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GUELPH POLITICAST #467 – The Two Guelphs Election (feat. Scotty Hertz)

Published on Apr 23, 2025Apr 22, 2025 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

If you listen to this show promptly on Wednesday then it’s just five more sleeps till Election Day! About a quarter of us have been so excited that we just couldn’t wait to vote; 7.3 million Canadians made voting part of their Easter weekend festivities, a new record. What’s been driving all this excitement? What about the party platforms? The manoeuvres of the national party leaders? And what the hell happened at those post-debate scrums? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #467 – The Two Guelphs Election (feat. Scotty Hertz)” →

RECAP: Tech Issues and Chaos at Packed Social Justice Candidates Meet

Published on Apr 16, 2025Apr 18, 2025 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

In front of a packed house at the Italian Canadian Club on Tuesday night, six of the eight candidates running to be the next Member of Parliament for the riding of (most of) Guelph met to have a not-debate. Although there was a lot of shouting and interruption, the Guelph-Wellington Coalition for Social Justice aimed to have a frank exchange of ideas, and they mostly accomplished it. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Tech Issues and Chaos at Packed Social Justice Candidates Meet” →

RECAP: Mayor Touts City Resilience and Future Concerns at State of the City

Published on Feb 6, 2025Feb 6, 2025 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

The 2025 State of the City event at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre is one of the first big community events of the year gathering folks from the business community, area non-profits and government reps and staff. Last year, Mayor Cam Guthrie used is a platform to announce his about face on Strong Mayor Powers, so we enter this year’s speech with some questions about what he might do now…. Which are answered in this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Mayor Touts City Resilience and Future Concerns at State of the City” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #449 – 2024: Year in Review (feat. Mike Ashkewe)

Published on Jan 1, 2025Dec 31, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

If you’re listening to this on New Year’s Day then you might be welcoming 2025 with relief, or maybe even trepidation. If you thought last year was a rough ride it may be an hors d’oeuvres compared to what comes next, but before we get into all that, we’re going to formally say goodbye to 2024 by talking about the year that was, and the year we wanted it to be! Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #449 – 2024: Year in Review (feat. Mike Ashkewe)” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #442 – The War on Bike Lanes (feat. Mike Darmon & Adrian Salvatore)

Published on Nov 13, 2024Nov 12, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

If you feel like active transportation options are under siege at the moment, you’re not alone. The Ontario government is coming for municipal bike lanes while cities like Guelph, facing unprecedented financial barriers, are seeing robust active transportation networks as a “nice to have”. We’ve spent the last few years trying to undo decades of building our cities around the personal automobile, but is the war on bike lanes finally here? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #442 – The War on Bike Lanes (feat. Mike Darmon & Adrian Salvatore)” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #441 – The AAC Spills the Tea (feat. Lorelei Root)

Published on Nov 6, 2024Nov 4, 2024 by Adam A. Donaldson1 Comment

Watching the Accessibility Advisory Committee meetings over the last several months there’s a particular undercurrent that some members of the committee feel like they’re not being listened to, and that there was a disconnect between their expectations and what City of Guelph staff wanted them to do. And then came the Public Space Use Bylaw and the waters got even choppier. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #441 – The AAC Spills the Tea (feat. Lorelei Root)” →

RECAP: Ward 5 Have Concerns About Fourplexes, Budget Cuts

Published on Oct 24, 2024Oct 26, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

Not affiliated with any of the planned budget town halls coming soon, Ward 5 Councillors Leanne Caron and Cathy Downer held their own town hall on Thursday night at Harcourt United Church that focused on planning issues. The City of Guelph’s general manager of planning and building services Krista Walkey was on hand to provide some technical information, and to help the councillors answer a tonne of questions. If you missed it though, here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Ward 5 Have Concerns About Fourplexes, Budget Cuts” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #437 – The Cemetery is Not a Scary Place (feat. Paul Taylor)

Published on Oct 9, 2024Oct 8, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

If you want to know the history of a place, go to the cemetery, and this is no less true for Woodlawn Memorial Park. It’s natural in this Halloween month to seek out some spookiness, and conventional wisdom says that there’s nowhere spookier than the local cemetery, but our guest this week spent a lifetime promoting a simple message: Your local cemetery is not a very scary place. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #437 – The Cemetery is Not a Scary Place (feat. Paul Taylor)” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #433 – Born to Run the Run Part 2 (feat. Betty Stone)

Published on Sep 11, 2024Sep 9, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

Sometimes in this business, you go looking for the story and sometimes the story finds you… Last week, former Terry Fox Run organizer David Picard talked about his years of work putting this event together, and then he offered an opportunity: How would you like to hear from the woman that started it all? This week, we learn about the beginning of the Terry Fox Run and we’ll learn how she did it. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #433 – Born to Run the Run Part 2 (feat. Betty Stone)” →