Open Sources Guelph #481 - August 22, 2024

Guelph Politicast

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're back! We're done with our usual summer vacation and we're eager to hop back on the never ending news cycle to talk about all things breaking and unbreaking. Here in Ontario, there was a big meeting of all the municipalities this week in Ottawa, and abroad in eastern Europe there was a big move in the war happening there. For the interview this week, we're also talking about a big move, a move that someone's trying to make happen right here at home.

This Thursday, August 22, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

AMO Shorts. This week is the annual conference for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario or AMO. Representatives from the federal and provincial governments join councillors and staff members from municipalities around Ontario to talk about the issues facing cities, which are pretty substantial, but the appearances by provincial party leaders on Monday sounded more like the start of a campaign then a search for answers. So what came out of AMO?

Ukraine Strikes Back. The seemingly unending stalemate between Ukraine and Russia got a little more loose in the last couple of weeks after Ukraine sent troops into Russian territory and they now occupy portions of the Kursk region, the first time since World War II that foreign troops have held Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems stymied again as the war he thought would be brief is now almost three years old, but is this game changer we've been waiting for?

Wilmot Gonna Take It! There's something fishy going on up the road in Wilmot, a developer is trying to secure 770 acres of farmland for some kind of development, but the people who own and operate the threatened farms have no idea which level of government is threatening their livelihood: the Region or the Province. Alfred Lowrick, spokesperson for the Fight for Farmland Group, and Kevin Thomason, vice-chair of the Grand River Environmental Network, will join us this week to talk about what might be the next provincial development scandal in the making.

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