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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, we’re building bridges. And speaking of bridges, we will talk about a famous new bridge down in Windsor, which may now be a monument to the latest phase of the Canada/U.S. trade war. In other news, we will talk about a new study that paints a worrying picture of Canada’s healthcare system (again!), and in the interview we will focus on local matters and the end of the council term with a member of Guelph city council. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #580) Show Notes for July 30, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we make deals, or rather we just deal with it. In the first half, we will talk about the deal with the federal government’s attempt to rein in the excesses of big tech and why the war in Iran might finally be over, or not. In the second half, we’ve got a member of Guelph city council who’s going to talk about the deal with the very busy meetings last week at city hall and some of the town’s favourite controversies! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #574) Show Notes for June 18, 2026”
