Guelph Politicast

Normally, the most continuous race during the municipal election is Ward 2. It's usually the one with the most number of candidates, but in this election year it will have to settle for second place. On this week's second edition of the podcast, we’ve got two candidates running in Ward 2 and are both running for city council for the second time. Sensing a pattern?
First up, we will talk to Michelle Bowman, who ran for Ward 1 Councillor in the last election and has also previously run as the federal Green Party candidate. Bowman will tell us what she’s learned from those past races, why she’s pushing to get a better deal for municipalities, and managing expectations while doing community engagement.
Then, we will bring in Morgan Dandie, a frequent council delegate and previous Ward 2 candidate, about how she will turn her advocacy into action on council, why council needs someone with experience living with poverty, and how she will balance economic needs downtown with social justice ones.
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 so far 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 stay tuned to check out candidate questionnaires, which will start getting posted this weekend.
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.

This week on End Credits, we're cooking! We will head into the kitchen with the bio-pic about celebrity chef before he was famous in the new coming-of-age film Tony, which you can now see in a theatre near you. We will also talk about some other movies coming soon to theatres as we mark the last week of summer to talk about some fall movie releases.
This Wednesday, September 2, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:
Fall Movie Preview. It's the most wonderful time of the year! To this day, Hollywood saves it's most daring, interesting, and yes, controversial, movies for the end of the last third of the year, and now that time is finally here!! From highly anticipated video game movies to foul-mouthed assassins on Easter Island to Robert Pattinson doing another funny voice, we will talk about some of our hotly anticipated movies coming soon in the next couple of months.
REVIEW: Tony (2026). Before he was a famous chef, TV host and celebrated foodie, Anthony Bourdain was Tony. Set in 1975, and based on about 50 pages in Bourdain's best selling memoir Kitchen Confidential, Tony (played by Dominic Sessa) follows Bourdain in his first kitchen job at a quaint seafood restaurant in a New England tourist town. Directed by Matt Johnson, whose last movie was Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, Tony tries to lampshade a lot of conventions of the bio-pic, but is it a good time at the movies?
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

This coming Monday is Labour Day, the unofficial end of the summer, and the official start of the real campaign. With everyone back to a regular routine, and in some cases heading back to school, many folks in Guelph being really paying attention for the first time. And speaking of school, we will head to the ward that's home to the University of Guelph and talk to the ones who want to be the next representatives of Ward 5.
Up first will be Greg Cawsey, a business teacher at John F. Ross CVI who’s going to talk about succeeding two long-time councillors at city hall, the parts of Ward 5 he thinks have been underrepresented in the past, and what his campaign slogan “Empowering your voice” means practically.
We will then talk to Dakota Cherry about wanting to be a role model for young women in politics, why so many young people are getting involved in municipal politics this election, and why her favourite issue, food insecurity, can’t be uncoupled from universal concerns about affordability.
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 so far 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 stay tuned to check out candidate questionnaires, which will start getting posted this weekend.
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.

This week on Open Sources Guelph, the news - and the summer weather - is hotter than a match head! Perhaps you heard that we are now fighting a trade war, and everybody seems to think that this will work out to their favour. In any event, we will feel the impacts locally where there's an election coming up in a couple of months and we will talk about that too. And to wrap up, how are things going in the resistance benches now with wizards and superheroes?
This Thursday, August 27, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
This Means Trade War. Shortly after last week's show went to air, the trade negotiations took a tick to the left and became a full-blown trade war. Prime Minister Mark Carney says he threw in the towel after too many last minute additions to undermine our sovereignty, and then people on both side of the border started having totally normal reactions. (See: Trump, Donald and Ford, Doug.) We will talk about the latest developments and the things the mainstream news is missing.
Vote Local. The nominations for elections in Ontario's 445 municipalities closed last Friday, and the board is set for important local races this October. Guelph has 49 people either running for mayor or council, and we will talk about some of those prospects, but we will also look at some of the other compelling stories from around Ontario from re-matches in Waterloo and Toronto, to the new mayor versus old mayor showdown in Mississauga, and more!
The State of the Resistance. Last weekend, Spider-Man took part in a counter protest against another racist rally hosted by a January 6 defendant. Last week, a dozen Gandalfs showed up outside Peter Thiel's new digs in Argentina. And this weekend, dozens of communities across Ontario will take part in another monthly Fight Ford protest. There's a lot of protesting, but is it any of it having an effect, and what can protestors do better in order to activate community power?
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.

This week on End Credits, we're back! Refreshed from summer vacation, we're ready to tackle the fourth and final entry in "Hot Hathaway Summer" with Anne's latest movie The End of Oak Street, which you can now see in a theatre near you. That's one thing we've been watching over the break, so we're going to spend the rest of the show talking about other things we've watched! 
This Wednesday, August 26, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:
What We've Been Watching. As you may have noticed, End Credits has been on vacation the last few weeks, so we had some downtime. Yes, on this show we review movies semi-professionally, but we also enjoy them recreationally so on this first show back we're going to talk about some of the movies we've been watching in our spare time, from a Columbian movie on that curated streaming site to the underappreciated entry in "Hot Hathaway Summer".
REVIEW: The End of Oak Street (2026). Imagine waking up one morning to find that your idyllic suburban neighbourhood was transported back in time to the era when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. What would you do? No phones, no electricity, no protection and no way out! David Robert Mitchell, director of It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, takes a left turn into Amblin-style family adventure (courtesy of producer J.J. Abrams), but if you're looking for a late-summer movie that mixes fun and suspense, can you do better than The End of Oak Street?
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

The nominations are closed, the campaigning has begun, the signs are going up, and it's not even Labour Day weekend yet! Time marches on, and so does this podcast, which this week will feature two more people running for Guelph city council, one is an incumbent looking for support to sit for another term, and the other is an insurgent hoping to replace one incumbent in his ward around the horseshoe!
Up first will be Rodrigo Goller, who is presently a city councillor in Ward 2 and is trying again to run for a third term. We will talk to Goller about running as an incumbent in a change election, his plan to pivot on the housing issue, and his opinion on what council was able to accomplish in the last four years.
And then we will talk to Kevin Bowman who is running in Ward 3. Bowman came close to winning a seat in 2022, less than 100 votes, so we will talk about how he plans to make up the difference this time, why he says he’s going to be a full-time councillor, and what he personally gets out of this very difficult job representing the people of Ward 3.
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 so far 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 stay tuned to check out candidate questionnaires, which will start getting posted on Labour Day weekend.
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.

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're back! We might have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks, but the news certainly didn't take a break and we will try to catch up on some it. We first look at Ontario where scandal never sleeps, and then we will head to federal politics where trade wars stalled and support for at least one federal leader is lagging. And finally, we will talk about the latest from the White House, a never ending source of the wackest drama!
This Thursday, August 20, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Mo' Money, Mo' Problems. When we last left Doug Ford, he was trying to explain why so many of his ministers enjoyed taxpayer-funded hotel stays, but now he's being asked about why the budget for the Ontario Line is now three-times the proposed cost in 2019, and why PC Party spies were following Bonnie Crombie to Jamaica using the company credit card. We will catch up with Ford's follies, from AMO to A.I., which included a stop in Guelph by the way!
Un-Commons Cause. On Wednesday, Trump TACOed. The President of the United States gave Canada a three-day reprieve from the implementation of new tariffs as the two countries try to negotiate trade deal. Mark Carney was elected to lead Canada's response to the shifting economic tides, but his main competitor Pierre Poilievre keeps trying to make a case for his leadership, and its very much not working even in his own caucus. How are things lining up when Ottawa gets back to work in the fall?
It Ain't Over When It's Over. The 60-day MOU that was supposed to be the beginning of the end of the War in the Iran expired this week, and guess what happened? The fight for the Strait of Hormuz looks more and more like a stalemate, and in the meantime President Trump is losing control of the story between his flight from a decoy Air Force One to the growing morale crisis on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. So what comes next in this war/not-war in the Middle East?
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.

This week on End Credits, you are here but we are not. What’s playing in a theatre near you? Don’t know. What’s streaming right now? Look it up yourself! These are the dog days of summer, and we don’t feel like working anymore. Not unusual, we do this every August, and now the time has come for you to review your own darn movies!!
Taking a Break from all Our Worries. Here on End Credits, we don’t like our jobs, and, uh, we don’t think we’re gonna do it anymore. For two weeks. Yes, it is time for the annual End Credits summer vacation break, we’re getting out of our cubicles – er, recording booths – and enjoying some exercise and being outside, or maybe watching some movies recreationally. So quit dealing with the TPS reports, stop listening to your eight bosses, and enjoy the bliss of doing nothing all day, at least for the next 14 days and then we’ll be back with a brand new edition!
Programming Note: End Credits will return with new episodes on August 26.
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

Nominations for the 2026 municipal election close this Friday, and you know what that means: Things get serious! With the finalized list of candidates for mayor, city council, and all the school boards in place you will start to see the campaign really begin and that means signs, and that also means press coverage. Are you ready to hear from the candidates, because you will hear from two today!
This interview, and the ones that will follow in the coming weeks, are part of Guelph Politico’s municipal election coverage. These interviews will help you get to know the candidates, while the upcoming questionnaires will tell you what they think about the issues. With this election, one thing is clear: more than half of city council is going to turn over this November, including the mayor, so to make the best-informed decision you possibly can, Guelph Politico is going to do its part.
On this week's podcast, we will talk to a candidate who may be familiar to regular listeners of the show. We're going to have a conversation with Troy Bridgeman, who's running in Ward 2 and after years covering Guelph as a multimedia journalist now wants to make the news as a city councillor. He will talk about his work covering homelessness issues in Guelph and what he's learned, plus how he wants to look at how he can use local power to focus on the big issues, and how we can have less partisanship at city all. 
Let's get to know one of the council candidates on this week's Guelph Politicast!
To learn more about important election dates, and to see the list of candidates running so far 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 stay tuned to check out candidate questionnaires, which will start getting posted on Labour Day weekend.
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.

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re on vacation. No, seriously. Sure, someone once said that there’s no rest for the wicked, but here at OSG headquarters on Snake Mountain, we believe that a restful two-week summer vacation makes our biting political commentary even more biting. As we rest and recreate, we’re pleased to bring you some previously enjoyed episodes of the show, and you may still enjoy them indeed!
Proof of Life. Many you come here to learn what we’re talking about on Open Sources this week, or maybe you always come here when the podcast version of the episode is posted. You may now be concerned to learn that there is no episode these two weeks, and you maybe be concerned that something has happened to Adam and Scotty that now makes them unable to deliver a high-quality sardonic take on the news plus engaging interviews with local newsmakers, but take our word for it, we’ll be back!
*Programming Note: Open Sources Guelph will return with new episodes on Thursday August 20.
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.