Guelph Politicast

How long do you have to live in Guelph to be considered a Guelphite? As one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, there have been a lot of new people coming to town, and there's a natural friction between them and the ones who have been in Guelph for years. So do you have to put in a lot of time as a Guelphite before you can run for council?
First up from Ward 2, Kim Fry will join us to talk about realizing her long-time dream of moving Guelph in recent years, struggling to justify her place in this campaign as a newcomer, her family history in municipal politics, and why she’s running on optimism in local politics and not doomerism.
Then, we will then go one ward over to Ward 3 and join incumbent city councillor and lifelong Guelphite Phil Allt on the patio to talk about his case for getting a fourth term, how the housing challenge before council is changing, how he wants to redefine value, and what Ward 3 needs from city hall in terms or support.
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 go to court. Cartoon court! Our review this week will focus on a movie you probably hadn't heard about unless your deep in the wilds of Film Twitter, in which case you were very excited about this release. We're talking about Coyote Vs. Acme, which is now in theatres and we will further sew our film dork reps by talking TIFF.
This Wednesday, September 16, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:
The TIFF of the Spear! The Toronto International Film Festival continues in downtown Toronto, and while not everyone can go and take part every year, it's usually not too hard to find the movies that make a big splash there. So we will talk TIFF by talking about some of our favourite movies that premiered there in the past; from indie classics to all-in-one-night rom-coms. We may not be celebrities or gossip reporters, but we can TIFF too!
REVIEW: Coyote Vs. Acme (2026). It's been a cause célèbre among Letterboxd types for years. Originally earmarked for deletion in order to reap tax benefits, Warner Bros. eventually let someone else release Coyote Vs. Acme, a courtroom comedy featuring Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote suing the Acme Corporation for years of buying crappy products in his effort to eat the Road Runner. Starring Will Forte and John Cena, no one was expecting much of Coyote Vs. Acme, so why might it end up being one of the best surprises of the 2026 movie year?
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

September is half over, and the campaign is heating up. The Guelph Politicast is coming back to you with two more candidates and once again we're mixing up the wards, two from each of the two busiest races in this year's election. This week, we’re going to talk about being a busy bee with one candidate and then we’re going to talk about business with another.
First up, we will talk to Ward 2 candidate, beekeeper and captain of the (Hive) collective Mike Barber about his history with bees, his ambitious plan to tackle homelessness and how he’s rallying the community to support it, and how he thinks we can balance downtown priorities between taking care of business and taking care of people.
We will then head to Ward 5 and talk to former CEO of Innovation Guelph and business consultant James Doran about what he’s laid out in his blueprint for Guelph, why business ideas can generate community benefits, and how he thinks he stands out in a very big and very diverse field in Ward 5.
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 Open Sources Guelph, election fever is becoming an election pandemic! (Too soon?) Now that Labour Day and Back to School is in the rearview mirror we can dedicate all of our attention to our local elections, and that's exactly what we're going to do on this edition with another quintet of candidates including a young person, another young person, a young mother, a business owner, and an incumbent.
This Thursday, September 10, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Election Roulette Round #2. 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 Laura McQuillen, Dakota Cherry, Cathy Downer, Owen Martens, and Michael Barber.
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.

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.