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Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald

Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays.It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking.If it’s news you’re after, backing John is the combined power of the Newstalk ZB and New Zealand Herald news teams. Meaning when it comes to covering breaking news – you will not beat local radio.With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also has a deep

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6:13

John MacDonald: The one letdown for brave Mama Hooch...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/25

How would you feel about the Mama Hooch predators getting out of prison in just eight or nine years’ time? It’s on the cards after the judge who sentenced Roberto Jaz to 17 years and Danny Jaz to 16-and-a-half years yesterday said they had to serve at least half of that time before they could be considered for parole. From what I saw in the media reports, I thought Judge Paul Mabey was brilliant yesterday. He ran the judge-alone trial that ran for three months earlier in the year and he was

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20:43

Politics Friday: Gerry Brownlee and Tracey McLellan...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/24

Today on Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings, John MacDonald was joined by Tracey McLellan and Gerry Brownlee for Politics Friday. They discussed policies release by both parties this week, what is going on with our health system that we need to close our after hours services, and will this be an election campaign marred by ugliness? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:34

Anna Leask: NZ Herald reporter covering Mama Hooch...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/24

Senior New Zealand Herald Journalist, Anna Leask, has followed the Mama Hooch case from the beginning and joined John MacDonald on Canterbury Mornings. She describes the powerful victim statements in court yesterday from the victims of Danny and Roberto Jaz, the significance of the sentence and the complete lack of remorse shown by the brothers in court. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:28

John MacDonald: Since when were we the world's best...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/24

Since when have we been so deluded in this country to think that we are the best drivers in the world? Because that’s what it looks like, with this idea of banning overseas visitors from driving on the Milford Road. Otherwise known as State Highway 94 - which runs from Te Anau to Milford. What’s happening, is the Department of Conservation wants an assessment of Milford Sound transport options done as part of a masterplan for the area's future. The masterplan’s been put together by the Milford

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10:58

Phil Mauger: Christchurch Mayor on council asset...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/24

John MacDonald was joined by Christchurch Mayor, Phil Mauger on Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings. Will council assets now be on the sale rack despite the pre-election promises? Where is he at with the line by line budget review? And boy racers have been back in the spotlight - what could council do to stop this issue, or is it a losing battle? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:27

John MacDonald: Boy racers are here to stay

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/23

The people at Orana Park have had a gutsful of boy racers because animals there have been getting really spooked by the noise the boy racers are making when they’ve been meeting up outside the park to do skids and burn-outs. You’ll know the type of noise they’re talking about. All the revving and screeching of tyres. And what’s been happening, is some animals have been so freaked out by it, that they’ve panicked and they’ve been running around their enclosures and getting injured. The Orana Park

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5:29

John MacDonald: Attn Christchurch Council - don't...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/22

Let’s start with a quote. “You can take it from me that under my watch as mayor, I will not be selling any of these assets.” Guess who said that before last year’s council elections? None other than Phil Mauger who, of course, went on to become mayor. So that’s what he was saying less than a year ago about what he called “the family assets”. But guess what he’s saying now about things like the airport and port company? Something quite different. This is what he said to Newstalk ZB. “We’ve either got

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4:42

John MacDonald: Financial literacy classes better...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/21

I remember when I was a kid at school and thinking that some of the stuff we were being made to do was such a waste of time. You know what I’m talking about. “Why on earth are you making us do this? This is not going to be any use to me when I get out of this place - so why are we bothering with it?” Which, a lot of the time, was probably youthful arrogance as much as anything. Although, the old trigonometry doesn’t get used much these days. Not a lot of polygon action, either. But, there were

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5:39

John MacDonald: Labour's stupidity in robbing Peter...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/18

I reckon Labour has completely lost the plot this week. It started on Monday with its daft idea of taking GST off fruit and vegetables. And then, yesterday, it announced that it wants to sting us for more tax on fuel to help pay for all the new roads it wants to build. A plan which I think National is quite rightfully calling a copycat plan - given that, what Labour is talking about, is pretty much what National is already promising if it forms the next government. National says there’s a truckload

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6:43

John MacDonald: Lauren Dickason - murderer and victim

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/17

I know you won’t disagree with me that Lauren Dickason’s story is a complete and utter tragedy. Found guilty of murdering her three daughters - two-year-old twins Maya and Karla; and their six-year-old sister Liane - at their home in Timaru in September 2021. Nearly two years ago. Just weeks after the family had moved to New Zealand from South Africa. As it’s been reported, of all the evidence and expert opinions and comments by Lauren Dickason herself, it was what she said during a police interview

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4:58

John MacDonald: The Covid rules that should have gone...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/15

I would say that, for most of this year, I’ve thought it nutbar that we have still had to isolate for seven days if we get Covid. That’s all changed though. Because, as of midnight last night, there’s no more isolation and masks are out the window in most places too. Although, healthcare facilities are still on the list of places where we’ll kind of be expected to wear one. I say “kind of” because that’s been my experience recently. I’ve visited a couple of people in hospital and the mask

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5:14

John MacDonald: If you believe this, you'll believe...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/14

If you believe Grant Robertson's sales pitch for taking GST off fruit and vegetables, you’ll believe anything. Because we know he has always been opposed to the idea. Today, though, he's saying he's “come around to the idea". Which is hardly a ringing endorsement, is it? What he really means is he’s come around to the idea because Chris Hipkins says it's his way or the highway. There might, I suppose, be some people who will want to believe that Grant Robertson has had some sort of moment of

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5:42

John MacDonald: The $5 bet that I look like losing

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/11

On Wednesday, a caller to the show - Murray - brought Winston Peters into the conversation. And we ended up agreeing on a $5 wager as to whether or not Winston Peters would be back in Parliament after the election. I said $5 he won’t. Murray said $5 he will. Now I don’t know if Murray has a hotline to the outfits that do the political polls - because, if he does, I’ll claim insider trading - but, since making the bet, another political poll has come out giving NZ First more than five percent

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4:39

John MacDonald: Home detention- the chickens are...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/10

I was asked yesterday whether I'll ever be happy with any policy announcement by any political party. And, wouldn’t you know it, just 24 hours later it’s actually happened. And it’s the ACT Party of all parties that’s managed to do it. Because it’s released details of its Justice Policy which I’m finding pretty hard to argue against. I’ll be honest with you. Even though I like the sound of it, it’s not the type of approach that I would always have argued for. That’s because I get all the

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5:08

John MacDonald: Banning mobile phones at school -...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/09

Most of the time when you see a young person on their phone, do you jump to the conclusion that they’re just wasting time? Or maybe you assume they’re planning their next ram raid or whatever. Well if that’s you, then you will love National’s plan to ban mobile phones in all schools. No ifs or buts. No phones at lunchtime. No phones during recess. No phones at school. That’s what’s going to happen if National is in government after the election in October. Which I think is one of those ideas that

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John MacDonald: The tax arguments don't stack up

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/08

If I said to you, there was one thing all the political parties need to stop doing straight away, what do you think it would be? One thing that pretty much every party is doing. The ones on the left. The ones on the right. The ones in the middle. They’re all doing it. What do you think it would be? It would be these ridiculous promises that, if they’re part of the next government, we’ll be paying less taxes. They’re all doing it. We’ve got the Maori Party talking about no GST on fruit and veggies

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4:34

John MacDonald: Fluoridation more achievable than a...

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/07

Are you the sort of person who goes to the dentist like clockwork, even if you think there’s nothing wrong? Or, are you like most people, and only go when you’re in agony or when you break a tooth trying to eat a Mintie or something like that? I’m not even one of those types. So maybe there are three types. The ones who go to the dentist even if they think there’s nothing wrong. The ones who only go when they know for sure something’s wrong. And the ones who know there’s something wrong but still

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4:42

John MacDonald: Another judge gets it wrong - again

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/04

If you’re sick of people being let off the hook because of their past, how do you feel about people getting off the hook because of their future? This is nothing new, of course. We’ve all heard stories about law students, for example, doing something silly on a night out, getting arrested, going to court, and not being convicted because what they did wasn’t bad enough to damage their career prospects. And most of the time - even if you disagree with that approach - most of the time you just shrug

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4:54

John MacDonald: Cycleway opponents need to get a grip

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/03

You’ll remember all the noise about the Rolleston Avenue/Park Terrace cycleway when some Christchurch city councillors and the mayor claimed they’d been blindsided and didn’t know it was going to happen without them having the chance to give it the green light. And the mayor went ballistic saying that council staff were running amok and needed to be reined in. And Aaron Keown and James Gough chimed in, making the same claims that they know nothing. When it turns out they did. Which is why the head

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5:07

John MacDonald: There's more to life than qualifications

Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald ·

2023/08/02

We are obsessed with qualifications. If you want evidence, take all the noise we’re hearing today about the news that the number of students leaving school with NCEA Level 2 or above dropped again last year to the lowest level in a decade. People are jumping up and down because the OECD reckons that if someone’s going to be employable, they need at least Level 2 NCEA. Which fuels even further this obsession with getting good qualifications. Which, I’ll admit, I’ve been guilty of too. Especially when

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