This is a change election. Can we all agree on that? With the mayor’s office changing over, and five vacant council seats waiting for new people to fill them, the pressure of this campaign might be most keenly felt by the people already around the horseshoe. Today, we have the last two incumbents we haven’t interviewed yet, so are they the change you’re seeking?

First up, we head to Ward 3 where Michele Richardson will tell us about her decision to run again after announcing her retirement, her desire to shake up oversight and committee structures at council, why budgeting is the hardest thing to wrap your head around as a new councillor and why collaborating with upper levels of government is so hard.

Then, we will then head back to the Quatro and talk to Linda Busuttil about the comms strategy when English is not necessarily your constituents’ first language, the coming challenges of developing the Dolime Quarry, the cultural needs of Ward 4, and her secret connection to a famous Robert Munsch book.

So let’s hear from two more council candidates on this week’s Guelph Politicast!

To learn more about important election dates, and to see the list of candidates running in all the races, go to the City of Guelph website here. You can watch the videos of these and other interviews on the Guelph Politico YouTube channel @PoliticoOnVideo, and you can now check out candidate questionnaires on the Guelph Politico website.

The host for the Guelph Politicast is Podbean. Find more episodes of the Politicast here, or download them on your favourite podcast app at Apple, TuneIn and Spotify .

Also, when you subscribe to the Guelph Politicast channel and you will also get an episode of Open Sources Guelph every Monday, and an episode of End Credits every Friday.