Open Sources Guelph #433 - July 6, 2023

This week on Open Sources Guelph, the weather is hot, and so are the topics! It's an all news show this week as we look to some international news that happened in own backyard, and some international news that happened in France but has a very familiar tone to it. In news from across Canada, we'll talk about the problem with News Brunswick, or its premier at least, and why your favourite leader of His Majesty's loyal opposition is changing things up, for the better(?).

This Thursday, July 6, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss

Attack on Gender Studies. News about last Thursday's assault in a philosophy class where three people were stabbed - a professor and two students - was all the more frightening because it happened so close to home, up the road at the University of Waterloo. As people try to understand the violence and the reasons for it, others are concerned about the security failures on campus and whether this is just an isolated incident. We'll try and make sense of the senseless.

Pain and Blaine. New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has been fighting public blowback, including some blowback inside his own cabinet, about changes to Policy 713, which is legislation meant to protect LGBTQ+ students in schools, but has now been perverted into something that could now potentially put them at risk. To many, Higgs is making a cynical political calculation to tact to the far-right and galvanize the anti-queer sentiment, but might he lose his job in the process?

Mid-Plight in Paris. Just months after civil unrest around the increase in retirement age, people are taking to the streets of French cities to protest an instance of police brutality, a 17-year-old kid who was shot dead by police. There are shades of similar killings here in North America, but the clashes in Paris have been occasionally more brutal, and the family of Paris' mayor were nearly victims themselves. Can France make it through their Black Lives Matter moment?

A Pierre to Remember? Something's changed about Pierre Poilievre. He's lost those nerdy glasses and the stuffy suit for something more relaxed, laid back, and dare we day, Trudeau-esque? Just in time for the summer barbeque season, there's a new Pierre on the block, but is it enough to make people forget the old Pierre, the one that spend most of the long weekend attacking Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra for talking about his sneakers in a CBC article?

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