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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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Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
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!
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
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
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
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.
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
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
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
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.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Special guest Giancarlo Martini from the University of Guelph Bike Centre speaking about cycling in the winter.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
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.
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
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!
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
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.
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
With special guest MP Matthew Green we're exploring the Controversial Metrolinx/Go Train plans for expanding their service in Guelph that would involve road closures and Park expropriation.