Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays.<br><br>It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking.<br><br>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.<br><br>With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also has a deep understanding of and connections to the Christchurch and Canterbury commercial sector.<br><br>Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings 9am-12pm with John MacDonald on 100.1FM and iHeartRadio.
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Every weekday join the new voice of local issues on Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald, 9am-12pm weekdays.<br><br>It’s all about the conversation with John, as he gets right into the things that get our community talking.<br><br>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.<br><br>With two decades experience in communications based in Christchurch, John also has a deep understanding of and connections to the Christchurch and Canterbury commercial sector.<br><br>Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings 9am-12pm with John MacDonald on 100.1FM and iHeartRadio.
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May 26, 2026
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins on Silly questions, MP pay rises, and cathedral funding
<p>Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins says if Labour wins power at this year’s election, it's position on public funding for the Christ Church Cathedral will not change.</p> <p>Speaking to Canterbury Mornings, Hipkins said the party’s verdict still stands.</p> <p>“I just don’t think it’s something we can prioritise at the moment,”</p> <p>Hipkins also addressed leaks from a Labour Party online Q&A, which included Aysha Verrall singing, Barbara Edmonds’ “duckface” comment, and Greg O’Connor’s criticism of the Fourth Labour Government. They also discussed Hipkins thoughts on the incoming 2% rise in MPs’ pay.</p> <p><strong>LISTEN ABOVE</strong></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
May 26, 2026
John MacDonald: The tone deaf argument for more cathedral money
<p>What part of no does the Christchurch City Council not understand?</p> <p>Because, despite us knowing what the answer would be, councillors yesterday voted in favour of putting another $15 million into the Anglican Cathedral reinstatement project, providing the government came to the party.</p> <p>And, wouldn’t you know it - within just a few hours of the vote happening - Finance Minister Nicola Willis was already pouring cold water on the idea.</p> <p>Saying the government has already contributed $25 million to the cathedral and there won’t be any more.</p> <p>She said there are many pressing infrastructure needs and the cathedral isn’t one of them. She’ll get no argument from me on that one.</p> <p>Not that anyone should be surprised.</p> <p>Because she said the exact same thing last year when the people involved in the reinstatement went knocking on the door asking the government to come to their rescue.</p> <p>Which she reminded us of last night. Saying: “In declining the cathedral’s funding ask, we noted that the requested amount represented a significant contribution for a building that would not be owned by the public, and where public use could be limited due to the cathedral being a private, religious space.”</p> <p>Which was a polite way of telling the cathedral people, and now the council too, that it was no the first time, it’s no this time and don’t bother asking a third time.</p> <p>Because, as far as she’s concerned, it is end of story. And fair enough, too. Because it would be obscene, given the state of the country’s finances and the state of our infrastructure, for more taxpayer money to go into it.</p> <p>I even think it’s obscene that the City Council thought it was ok to ask for it. How more tone deaf could it be?</p> <p>It’s end of story too as far as Labour is concerned.</p> <p>Chris Hipkins has previously said that he doesn’t think more taxpayer money should go into the cathedral.</p> <p>And local Labour MP Tracey McLellan said the same thing last night.</p> <p>Winston Peters, though, has already pledged $15 million if he’s in the next government.</p> <p>But I can’t imagine that being one of his non-negotiables in any coalition talks. So I think the cathedral can kiss goodbye to any money coming from any government.</p> <p>In case you need it, let me remind you of the numbers.</p> <p>The reinstatement project is $90 million short. They’ve asked for a total of between $40 million and $45 million from ratepayers and taxpayers. And, so far, somewhere around $90 million has been spent.</p> <p>More numbers for you: when the vote was taken yesterday, 11 councillors and Mayor Phil Mauger voted in favour. Three were against and two abstained.</p> <p>And there were emotional scenes around the council table, apparently.</p> <p>One report I’ve seen says Councillor Melanie Coker was fighting back tears.</p> <p>Saying she was torn about spending the council’s surplus, because of the other things it could be spent on, but said the cathedral is the heart of the city.</p> <p>She said: “We had an earthquake and it kept us out of the city. It was like a break-up with the city that we knew and we never got it back again, so we need to heal our broken heart.”</p> <p>Councillor Andrei Moore was very anti.</p> <p>He told the meeting that he’d done a survey and, of the 1,200 who took part, 91 percent were opposed to the council funding the cathedral.</p> <p>He said he wasn’t prepared to ignore what the people had said and, if he did, he would be breaching their trust.</p> <p>He said: “I don’t think we are doing the right thing.”</p> <p>Never a truer word said.</p> <p><strong>LISTEN ABOVE</strong></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
May 26, 2026
John MacDonald: Meat shop court ruling hard to swallow
<p>Even though I understand why a new independent supermarket in Christchurch has been told by the High Court that it can’t sell meat for two years, I still think it’s strange.</p> <p>The Harvest Market is in the same spot where a Mad Butcher franchise used to be until earlier this year.</p> <p>The people who ran the franchise also ran a grocery business alongside it. Which the Mad Butcher was happy with - as long as they didn’t sell meat.</p> <p>But the Mad Butcher shop isn’t there anymore because the franchise owners had a falling out with head office. And the Mad Butcher accused them of helping the Harvest Market guy set up the meat side of his business, because their nose was out of joint. That’s why it all ended up in court.</p> <p>And the court has ruled that this two-year non-compete clause that prevented the grocery operation on the same site from selling meat still stands, even though the Mad Butcher shop is no longer there.</p> <p>In the eyes of the law, it makes sense. But how can you be accused of unfairly competing with a shop that is no longer there?</p> <p>And it does seem nuts that, at a time when we’re being told that we need more competition in our grocery sector, we have this ruling that stops the Harvest Market from competing with a non-existent competitor.</p> <p>There is the chance that the Mad Butcher chain wants to set up shop in that part of Christchurch again. Because it was, after all, one of its most successful franchises.</p> <p>But why shut down competition for the sake of shutting down competition? Or more correctly, why shut down competition that doesn’t actually exist?</p> <p><strong>LISTEN ABOVE</strong></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
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