Queen City Improvement Bureau

Luke Grazier, Regina's manager of city projects, visits the subbasement to talk about the recently released 2026 Growth Monitoring Report. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on 9...

Council Victoria Flores and official "Young Person" Liam Colhoun visit the sub-basement to discuss the Summer City Council Boot Camp and Mock City Council. Plus, city admin may be working on an AI dat...

j wallace skelton visits the subbasement to talk about becoming (in)famous for being a UofR education professor and a trans person at the same time! We also talk about the hullabaloo that right-wing ...

We meet with Evan Guenther, the city's director of sustainable infrastructure to talk about the Wascana Parkway Extension Project, the Arcola Avenue Corridor Study & the Residential Road Renewal Progr...

The Queen City Improvement Bureau escaped the subbasement and rode the #60 Arcola Express out to the sustainable Tim's on Chuka Boulevard. We ate donuts! With guests! With us on our fried-dough advent...

We talk about the Road Renewal Annual Report, the Concrete Reduction Report and the Johnson Collegiate Fare-Free Transit Pilot. Plus, tunes from the Infrastructure Playlist. Theme by Guidewire (aka Ry...

Local art-pop actualizer Natural Sympathies visits the subbasement (with their wolves) to talk about their new album then makes the Bureau Boys take a Love Survey. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). ...

The QCIB was live at the Artesian on May 20 as part of the 2026 Cathedral Village Arts Festival. This is that show. Many thanks to our guests Pat Book & Cheryl Stadnichuk and to our collaborators/coco...

Don Young and Andrew Stevens from the Cathedral Village Arts Festival visit the subbasement to talk about this year's event (May 18 to 23). Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originally broadcast on ...

You know what this deal to sell Brandt half of the REAL campus sounds like? One big honkin' innovative revenue tool. So WHY wasn't the Queen City Improvement Bureau consulted on this? Innovative Reven...

Certified Improvement Vector, Pat Book, visits the subbasement again to talk about the experience of being the lone dissenting speaker on the REAL/Brandt Deal at the Apr 29 2026 Executive Committee me...

Ward 9 Councillor Jason Mancinelli visits the subbasement to talk about SUMA, regional cooperation, AI data centres and his battle against concrete costs. Music by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Originall...

Jean-Marc Nadeau, CEO of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association, visits the subbasement to talk about challenges facing Sask cities and about SUMA's upcoming convention. Plus, John Kennedy,...

Ward 8 Councillor Shanon Zachidniak returns to the subbasement to talk about the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities convention, climate action in a municipal government context, concrete pipes, the lib...

The Regina Public Library has had a pretty disappointing couple months. With the city announcing it doesn't have debt room available for projects like the Library Central Branch Restoration Project, t...

Council raises transit fees by 10% and struggle to find money to fulfill their commitment to borrow money for Regina Public Library's Central Branch Renewal Project. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill)...

Local author Suzy Krause visits the subbasement to talk about her award-winning apocalypse novel "I Think We've Been Here Before". Plus, the library’s plan to borrow money for the Central Branch redev...

Don't know if you've heard but the ol'Queen City is growing! Growing like a weed in the summer! Growing like hope in playoff season! Like fondness as a heart grapples with absence. And to manage al...

Greetings from The City Adjacent To The Future! In this episode, we discuss the AI datacentre that's to be built near the Queen City. Plus council is back from a long hiatus so we talk about some of t...

Belle Plaine & Blake Berglund visit the subbasement ahead of their big Valentines Day show at Darke Hall. Plus, the Farmers Market returns to downtown, Frost kicks off, council had a special meeting. ...

We take a look back at the many laudable things the City Of Regina accomplished in 2025 by having a gander at their 2025 Highlights document. Fun! Theme by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Incidental music ...

Kelly & Jon Lorenc of the Queen City Urbanist Bookclub look back on best urbanist reads of 2025, what they're reading in 2026 and they offer some predictions for the new year. Theme by Ryan Hill (aka ...

Former city hall reporter and erstwhile comms guy in a bygone mayor's office, Pat Book, visits the subbasement to look back on the high- and low-lights of 2025. Theme by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Occ...

It's a Very Special Queen City Improvement Bureau Holiday Special all about the 2026 city budget! Theme by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Occasional music by Kimberley Fuery. ...

Ward 4 councillor Mark Burton makes a holiday visit to the subbasement — and HE BROUGHT PRESENTS!! We discuss the tone of the emails he's been getting in the lead up to the budget debate. And we discu...

From my left, Councillors David Froh (ward 3) and Shanon Zachidniak (ward 8) visit the subbasement to 'splain themselves about this 2026 city budget. We also talk about the Finding Middle Ground Desig...

Drat. It's performance review day for the Bureau as Mayor Chad Bachynski drops in to the subbasement. We also talk about the 2026-27 city budget instead. Theme by Ryan Hill (aka Guidewire). Occasional...

It's that special time of the year when the Bureau turns its mind to things budgetary! But first! We got a visit from fellow community-media denizen, Jayne Trimble, of the Empower Women show on Access...

City of Regina's Chief Financial Officer, Daren Anderson, found his way into the subbasement so we quizzed him about the 2026 budget and money stuff like that. If you're freaking out about the possibi...

After a decade in the subbasement, we escape to the Artesian stage for Halloween + Anniversary show — a Hallowversary show! We are joined by zombie expert Cassie Ozog, the risen corpse of Carter Stenb...

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On this week's meeting agenda: • Aidan escaped the sub-basement and caught a showing of The Master Plan at the newly renovated Globe Theatre. • Admin has been talking for months about how they chan...

Council has been over achieving on at least one metric this week: number of meetings held. So, to find out if Aidan is an AI Chatbot or not, we quiz him to see if he can puzzle out some of the wacky t...

The city's Manager Of Housing, Bill Neher, visits the sub basement to talk about the Finding Middle Ground Design Competition, how the Housing Accelerator Fund program is going and he also gives us an...

Ward 3 councillor Shanon Zachidniak visits the subbasement to talk about her "Smart Investments for a Sustainable Regina" motion. Also discussed during this Very Serious Meeting: Changes to the budget...

Ward 3 councillor David Froh visits the subbasement to discuss the his successful motion to establish a Municipal Grasslands Biodiversity Reserve on a chunk of land by the Callie Curling Club. Also on...

Back from summer hiatus, the Bureau examines council discussion of the Renewable Regina update (which, spoilers, is not great). The Bureau also plays a round of "Can Council Make Aidan's Head Explode?...

Ward 5 councillor Sarah Turnbull finds her way to the subbasement to talk to us about her first eight months as a city councillor, runs us through council's decision on the Indoor Aquatic Facility. Al...

Canada's nicest yootoob pundit, Steve Boots, visits the subbasement. We talk about yootoobery, Clr Bezo's proposed Very Serious Plan to put a roof over Wascana Pool and Gunn's Superman. Theme by Guide...

“HELLS YA! GIT A BASEBALL STADIUM, REGINA!” says a new report heading to council sometime later this year. It was prepared by DCG Philanthropic and paid for by Living Sky Sports & Entertainment and by...

On this week's agenda: New housing minister has thoughts on housing prices, Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant update, money for Taylor Field Redevelopment, borrowing bucks for infrastructure. Music ...

This week was supposed to be slow one at city hall so this meeting was going to be about The Herculoids. But then council happened! And they had to go and give nearly $7 million as a ransom to keep th...

Crazy goings on at city hall. City manager on leave. Senior staff let go. Budget crows come home to roost. Council plans to kill a day re-litigating water fluoridation. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hi...

Singer/songwriter Belle Plaine and guitar operator Bryn Besse visit the subbasement to play some tunes, talk some shit. Very music rich QCIB, this one. Music much too good for the likes of this office...

Following up on last week's game of "Can Council Make Aidan's Head Explode", the Bureau does what Certain Councillors were too chicken to do: We put questions to the Good Trouble Network directly. Tir...

Don't you love it when council has a perfectly benign motion on their agenda that should pass quickly and be a good news story but somehow they find a way to make it gross and awful? And by "don't you...

So… we sent our intern and CJTR’s erstwhile Prairie Naturalist, Sharrod Claerge, out to get us coffee like… years ago… (he insists his name is actually "Jared Clarke" and that he now has a “real job” ...

Ward 6 councillor Victoria Flores visits the subbasement. She updates us on her Manufactured Homes motion and talks about the budget. Music by Guidewire (aka Ryan Hill). Originally broadcast on 91.3FM...

Jon & Kelly from the Queen City Urbanist Bookclub are back to chat about the four-day 2025 city budget process. It was… an adventure! Based off some councillors' performance, you should probably look ...

Ward 8 councillor Shanon Zachidniak visits the subbasement to talk about what it's like being the lone two-termer on council, the upcoming week of budget discussions, the Energy & Sustainability Frame...