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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re going dull. You can’t make friends with salad? We disagree! And to help prove that we’re going to get out the scorecards for the first two weeks of business with the new Canadian government and the first year of business for the U.K.’s government. In other news, we’ll go super local looking at one neighbourhood with that area’s council representative! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #522) Show Notes for June 5, 2025”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re doing some real analysis. Look at that picture above, are you scared? Sick? Shocked? Disappointed? All of the above? Then this week’s show might be of some interest as we try to dissect the most recent American election for something usable going forward. Closer to home, we’re talking to a member of city council about this year’s unusual budget process. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #493) Show Notes for November 14, 2024”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, can you smell what the show is cooking?! That’s an old reference, but it might have new relevance if a certain wrestler turned actor decides that he wants to be a politician now. Somehow, this idea is far less concerning than the company that the Premier of Alberta is keeping, and speaking of concerning, we will play host to a member of our local city council who’s going to talk about that big budget conundrum. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #450) Show Notes for November 16, 2023”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we mark a grim milestone. You see the smiley, happy man with the thumb up in the picture above, well he’s responsible for what might end up being the biggest foreign policy debacle of the 21st century, and the century was barely three years old when it happened. On this episode, we’re marking the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, and we’re also going to talk about other fights closer to home, like housing, and we’ve got a city council guest to talk about it. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #418) Show Notes for March 23, 2023”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we continue our journey on the election trail with another trip around the ward map. It’s been a long September (nor December like the Counting Crows song), but we’ve collected another quintet of candidates for this new episode of the show including a couple of people running Ward 2, a visitor from the west end, and a couple of runners from wards south of the river. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #393) Show Notes for September 22, 2022”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re talking about international matters, and then we will bring things back to the local. First, we will look abroad at a pair of growing crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan and the fallout of a future war and a past one respectively. In the back half of the show, we will have an interview with one of Guelph’s Ward 2 city councillors about the month that’s passed and the year that’s ahead. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #362) Show Notes for January 27, 2022”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re going to science the sh!t out of this episode, at least in the first half of the show. We’re going to discuss balancing space exploration with paying ones taxes, and we’re going to talk about the latest issues around the vaccine rollout here and around the world. In the back half, we’ve got a visitor from city council to talk about what’s going on locally at city hall. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #335) Show Notes for July 15, 2021”
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