Open Sources (Ep. #532) Show Notes for August 28, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, just in time for the last weekend of summer, we’re taking a trip. We join our prime minister as he’s taking the world by storm, or at least parts of Europe anyway, and then we’re heading to Gaza again where nobody is taking a vacation because the war continues and its costing more lives. The stakes aren’t as dire closer to home, but there’s controversy up the road in Wasaga Beach that we need to discuss. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #532) Show Notes for August 28, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #531) Show Notes for August 21, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re back! After taking a midsummer break, we come back with some of your favourite characters from this past season including the buffoonish U.S. President, and our oafish Ontario Premier, and in the third topic, just in time for Labour Day, we’ll have some genuine labour news to get excited about! We might have taken some time off for the last couple of weeks, but the new sure didn’t!! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #531) Show Notes for August 21, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #530) Show Notes for July 31, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re getting ready to go on summer vacation, but before that we’ve got some serious business, and in the case of one topic we mean really, really serious. We will once again tackle the ongoing tragedy in Gaza before coming back home to Ontario where education is on the menu again, from your local school board to post-secondary education. Also, we’ll keep the education conversation going with this week’s guest. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #530) Show Notes for July 31, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #529) Show Notes for July 24, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph everybody is fighting! Our national and provincial leaders are gathered to strategize and fight back in a trade war, while the leader of the opposition (in exile) is fighting for his political life so that he can get back into the national debate. Meanwhile, we will talk to an area Indigenous leader who’s helping to lead the fight against legislation they got no say in by taking two different levels of government to court. Can’t we all just get along?! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #529) Show Notes for July 24, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #528) Show Notes for July 17, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re going down the rabbit hole. In Canada, and down into the United States, it seems like a lot of people are losing their minds and some of that might be dangerous. We will looking at a quartet arrested in Canada for terrorist activity, and the clash over conspiracies in the MAGAverse, plus, for something a little more normal, we will talk to a city councillor about Guelph stuff (no lie). Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #528) Show Notes for July 17, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #527) Show Notes for July 10, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph we’re doing a Law & Order riff. With political barbecue season underway, we look to the police beat by talking about potential civil rights violations in a major Ontario prison and the province-wide chain of stores that apparently can sell an illegal product with (near) impunity. Don’t worry, we’ve still got some political chat for you… local politics! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #527) Show Notes for July 10, 2025” →

Open Sources (Ep. #526) Show Notes for July 3, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re hung over. Not from imbibing too much over the Canada Day long weekend, but from all the news we had to process in the first six months of 2025. We survived two elections, the creation and implosion of DOGE, a million different micro-scandals both stupid and corrupt, and, yes, some good news. How are we supposed to make sense of any of this? How about an awards show? Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #526) Show Notes for July 3, 2025” →