Tag: minimum wage

Open Sources (Ep. #444) Show Notes for October 5, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph we’re thankful for scandal. As we head into the long weekend, we’re going to talk about the ongoing issues facing the House of Commons that have kind of made a mockery of Canada on the international stage. It’s good fodder for a podcast, which might soon be under the regulatory umbrella of the CRTC. In the back half of the show, we’re going to talk about the recent increase in the minimum wage, and why it still isn’t good enough. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #444) Show Notes for October 5, 2023” →

Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday January 11, 2018

We’re back! After a holiday break, Open Sources Guelph returns for its epic fourth year of practical news discussion and interviews with local newsmakers. There’s none of the latter this week, but we’ve got plenty of the former. Read any good books lately? Well, we hear there’s one about a certain American administration. Also, it turns out that Trudeau might have been palling around with terrorists after all (in a manner), for some reason people are angry about a pay raise for the people making the least, and people out in the cold are still getting the cold shoulder. So it’s another year in paradise, apparently.  Continue reading “Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday January 11, 2018” →

Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday July 2, 2015

Happy Canada Day, boys and girls! Let’s talk about Greece, and the United States. This week’s episode of Open Sources Guelph will take you abroad to sunny Greece, home of democracy and home to the first developed country to ever default on its IMF loans. Then we’ll go back to the U.S. of A. to bask in a rainbow of openness and [some] bigotry. Back here in Canada, we’ll look into the merits of making the wallets of those earning minimum wage thicker, and we’ll check in on what’s turning into the election that will never end (and it hasn’t even really started yet). Our present for Canada’s 148th birthday? The best of topical political discussion. Continue reading “Open Sources Show Notes for Thursday July 2, 2015” →