This week on Open Sources Guelph there’s tragedy and triumph. First we will head out to B.C. to separate fact from fiction when it comes to events in Tumbler River, which is something we can do thanks to a liberal arts education that the Ontario government is now making more difficult to attain. As for triumph, that’s a local matter. We will talk to the newest member of Guelph City Council about some good news stories.
This Thursday, February 12, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Tumbler Ridge. There was tragedy in northern B.C. last week when 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed nine people and injured 25 others in the worst school shooting in Canadian history. A lot of the controversy has focused on Van Rootselaar’s gender orientation, but there’s been little focus on her deeply rooted mental health issues, or the limited resources to deal with such things in small communities like Tumbler Ridge. Are we missing the so-called forest for the trees here?
Taking the ‘Fun’ Out of Funding. You can’t say that the provincial government isn’t working because still over a month before their inevitable return to Queen’s Park, they announced changes to funding for post-secondary institutions in Ontario. Say “Hello” to more money and “Goodbye” to the tuition freeze and an OSAP formula were students get more in grants than loans. Doug Ford says you’ll be fine if you don’t major in “basket weaving”, but will we?
Waterfowl Play. Last week at Guelph City Council tackled two big deals, one was the re-designation of the old Kortright Waterfowl Park on Niska Road and the other was the final vote to designation the Ontario Reformatory Lands as a heritage district. One of the people trying to make sense of it all was Ward 6 City Councillor Katherine Hauser, and in her Open Sources Guelph debut she will talk about deliberating on these difficult files, and the questions about how much city councillors should be paid.
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.
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