Open Sources Guelph #564 - April 9, 2026

This week on Open Sources Guelph, we recover from the Easter weekend. See the guy in this picture with the Easter Bunny? He made it very hard to relax with some very vivid saber-rattling over the pointless war he started in the Middle East. Closer to home, we will talk about trains and plans for trains, plus the attack on the newest federal leader that might indicate a greater degree of confusion in the discourse. This Thursday, April 9, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss: This is the End? If you didn't know what was going on with the War in Iran before the weekend, you're probably really confused now. U.S. President Donald Trump set an arbitrary Tuesday night deadline to end the war or "an entire civilization will die." Trump got a ceasefire instead, which he took, but the exact conditions of it were still unknown 24 hours later, and since no one really stopped shooting, it didn't matter. So does anything matter? Alto Railroaded? The federal government is in the process of developing a high speed rail corridor between Toronto and Quebec City. It's already been in the works for 10 years, and it will be other 20 before its finally finished, at least unless Pierre Poilievre has anything to say about it. As the Alto Train gets closer to finalizing its plans, opposition is consolidating its own plan to stop it, so will the Alto become just another train dream (so to speak)? The Problem with Avi? No sooner was Avi Lewis elected the new leader of the federal NDP, did a campaign begin to call him anti-Semitic. Interesting turn for someone from a prominent Jewish Canadian family, but his stands against Israel's genocide in Gaza and support for the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement hasn't won him many friends in Zionist circles. Is the smearing of Lewis a sign that we're confusing legitimate critiques of the secular Israeli government with very real hate crimes? Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.