{"podcast":{"title":"The Grand Parade","slug":"the-grand-parade-5748300","podcast_index_feed_id":5748300,"rss_url":"https://feed.pod.co/the-grand-parade","website_url":"https://pod.co/the-grand-parade","image_url":"https://images.pod.co/QqhjXLslF51RNrdB7dJlynjRNatcbRsNrALxA0rDtYQ/resize:fill:1500:1500/plain/artwork/e71d5393-a061-4a2f-86a1-c30db7b51973/the-grand-parade-1742223628.jpg","author":"Matt Stickland","episode_count":131,"summary":"A Halifax city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:21:48.689899+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300"},"episode":{"title":"Killing kids to save money, a Feb 9-13 council recap","slug":"killing-kids-to-save-money-a-feb-9-13-council-recap","published_at":"2026-02-16T09:43:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300/killing-kids-to-save-money-a-feb-9-13-council-recap","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300","url":"https://www.grandparade.news","audio_url":"https://downloads.pod.co/cd18d5bf-3dbf-4ab7-9264-ddf68d638348/3c191220-b145-48f1-8900-4ff08c60d3bb.mp3","summary":"This week is a bit of an odd one, as it had five full days of council meetings and host Matt Stickland had five full days of plague in his house. The big moves by Cleary at the end of last week's budget debate, as well as the police budgets, are not in this episode. They are in the paper this week, and will be in a later episode of the show (probably), respectively. That's all for this week as Matt fills up on fluids and heads back to bed to try and beat this fever.","meta_description":"This week is a bit of an odd one, as it had five full days of council meetings and host Matt Stickland had five full days of plague in his house. The big…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3556,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grand-parade-5748300/episodes/killing-kids-to-save-money-a-feb-9-13-council-recap/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grand-parade-5748300/killing-kids-to-save-money-a-feb-9-13-council-recap.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}