Open Sources Guelph #505 - February 5, 2025

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're trying to project calm. It was a long weekend as we waited for a certain Florida Man who was inexplicably re-elected as President of the United States to blow up our economy, and we can't even avail ourselves of healthcare because that's in a terrible position in Ontario. So, what can we do to fix this? Our guest this week has some ideas and he wants you to elect him again to put them in action!

This Thursday, February 6, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

Trade in Full. It was, as Shakespeare said, a tale of sound and fury signifying nothing. After announcing on Saturday that he would impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico, U.S. President Donald Trump relented on Monday afternoon after both countries, essentially, promised to do things that they were already doing. Now, we're under a 30-day reprieve and who knows what happens then, even Donald Trump. So what happens when February ends?

Sick? Oh. So there's an election right now, maybe you heard about it. There's a lot of back-and-forth on the campaign trail about what political parties want to do about healthcare, about we don't want to talk about policy, we want to talk about the extent of the problem. With hospitals under financial pressure, suffering a desperate need for more people and more facilities, and the growing spread of privatisation, we will talk about what healthcare in Ontario looks like and what it needs beyond platitudes.

Still Like Mike? Getting back to the candidates, we will start our interviews with Guelph candidates this week with a familiar face. Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner is the incumbent in Guelph having won the last elections, and it seems to be a foregone conclusion that he will win again. Still, Schreiner says he wants to fight for it, and make sure that Guelphites really want to send him back to Queen's Park, and maybe with some more Green peeps by his side(?). Schreiner will tell us how he intends to make all that happen.

Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.