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Looking for Guelph local interest? The Breezy Breakfast Radio Hour is podcast version of Breezy Breakfast: Guelph’s Community Conversation, a weekly community gathering where we welcome both guest experts and audience participation to discuss topics important to Guelph residents.
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Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Hosted by the Guelph Wellington Coalition for Social Justice.
Candidates in attendance:
Leanne Caron
Cathy Downer
Hesham Genidy
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MAYORAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Tuesday October 11th
7 to 8:30 pm
Dublin St. United Church
Dublin at Suffolk; Entrance off the parking lot; All welcome. Sponsored by Dublin Justice and Outreach Committee.
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Hosted by the Guelph Wellington Coalition for Social Justice.
Candidates in attendance:
Phil Allt
Kevin Bowman
Luc Cousineau
Sam Elmslie
Michele Richardson
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MAYORAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Tuesday October 11th
7 to 8:30 pm
Dublin St. United Church
Dublin at Suffolk; Entrance off the parking lot; All welcome. Sponsored by Dublin Justice and Outreach Committee.
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Hosted by the Guelph Wellington Coalition for Social Justice.
Candidates in attendance:
Morgan Dandie
Rodrigo Goller
Carly Klassen
Elia Morrison
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MAYORAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Tuesday October 11th
7 to 8:30 pm
Dublin St. United Church
Dublin at Suffolk; Entrance off the parking lot; All welcome. Sponsored by Dublin Justice and Outreach Committee.
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Hosted by the Guelph Wellington Coalition for Social Justice.
Candidates in attendance:
Michelle Bowman
Erin Caton
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MAYORAL CANDIDATES FORUM
Tuesday October 11th
7 to 8:30 pm
Dublin St. United Church
Dublin at Suffolk; Entrance off the parking lot; All welcome. Sponsored by Dublin Justice and Outreach Committee.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
This week on the Breezy Breakfast Radio Hour we hear from Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner. He answers our questions about:
* solutions to the health care crisis in Ontario
* long term care, and the idea to move elders from hospitals to LTC facilities that are far away from their communities
* home care
* mental health care
* "Strong Mayors"
* housing
* Highway 413
* the court case involving young environmental activists vs the provincial government, and the government's bizarre defense
* ODSP and OW
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Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Saturday Sep 10, 2022
Welcome back to the Breezy Breakfast Community Broadcast.
We begin another broadcast year with two updates featuring Danny Williamson, Layla Staats, and Skyler Williams.
Danny Williamson, of Wellington/Dufferin/Guelph Public Health, updates us on all things COVID: masks, social distancing, vaccines, school preparedness, and risk levels. These issues and many more will challenge our collective will to live during the short and dark days of winter.
Layla Staats and Skyler Williams update us on local Indigenous issues: water on reserves and the Land Back movement.
Layla inspires us when she talks about water. Rather than taking it for granted, we would do well to consider water as an entity, as a part of our family. Indeed, there is no life without clean water.
Layla is in the process of making a film about water; she is investigating the issue of water quality on reserves in Canada and in reservations in the United States.
Skyler gives us an update on 1492 Land Back Lane and the continued challenges facing First Nations as they confront the attitudes and the legal foundations of setter land acquisition and hegemony. Skyler points out that while indigenous land is shrinking, the out-of-control growth of settler communities devours the most precious of finite resources: land and water.
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Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
This week at Breezy Breakfast, we are proud to offer a podcast highlighting Black culture in Guelph and Wellington County. Denise Frances and Kween from the Guelph Black Heritage Society (GBHS) are our guests.
While teaching us the history of people like James Kelso, the Jewell Family, Richard Pierpont, and the Stricklands, Kween and Denise provide a vivid story of Black settlers and their significant roles in the history of Wellington County.
Denise and Kween also talk about the GBHS annual Emancipation Day Celebration. They describe why Emancipation Day is celebrated, the significance of the Pan-African Flag, and why it is important to “Free Our Ancestors”.
Should Black History be highlighted for just one month?
Do we need to broaden our horizons?
Is Guelph a truly multicultural city?
Let’s listen to Kween and Denise as they answer questions asked by the folks at Breezy Breakfast.
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Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
This week, we continue to explore the housing crisis in Guelph and Canada. Thoughtful solutions are presented by our panelists and host Kevin Bowman.
It's clear we have a crisis in housing affordability. Several factors contribute to this crisis: stagnant wages of renters, the transformation of housing into an investment, and the outright financialization of housing through Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
Our guests this week are Sean Campbell and Eric Small.
Sean Campbell is the Executive Director of Union Co-op in Waterloo. Union Co-op was created to raise funds and purchase existing rental properties to permanently remove them from the competitive real estate market.
Eric Small works for the Guelph company S.H.E.D., which maintains a commitment to quality, community, and the long-term impacts of home building on the local environment.
Our host Kevin Bowman explains REITs to our listeners and engages our guests in a discussion of various and unique solutions to our housing crisis.
Join us for a Breezy Breakfast: learn about the failure of rent controls and the abdication of the federal and provincial governments of responsibility for sustaining low cost housing. Councilor Phil Allt describes local responsibilities and why the County provides social housing in Guelph.
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Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
The Home For Good Campaign is set to raise $5M for supportive housing in Guelph and Wellington County.
This campaign is not without controversy.
How much impact can philanthropy have on the housing crisis?
Might the need for affordable housing be best addressed through funding by higher level governments committed to social and economic justice?
Glenna Banda of the United Way (Guelph/Wellington/Dufferin) provides an overview of the campaign
and its progress to date.
Dominica McPherson of the Poverty Task Force
speaks to how this campaign complements broader efforts to end homelessness.
Councilor Phil Allt points out that Guelph needs more than 1000 affordable housing units, and they don't come cheap. The federal and provincial governments need to get back into the housing business because cities can't address this issue alone.
Permanent Supportive Housing is one part of the solution to this massive problem.
The housing crisis has been DECADES in the making.
Remember, the housing portfolio was offloaded from the feds to the provinces and then to Ontario municipalities in the 1990s.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
In Canada, several types of Single-Use Plastics (SUP) will be banned according to the following schedule:
December 2022 - manufacture and imports
December 2023 - sales
December 2025 - exports
The usual suspects are covered under this federal ban: straws, stir sticks, cutlery, ring carriers, checkout bags, and take-away containers made from or containing hard to recycle problematic plastics.
There are specific exceptions to the ban; for example, single-use straws will be available for those who need them.
Karen Farley gives us the scoop on the federal ban. She is a Master's student who is developing an app to collect data on foods wrapped in or contained in plastic.
Kevin Bowman and Morgan Dandie update us on Guelph's new policies regarding plastics.
Long-time listener and first-time guest Ted Pritchard shares his thoughts on societal attitudes towards solid waste reduction and the high volume of plastics used in medical settings.
Don't call Yoko; this ban is "Plastic? O NO!"
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