Open Sources Guelph #477 - July 11, 2024

Guelph Politicast

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 interview this week, were going to talk about architecture with someone who knows.

This Thursday, July 11, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

Right Flight. Two elections in two of Europe's biggest countries have re-phrased the global fight against far-right extremism. Labour's landslide victory in the U.K. general election ended 14 years of chaotic Tory rule while the fascist National Front hit a wall in France's snap election thanks to strategic voting. It seems like that right-wing momentum has been stunted, but the struggle is probably still far from over. We will talk about what happens next.

Diago-Gone. Last weekend, residents in the Carp area of Ottawa were a little shocked that the Carp Agricultural Society would rent space to a far-right, racist, neo-Nazi adjacent group - apparently - without knowing who they are. The Diagolons are on a cross-country tour creatively called the "Road Rage Terror Tour" and it may be coming to a town near you, but is the average person on the street aware of who they are, and what they want?

Centre Rage. On Wednesday, Premier Doug Ford said again that the condition of the Ontario Science Centre is so dire that it needed to close, but that's still news to a lot of experts and one of them is Elsa Lam, the editor of Canadian Architect magazine. Lam will join on this week's show to break down those technical concerns, what work will need to be done to make the building secure, and why the Ontario government should just fess up and tell everyone that they got this one wrong.

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

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