This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re back! We might have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks, but the news certainly didn’t take a break and we will try to catch up on some it. We first look at Ontario where scandal never sleeps, and then we will head to federal politics where trade wars stalled and support for at least one federal leader is lagging. And finally, we will talk about the latest from the White House, a never ending source of the wackest drama!
This Thursday, August 20, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems. When we last left Doug Ford, he was trying to explain why so many of his ministers enjoyed taxpayer-funded hotel stays, but now he’s being asked about why the budget for the Ontario Line is now three-times the proposed cost in 2019, and why PC Party spies were following Bonnie Crombie to Jamaica using the company credit card. We will catch up with Ford’s follies, from AMO to A.I., which included a stop in Guelph by the way!
Un-Commons Cause. On Wednesday, Trump TACOed. The President of the United States gave Canada a three-day reprieve from the implementation of new tariffs as the two countries try to negotiate trade deal. Mark Carney was elected to lead Canada’s response to the shifting economic tides, but his main competitor Pierre Poilievre keeps trying to make a case for his leadership, and its very much not working even in his own caucus. How are things lining up when Ottawa gets back to work in the fall?
It Ain’t Over When It’s Over. The 60-day MOU that was supposed to be the beginning of the end of the War in the Iran expired this week, and guess what happened? The fight for the Strait of Hormuz looks more and more like a stalemate, and in the meantime President Trump is losing control of the story between his flight from a decoy Air Force One to the growing morale crisis on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. So what comes next in this war/not-war in the Middle East?
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