News and Politics with a Local Voice
This week on Open Sources Guelph this is the second episode this week! As we bring our council race coverage in for a landing, we will talk to five more people running for city council in Guelph this election, and the weight is really going to be on Ward 5 for this final round. Now this isn’t the end of our election coverage, next week we start digging into the mayoral candidates, but for now, let’s go back to the wards… Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #588) Show Notes for October 1, 2026”
This week, Open Sources Guelph airs on Wednesday too! It’s just close enough to be an October surprise. With so many people running for city council, and with so many people interested in getting the Open Sources bump, we’ve had to seize more air time on CFRU to bring another five people who all want to represent you at 1 Carden Street downtown. In this special edition, we’ve got candidates from Ward 1, Ward 2, Ward 4 and two more from Ward 5! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #587) Show Notes for September 30, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph you will never guess what we’re doing… If you said we’re going to be doing more candidate interviews with people running for Guelph city council this election, well, that was pretty predictable actually. On this week’s show, we’ve got two incumbents and three challengers as we focus on north Guelph, and three wards each facing their own unique challenges and conundrums. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #586) Show Notes for September 24, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, election fever is becoming an election pandemic! (Too soon?) Now that Labour Day and Back to School is in the rearview mirror we can dedicate all of our attention to our local elections, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do on this edition with another quintet of candidates including a young person, another young person, a young mother, a business owner, and an incumbent. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #584) Show Notes for September 10, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re increasing the labour pre-Labour Day! Starting this week, and for the next several weeks, we will be covering the mayor and city council elections here in the Royal City by not just talking to some of the candidates… We’re going to talk to all of them! Well, we’re at least going to try and talk to all the ones that want to talk to us. First up, we’ve got five perspective city councillors, some who are incumbents and some who are challengers! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #583) Show Notes for September 3, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, the news – and the summer weather – is hotter than a match head! Perhaps you heard that we are now fighting a trade war, and everybody seems to think that this will work out to their favour. In any event, we will feel the impacts locally where there’s an election coming up in a couple of months and we will talk about that too. And to wrap up, how are things going in the resistance benches now with wizards and superheroes? Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #582) Show Notes for August 27, 2026”
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! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #581) Show Notes for August 20, 2026”
