Guelph’s status as a volunteer friendly community is almost as renown as our environmental stewardship and our musical devotion. April is that time of year to remind us of who helps make a community, and that is the people who give up their own free time to give back to that community, and who better to share that point of view that the people of the Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #75 – Volunteer Centre of Guelph/Wellington”
Today is the last day for University of Guelph students to vote in a run-off election for next year’s President of the Central Student Association. It’s no small position, but getting undergrad students to vote for the person representing them to the university admin, the provincial and federal governments, and on all matter of student issues is no small feat itself. Fortunately, next year’s slate of Vice-Presidents is already in place. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #74 – The Central Student Association”
Kazoo, noun, “a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a hollow pipe with a hole in it, over which is a thin covering that vibrates and produces a buzzing sound when the player sings or hums into the pipe.” For Guelphites that like local music and grassroots art though, Kazoo means something very different. It means the start of the local festival season, and maybe some of the best music you’ve never heard of. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #73 – Brad McInerney, Kazoofest”
Who is Spider-Man? Depending on who you ask, they’ll say Peter Parker. Or Miles Morales. Some might even say Dr. Octopus; there was a comic book story where he and Spider-Man swapped bodies you see. But in the Royal City, Spider-Man is Brandon Bott. He is Guelph’s Spectacular Spider-Man! Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #72 – Guelph’s Spectacular Spider-Man”
Before there was a University of Guelph, there was College Royal, an annual open house that invites the city to campus to get a sampling of all the great learning, research and education that happens between College St and Stone Rd. It’s the biggest university open house of its kind in North America, so would it surprise you to learn that it’s undergrad students that put it all together every year? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #71 – College Royal”
Last weekend, the Canadian Union of Public Employees successfully negotiated an agreement with the University of Guelph and avoided a strike or lockout by the university’s 2,500 teaching assistants and sessional lecturers. Not bad, right? Classes keep going, studies aren’t interrupted and everybody’s happy! Well, not everyone. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #70 – Manuel Marques, Grievance Co-ordinator, CUPE 3913”
Earlier this month, when the Canadian job numbers for January were released, there was a lot of congratulating from all levels of government about the unexpected increase in the number of private sector jobs created in the first month of 2017. In all 48,000 people got new jobs, but what wasn’t discussed as much was that less than a third of them got good paying full-time work, and this has been a trend for a long time now. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #69 – Laura Maclure of CUPE on Precarious Work”
This is probably not the type of weather you want when you’re holding a fundraiser called “The Coldest Night of the Year,” but on the other hand, if you want to rally people to come out and walk between two and ten kilometres to raise money for charity, this is maybe just the kind of weather you want. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #68 – Ted Drewlo, The Coldest Night of the Year”
Two protests in two weeks. Guelph hasn’t been this riled up about something since the anti-Walmart days! But the passionate demands of Guelphites for electoral reform seems to have not been silenced by the apparent disinterest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep his campaign promises. In fact, the PM’s dismissal of the issues seems to have created a new urgency. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #67 – The Voices of Electoral Reform”
If you haven’t already read the article, recapped live blog, watched the video, or learned about it somewhere else, you can now download the State of the City right to your device and listen to it via whatever podcasting platform you prefer. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #66 – The State of the City 2017”
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