News and Politics with a Local Voice
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, 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 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”
This week on Open Sources Guelph we boogey! And yet, there’s not much time to celebrate because the news keeps on coming. We will see who won the B.C. Conservative leadership race and talk about what the next steps, and then we will look at a certain prime minister’s weak spot when it comes to a very green issue. Closer to home, we have a guest from Guelph city council to talk about, among other things, the next council. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #572) Show Notes for June 4, 2026”
This week on Open Sources Guelph things are not going according to plan. From Queen’s Park to Parliament Hill, our provincial and federal governments are missing the goal posts and are facing some rather harsh scrutiny. And speaking of scrutiny, we will talk to one of our city councillors about making the tough decisions that you probably didn’t like about next year’s city budget. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #546) Show Notes for December 4, 2025”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we celebrate old times, and new times. From the past, there’s someone we kind of forgot about but who wants to be remembered again, which could also apply to Parliament Hill where the leader of the opposition is back in the House and ready to deliver stinging rebukes to a PM under pressure. More locally, we will talk to one of Guelph city’s councillors about some recent big decisions. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #534) Show Notes for September 11, 2025”
This week on Open Sources Guelph we order a side-helping of change and economic concern. The new prime minister and the new-old premier met this week to talk about their common enemy: the crazy person currently occupying the White House. For the other half of the show, we will look to more local concerns with one of the members of city council from the first (in numerical order) ward! Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #509) Show Notes for March 13, 2025”
