You had questions, and I had answers. Last week, I put out a request on the various social media lines for your queries about current events at city council and the City of Guelph, and you responded with about a dozen of them. This is where you get your answers. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #99 – Listener Q and A”
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… if math is a hobby, or you fetishize your calculator. Yes, the 2018 budget deliberations are about to start at city council, and to put you in a budgeting kind of mood, we go behind the curtain this week to see how the the ones and zeros add up before they make it to the council floor. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #98 – Tara Baker, City Treasurer”
Last week, city council heard from an interim report on the first service review being conducted by staff. The result of that investigation into Solid Waste Resources was that the service is almost entirely on par in terms of delivering service for money as many of the municipalities that are compatible to Guelph. There was just that one thing though… Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #97 – Trying to Privatize Toronto’s Garbage”
What was once an oasis from urban sprawl, a developed piece of land that nature had reclaimed from a century of industry, is once again a big empty field ready for construction. For over a decade, the area residents that enjoyed this natural space, and its tress and trails, have been dreading this moment, and the journey is far from over. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #96 – June Hofland on the Lafarge Site”
You’ve heard the name, but what do you know about OPIRG aside from it being a group in Guelph that likes hugging trees and being total SJWs? Okay, so those things are technically true, and OPIRG is proud of it thank-you-very-much! But if you’ve ever wanted to go inside OPIRG and get the bigger picture about how and why they tick, then this podcast’s for you. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #95 – Brad Evoy, OPIRG”
It’s the last days of August, which also means that it’s the official end of summer. If you’re a student anyway. This time next week, students of all ages will back at class, making new friends, learning stuff, and begrudging that their summertime freedom was taken away from them just when they were getting the hang of it. So who do we blame for this madness? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #94 – The Chairs of Guelph’s School Boards”
September is coming, and everything will get back to normal. Then again September starts with one of the biggest cultural events of the year: the Guelph Jazz Festival. Now in its 23rd year, the Jazz Fest is getting ready again to fill the downtown core with the finest improvised and creative music from across Canada and around the globe, but this year, things might sound a little bit different. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #93 – Scott Thomson, Guelph Jazz Festival Artistic Director”
Brace yourselves, Back to School is coming. In about three weeks, the summertime quiet of Guelph will give way to the hustle and bustle from a suddenly swelled student population as 20,000 undergrads come to the city to continue their education or initiate it, and Student Life will be there to help welcome them. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #92 – Robert Routledge, U of G Student Life”
This week on the Guelph Politicast, we’re doing a bottle episode for another show entirely. If you don’t listen to Open Sources Guelph (and why wouldn’t you, you can find it on the same podcast channel as the Guelph Politicast), this is your chance to get a taste of what we offer every Thursday at 5 pm on CFRU. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #91 – The Open Sources Guelph 2017 Interviews”
You don’t really know how busy seven months of council look like until you write out all the highlights in a single script and record them for a podcast, but that’s what we’ve done for this week’s podcast. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #90 – The Year at Council So Far…”
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