Open Sources Guelph #576 - July 2, 2026
About this episode
The episode discusses a fake awards show in honor of Donald Trump while also addressing the challenges faced by the Ontario Liberal Party.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, like so many people, we are not going to the fair. As Americans looks for alternative plans to celebrate their 250th birthday, we will use the occasion to create a fake awards show for someone that really, really loves fake awards. In the realm of real accomplishments though, we will talk to one of the people that wants to lead Ontario's third place political party back to the number one poll position. This Thursday, June 25, at 5 pm, Scotty Hertz and Adam A. Donaldson will discuss: The Trumpies. It's a summer holiday week, much of the news is taking some time off, so why don't we catch up with everyone's favourite political disaster and some of his latest dumpster fires. And, as a bonus, let's make an awards show out of it! As we all know, Donald Trump is retired from annual year-end awards, but what if we make up a mid-year awards show entirely in his honour? For the first, and hopefully last time, we'll hand out The Trumpies (TM)!! Built Fairclough. Lee Fairclough was one of the first people to enter the Ontario Liberal leadership race, and was one of a handful of new Liberal MPPs to return the party to official status in last year's election…
People in this episode
Host: Adam A. Donaldson
Guest: Scotty Hertz
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Organizations: Ontario Liberal
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