This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re going to jail! “Finally,” some would say. Well too bad because we’re not actually going to jail, but we are going to talk about jail and who is going there in the first part of the show. Also, in this all news episode, we will look at the aftermath of lower international student enrollment and then head to a land down under and a great social (media) experiment underway there now.
This Thursday, December 11, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
The Prison Experiment. A CBC investigation published this week shows what we’ve all know for some time: Ontario’s jails are dangerously overcrowded. More than that, four out of five people in prison are actually awaiting trail, which means they’re technically innocent, at least in the eyes of the law. As the Ontario government flaunts their law & order agenda, and “Jail, Not Bail”, are we missing the forest for the trees with this story?
Student Services. A lot has been done to vilify international students in Ontario, but as their numbers continue to dwindle, we’re seeing the follow on effects. In Brampton and Waterloo, transit systems are looking at service cuts because there are now fewer riders, and redevelopment plans in downtown Guelph and Kitchener are delayed as Conestoga College faces a budget crunch. So are international students the real villains, or can we finally talk about the ways they were exploited all along?
Antisocial. Australia took the first step this week, becoming so far the only country in the world to ban social media for anyone under the age of 16. A few other countries are considering it, and many more are watching and waiting to see the results, but this will definitely be a big test for the tech oligarchs who have long shirked government regulation and other controls on their business, even if it means not protecting kids from the potential harms of social media. Is this the future?
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.
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