News and Politics with a Local Voice
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we catch up with old friends. While Mark Carney was hugging it out with a Canadian celebrity, MPs were returning to Ottawa for another session or where else detoured by bad winter weather. We will also detour, but to the United States where there’s another kind of chill in the air, plus we will keep winter matters front of mind with our special guest from Guelph city council. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #554) Show Notes for January 29, 2026”
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, it was a rough one. Looking south of the border these days is a white knuckle ride through all your fears about the future, and it’s so bad that we have to dedicate the whole first half of our show to talk about American politics. We will then look closer to home and talk to a member of our local city council about a concern that all of us have these days. You know what we’re talking about. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #478) Show Notes for July 18, 2024”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re going to play the beautiful game: Amateur political punditry! In that context, we’re also going to talk about all the issues around that other game being played on the world stage this week, and we’re also going to talk about the national stage and the latest moves at a certain inquiry, plus the local stage with another new city councillor who’ll talk about a very big first meeting. Continue reading “Open Sources (Ep. #402) Show Notes for November 24, 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”
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