Guelph Politicast

Where's the hottest political action in Guelph this election? It's in Ward 5! There are 10 people who are vying for those two council seats in this campaign, especially for that vacancy left by the one incumbent running now for mayor. The other incumbent? She's one of the guests on this edition of the podcast, but before that we will hear from one of her challengers.
First up, we will talk to registered veterinary technician and first-time candidate Wesley Harris about his campaign slogan “common sense with compassion”, managing the differences between real safety concerns and the perceptions of being unsafe, and how he will measure what is a “meaningful benefit to Guelph" if he's elected. 
After that, we will hear from Cathy Downer who will tell us why she’s still invested in being a city councillor after decades of service, what that experience tells her about the main problems facing the new council when it sits in November, and why she can still be a change agent as the most senior member of city council.
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.

This week on End Credits we get meta. Again. We're reviewing the satirical surrealist psychological slasher film Teenage Sex and Death and Camp Miasma, which you can still find in some theatres, and will be coming soon to Mubi, the curated streaming site. Along similar lines, we will dedicate the first part of the show to some of our favourite horror remakes from the 2000s.
This Wednesday, September 9, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Peter Salmon will discuss:
The 2000s Horror Remakes Draft. It's still technically summer, but the weirdos already think it's mid-fall. It's that time of year to dust off all your favourite horror movies, warm up the Shudder app, and get rolling on spookiness as we talk about a very particular trend in the first decade of this century. At the time, there was no major horror title from the 1970s and 80s that could not be remade and to kick-off this week's show, we're going to draft some of them.
REVIEW: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026). In the movie inside a movie, Camp Miasma features a box-headed killer stalking the horny young people at a summer camp. Sound familiar? This part might too, a hotshot young director fresh off Sundance success is recruited to resurrect some "zombie I.P." to update and relaunch a long since forgotten film franchise. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has a familiar story, but it's doing some weird and interesting things, so why might this quietly be the movie of the year?
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

If this project teaches you anything, it's that there's some surprising connections between parts of the city even on opposite ends of town from each other. That's the tease for this week's election interview mash-up with two more candidates, one from the north end in Ward 1 and one from the south end in Ward 6. What is the surprising issue that connects them? You'll just have to listen.
We will do north first with Owen Martens, who is running for council for the first time and is one of a class of young people who have signed up for this campaign. We’re going to talk about why young people are so engaged for this election, how his education studying political science prepared him for this run, and why he’s so focused on the separation of powers in his campaign material.
We will then head to the south end and talk to current Ward 6 Councillor Katherine Hauser who will tell us why she’s *not* running for re-election, how she fits in as a candidate in the midst of what looks like a change election, and why she doesn’t want to lose her seat now just as she’s gotten used to the job, and its responsibilities.
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 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.

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're increasing the labour pre-Labour Day! Starting this week, and for the next several weeks, we will be covering the mayor and city council elections here in the Royal City by not just talking to some of the candidates... We're going to talk to all of them! Well, we're at least going to try and talk to all the ones that want to talk to us. First up, we've got five perspective city councillors, some who are incumbents and some who are challengers!
This Thursday, September 3, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Election Roulette Round #1. The 2026 municipal elections is underway, and by the time we get to the end of Election Day on October 26 there will be at least five new city councillors and a new mayor for Guelph. Like we did in 2022, Open Sources Guelph are dedicated to highlighting as many candidates as possible, and every week we are talking to five of the people running for a seat at city hall. On this edition, we're talking to Troy Bridgeman, Kevin Bowman, Katherine Hauser, Morgan Dandie, and Phil Allt.
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.

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.