NEWSLETTER: Getting to tell my side on 640 Toronto

Friends,

Yesterday morning, I sat down with Greg Brady on 640 Toronto for what turned out to be one of the more straightforward conversations I've had about my reporting this year. After a year of attending federal Conservative events and then Ford Fest, it felt unusual to have a more mainstream platform to actually lay out what I saw without the usual preemptive framing.

We talked about how the big-tent feel at Ford Fest was real on the surface, but that comfort quickly gave way to vagueness, generational friction, and, in my case, outright ugly behaviour from party volunteers. Greg let me walk through the details of what happened when I intervened after those volunteers started harassing women and then turned on me. He didn't cut the story short or treat it as an attack on the entire party. He asked follow-ups and let the account stand on its own.

What struck me most was simply being able to say it out loud on a platform that reaches people who don't read The Provincial Times every time I publish. I'm grateful to Greg for having me on and for treating the conversation like reporting rather than content. These kinds of appearances matter when you're trying to document patterns across events instead of scoring points for one side.

You can listen to the full interview here:

If you haven't read the longer piece I wrote about Ford Fest yet, I'd highly recommend it. The radio conversation covered a lot of the same ground in a tighter format, but the op-ed has a lot more detail.

Thanks for reading and for following this series. There will be more events, more conversations, and more attempts to get the details right coming in the future.

My very best,
— Will Adams
Editor, The Provincial Times