Open Sources Guelph #504 - January 30, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we have to shake off the winter blahs and get into election mode! Doug Ford has called a snap election in Ontario for incredibly specious reasons, and we will get into that, and we will also get into an election issue that we should be talking about with a special guest expert on the subject. In other news, the federal Liberals are still trying to find a new leader.

This Thursday, January 30, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

The Winter Soldier On. He needs a mandate. That's what Doug Ford has been saying all week and on Tuesday he visited the Lieutenant-Governor to dissolve the legislature 16 months early to hold a snap election in February. Now, instead of legislating the myriad of crises that already exists and are under his control, Ford is running to get a *mandate* to stand up against Donald Trump, which is a federal area of responsibility. At least the opposition parties have their sh*t together, right...? Are we doomed?

The Magnificent Seven Six. The slate of leadership candidates for the federal Liberal leadership is now set, and there are six people vying for the role of Justin Trudeau's successor. As it stands today, it looks like former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has the inside track, but you can't discount Chrystia Freehand yet. Also, there may be deeper controversies afoot as Chandra Arya was left out of the race for damning and mysterious reason. We'll catch up with the Grit rehabilitation efforts.

Great Barrier Beef. Would it surprise you to learn that January 1, 2025 was the deadline to make Ontario barrier-free? It didn't surprise David Lepofsky, or anyone that works with his group, the AODA Alliance. It was the Alliance who pushed the Ontario government in 2005 to pass a bill to make Ontario a fully accessible place by now, and it's the Alliance who wants you to be aware that they failed. This week, Lepofsjy joins us to talk about why accessibility needs to be an election issue and how you can help make it one.

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