Episodes
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End Credits #463 - October 28, 2026 (Halloween Horror Movie Draft 3-D)
This week on End Credits things are getting spoooooooky. You know it, you love it, and if it's the pre-Halloween show then you know it's time for the Halloween Horror Movie Draft! Let us gather around the campfire and tell stories about people people escaping improbable and frightening odds and...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #556 – MEGA Election Night in Guelph (feat. The CFRU Election Crew)
What a night! What a campaign! What a result! It took us a while to get there, and you've probably already seen the numbers and know the make-up of the new council, and yet we're told that the journey is more important than the destination. So preserved here for posterity is CFRU's Municipal...
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Open Sources Guelph #591 - October 22, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph we're bringing the election in for a landing. It's been a very busy couple of months covering this campaign and with this episode we safely cross the finish line. We will talk to one more person who wants to be the next Mayor of Guelph in the first half of the…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #555 – The Breezys Vs. The Election (feat. The Breezy Breakfast Gang)
By the time this podcast drops, there's just over 48 hours until voting opens on Election Day. Already, nearly 10,000 people in Guelph have cast their ballot but there are over 100,000 eligible voters in the Royal City, and surely some of them haven't made up their minds yet. It's unlikely that...
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End Credits #462 - October 21, 2026 (The Social Reckoning)
This week on End Credits, we're posting through it. We will once again dive into the swampy morass of social media and moneyed interests run amok with the new based-on-a-true-story legal thriller The Social Reckoning in a theatre near you. We also dive into the director of The Social Reckoning…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #554 – Last, But Not Least (feat. Ali Malik and Barbara Mann)
We have come to the end of this election, at least so far as these council candidate interviews go. The final vote is on Monday, but if you're still undecided, at least in two of the six wards, maybe these two interviews will help you make a final decision. In the Politicast's last election…
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Open Sources Guelph #590 - October 15, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we've got two more people who want to be mayor. As we close in on Election Day, and as early voting continues in the city, we bring you one person that's spent a lot of time on city council these last two decades, and someone who helped make their own Guelph...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #553 – Catching Them All in Ward 5 (feat. Danny Lui and Dylan White)
As this election comes to a close, we do the nearly impossible and finish the list of candidates running in Ward 5. That's been the busiest race in this municipal election with 10 candidates in total, and they represent a wide variety of vocations, perspectives and experiences, and here, with…
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End Credits #461 - October 14, 2026 (Primetime)
This week on End Credits, you know how this looks, right? On this show, we're going to dig into the movie for the moment, which is about a 20-year-old TV show and starring one our most versatile actors. Yes, it's time for Primetime, and along with that one, we will go back in time for another...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #552 – Back in Business! (feat. Marty Williams and Shane Coulis)
The 2026 municipal election is coming to a close. Can you believe it? Don't worry though because this podcast is still chugging along with new interviews with council candidates and this week, we've got a pair of guys who mean business, but on the opposite ends of town. If you haven't made up…
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Open Sources Guelph #589 - October 8, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, it's mayor time! For the last several weeks we've been talking to the people that want to be a part of the next city council and now we start digging into the people that want to be the head of that council, the Mayor of Guelph. To kick things off, we're joined…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #551 – We Got Ward 5 On It (feat. Michael Agueci and Xandine Arnott)
If you're listening to this on Saturday it's the first day of advanced voting in this municipal election. Congratulations, you made it! But the work isn't done yet, we've still got a lot of interviews lined up for the next few weeks and on today's edition, we go back to Ward 5. In the aftermath…
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End Credits #460 - October 7, 2026 (Digger)
This week on End Credits we put it all on the line. There's nothing quite like a fall movie by an acclaimed filmmaker where he puts all his chips in the middle of the table (and loses his shirt?) and that's what we get with the new dark satire Digger, which you can now see in a theatre near you....
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GUELPH POLITICAST #550 – Ward 1 Not Done (feat. Marcel Dion Lambert and Mustafa Zuberi)
In the east end, change is in the air. Well, change has always been in the air because the east end is always changing. Ward 1 isn't the busiest race in this year's municipal election, but it is *one* of the busiest and has attracted candidates with a diversity of thought, backgrounds and...
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Open Sources Guelph #588 - October 1, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph this is the second episode this week! As we bring our council race coverage in for a landing, we will talk to five more people running for city council in Guelph this election, and the weight is really going to be on Ward 5 for this final round. Now this isn't the...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #549 – Incumbentocracy! (feat. Michele Richardson and Linda Busuttil)
This is a change election. Can we all agree on that? With the mayor's office changing over, and five vacant council seats waiting for new people to fill them, the pressure of this campaign might be most keenly felt by the people already around the horseshoe. Today, we have the last two incumbents...
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End Credits #459 - October 2, 2026 (The Stunt Driver)
This week on End Credits, we lift off! Ever dedicated to Canadian film, not to mention the work of Jay Baruchel, this week's episode will have Cancon pouring out like maple syrup as we dig into the true Canadian story The Stunt Driver, which you can hopefully still see in a theatre near you. And…
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Open Sources Guelph #587 - September 30, 2026
This week, Open Sources Guelph airs on Wednesday too! It's just close enough to be an October surprise. With so many people running for city council, and with so many people interested in getting the Open Sources bump, we've had to seize more air time on CFRU to bring another five people who all...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #548 – Finally, the Quatro! (feat. Jesse Guite and Derek McCaughan)
If you've been following this project for the last month or so, you might have noticed a big whole in the coverage: Where is Ward 4? The west end has one of the races with the smallest number of candidates, especially compared to Wards 2 and 5. In 2022, one Ward 4 candidate ran on the slogan...
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Open Sources Guelph #586 - September 24, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph you will never guess what we're doing... If you said we're going to be doing more candidate interviews with people running for Guelph city council this election, well, that was pretty predictable actually. On this week's show, we've got two incumbents and three...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #547 – The Other Daniel and The Sidewalk Guy (feat. Daniel Kaufmann and Jon Christensen)
One thing's for sure this coming election day, there will be at least one new city councillor in Ward 1 and at least one new councillor in Ward 5. Both wards have solid and well-liked incumbents, but what about those open seats? Why have one Daniel in Ward 1 when you can have two? And perhaps…
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End Credits #458 - September 23, 2026 (Resident Evil 2026)
This week on End Credits, we're running back to the theatres for the latest massive horror movie from a comedy director turned horror auteur. Yes, we're going back to Racoon City with the latest entry in the Resident Evil series, which is now in theatres. We're also going all the way back to 1976...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #546 - Still Dan and the Mysteries of Laura (feat. Dan Gibson and Laura McQuillen)
It's getting close to crunch time for the candidates in this election! This Saturday will mark one-month till Election Day, and there's still a lot of ground to cover for candidates and voters alike. For this podcast, it’s going to be another north and south situation, and it’s another incumbent...
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Open Sources Guelph #585 - September 17, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're on the campaign trail again. More than halfway through September, candidates are now getting into some real campaigning, and that includes a 10-minute pit stop at CFRU with one of the two collegial hosts at the station's flagship news and politics show. For...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #545 – Short Time/Long Time (feat. Kim Fry and Phil Allt)
How long do you have to live in Guelph to be considered a Guelphite? As one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, there have been a lot of new people coming to town, and there's a natural friction between them and the ones who have been in Guelph for years. So do you have to put in a lot…
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End Credits #457 - September 16, 2026 (Coyote Vs. Acme)
This week on End Credits we go to court. Cartoon court! Our review this week will focus on a movie you probably hadn't heard about unless your deep in the wilds of Film Twitter, in which case you were very excited about this release. We're talking about Coyote Vs. Acme, which is now in theatres…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #544 – Bees and Business (feat. Mike Barber and James Doran)
September is half over, and the campaign is heating up. The Guelph Politicast is coming back to you with two more candidates and once again we're mixing up the wards, two from each of the two busiest races in this year's election. This week, we’re going to talk about being a busy bee with one...
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Open Sources Guelph #584 - September 10, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, election fever is becoming an election pandemic! (Too soon?) Now that Labour Day and Back to School is in the rearview mirror we can dedicate all of our attention to our local elections, and that's exactly what we're going to do on this edition with another…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #543 – Back to the 5ive (feat. Wesley Harris and Cathy Downer)
Where's the hottest political action in Guelph this election? It's in Ward 5! There are 10 people who are vying for those two council seats in this campaign, especially for that vacancy left by the one incumbent running now for mayor. The other incumbent? She's one of the guests on this edition…
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End Credits #456 - September 9, 2026 (Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma)
This week on End Credits we get meta. Again. We're reviewing the satirical surrealist psychological slasher film Teenage Sex and Death and Camp Miasma, which you can still find in some theatres, and will be coming soon to Mubi, the curated streaming site. Along similar lines, we will dedicate the...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #542 – North and South (feat. Owen Martens and Katherine Hauser)
If this project teaches you anything, it's that there's some surprising connections between parts of the city even on opposite ends of town from each other. That's the tease for this week's election interview mash-up with two more candidates, one from the north end in Ward 1 and one from the…
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Open Sources Guelph #583 - September 3, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're increasing the labour pre-Labour Day! Starting this week, and for the next several weeks, we will be covering the mayor and city council elections here in the Royal City by not just talking to some of the candidates... We're going to talk to all of them!...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #541 – 2 Ward Not 2 Furious (feat. Michelle Bowman and Morgan Dandie)
Normally, the most continuous race during the municipal election is Ward 2. It's usually the one with the most number of candidates, but in this election year it will have to settle for second place. On this week's second edition of the podcast, we’ve got two candidates running in Ward 2 and are...
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End Credits #455 - September 2, 2026 (Tony)
This week on End Credits, we're cooking! We will head into the kitchen with the bio-pic about celebrity chef before he was famous in the new coming-of-age film Tony, which you can now see in a theatre near you. We will also talk about some other movies coming soon to theatres as we mark the last...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #540 – Mambo No. Ward 5 (feat. Greg Cawsey and Dakota Cherry)
This coming Monday is Labour Day, the unofficial end of the summer, and the official start of the real campaign. With everyone back to a regular routine, and in some cases heading back to school, many folks in Guelph being really paying attention for the first time. And speaking of school, we…
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Open Sources Guelph #582 - August 27, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, the news - and the summer weather - is hotter than a match head! Perhaps you heard that we are now fighting a trade war, and everybody seems to think that this will work out to their favour. In any event, we will feel the impacts locally where there's an election...
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End Credits #454 - August 26, 2026 (The End of Oak Street)
This week on End Credits, we're back! Refreshed from summer vacation, we're ready to tackle the fourth and final entry in "Hot Hathaway Summer" with Anne's latest movie The End of Oak Street, which you can now see in a theatre near you. That's one thing we've been watching over the break, so…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #539 – The Incumbent and the Insurgent (feat. Rodrigo Goller and Kevin Bowman)
The nominations are closed, the campaigning has begun, the signs are going up, and it's not even Labour Day weekend yet! Time marches on, and so does this podcast, which this week will feature two more people running for Guelph city council, one is an incumbent looking for support to sit for...
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Open Sources Guelph #581 - August 20, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're back! We might have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks, but the news certainly didn't take a break and we will try to catch up on some it. We first look at Ontario where scandal never sleeps, and then we will head to federal politics where trade...
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End Credits #REPEAT - August 19, 2026
This week on End Credits, you are here but we are not. What’s playing in a theatre near you? Don’t know. What’s streaming right now? Look it up yourself! These are the dog days of summer, and we don’t feel like working anymore. Not unusual, we do this every August, and now the time has come for…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #538 – Election Season Begins (feat. Troy Bridgeman)
Nominations for the 2026 municipal election close this Friday, and you know what that means: Things get serious! With the finalized list of candidates for mayor, city council, and all the school boards in place you will start to see the campaign really begin and that means signs, and that also...
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Open Sources Guelph #REPEAT - August 13, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re on vacation. No, seriously. Sure, someone once said that there’s no rest for the wicked, but here at OSG headquarters on Snake Mountain, we believe that a restful two-week summer vacation makes our biting political commentary even more biting. As we rest…
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End Credits Conversations: He Loved The Odyssey Before it Was Cool (feat. Dr. John Walsh)
As of this recording, The Odyssey has made over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office, and that’s not bad for a movie based on a story that’s been told for thousands of years. A lot of people were excited about The Odyssey, many of them Christopher Nolan fans just excited about the…
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End Credits #REPEAT - August 12, 2026
This week on End Credits, you are here but we are not. What’s playing in a theatre near you? Don’t know. What’s streaming right now? Look it up yourself! These are the dog days of summer, and we don’t feel like working anymore. Not unusual, we do this every August, and now the time has come for…
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GUELPH POLITICAST #537 – Local Man Runs for Federal Party Leader (feat. Mike Morrice)
In 2006, there was a lot of momentum on tackling the climate crisis: Elizabeth May won the leadership promising to make electoral gains, An Inconvenient Truth was a critical and commercial movie hit, and even The Guardian noted it was “the year the world woke up” to the climate action, and then…...
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Open Sources Guelph #REPEAT - August 6, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we’re on vacation. No, seriously. Sure, someone once said that there’s no rest for the wicked, but here at OSG headquarters on Snake Mountain, we believe that a restful two-week summer vacation makes our biting political commentary even more biting. As we rest…
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End Credits #453 - August 5, 2026 (Spider-Man: Brand New Day)
This week on End Credits we say "goodbye"... for two weeks. Next week, we're taking our usual summer vacation, and we can think of no better way to leave things than to review the massive superhero sequel Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which you can now see in a theatre near you. We're also going to...
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GUELPH POLITICAST #REPEAT - Guelph: A John Galt Project (feat. Gil Stelter)
This is a big year for Guelph. Our downtown landscape is changing, we have an election in the fall that will usher in a new mayor and council, and then we will mark the city's 200th birthday in the spring. Two centuries ago, it all began with one man from Scotland cutting down a tree near what we...
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Open Sources Guelph #580 - July 30, 2026
This week on Open Sources Guelph, we're building bridges. And speaking of bridges, we will talk about a famous new bridge down in Windsor, which may now be a monument to the latest phase of the Canada/U.S. trade war. In other news, we will talk about a new study that paints a worrying picture of...
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End Credits #452 - July 29, 2026 (I Love Boosters)
This week on End Credits we get topical. We're tackling two movies this week, one new and one old, and they both have the state of society on their minds. First up, from 1976, we will continue with our ongoing series and a satire that's still razor sharp, and for the review we will get into the...