Author: Adam A. Donaldson

When he’s not the main/only contributor to Guelph Politico, Adam A. Donaldson also contributes to GuelphToday.com as their city hall columnist and co-hosts a political and current affairs show on CFRU 93.3 fm called “Open Sources Guelph" as well as the movie review show "End Credits."

GUELPH POLITICAST #527 – A Pratfall in Puslinch? (feat. Justin Wilson)

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Remember MZOs. Early on in the Ford government, Ministerial Zoning Orders were the hot thing to cut through red tape and get construction started faster by overriding public planning procedures, like the one being sought now for a one million square foot facility on zoned agricultural land in Puslinch. As upper levels of government accelerate pro-business policies and override environmental concerns and assessments, can one group of activists still win? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #527 – A Pratfall in Puslinch? (feat. Justin Wilson)” →

RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for June 2, 2026

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Get ready for a long one! You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for June 2, 2026” →

This Week at Council: Stephanie Drive Deal and Heritage Reprise Request

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“Short” was the word that best summed up this week’s meeting of city council, the regular meeting for the month of May. There was nothing much on the agenda aside from matters already settled at Committee of the Whole, so the only thing left to debate was a motion to ask the provincial government to stay the erasure of the heritage list at the end of the year. The big news though, that came out of the closed meeting. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Stephanie Drive Deal and Heritage Reprise Request” →

POLICE NOTES: E-bikes Taken, Drive-Thru Confrontation, and Stolen Car Crashed

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There are 145,000 stories in the Royal City, and this is some of them. Looking at a week’s worth of media releases from the Guelph Police Service, there’s a lot going on in our little city crime-wise speaking, so let’s run down some of the charges, issues, and requests for information from the Guelph Police Service over the last seven days. Continue reading “POLICE NOTES: E-bikes Taken, Drive-Thru Confrontation, and Stolen Car Crashed” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for June 3, 2025

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Before departing for summer vacation, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health will have one last meeting to talk about the ongoing work about keeping the community healthy. In this agenda, there are four big reports including the annual one about all of their works, and on a more granular level, the board will look at their early childhood health programs, the yearly injury surveillance report and the health effects on climate change. Check it out below! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for June 3, 2025” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #526 – What’s Next 2026? The Transit Struggle (feat. Steve Petric)

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This term has presented a lot of challenges to transit and transit users, not the least of which was ridership recovering following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has, thankfully, not only returned but grown in the last four years. Logistically speaking though, there are other challenges to transit that have stacked up including financial pressures, but what else is coming for transit in the next four years? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #526 – What’s Next 2026? The Transit Struggle (feat. Steve Petric)” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 26, 2026

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It’s the end of the month, and the end of the council calendar. What’s trouble can we get into? You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 26, 2026” →

POLICE NOTES: Chainsaw Neighbour, Self-Driving Sleeper and Long Weekend Drunk Driving

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There are 145,000 stories in the Royal City, and this is some of them. Looking at a week’s worth of media releases from the Guelph Police Service, there’s a lot going on in our little city crime-wise speaking, so let’s run down some of the charges, issues, and requests for information from the Guelph Police Service over the last seven days. Continue reading “POLICE NOTES: Chainsaw Neighbour, Self-Driving Sleeper and Long Weekend Drunk Driving” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 2, 2026 Meeting?

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If you’ve found council meetings a little to short lately, and without a lot of variety, then the June Committee of the Whole meeting will definitely need to be an appointment on your calendar. Is council doing an upstanding job when it comes to closed meetings? Can we save a valuable heritage bridge in the south end? Can we deliver energy equity for people in Guelph? Is there a way to better understand the situation when we’ve got water issues? All that and more in this preview! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 2, 2026 Meeting?” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #525 – Election Skullduggery Already? (feat. Dylan McMahon)

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On Friday, Guelph Politico received a video of someone accessing the website “michellebowman.ca”. Michelle Bowman is a candidate running in Ward 2 in this fall’s municipal election, so one would think that if you typed in her name with the domain extension “.ca” that it would lead to her website. It doesn’t. Barely three weeks into this election, do we already need to have a conservation about the rules and ethics of running for local office? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #525 – Election Skullduggery Already? (feat. Dylan McMahon)” →