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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we recover from the Easter weekend. See the guy in this picture with the Easter Bunny? He made it very hard to relax with some very vivid saber-rattling over the pointless war he started in the Middle East. Closer to home, we will talk about trains and plans for trains, plus the attack on the newest federal leader that might indicate a greater degree of confusion in the discourse.
Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #564) Show Notes for April 9, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re trying to go for the under-reported stories. First, we will journey to Cuba where somehow things have gotten even worse for the people that live there even without a war (yet). Then, we will consider an important court case out of the United States that might start to generate some accountability for the harms of social media. For more physical harms, like hunger, we have a special guest to discuss those issues. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #563) Show Notes for April 2, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re still thinking about war and peace. There’s a lot of the former, which makes the latter seem rather fleeting, but if you’re confused about what you’re seeing on the news, or in your social media feed, imagine how the leaders of American and Canada’s governments are feeling. We will catch up on the situation in Iran, and then we will catch up on the situation coming to Queen’s Park with our special guest! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #560) Show Notes for March 12, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we get déjà vu. Once again, the United States is at war with a country whose name begins with I-R-A, and so much has happened on this file in the last few days we have to dedicate half a show to it. In the other half, we go local to talk to a Guelph business owner about the issues facing your favourite local restaurants and how using a popular app on your phone might be doing them more harm than good. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #559) Show Notes for March 5, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re feasting on news as we leave much of Canada to its own devices for a week. In the United States the continued revelations of a certain dead criminal’s emails are having global implications, and one of the places feeling the heat is inside Westminster, seat of power for the government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. As for that criminal’s best friend who’s now President of the United States, he’s got problems too. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #558) Show Notes for February 26, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, it’s non-stop controversy only two weeks into the new year. From the United States, just when you thought there was nothing new to get angry about, more state-sponsored violence, and then the international situation is getting even more dicey with new drama in Iran. More locally, we’ve got drama right here in our own backyard concerning daytime shelter services that may or may not be coming. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #552) Show Notes for January 15, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we enter the new year like we left the old year: chaotically. For this first episode of the year, we will catch you up with all the news you might have missed either intentionally or on purpose during the holidays, and split into three distinct areas. We will tackle the latest drama south of the border, the travel plans of Canada’s prime minister, and whatever the heck in going on with the leader of Ontario. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #551) Show Notes for January 8, 2026”
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