Open Sources Guelph #469 - May 2, 2024

Guelph Politicast

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we reconnect with our roots. It's been a busy week for student protests and campus shutdowns, and it's not escaped media attention, but getting less media attention is B.C.'s move to re-criminalize drugs, which may be a big step backwards. As always, this media is focused on local, and we will talk to a city councillor that maybe making a move from local to national.

This Thursday, May 2, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

Shock and Quad. Pro-Palestinian protests are nothing new to university campuses, but they've blown up in the last few weeks do to clashes between police and students at Columbia University in New York. Solidarity protests have popped up on other campuses, and now there's a political game being played about free speech and the cultural wars, but is the coverage missing the point of these protests in the first place?

Re-Criminal Minds. In a shocking move backwards, the provincial government of British Columbia has decided to re-criminalize the use of drugs in public spaces. Many are seeing this as a pre-election move by Premier David Eby to seem tough on crime, but activists are concerned about hitting rewind on hard fought progress on harm reduction strategies. Has the pendulum swung back to policing our way our of the addictions crisis?

O'Fork in the Road. A couple of weeks ago, reps from Guelph and Wellington County met at the third session of the Health and Housing Symposium, and one of them was Ward 6 Councillor Dominique O'Rourke. On this week's show, she will tell us what she got out of the symposium experience, and we will also talk about O'Rourke's new political endeavour, a play to take her skills and experience to Ottawa as Guelph's next MP!

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