End Credits #200 Show - May 26, 2021 (Top 5 of the First 199)

05/28/21 • 57 min

This week on End Credits, it's a cause for celebration. As you may have noticed above, this is the 200th episode of the show, a momentous event almost four years in the making. There have been a lot of changes on the show, some people have come and gone over the years, but the draw has always been the movies, and this week we remember the best of the best.

This Wednesday, May 26, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson, Tim Phillips, Candice Lepage, and Peter Salmon will discuss:

Top Five of the First 199. Congratulations, you lived long enough to hear the 200th episode of End Credits! It's all down hill from here. Before moving on to the future, we will stop and take account of the first 199 episodes with our Top 5 of the show so far. Each panelist, choosing only from the movies they've reviewed on the show, will reveal their Top 5 of End Credits. From Adam Sandler's Oscar-worthy acting to a killer clown in the sewer, from art and romance in 17th century France to art and romance in 20th century Atlantic Canada, let's toast our favourites from the first four years of the show!

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

This Wednesday, May 26, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson, Tim Phillips, Candice Lepage, and Peter Salmon will discuss:

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.

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GUELPH POLITICAST #275 - 100 Years After the Meeting on Metcalfe Street

On Monday May 23, 1921, a small group of people gathered in a barn on the outskirts of Guelph to found the Communist Party of Canada. It was three years after the Russian Revolution, and there was already widespread concern about the spread of Marxist ideas, but economic stagnation, a global pandemic, and societal disillusionment post World War I made people hungry for some kind of change to the status quo. Sound familiar?

True, some things have not changed in the last century, but a hundred years ago 257 Metcalfe Street was the boonies, instead of the heart of Ward 2. On that day, lot of the people that came to Guelph for the founding of the Communist Party were already accustomed to being targeted by police and arrested for their political activism, but locals like Alderman Lorne Cunningham and Guelph Workingman’s Association member Fred Farley were there as well.

In the last century, it’s been hard to separate communism from the atrocities of Stalin, the anti-democratic actions of Castro in Cuba, and the still growing authoritarian tendencies in modern China. It makes running as the Communist Party candidate hard in the handful of ridings their candidates try to represent in Federal and Provincial elections, including Guelph. One person who knows that all too well is Tristan Dineen, a community activist, and the Communist Party candidate for Guelph in the 2015 election.

Dineen joins us this week to talk about why working with the Communist Party of Canada appealed to him, and why he’s running again in the next Federal Election. He will also talk about the misconceptions of the Communist Party, and how people currently working with the party have to answer for history. Plus, Dineen will discuss Guelph’s place in the history of the Communist Party, and whether there should be some form of official commemoration on this, the 100th anniversary of the party’s founding.

So let's talk about Guelph’s communist past, present and future (?) on this week's edition of the Guelph Politicast!

The Communist Party of Canada will mark their 100th birthday in a virtual event they’re live streaming online at 1:30 pm on Sunday May 30 at their YouTube channel. You can read Terry Pender’s article about the founding of the Communist Party in Guelph at the Waterloo Region Record’s website.

The host for the Guelph Politicast is Podbean. Find more episodes of the Politicast here, or download them on your favourite podcast app at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.

Also, when you subscribe to the Guelph Politicast channel and you will also get an episode of Open Sources Guelph every Monday, and an episode of End Credits every Friday.

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Open Sources Guelph #328 - May 27, 2021

This week on Open Sources Guelph, you mark some momentous events. On the one hand, there's the first anniversary of the event that kicked off the greatest shift in Civil Rights in 50 years, and on the other there's Schrödinger's Summer Olympics, will they happen or won't they? In the back half of the show, we will mark the achievement of a tepid peace by hearing about the issues from those who know them best.

This Thursday, May 27, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

9 Minutes, 29 Seconds, and 1 Year Later. On Tuesday, it was the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. There's been a lot of protest, a lot of promises made, and while Chauvin was convicted, it still seems like there's a new story every week about police brutality against someone who's BIPOC. So what kind of year has it been since George Floyd died?

No-lympics? The countdown is on for the delayed Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but there's a growing sense among many Japanese people that this is a very bad idea. In the middle of a fourth wave of COVID-19, lagging in vaccine distribution, and forced to preemptively cancel in-person events, there's sufficient reason to rethink the start of the games in July, but is anyone going to listen to the voices of caution?

Voices for Palestine. Things are quiet in the Middle East now, a ceasefire has been arrange between Israel and Hamas, but things are still incendiary and the long-standing issues that led to the recent outburst of violence remain unsolved. A few weeks ago, a group of Guelphites gathered in Market Square to talk about some of those issues and concerns, and this week, we will lend our platform to those voices.

Open Sources is live on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca at 5 pm on Thursday.