Open Sources (Ep. #465) Show Notes for April 4, 2024

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re feeling hungry… Hungry for the news! To begin with we will look 75 years into the past to when the last piece of Canada fell into place, and speaking of piece, we’ll talk about the people who get the bigger parts of paycheque pie. It’s going be no piece of cake for the people that fight forest fires in Ontario this summer, but there could be a sour lemon in the U.S. election.  Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #465) Show Notes for April 4, 2024”

Open Sources (Ep. #464) Show Notes for March 28, 2024

This week on Open Sources Guelph we’re all about the bling, bling! Money matters matter to us this week as we tackle the debate around the carbon tax and the follow-on debate about confidence, and then we will talk about the updated fiscal picture of Ontario and our brand new provincial budget. Also, w will get some straight dope about current political conditions in Guelph direct from city hall. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #464) Show Notes for March 28, 2024”

Open Sources (Ep. #460) Show Notes for February 29, 2024

This week on Open Sources Guelph, it’s Leap Day! Recorded for posterity, episode #460 of this show is being released on Leap Day, February 29, 2024. This year February added an extra day, and on this show we’re adding to the discourse! We’re going to drop in on our friends at the Ontario Legislature, and then we’re going to talk to a friend from the trans community to see how they’re coping with current events. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #460) Show Notes for February 29, 2024”

Open Sources (Ep. #458) Show Notes for February 15, 2024

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re not feeling the love this day post-Valentine’s. We’re going to start local where the Mayor of Guelph declared himself strong, and just in time for a very complicated and emotional meeting about public policy around encampments. Also (sorta) local, we will talk about the impact of the latest round of media job cuts and then it’s off to Queen’s Park for another adventure! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #458) Show Notes for February 15, 2024”

Open Sources (Ep. #454) Show Notes for December 14, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph, it’s a time for gift returns. What? It’s not even Christmas yet! Well, the provincial government has been doing a lot of returning lately, taking back policy that they themselves developed and they were at it again this week. We’ll talk about that, plus the scapegoating of international students, and for the interview this week, we will roll out the red carper for one of the city councillors who represents CFRU at 1 Carden Street. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #454) Show Notes for December 14, 2023”

Open Sources (Ep. #453) Show Notes for December 7, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph, are we even real? Maybe this show has been one, big nine-year conspiracy. Not that we’re trying to put thoughts in your head, but it turns out that we don’t even really need to try that hard because so many us are ready to believe a conspiracy theory. We’re going to talk about that, and we’re also going to talk about the latest from the war between Israel and Hamas. Closer to home, we’re going to talk to the newest member of the Ontario Legislature. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #453) Show Notes for December 7, 2023”

Open Sources (Ep. #448) Show Notes for November 2, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we come down from the Halloween sugar high. A lot’s been happening on the homefront lately so we will take a break from current affairs in the Middle East and look at Queen’s Park, where the government seems buried under a mound of paper released to the press this week. Speaking of getting buried, we will look at if the federal government has buried itself by revisiting its most controversial piece of legislation. And lastly, we have another city council friend to talk with. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #448) Show Notes for November 2, 2023”