Guelph Politicast

Adam A. Donaldson
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  1. 1d ago

    GUELPH POLITICAST #539 – The Incumbent and the Insurgent (feat. Rodrigo Goller and Kevin Bowman)

    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.

  2. 3d ago

    Open Sources Guelph #581 - August 20, 2026

    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.

  3. Aug 21

    End Credits #REPEAT - August 19, 2026

    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.

    End Credits #REPEAT - August 19, 2026

  4. Aug 19

    GUELPH POLITICAST #538 – Election Season Begins (feat. Troy Bridgeman)

    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.

  5. Aug 17

    Open Sources Guelph #REPEAT - August 13, 2026

    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.

  6. Aug 15

    End Credits Conversations: He Loved The Odyssey Before it Was Cool (feat. Dr. John Walsh)

    As of this recording, The Odyssey has made over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, and that’s not bad for a movie based on a story that’s been told for thousands of years. A lot of people were excited about The Odyssey, many of them Christopher Nolan fans just excited about the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s next opus, but many people were excited to see a full-blown, big budget adaptation of the source material and we're talking to one of them! Dr. John Walsh, who is the director of the U of G’s School of Languages and Literatures and a professor of classical studies, teaches first years the written version of The Odyssey, and as you will hear, he loved the story of Odysseus’ journey home since before he was old enough to go to school at all. Unlike other classical scholars you can think of, Walsh is a fan of the film even if it’s not the version of The Odyssey he would have made if were the director.  So in this edition on End Credits Conversations, we will talk to Dr. Walsh about the origins of The Odyssey, whether there was a real Homer or not, the changes Nolan made to modernize the story, the thematic details he brought to the fore in this version, why adaptation means more than a strict re-telling of the story, and whether or not he sees The Odyssey in every movie or story he encounters.  Let's head off into the unknown on this edition of End Credits Conversations! The Odyssey is still in theatres everywhere, including the two Guelph Galaxy Cinemas. You can listen to the End Credits review of The Odyssey in episode #451, you just have to scroll down a little in this podcast feed to find it. End Credits Conversations returns next month on the fourth Saturday. End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

  7. Aug 14

    End Credits #REPEAT - August 12, 2026

    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.

    End Credits #REPEAT - August 12, 2026

  8. Aug 12

    GUELPH POLITICAST #537 – Local Man Runs for Federal Party Leader (feat. Mike Morrice)

    In 2006, there was a lot of momentum on tackling the climate crisis: Elizabeth May won the leadership promising to make electoral gains, An Inconvenient Truth was a critical and commercial movie hit, and even The Guardian noted it was “the year the world woke up” to the climate action, and then… Well, progress stalled. Now, 20 years later, the Greens are looking for a leader again, but in this political climate can the Greens still make gains? After 13 years as leader, May announced her retirement in 2019, and the next year, after eight rounds of voting, Toronto lawyer Annamie Paul took over. Without re-litigating what happened next, let’s just say that there was a lot of internal strife in the party, and Paul quit. May returned to the leadership in 2021, and then tried a co-leadership arrangement with Jonathan Pedneault, but that too hit a snag when Pedneault finished fifth in Outremont in 2025. But Pedneault wasn’t the only one to have a disappointing election night in 2025. Up the road in Kitchener Centre, Mike Morrice lost re-election as MP by a startlingly slim 375 votes. Morrice decided that he was too close to give up and pledged to run again in the next federal election but then he decided to take on a new opportunity: running for leader. Whether its with Morrice in the head office or not, can the Green Party regain their lost momentum? Mike Morrice will join us this edition of the podcast to talk about the hard lessons learned from his election loss, and why he wants to be the leader of the Green Party beyond slogans. He will also talk about how the Greens won and lost confidence over the last 20 years, how the time may be ripe for a resurgence and how politicians can overcome voter cynicism to believe that change is possible. And finally, he will discuss why he will remain bound to the Kitchener area if ends up becoming party leader. So let's talk about what it takes to lead a federal party on this week's Guelph Politicast!  You can follow Morrice on Instagram, check out his Kitchener Centre campaign website here, and you can learn more about his bid to lead the Green Party here. The Green Party leadership campaign is now underway, and you learn about Morrice and the other candidate Nira Dookeran and get important dates at the Green Party of Canada website. The new Green leader will be announced after the close of voting on November 14. You can also watch this interview on YouTube!  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.

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  • Creator
    Adam A. Donaldson
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2026
  • Episodes
    300
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2013 Adam Donaldson. All rights reserved.
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