This week on Open Sources Guelph, just in time for the last weekend of summer, we're taking a trip. We join our prime minister as he's taking the world by storm, or at least parts of Europe anyway, and then we're heading to Gaza again where nobody is taking a vacation because the war continues and its costing more lives. The stakes aren't as dire closer to home, but there's controversy up the road in Wasaga Beach that we need to discuss.
This Thursday, August 28, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:
Mark Carney Vs. The World. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was touring though Europe this week, and he's been making some news like when he said in Ukraine that troops from Canada could be part of some future peacekeeping force there after the war. Closer to home meanwhile, government reps are trying to get that trade deal with the U.S. even if if means scaling back on retaliatory tariffs. How's the Carney government doing on the world stage?
They Bomb Journalists. Oh yes, there's still a crisis in Gaza and it only ever seems to get worse. This past week there was a two-fer when five journalists were killed along with over a dozen other people in an air strike on a hospital in Gaza; Reuters photographer Hatem Khaled was wounded. Benjamin Netanyahu called it a "tragic mishap" but it's not the first time, and it seems to be further entrenching the international community against Israel. How much worse can it get?
Son of a Beach. Wasaga Beach is one of Ontario's favourite tourist destinations, and home to a wonderful provincial park that takes up much of the beachfront on Lake Huron. And yet, the Ontario government is planning to offload much of that land to the local government for redeveloped, which has many environmental activists concerned about the fate of sensitive flora and fauna. Environmental Defence executive director Tim Gray joins us to talk about the stakes of this project and the Ontario government's overall approach to environmental protection.
Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.
