Best Adam A Donaldson Podcasts (2024)

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End Credits #352 - July 31, 2024 (Deadpool & Wolverine) 56:48

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This week on End Credits, we're appreciating that all it takes to make $200 million in one weekend is a foul mouth and lots of gore. Or maybe it's gratuitous cameos from comic book movies you've all but forgot about. If you haven't guessed already, we're reviewing Deadpool & Wolverine, and sticking with the X-Men, we're ranking that whole series. T…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #429 – The Secrets of Stonehenge... The Guelph One (feat. Kristen Kerr) 39:17

12h ago39:17

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A couple of weeks ago at city council, a group of leaders representing four frontline agencies appeared to support the idea of a tiny home project in Guelph. The head of the Guelph Community Health Centre appeared on this podcast a few months ago, and so did the head of the Canadian Mental Health Association, plus the CEO of Guelph General Hospital…

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Open Sources Guelph #479 - July 25, 2024 58:13

4h ago58:13

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we need a drink. Good thing the liquor stores are open again, and to talk about why that is and what the workers in those stores are thinking, we're joined by one of their union leaders on this episode. Why are we drinking? Drama! So much drama in the U.S. Presidential election this week as the odds changed again, …

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End Credits #351 - July 24, 2024 (Twisters) 56:49

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This week on End Credits, we're thinking about stormy weather! About a week after a major storm washed out so many parts of Ontario, including the Pergola Galaxy Cinemas here in Guelph, we're going to take things up a notch with Twisters. And on the subject of weather and the movies, we will talk about some other movies about the weather. This Wedn…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #428 – The S#!t Disturber (feat. Mike Sullivan) 51:50

15h ago51:50

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What could have been a small one-day story about disagreements around the table at Stratford city council has become emblematic of a bigger issue. Aside from the fine line between criticism of our civic leaders and outright threatening behaviour, there’s also a question about whether their mayor and council are being as open and transparent as it s…

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Open Sources Guelph #478 - July 18, 2024 58:54

13d ago58:54

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, it was a rough one. Looking south of the border these days is a white knuckle ride through all your fears about the future, and it's so bad that we have to dedicate the whole first half of our show to talk about American politics. We will then look closer to home and talk to a member of our local city council about…

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End Credits #350 - July 17, 2024 (The 1999 Movie Draft) 1:10:28

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This week on End Credits, we're going back to the turn of the millennium, or do we mean the Willennium? For those of you who remember the turn of the century have we got a treat for you! Remember 1999? A lot of great movies came out that year, and some people think that it might be the one of the best for the breadth and variety of projects, so thi…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #427 – The Squeeze 1:17:13

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The housing and affordability issues are massive, and to think that one action at one level of government is going to have a measurable impact is not understand that. This week at city hall, Guelph council will talk about proceeding with a tiny homes encampment, but that's one finger in one hole of a dam that needs a lot of repairs. Reaching back i…

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Open Sources Guelph #477 - July 11, 2024 58:55

20d ago58:55

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're right brained. An ideological shift? Hardly, but there's been a lot of action on the right side of the political spectrum in the last week, meaning that we're going to talk about election outcomes across the Pond, and a bizarre road show that's now rolling across Canada and rallying people to hate. For the in…

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End Credits #349 - July 10, 2024 (Fancy Dance) 56:43

23d ago56:43

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This week on End Credits, we dance! Fancy Dance. You may not have heard of this movie, but it's there waiting for you on AppleTV+ and it might just be one of the best movies you will see this year. And, along similar topics, we will dedicate the first part of the show to some of the best movies that we've seen so far in this very fleeting year of 2…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #426 – The Year at Committees So Far... 28:28

25d ago28:28

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There's a lot of work when it comes to the grind of municipal governance and policy development, but it doesn't always start with city council (though it does often end with them). So on this episode of the podcast we're going to try and cram six months of work by eight different committees into 30 minutes of audio, from the retirement of the libra…

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Matchday 32 - Jim McCarthy, founder of Impresario Strategic Services 46:13

5d ago46:13

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We talk to soccer ticketing consultant Jim McCarthy. We talk about why top football teams aren’t better at ticketing, the Messi and Caitlin Clark impacts in American sport and how Championship teams in England have their models wrong. We discuss stadium seating areas, why ticketing is important and how he has turned bagel knowledge to Goldstar tick…

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Open Sources (Ep. #476) Show Notes for July 4, 2024 58:29

28d ago58:29

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're dealing with disappointment. Was it wrong to hope that an 81-year-old man would find the energy at 9 pm on a weeknight to argue with a sociopath for two hours? Maybe, but then again it's hard for leaders half that age to avoid calls to leave out the side door, at least that is what's going on our own capital.…

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End Credits #348 - July 3, 2024 (The Greatest Hits) 57:21

1M ago57:21

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This week on End Credits, we see the music! Let's be clear, this is not a music show, but we're still dedicating this episode to the very busy intersection between the movies and music. For the review, we've got a movie called The Greatest Hits, which is about time travel, and speaking of greatest hits were going to revisit an old-fashioned bit of …

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GUELPH POLITICAST #425 – Understanding Homelessness (feat. Dr. Erin Dej) 53:17

1M ago53:17

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Our daily news is overflowing with stories about the breadth of the housing crisis, and governments are responding with new measures and funding, but these actions are based in a system that wasn’t designed to handle a problem this massive, or this complicated. This partially explains why nothing we’ve tried so far has had the impact we’ve wanted, …

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Open Sources Guelph #475 - June 27, 2024 57:26

1M ago57:26

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're bummed. Our long weekend plans collapsed like so much roofing that may or may not be a threat to some school kids on a class trip! Fortunately, there is lots of news and politics to chew on including surprise closures of tourist attractions, a surprising electoral victory and even a not-so-surprising one out …

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End Credits #347 - June 26, 2024 (The Bikeriders) 58:24

1M ago58:24

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This week on End Credits, we take a ride. With the long weekend coming it's a good time to get out on your bike whether it's motorized or not, and for this episode of the show we're going to head out with the gang in The Bikeriders. But the ride only ends there, we get things started in Beverly Hills with three movies about a Detroit Cop who can't …

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GUELPH POLITICAST #424 - Inside Hillside (feat. Kate Johnston) 37:21

1M ago37:21

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Hillside Festival. Have you heard of it? Every July, the population of Guelph decreases, and the population of the island in Guelph Lake radically increases. They’re all drawn there for an annual celebration of music and community that’s still going strong after 40 years, and this is despite changing musical tastes, changing economic concerns, and …

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Open Sources Guelph #474 - June 20, 2024 56:21

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're beating the heat with hard hitting punditry. To that end, we're knocking off some of the circus politics to talk about serious issues like foreign interference in our politics and the seemingly increasing gulf between police and reporters while they're on the job. For the interview this week, we're talking to…

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End Credits #346 - June 19, 2024 (The Great Escaper) 57:46

1M ago57:46

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This week on End Credits, we escape. Greatly! No we're not talking about the classic 1963 John Sturges' movie staring Steve McQueen, but it is about World War II and it is about an escape, and it was kinda great. Today, we're going to review the new bio-pic conveniently called The Great Escaper, and we're also going to talk about other movie escape…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #423 – Why Do We Care? 55:09

2M ago55:09

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There’s a presidential election this year in the U.S., maybe you’ve heard about it, and like so much of American culture it threatens to block out the sun here, not to mention a lot of serious political issues we’re dealing with here in Canada. Why are we so obsessed with American politics and is it to the detriment of our own political enlightenme…

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Open Sources Guelph #473 - June 13, 2024 58:16

2M ago58:16

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we won't say that democracy doesn't work, but it certainly seems to be malfunctioning. We will look to our friends in the EU who seem to be increasingly embracing authoritarianism, but things aren't too rosy on our own shores where a beleaguered Indigenous community here in Ontario has to take the government to cou…

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End Credits #345 - June 12, 2024 (I Saw the TV Glow) 58:12

2M ago58:12

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This week on End Credits, we watch TV. Sort of. Our movie in this episode is about people who watch TV and maybe watch a little too closely, but that's okay because there's allegory in them there hills! We're going to talk about the new sure-to-be cult classic I Saw the TV Glow, and we're also going to talk about summer movies the best way we can, …

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GUELPH POLITICAST #422 – Walk The Line 52:17

2M ago52:17

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For this week’s podcast, we’re taking it on the road! There are two big protests of a sort happening in Guelph right now, one is technically a strike, and the other is an encampment on campus. Both are local stories with implications beyond the city limits, both are examples of renewed interest in direct action, and both started at around the same …

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Open Sources Guelph #472 - June 6, 2024 56:13

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we don't take the law into our own hands, we go to court with some popcorn. On this episode, many of our news items intersect with justice matters as we talk about the deportation of a national pariah, the trial of a serial killer, a plea deal for a would-be mass murderer, and the unexpected result of a corruption …

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End Credits #344 - June 5, 2024 (Hit Man) 56:59

2M ago56:59

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This week on End Credits, we're being careful about what we're pretending to be. Sly references to Vonnegut aside, things aren't quite that serious today as this episode tackles the lies we tell when we fall in love while pretending to be a contract killer in Hit Man. But the fun doesn't stop there because we're going to Tatooine and back with a re…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #REPEAT- Have You Considered "Dark Tourism"? 44:30

2M ago44:30

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There's been a lot of discussion recently about boosting Guelph's tourism profile. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities are working hard to rebuild their shattered tourism industries and Guelph is no exception, which is why the City of Guelph this week launched the Tourism Grants Program, designed to support the development and attract…

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Open Sources Guelph #471 - May 30, 2024 1:00:02

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're all about elections. We're not having one across Ontario anytime soon, but the premier didn't rule it out last week. However, they are having an election right now in Mississauga, they're going to the polls next month to choose a new mayor. For the interview this week, we look to the United Kingdom where they…

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End Credits #343 - May 29, 2024 (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) 56:58

2M ago56:58

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This week on End Credits, we're speaking French to power! Well, not really. This episode is definitely France adjacent though, because there's a big annual film festival that just wrapped up there, and they premiered a great many movies over the last few weeks. One of them is the movie we're reviewing today, a prequel to a 10-year-old movie and a s…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #421 – This is Not a Drill Hall! 47:57

2M ago47:57

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At next week's Committee of the Whole meeting, Guelph City Council will look at the fate of the Drill Hall; staff wants to put it up for sale, but there's at least one group in Guelph that wants to do something with it now. It's an idea called the Guelph Centre for Visual Art, and it could feature exhibition space, artist studios, educational and m…

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Open Sources Digest - May 23, 2024 52:08

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're looking for change. Everyone who's ever been a politician started out as something else, and as we're looking to next year's federal election, and an open seat here in the riding of Guelph, we've already got a couple of people looking for a career change. This week, we're talking to a labour activist and a ci…

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End Credits #342 - May 22, 2024 (Fight Movies) 58:59

2M ago58:59

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This week on End Credits, we put up our dukes! Join us as we celebrate violence with three movies that we've reviewed recently, all of which taught us again and again that sometimes all it takes fix things is to break stuff. So stop, stretch, and line-up your knuckles because when we get into this week, we really get into. Let them fight! This Wedn…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #420 – The Year at Council So Far 40:57

2M ago40:57

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Time flies when you're having fun in the council chambers, which brings us to the first recap podcast of the year. We started off slow with one meeting in January, and then things go really busy in February and March, including one meeting that was really two meetings, but all together they were 12 hours long. Remember what that one was about? Reme…

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Open Sources Digest - May 16, 2024 56:37

3M ago56:37

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we've got a digest for you. As we lean back on an ant hill, touch grass and love life, we're treating you to two recent in-depth conversations with fascinating and insightful activists in their respective fields. First, just in time for Pride Month, we're going talk about trans equality, and second, just in time fo…

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End Credits #341 - May 15, 2024 (The Hits of 2024 So Far) 58:50

3M ago58:50

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This week on End Credits, we learn from the best! There's been a lot talk in the last few years about there being nothing good at the movie theatre anymore, but as a dedicated listener of this show, you know that's not true and to prove it, we will dedicate this week's episode to some of the best movies we've seen so far this year at the cinema, th…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #419 - 20 Years of Participation 31:12

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This is the 20th anniversary year for the Special Olympics, which speaks to the tremendous success of the event, and while it is about the competition in some respects, these games are mostly about fun and camaraderie. In an era where we talk so much about kids being attached to their screens, what can be more essential than some good, old-fashione…

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Open Sources Guelph #470 - May 9, 2024 57:32

3M ago57:32

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, everything old is new again! Nothing changes after two big by-elections in different parts of Ontario, and the war that has stymied the world for the better part of a year now only looks close to reaching a resolution. Also, under hope and change, we have a guest this week that hopes a commemoration this month will…

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End Credits #340 - May 8, 2024 (The Fall Guy) 56:58

3M ago56:58

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This week on End Credits, we're doing endings and beginnings. On the subject of the latter, we're talking about a new movie that officially marks the first release of the Summer Movie season, a little - but big - movie called The Fall Guy. As for those endings, we will talk about the current state of the franchise that used to launch every summer, …

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GUELPH POLITICAST #418 – Mental Health Week 46:34

3M ago46:34

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Earlier this year, Statistics Canada reported that there has been a five per cent increase in positive responses in the proportions of adults who reported excellent or very good mental health, a strong sense of belonging to their local community, and a high level of life satisfaction between 2021 and 2023. And yet, considering that still less than …

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Open Sources Guelph #469 - May 2, 2024 57:16

3M ago57:16

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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 counci…

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GUELPH SPORTSCAST: Who's on First Base Coach? 36:32

3M ago36:32

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Every year, four or five people are plucked from Guelph’s sporting history and are immortalized for all eternity on the walls of the Sleeman Centre, but one doesn’t spend a life in local sports to be immortal. It’s a passion that can span a lifetime, which is what decades of Royals might say about Paul Ante, who has been one kind of Guelph Royal or…

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End Credits #339 - May 1, 2024 (Challengers) 56:54

3M ago56:54

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This week on End Credits, we work on our serve. Summer is here, so we have thoughts about getting outside and getting involved in sports, and romance (?) The two are combined in the new film Challengers, which was the number one film at the box office last weekend. And speaking of summer, it unofficially begins this weekend in theatres. Stand by fo…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #417 – Guelph Stories 46:43

3M ago46:43

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As we count down to the 200th anniversary of the Canada Company settling Guelph in just three years, you can expect to hear more about how we’re honouring our history in Guelph, both pre- and post-settlement. Between that moment John Galt cut down that first tree and this moment listening to this podcast, there’s been a whole lot of Guelph history,…

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Open Sources Guelph #468 - April 25, 2024 56:53

3M ago56:53

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we mark Earth Week by discussing some of the news that happened on this planet. We will travel from Washington D.C. to Kiev where there's finally some good news in that war effort, but it's just too bad that there wasn't any good news when it comes to funding our regional transit system. Also, we will talk and act …

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End Credits #338 - April 24, 2024 (Civil War) 57:55

3M ago57:55

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This week on End Credits, it's war! Yes, it's time to get political again with the movie that everyone's talking about, whether you follow every last detail about American elections or not. Yes, we're tackling Civil War, and we're also going to talk about the studio that launched this controversial (and lucrative) project, and some of their less we…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #416 – Day of Mourning 2024 43:48

3M ago43:48

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If it’s the end of April, then you know it’s time for the annual National Day or Mourning. Although the pandemic is over, it's worth remembering there was a whole class of workers who had to keep working as it happened, and that meant intentionally putting themselves at risk. This was important, but even before the pandemic, workers across Canada i…

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Open Sources Guelph #467 - April 18, 2024 57:42

3M ago57:42

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're going to have an "orgy of spending." That's how one Conservative MP described this year's federal budget, and we're going to talk about why, and speaking of elicit sex, we're going talk about the criminal trial of the former U.S. President. In the back half of the show though we're going to keep things nice a…

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End Credits #337 - April 17, 2024 (Lisa Frankenstein) 58:07

4M ago58:07

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This week on End Credits, we're going to raise the dead. Sounds serious, but it's not. It's funny! Our main review this week was thought dead on arrival when it was released in theatres earlier this year, but all movies can live again on VOD and today we're going to see if there's some life left in Lisa Frankenstein. As for the rest of the show, we…

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GUELPH POLITICAST #415 - Doors Open Preview 40:50

4M ago40:50

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Doors Open Guelph is one of dozens of similar events across Ontario that celebrates local history and heritage by throwing open the doors to buildings that are typically pretty inaccessible to the general public. There’s no shortage of history and heritage nerds in Guelph who all have their favourites so how are the sites chosen, why are they chose…

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Open Sources Guelph #466 - April 11, 2024 57:41

4M ago57:41

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This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're still recovering from eclipse fever! More earth-bound matters are our concern this episode, and that means talking another trip to the Middle East to talk about the war inside Gaza, but it also means acknowledging that we've got defence problems closer to home too. In the back half of the show, our concern is…

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