News and Politics with a Local Voice
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 boogey! And yet, there’s not much time to celebrate because the news keeps on coming. We will see who won the B.C. Conservative leadership race and talk about what the next steps, and then we will look at a certain prime minister’s weak spot when it comes to a very green issue. Closer to home, we have a guest from Guelph city council to talk about, among other things, the next council. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #572) Show Notes for June 4, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we let others do the talking. The news is just too damn busy, so we’re going to double the number of special guests we usually have on this episode with one local politician and one labour organizer from Ottawa. First up, a member of city council will talk to us about a surprising development in the coming local elections, and after that we’ll talk about the back and forth between the federal government and federal government workers. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #561) Show Notes for March 19, 2026”
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