End Credits - September 2, 2020 (Spielberg Ranking)

09/04/20 • 58 min

This week on End Credits, we're going on vacation. In this last week of summer, we're going to take a break, and play you a little something special. We love him, you love him, and sometimes he lets us down, but most of the time he hits it out of the park. Whatever your flavour of Spielberg, this week we've got them all.

This Wednesday, September 2, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

Uneven Stevens (The Whole List). Earlier this summer, we produced a multi-part list where we organized all 33 films of Steven Spielberg films from worst to best. It's no mean feat covering nearly 50 years of one of the most successful and influential filmmakers of all time, and all that work deserves to be heard. Again. So for this week's special edition of the show, we're going to cover the whole story and put every Spielberg film, from Duel to Ready Player One, in its proper place.

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

This Wednesday, September 2, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

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

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GUELPH POLITICAST #236 - What Will School Look Like?

This is the last week of summer, and it’s typically a time of great excitement for kids and parents alike. This year though, there is also more than a little amount of trepidation because going back to school means something very different in the era of COVID-19. Perhaps this will help. We're going to look at what your school might look like when you, or your child, are heading back to it in the next couple of weeks.

As we’ve seen in the news over the last few days, the details around back to school plans are changing regularly. On a different week, we might make some time on this pod to plunge into the political and legal concerns and their effect on school board plans, but for now, we will assume that despite minor variations, school will still proceed next week as planned. So what will that look like?

To learn that, we’re joined this week by Michael Glazier, the Director of Education of the Wellington Catholic District School Board, and Heather Loney, the Communications and Community Engagement Officer for the Upper Grand District School Board.

From the perspective of both boards, we will dedicate this episode of the show to a basic examination of what students and parents can expect when school starts whether your child is going to their physical school in masks, or if they’re remaining at home to do virtual learning. We will talk about what the school day will look like, the new rules for riding the bus, how the classroom will look, what things kids need to bring, and how lunch and recess will work.

Before we begin, these are separate interviews so you can stop the podcast after Glazier, or you can fast forward things about 30 minutes to get to Loney. Or, if you like, you can listen to the whole darn thing so that you can compare and contrast the back to school plans like the political wonk you are.

So let's talk about what to expect when you're going Back to School on this week's Guelph Politicast!

For all the latest updates about the Back to School plans of both school boards, you can visit their websites. For the Wellington Catholic District School Board here, and for the Upper Grand District School Board go here.

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Next Episode

Open Sources Guelph - September 3, 2020

This week on Open Sources Guelph, there's no rest for the wicked before this Labour Day weekend. We're going to head back to the United States where the intersection of racism and police brutality is busy again thanks in no small part to the disinterest of the man in the White House. We're also going to talk about the concerning conspiracy sharing of a sitting MP, and we'll talk to an expert in how we think about why it feels like QAnon is winning (and how we can reverse the effects).

This Thursday, September 3, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss:

American Carnage. The shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI released a new wave of protest by Black Lives Matter and other social justice groups and activists across the United States, and even a few places in Canada, but it also unleashed something else. From Kyle Rittenhouse, to the so-called Trump Caravans in Portland, to the President's own refusal to denounce his supporters doing violence while attacking activists, we'll look at all the angles on the renewed fight for justice in the U.S.

Findlay Fire. "The closeness of these two should alarm every Canadian." That's what Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay said about a clip from a 2009 interview featuring now Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talking to George Soros. Soros has been cast as the boogeyman in multiple conspiracy theories, which has long been understood as anti-Semitic, but there's a bigger problem. Seeing the takeover of the conservative party in the U.S. by conspiracy theorists, are we starting to see that here in Canada.

Cognitive Theory. Speaking of QAnon, it's become clear that this is not going away like a miracle anytime soon, there was even a QAnon-esque gathering here in Guelph last weekend. But what is driving this belief in not just unfounded conspiracies, but out-right deranged narratives about secret Satanists? Christopher DiCarlo, a cognitive behaviourist and expert in critical thinking will join us this week to tell us why, and tell us how we can help people find their way back to some semblance of reality.

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