End Credits - October 9, 2019 (Joker)

10/11/19 • 57 min

This week on End Credits we send in the clowns. Or rather one clown. This week we're going to try and get past the controversy and craziness and review the new movie, Joker. We're also going to start our series dedicated to 1999, and look at a couple of new trailers released this week, and we're going to talk about everyone's favourite topic, copyright law!

This Wednesday, October 9, at 2 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:

Copy, Right? In Hollywood, all the best laid plans for sequels and reboots lay at the feet of the most fickle of challenges, Trademark Law. The rights for Predator, Die Hard, Nightmare on Elm Street, and the works of Stephen King and David Mamet might all potentially end up back in the hands of their original creators, so is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Later, Trailers. What does a superhero spin-off, an action movie, and a based on a true story thriller have in common? They're trailers for new movies coming soon! One is a DC movie featuring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, another is the latest Michael Bay explosion-fest, and the third is about the man wrongfully accused of the Olympic Park bombing in 1996.

25 for '99, Part 1 of 5. It's been 20 years since what's been called "the best year in movies" came and went, 12 months of some of the most influential and innovative movies of the last few decades, and for the next couple of weeks, we'll remember the best of the best. Each of our hosts will reveal their Top 5 favourites from 1999, starting with Tim.

REVIEW: Joker (2019). It's hard to think of a movie that's been more controversial than Joker, an ultra-serious, gritty and realistic take on the origins of Batman's most well-known nemesis. Heavily inspired by the early works of Martin Scorsese, and featuring a dynamo performance by Joaquin Phoenix, the movie is primed to be one of the biggest hits of 2019, but is it worthy of all the hype, not to mention all the safety concerns?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 2 pm.

This Wednesday, October 9, at 2 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 2 pm.

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GUELPH POLITICAST #191 - The Way of the Gun Control Debate

Last weekend, the movie Joker opened in thousands of theatres across North America, and police and law enforcement agencies in the U.S. were on their guard in case an active shooter seized on the opportunity. Good thing we don’t have to worry about that in Canada, right? But what if I told you though that Canada wasn’t even in the Top 40 of countries with the lowest rate of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people?

Now you may be thinking that while the news is full of a lot of gang shootings and other violence, you probably didn't realize the problem was that bad. Of course, when it comes to violent gun crime, it's not. Of the 13,168 total gun deaths between 2000 and 2016, 75 per cent of them were suicides. Another 240 Canadians each year are hospitalized because of the accidental discharge of a firearm, and 13 annually are killed because of accidental shootings.

In other words, we have a big problem with guns, and while it may not be to the scale of the United States and their epidemic of mass shootings, it's bigger than we'd probably like to admit. Having said that, gun control is a highly controversial here in Canada, just as it is in the U.S. On the one side are gun owners wanting access to firearms for recreation or safety, and on the other are people looking for more strenuous regulations for the sale and use of firearms.

On the side of the latter is the Coalition for Gun Control. Founded in the wake of the Montreal Massacre in 1989, the Coalition has been working towards the goals of licensing all gun owners, creating a cost-effective system to track gun sales, and banning all hand guns and military-style weapons. To get there, they have the support of more than 200 health, crime prevention, victims, public safety, women’s and community organizations from across Canada.

Dr. Wendy Cukier is a spokesperson and president for the Coalition of Gun Control, and she is this week's guest on the podcast. Among the things we'll discuss is why we need to take the issue of gun control beyond the headlines about crime. We also talk about the politics around the debate, how it’s gotten more divisive in the last few years, and why that’s not because of the rural/urban divide. And we discuss the election, the way we talk about gun control in the media, and whether we’re reticent to talk about issues that make us feel unsafe.

So let's talk about debating gun control on this week's edition of the Guelph Politicast!

You can learn more about the Coalition of Gun Control at their website.

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WELLINGTON-HALTON HILLS POLITICAST - Dr. Lesley Barron, Liberal Party

The history of Wellington-Halton Hills as a riding, is the history of Michael Chong. The riding was created in 2004, which was Chong’s first electoral victory, and he has been victorious ever since. Is it possible that a Liberal could come up now, and unseat a well-liked, and well-known member of the opposition party in a non-change election?

Dr. Lesley Barron hopes so, and it's not impossible. The main urban area of the riding, Halton Hills, was represented for 10 years by Liberal Julian Reed from 1993 to 2004. Halton Hills is the kind of community in the GTHA that typically makes or breaks an election for a governing party, but even as the red wave swept the GTHA in 2015, Wellington-Halton Hills stayed firmly blue by nearly 10,000 votes.

What Dr. Barron has been asking on the hustings is what do the people of Wellington-Halton Hills get for this devotion? Chong’s reputation as a maverick and iconoclast didn’t do much for the riding during the Harper years, and Chong spent a good portion of the last mandate running to be Conservative Party leader. Have the needs of Wellington-Halton Hills been ignored?

Fair question, but can Barron make a case for Team Trudeau in Chong country, or will the people of Wellington-Halton Hills stay the course with a familiar incumbent?

That's one of the queries that Barron will answer on this edition of the podcast. We also discuss why she wanted to run for office, and how her experience as a doctor and a surgeon helped give her the push. Barron also talks about environmental policy, why she’s running as a Liberal, and why you can’t separate social policy from healthcare and other issues. Plus, Barron will reveal what she would like to do as an MP, and what she hopes to get out of the campaign aside from victory.

So let’s hear Dr. Barron operate on politics on this edition of the Wellington Halton-Hills Politicast!

To find out more about Dr. Lesley Barron and her campaign, you can visit her website. The Wellington-Halton Hills Politicast will hopefully squeeze out more more edition with another profile of one of the riding’s Federal candidates.

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