetic pace that's kept in
ward one in the summertime especially, is a.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Little bit of a dry time right now.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I realize there's winter activities certainly, but you know, is
this a bit of a reprieve, a little bit of
a break for you or are you just going seven
days a week as usual?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh, it's seven days a week. And we've got some
really great stuff coming up as well. This is one
that I'm really really excited. You know, we have got
just an incredible staff at the City of Mississauga that
do such incredibly great work. We have it at the
region as well. They do very good work. And you know,
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there were just so fortunate to have our local governments
doing incredibly So I will tell you on the Mississauga
side what's coming up this month so far. We just
had the pedestrian cycling bridge down at Marina Park right
by the lighthouse. That bridge had been closed because of
the new park that is going to be opened up
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very very soon, and they had to do significant change
to the grading of of that park, and so the
it had been closed, it's now open. I was able
to get them to move the fencing off on either
side so that people could could start using that bridge again.
So it's now open to everybody. It's very exciting. Our
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staff again have done just an incredible job with it.
And I'm going to give a shout out to Steph
Schapanski and Jeff Bain. These these two guys are they
do a lot of our parks works right across the city,
but they are, as far as I'm concerned, second to
none with what they've come up with. And so this is, uh,
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this is one that I think everybody will be happy
to see the whole park when it opens. It's it's
a show stopper. We've got that. So that'll be coming up.
But also I had I had asked our staff as
well for Carmen Corbus and Community Center. I said, I
really want it open in March, and they said, okay,
well it's going to be a stretch, but we'll see
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what we can do. They came back and they said
we can open the center except for the pools because
that's taken a little longer. That'll open in May. But
a little bit cheeky, but they still did it. It's
still set to open for March thirty first.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, cheeky.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't hear that word often enough anymore, Steven.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's an oldie, but a goldie.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's right. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And if you want another sign of the season, we
just had this past weekend, the Mississauga Library had the
Seed Library open and this was It was great. It
has gotten really large. It started off at the Port
Credit Library was held there for a number of years.
It then moved over to the Small Arms Inspection Building
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because it started part of the fun growing. And now
there was up at the Hazel mccallian Library. There was
I went up to go see it and there was
hundreds upon hundreds of people there with breakout rooms with
people learning about how to plant their boulevard for blooming
boulevards for example, and we just had Mississauga clover Leaf
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Garden Club. There's just a whole group of different people there.
It was unbelievable to see and all doing just a
tremendous job of things. So spring is on the way.
It almost doesn't feel like it, you know, goes from
freezing cold and a ton of snow to the rain
that we've been having in the warmer weather. But we
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are getting there, We're moving in the right direction. So
there's a lot happening under the behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I guess you could say, yeah, I know, I was thinking,
you know, before speaking to you today, that a sure
sign of spring. Next week, yard waste pickup starts in Mississauga.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh you know, isn't that incredible? So if you didn't
get your tree picked up, and you couldn't drop it
off at the recycling center, then you can bring it
out to the curb and finally get that taken away.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
O kidding, absolutely did you? Did you know Edna Toath?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I did, albeit it was more from I had met her.
She was also a former Citizen of the Year, a
long standing advocate for the needy and those that that were,
you know, the marginalized, some of our marginalized community, tireless
advocate and unfortunately, as you're mentioning, she passed away. And
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and so I know that there's a memorial this week.
I'll be be attending.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay, yeah, mississaugas Citizen of the Year in twenty eleven,
Edna Toath. There's a beautiful picture over at where are
we here? Mississauga dot com, missus the miss Saga News
also is carrying it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Remembered as a proper Grammar.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Enthusiast who did incredible work and as you pointed out,
Stephen anti poverty advocate and journalist, passing away at the
age of ninety three. But I didn't know if many
of our listeners might remember Edna Toath. I hope I
said her last name correctly. It is Toath right, not.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Tok Some people say tast, some people say toth. But
I will also mention that another long standing advocate for
those that need it, that are marginalized, Michelle Beelick. She
was actually up at Peel Region and paid tribute to
her last week at regional council.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay, so what else do you want to talk about, Steven?
Have you? I mean, even in.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
The lead up to March, here we are we've gone
through a provincial election. Of course, practically since the last
time I spoke to you, not quite, but all most
it was announced and then it happened like it was
about five weeks or so and then we're done and
now here we are with another full mandate for the
premiere of Ontario.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Your thoughts on the election that just happened.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, it was it was It was a sprint, that's
for sure. You know, it came in and all of
a sudden bang, it's it's done. And it was incredible
to see all of these signs from all the different
different political parties all put up in snow banks and
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things of that nature, and during snowstorm they're getting covered up,
and it was it really was just one for the books,
that's for sure. But it was it was great to
get out and cast my ballot, Miss Maria, did you know,
my whole family did. We were all out because these
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are one of the things that that you're able to do.
You've got that ability to go out and cast your
vote for whoever you'd like, and that's one that people
have literally fought wars over or prevented from doing, and
we're able to do that and it's an honor to
go out and cast a ballot.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I agree with you on that, regardless of the time
of year. Some people were griping about it being in
February and such, and I just kept thinking back to
you know, there was a stand up comedian. I'm trying
to remember who it was, but he said something along
the lines of, you know, there are people in countries
who are dodging bullets to get to the ballot box,
and that is literally quite true. And here we are
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in Canada able to walk up, you know, and as
you pointed out, you know, have the honor really of
making our vote count. Anyways, so that's behind us now
and we're going forward with another four years with Doug
Ford as he wanted and asked for at one hundred
and eighty million dollars price tag to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So anyways, what can we end on here? Steven? Just
going forward here? Any name dropping?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You want to come up with any of your friends
doing anything interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You've always got something interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
There's always something happening, and you know, as I was mentioning,
there's quite a bit happening. It's so nice to see
these things coming. I'll be keep also for everybody listening
that has an interest. It's going to come up quickly,
if you can believe it or not. But our park cleanups,
I think a lot of folks know that. Ivery I'm
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very big on doing community park cleanups. That goes alongside
what our community services staff, our park services staff do,
just everybody kind of lending a hand to help make
our communities a little nicer. Coming out of the winter,
we get a lot of that garbage, especially down in
the south. It just kind of blows down towards the waterfront.
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So we'll end up with some park cleanups coming up
very soon, and so stay tuned for that. Also, we've
got some other things that are coming up, and we've
got our pedestrian cycling bridge, very exciting, and that's going
to be right by the Pork Credit Legion. That's going
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to go from essentially the north part of the Legion
parking lot into Memorial Park. Stay tuned for details, and
maybe on our next show I'll be able to give
you a little bit more insight of what's happening there.
But this is a very exciting time to see what's
coming up there. So that's imminent and I'll be able
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to announce that. One name I would like to drop
right now. She's retiring after more than thirty five years
of service to Mississauga and she has served in it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
He's at the City of Mississauga student, we dropped out
for a second.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Please repeat that last sentence go ahead, though I don't
want to interrupt you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Who was it?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sure? Yeah, We've had a lady that spent over thirty
five years serving the community of Mississauga in a variety
of capacities. She's retiring and she's finishing off at the
top of her game. Commissioner of Community Services. Her name
is Jody Robelos, and wishing her a very happy, healthy
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next chapter of her life. But profound thanks to her
for doing a lot of great things across the city.
But again, as the Ward one counselor, she's been very
helpful going through what is a whole sea change of
one hundred and forty five acres of waterfront parkland, adding
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in other amenities right across the ward. And she's been
a great advocate to help get things done and also
to help groups like the Mississauga Majors and others. So
she'll be very much missed and I wish her all
the very best because she deserves nothing but great things ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I wish her the best too. And Stevens. Starting when
Mississauga was only fifteen years old, Wow, right thirty five
years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So yeah, absolutely, what a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Of change she has seen during her tenure. Absolutely, all
the best to her and her retirement.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, I will let you retire for the.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Rest of the evening of the day here whatever you
have plan for the rest of the day here Stephen,
which you probably have a lot, And I look forward
to getting together again at the beginning of April.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
My friend.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It will be April after April fools when we speak next.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
So unbelievable, you know, it just feels like literally we
were saying Happy New Year, and look at that, we're
well on our way into spring.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All the best, Steven, and look forward to seeing you
soon in Ward one and around the community. I love
following you on social media at dasco Ward one. You've
always got some great photos and sometimes videos and such
and words of advice for what's happening in Ward one
for everybody. So go to Stephen Dasco C for all
the great information that Stephen and his team provide for us.
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Thanks Stephen for this and we'll we look forward to
next month.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks so much, and keep up the great work.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Norman, thank you. I'm Norm Murray.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm Nora Murray. You're listening to news Talk SAGA nine sixty.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Great to have you long today. Well, it's that time
of the month when we get to speak with our
friend Stephen Dasco. He is the Ward one counselor in Mississauga.
Go to Stephendasco dot com and I get caught up
on everything happening in.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
His part of the city. And of course, as you know.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
When we chat at the beginning of every month, like
we do, we talk about Ward one and also just
you know, Council in general, I guess, and a little
bit about Peel and sometimes international matters. Not that there's
anything exciting internationally going on these days, is nudge, nudge,
wink wink. But anyway, Stephen Dasco, great to have you today.
How are you today, sir?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm doing terrific. Great to hear your voice. Norm. I
can't believe another month has gone by again.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I know here we are. That's right at the beginning
of March. The IDEs of March out.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like a lion in like a lamb. No wait a minute,
I missed that. I messed that up.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
In like a lion out like a lamb March I think, yeah, anyways.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Something like that. But you know the happy part of
that is it's March break, That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, Now does that affect matters in ward one in
your part of the city in any way other than
the obvious when school's out, But I mean, what's going
on for March break?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What's going on in March Break? Well, we actually do
have some activities happening throughout the city very locally. We
do have the Port Credit, BIA is going to be
hosting this Saturday. It's going to be called Wicked Winter
in the Port and it's a nice, a nice theme
on wicket of course, and they've got some great things
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all planned up for everybody, so it should be it
should be a really nice, really nice time of things
down in Port Credit if you're up for something. And
then we've also got with our skating trail. We're probably
getting into the last week next week of our skating trail.
Shortly thereafter is when they is when they shut it
down and start to get things all prepared and all
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ready for the upcoming season of spring and summer.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, the tree is still up, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
The tree is still up. Yeah, it'll be coming down
right after the March break kind of interval there, and yeah,
that'll come down. And then shortly thereafter, as I say that,
the wrinkle come down. And also the Lakeview Walking Trails,
the two trails that are there, they have been opened
since January, and they'll they'll get wound down as well,
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and they'll start getting the course already the upcoming golf season.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, yeah, we're talking about the skate trail by the
Way Memorial Park for those wondering. And the fabulous tree that's.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Lit and went up.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I guess it went up around Christmas time and it's
been up ever since, right Stephen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It has, it has and we've kept it. So it
was our it's our Christmas tree that we put up.
It's a twenty five foot tree with over twelve thousand
lights on it, and we kept it up at Christmas time.
It added in very nicely to all the other trees
that have been lit up down in the park. And
so the decision was, Okay, we've got our Christmas tree,
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and then after Christmas, we can't call it a Christmas
tree because that's for next season, so we're just calling
it our winter tree, so it's remained up there, and
it's actually in pretty good shape. I was out there
yesterday walking through the park with staff looking at a
few different things, and we're checking out actually how resilient
the tree has been.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Very nice. Stephen Dasco joins us Stephen as the ward
one counselor and Miss Saga. We chat with them at
the beginning of every month just to find out what's
happening in ward. One go to Stephendasco dot com for
all the updates and meetings and such, some of which
you can take part in, and he and his staff
are amazing at giving everybody the updates on this sort
of stuff. But you know what, the talk of the
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town around here is not the wicked winter so to speak,
that we've had Steven so much, although yes, it has
been a bit of a wicked winter for a couple
of weeks there temperature wise, and may still. But everybody's
talking about what's happening south of the border and now
here in Canada because we are greatly affected by the tariffs,
of course, imposed upon us by the Donald Trump administration
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in the United States, which is going to affect a
lot of people. And I wonder what your thoughts are
on that, if you could touch upon that, because there
are many serious issues that this approaches, number one being
jobs and such. I would imagine what has been the
talk around council as far as you've been able to determin.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Sure, this is one that we hear, whether we like
it or not. And I think, well, the vast majority
of us, for very good reason, we never thought that
we would hear something like this. We had a whole
election fought actually in Canada back in nineteen eighty eight,
which was the free trade election. And here we are
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decades later, where we've got one of our closest allies
essentially coming out with an all out economic assault on
us and completely unacceptable, and even the mere inference that
we're becoming some sort of other appendage to the United
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States is beyond defensive. And we are Canada. We're true,
nor strong and free and very proud of who we are.
That's who we are as a country. And it's incredible
to see that ground swallow, the amount of people that
have come up purchasing flags, and and also the calls
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that we get in asking about our procurement policies. For example,
at the City and at the region and and these
are ones that were very very conscious UH as we're
going forward to UH to ensure that is wherever we
can buying buying Canadian, we're going right along with what
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Ontario and UH in Canada UH to our doing. So
there's a unified front out there. I actually was going
to bring forward a motion that was going to say
that we purchased local and and that being Canadian, Ontario
and Mississauga, and these are kind of the ones that
we look at predominantly and UH. And then what's ended
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up happening is UH our Economic Development team along with
the mayor and and and others around council, we're all
united in that. And and this is something that I
think everybody is is wrangling with right now. We had
the President speaking in the United States speaking last night
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to Congress, and you know, so here we are. But
this is one that I don't think anybody in you
know that that's that's rational, is going to think lightly of.
This is one that that we'll tackle head on. But unfortunately,
this is this is going to be, you know, a
situation that is going to negatively affect everybody, at least
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in the short run. See how this all plays out
and and hopefully cooler heads prevail and and acknowledge that
we're much better together, working well and getting things done.
You know, we get a lot of talk happening about
Fenton al going from Canada over to the United States.
Quite frank personally, I'd like to hear a lot more
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talk about that two way street where we're finding far
too many guns coming from the United States illegally into
Canada as well. And that's what we tend to contend
with when it comes to, for example, Mississauga and Peel
Regional Police to be able to give them some of
those tools that they need to be able to deal
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with issues like Fentannel because we deal with that as well.
But we're also dealing with guns that are very porously
coming over from down south to the north as well.
So a lot of issues to deal with. But at
the same time, if we roll up our sleeves and
do what united together, we'll get through this, and we'll
get it through it stronger at the end of it
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all too.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
So are you not of the belief, like Donald Trump
has said, that Canada has taken advantage of the United
States and treated the States very poorly over the years.
You're not buying into.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
That truly feel that this is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
You know, it sounds sounds ridiculous bargaining positions.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think that that one likes to put forward. You know,
you try to come up with something over the top,
and then you know that's your you know, kind of
your foot in the door to try to work on something.
I don't feel we've been been bad neighbors. Quite the contrary.
I think we've been exceptional neighbors. Areas like the state
of Florida profit immensely, uh during the winter seasons. Uh,
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you know, with a lot of the snowbirds that are
going down between Florida and UH through Arizona, et cetera.
And and we've always had respect for the United States
and and UH and there has been a respect from
the United States to Canada. And I think by and large,
the American people look at us that way and we
look at them that way. And it's just more of
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a politics of personality right now that is unfortunate causing
us some problems.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
One last thing on the tariffs. We're speaking with Stephen
dasco Ward one councilor Mississauga. All the municipalities are chiming
in with their own opinions. I'll just quickly mention two
of them. Mayor Patrick Brown of Brampton said the retaliatory
strategy for Brampton is twofold with their made in Canada response,
starting with a review of the city's current procurement you
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use that word, which he said totals one point nine
billion dollars, and then by blocking American businesses from future
contracts in favor of Canadian ones. Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish,
I'm sure you're aware of this, Stephen. In a letter
to Mississauga residents and businesses today apart me yesterday, I
should say, it was said that the city will be
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impacted by Trump's tariffs, with the manufacturing sector particularly vulnerable.
Initial projections estimated about six hundred thousand job losses, she
wrote in her letter, which amounts to a two to
three percent increase in the unemployment rate. And then finally,
she said, the mayor says that this is Carolyn Paris
saying the city will pass amendments to its procurement by
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law today Wednesday, which will allow us this is her quote,
which will allow us to prioritize Canadian and non US
suppliers when possible, especially for medium and high value projects,
and streamline the process to support more local, diverse and
smaller businesses unquote. Now she said Mississauga spent over seven
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hundred and thirty million dollars on procurements last year, and
she also says the city will support local businesses in
diversifying into new markets beyond the US. That's Carolyn Paris
Steven any thoughts on that just you probably heard about this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yesterday, absolutely, and as I was saying, this is this
is the direction that we all need to be moving
in a united way, and you know, adding it all up,
it will it will make an impact, no mistake about it.
America is of significant size and they are a massive
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economic power, as you know. But the largest trading partners
that we have is Canada to the United States and
the United States to Canada. And that's just how it is.
So all of these things adding up with everybody going
in the same direction is really what we need right now?
Is unity?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well put? Definitely so and moving on.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I mean, we could talk about this for hours and
we probably will as the months go on. That's the thing,
because this is apparently a malleable or what's the word
fluid situation potentially as well, So we don't know if
this will change going forward in the days sometimes even
the hours to come. Steven, it's a bit frustrating for me.
That's the way I look at it is. You know,
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we call this show the Norm. What's the norm? What's
the new norm? You know what's normal? Change is normal,
and it seems to be a lot of change every
day as anyway. So that's that we're going to have
to hold onto our seats here and see how this
all plays out. But I know you and Mayor Carroll
and Parrish and everybody else in council will have your
ear to the ground and making sure that you're doing
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the very best in the interests of Mississauga residents and businesses.
Talking about businesses, what's going on in import credit or
along ward one in general? You've got any new businesses
piping up here? I mean it's just getting into March.
So is that a good time?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh? We've got yeah, we've got some great things. And
I will say, you know, in times of uncertainty, that's
why more than ever we need your show The Norm
to know that that there is a norm out there
and what is going on right now is far from it.
So keep up the great work.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Thanks really, I appreciate that very much. But you know what,
there must be some frustration and confusion amongst the businesses
in Ward one and everywhere, but in your ward, Stephen,
they must be coming to you sometimes with hopes for answers.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, oh absolutely, we do get questions of all different
sorts and wherever we can, we will always go to
bat for everybody in the community. And if we don't
have the answers, we'll get them. If it's at a
different level of government, we'll get them exactly to where
everybody needs to be. And if there's a you know,
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anything that we can work on together, we'll certainly be
able to do that as well. So you're saying what's
happening locally, Well, I've got a friend of mine. His
name is a King. A King has a restaurant called
a Means Kitchen and it is a wonderful Nigerian restaurant.
It's at Dixie and Dundas on the north easterly end
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of the ward and for just last month it was
our Black Excellence Awards happened up at City Hall and
he actually we won for the best restaurant and just
a really interesting spot. It's always very welcoming and they
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make very traditional food. It's very good. If you're a
fan of Jolliffe, well, they probably make the best in
the city. And so that's a local one, probably my
first local plug to make for you. There.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Nice, it sounds really good. I'm always open for the
idea of restaurants, new restaurants, of course, and we wish
them all the best going into springtime. They should get
a lot of traffic, I certainly hope.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's a great spot of family
run restaurants. They've actually got another location as well in
Cooksville at Dixie Air Sorry at Here Ontario and Dunbass
as well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Awesome, very good. Have you been.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Do you get out to cut many ribbons lately or
is it too cold for that?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Lately?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The ribbon cutting has not been as fluid as you
would say up to now, however, speaking of fluids, a
place that has been reopened is as I think last
time we were chatting, the Brogue in the Brogue, Irish
cub owned by the Donnelly family had closed down the
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Donnelly's decided that they were going to retire after years
of serving the community. And we now have the Donegal
Arms which has just opened up and they will be
up open. They're open now and they're going to be
welcoming people for Saint Patrick's Day coming up. And it
is right at here, Ontario and Lake Shore and Mike
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and the gang will be more than happy to welcome everybody.
They've made some minor changes to the place, but as
you walk in, you'll definitely have that warm welcome of
a traditional old Irish pub.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, it sounds good. Stephen Dasco joins us. Go to
Stephen Dasco dot com. He is the Ward one counselor
in Mississauga and there's always something going on on the website.
Two great photos there and you can follow along with
any meetings that are coming up or any announcements that
need to be made. That may not be the most
exciting thing to talk about, but you always have it
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up there and your team does a great job to
ensure everybody in.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Ward was Ward one is informed. So you do a
great job with that.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Thank you, thank you, And speaking of which we do
have coming up, and that's tonight you can get the
information on how to log on my website. There is
going to be a call, a virtual call that's being
hosted by the province and this is with regards to
the Disaster Relief Fund Disaster Relief Ontario Fund. It was
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awarded to folks that are along the little of Toboco Creek.
There's a few other areas, but this is one that
affects Ward One. I wanted to mention and so this
is from the floods that happened this past summer. With
a lot of the damage that happened. We had over
three hundred homes in Ward one that were affected by it.
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And so that call is going to be held. I
know counselor Fonseka in Ward three, she was significantly impact
with her residents and so that call is for both
both wards and so I really encourage everybody if you can,
and if you were affected by these floods, to find
out what type of relief you're able to get and
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how to get that information into the province, what the
protocols are. And you just go to my website at
Stephen Dasco dot ca and once you get on that
you'll find out how that you can log on to
that call and that will be starting at seven pm.
So please all are welcome that would like to attend that.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Awesome, that's great, Thank you for doing that. Well, that's great.
So I mean, is this a bit of a quiet time.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Of year overall compared to fornetic pace that's kept in
ward one in the summertime especially, is a.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Little bit of a dry time right now.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I realize there's winter activities certainly, but you know, is
this a bit of a reprieve, a little bit of
a break for you or are you just going seven
days a week as usual?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh, it's seven days a week. And we've got some
really great stuff coming up as well. This is one
that I'm really really excited. You know, we have got
just an incredible staff at the City of Mississauga that
do such incredibly great work. We have it at the
region as well. They do very good work. And you know,
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there were just so fortunate to have our local governments
doing incredibly So I will tell you on the Mississauga
side what's coming up this month so far. We just
had the pedestrian cycling bridge down at Marina Park right
by the lighthouse. That bridge had been closed because of
the new park that is going to be opened up
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very very soon, and they had to do significant change
to the grading of of that park, and so the
it had been closed, it's now open. I was able
to get them to move the fencing off on either
side so that people could could start using that bridge again.
So it's now open to everybody. It's very exciting. Our
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staff again have done just an incredible job with it.
And I'm going to give a shout out to Steph
Schapanski and Jeff Bain. These these two guys are they
do a lot of our parks works right across the city,
but they are, as far as I'm concerned, second to
none with what they've come up with. And so this is, uh,
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this is one that I think everybody will be happy
to see the whole park when it opens. It's it's
a show stopper. We've got that. So that'll be coming up.
But also I had I had asked our staff as
well for Carmen Corbus and Community Center. I said, I
really want it open in March, and they said, okay,
well it's going to be a stretch, but we'll see
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what we can do. They came back and they said
we can open the center except for the pools because
that's taken a little longer. That'll open in May. But
a little bit cheeky, but they still did it. It's
still set to open for March thirty first.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Okay, cheeky.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I don't hear that word often enough anymore, Steven.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's an oldie, but a goldie.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's right. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
And if you want another sign of the season, we
just had this past weekend, the Mississauga Library had the
Seed Library open and this was It was great. It
has gotten really large. It started off at the Port
Credit Library was held there for a number of years.
It then moved over to the Small Arms Inspection Building
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because it started part of the fun growing. And now
there was up at the Hazel mccallian Library. There was
I went up to go see it and there was
hundreds upon hundreds of people there with breakout rooms with
people learning about how to plant their boulevard for blooming
boulevards for example, and we just had Mississauga clover Leaf
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Garden Club. There's just a whole group of different people there.
It was unbelievable to see and all doing just a
tremendous job of things. So spring is on the way.
It almost doesn't feel like it, you know, goes from
freezing cold and a ton of snow to the rain
that we've been having in the warmer weather. But we
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are getting there, We're moving in the right direction. So
there's a lot happening under the behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I guess you could say, yeah, I know, I was thinking,
you know, before speaking to you today, that a sure
sign of spring. Next week, yard waste pickup starts in Mississauga.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh you know, isn't that incredible? So if you didn't
get your tree picked up, and you couldn't drop it
off at the recycling center, then you can bring it
out to the curb and finally get that taken away.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
O kidding, absolutely did you? Did you know Edna Toath?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I did, albeit it was more from I had met her.
She was also a former Citizen of the Year, a
long standing advocate for the needy and those that that were,
you know, the marginalized, some of our marginalized community, tireless
advocate and unfortunately, as you're mentioning, she passed away. And
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and so I know that there's a memorial this week.
I'll be be attending.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay, yeah, mississaugas Citizen of the Year in twenty eleven,
Edna Toath. There's a beautiful picture over at where are
we here? Mississauga dot com, missus the miss Saga News
also is carrying it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Remembered as a proper Grammar.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Enthusiast who did incredible work and as you pointed out,
Stephen anti poverty advocate and journalist, passing away at the
age of ninety three. But I didn't know if many
of our listeners might remember Edna Toath. I hope I
said her last name correctly. It is Toath right, not.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Tok Some people say tast, some people say toth. But
I will also mention that another long standing advocate for
those that need it, that are marginalized, Michelle Beelick. She
was actually up at Peel Region and paid tribute to
her last week at regional council.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay, so what else do you want to talk about, Steven?
Have you? I mean, even in.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
The lead up to March, here we are we've gone
through a provincial election. Of course, practically since the last
time I spoke to you, not quite, but all most
it was announced and then it happened like it was
about five weeks or so and then we're done and
now here we are with another full mandate for the
premiere of Ontario.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Your thoughts on the election that just happened.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, it was it was It was a sprint, that's
for sure. You know, it came in and all of
a sudden bang, it's it's done. And it was incredible
to see all of these signs from all the different
different political parties all put up in snow banks and
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things of that nature, and during snowstorm they're getting covered up,
and it was it really was just one for the books,
that's for sure. But it was it was great to
get out and cast my ballot, Miss Maria, did you know,
my whole family did. We were all out because these
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are one of the things that that you're able to do.
You've got that ability to go out and cast your
vote for whoever you'd like, and that's one that people
have literally fought wars over or prevented from doing, and
we're able to do that and it's an honor to
go out and cast a ballot.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
I agree with you on that, regardless of the time
of year. Some people were griping about it being in
February and such, and I just kept thinking back to
you know, there was a stand up comedian. I'm trying
to remember who it was, but he said something along
the lines of, you know, there are people in countries
who are dodging bullets to get to the ballot box,
and that is literally quite true. And here we are
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in Canada able to walk up, you know, and as
you pointed out, you know, have the honor really of
making our vote count. Anyways, so that's behind us now
and we're going forward with another four years with Doug
Ford as he wanted and asked for at one hundred
and eighty million dollars price tag to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
So anyways, what can we end on here? Steven? Just
going forward here? Any name dropping?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You want to come up with any of your friends
doing anything interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You've always got something interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
There's always something happening, and you know, as I was mentioning,
there's quite a bit happening. It's so nice to see
these things coming. I'll be keep also for everybody listening
that has an interest. It's going to come up quickly,
if you can believe it or not. But our park cleanups,
I think a lot of folks know that. Ivery I'm
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very big on doing community park cleanups. That goes alongside
what our community services staff, our park services staff do,
just everybody kind of lending a hand to help make
our communities a little nicer. Coming out of the winter,
we get a lot of that garbage, especially down in
the south. It just kind of blows down towards the waterfront.
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So we'll end up with some park cleanups coming up
very soon, and so stay tuned for that. Also, we've
got some other things that are coming up, and we've
got our pedestrian cycling bridge, very exciting, and that's going
to be right by the Pork Credit Legion. That's going
(28:10):
to go from essentially the north part of the Legion
parking lot into Memorial Park. Stay tuned for details, and
maybe on our next show I'll be able to give
you a little bit more insight of what's happening there.
But this is a very exciting time to see what's
coming up there. So that's imminent and I'll be able
(28:33):
to announce that. One name I would like to drop
right now. She's retiring after more than thirty five years
of service to Mississauga and she has served in it.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
He's at the City of Mississauga student, we dropped out
for a second.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Please repeat that last sentence go ahead, though I don't
want to interrupt you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Who was it?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Sure? Yeah, We've had a lady that spent over thirty
five years serving the community of Mississauga in a variety
of capacities. She's retiring and she's finishing off at the
top of her game. Commissioner of Community Services. Her name
is Jody Robelos, and wishing her a very happy, healthy
(29:17):
next chapter of her life. But profound thanks to her
for doing a lot of great things across the city.
But again, as the Ward one counselor, she's been very
helpful going through what is a whole sea change of
one hundred and forty five acres of waterfront parkland, adding
(29:39):
in other amenities right across the ward. And she's been
a great advocate to help get things done and also
to help groups like the Mississauga Majors and others. So
she'll be very much missed and I wish her all
the very best because she deserves nothing but great things ahead.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I wish her the best too. And Stevens. Starting when
Mississauga was only fifteen years old, Wow, right thirty five
years ago.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So yeah, absolutely, what a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Of change she has seen during her tenure. Absolutely, all
the best to her and her retirement.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, I will let you retire for the.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Rest of the evening of the day here whatever you
have plan for the rest of the day here Stephen,
which you probably have a lot, And I look forward
to getting together again at the beginning of April.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
My friend.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It will be April after April fools when we speak next.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
So unbelievable, you know, it just feels like literally we
were saying Happy New Year, and look at that, we're
well on our way into spring.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
All the best, Steven, and look forward to seeing you
soon in Ward one and around the community. I love
following you on social media at dasco Ward one. You've
always got some great photos and sometimes videos and such
and words of advice for what's happening in Ward one
for everybody. So go to Stephen Dasco C for all
the great information that Stephen and his team provide for us.
(31:04):
Thanks Stephen for this and we'll we look forward to
next month.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thanks so much, and keep up the great work.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Norman, thank you. I'm Norm Murray.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
This is News Talk Saga nine sixty We'll be right
back after this.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
No radio, no problem. Stream is live on Saga nine
sixty am dot c a
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