Breezy Breakfast Radio Hour

Episode 24: Mental health during the pandemic

Helen Fishburn from the CMHA, Susan Rosenthal, author and physician, and Aisha Jahangir, a front-line mental health worker, discuss the mental health scene during this challenging time. Moderator: Dustin Brown

Episode 23: Online voting and cybersecurity

Our guests are Jennifer Slater, the City of Guelph's Manager of Information, Privacy and Elections (and Deputy City Clerk), who will be discussing the City's review of our municipal election voting methods..
Alexsander Essex, associate professor of software engineering at Western University, with a specialization in cybersecurity and applied cryptography. He runs Whisper Lab, which is Western's dedicated Information Security and Privacy Research Laboratory.

and Cameron Shelley, lecturer at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Systems Design Engineering.

Very informative!

Episode 22: The climate crisis in the COVID era

Our guest this week is Evan Ferrari from Guelph's energy advocacy org "eMerge" speaking about climate targets and initiatives that we need to achieve those targets

Episode 21: City budget time!

This week our guests are Trevor Lee, Deputy CAO, and Tara Baker, CFO from the CIty of Guelph, giving us a preview of what to expect in this year's budget, our first 'multi-year' one. Final decisions by council come on December 1.

Episode 20: Is it time to change Guelph's electoral system?

Our guests this week are Stephen O'Brien, Guelph City Clerk, and Kevin Bowman, spokesperson from Democracy Guelph. Should we have full-time councillors ? Fewer councillors? One Per Ward? No Wards? It's all up for debate at city council and this was a good primer on the topic

Episode 19: An update from Wellington Water Watchers

Arlene Slocombe from the Wellington Water Watchers joins us to talk about the ongoing issues with Nestle waters bottling operation. The program concludes with four songs about Nestlé from City Councillor James Gordon's 2011 musical play, Nastee Business.

Episode 18: Active Transportation in the Winter

Special guest Giancarlo Martini from the University of Guelph Bike Centre speaking about cycling in the winter.

Episode 17: Some of Guelph's poverty relief efforts

Our guests this week were representatives from Kindle, a developer of community spaces, and Kevin Coghill from the Royal City Mission, speaking about their poverty relief efforts in our city. 

Episode 16: Open mic!

Once a month or so the Breezy Online Breakfast hosts an 'open mic'- no guests or topics. We leave it up to the participants on the Zoom meeting to discuss issues that are important to them. This episode covers permanent supportive housing, our housing crisis, overnight parking and mobility bus service! 

Episode 15: Re-opening Guelph's public schools

Martha MacNeil, chair of the Upper Grand District School Board, School Superintendent Gary Slater, Catholic Board Union Rep Mark Berardine and concerned parents discuss the impact that Covid has had on school re-openings.