This month’s Heritage Guelph meeting will be about taking the workplans and putting the plans to work. After the last couple of months getting ducks in a row and responding to the heritage changes made in Bill 23, planning staff are now ready to start the collective actions to save as much heritage as possible before the Province’s two-year time line runs out. Shall we begin?! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for March 13, 2023”
After taking a month off, the Social Service Committee of Wellington County meets again with a new and interesting agenda that will cover new and concerning stats from Paramedic Service, new funding models to support social housing, and new information about the current slate of new housing projects, the expansion of childcare, and the potential renovation of the social services office. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: County Social Services Meeting for March 8, 2023”
The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health spent their March meeting looking at a variety of public heath issues from updates about the unit’s privacy measures to the results of a survey of area students to the effect of the Our Food Future office on goals of healthy and nutritious eating locally. Plus, there was an update on some other viruses that have been making the news lately. Here’s the recap of the March meeting… Continue reading “RECAP: Board of Health Covers A Lot of Non-COVID Business”
The weather has been pretty good reminding us this past week that winter is dangerous, especially when driving on snowy icy streets. That’s why we salt, but the evidence is building that we salt our roads too much and it’s had a profoundly negative impact on our rivers and streams. So are we sacrificing our water quality for winter road safety, and is there a way that we can have both? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #362 – A-Salt on the Water”
Every month, Guelph Politico posts the latest inspection results from the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Unit inspection of local restaurants, hotels, cafes, grocery stores and other businesses that handle food. We call it “Mangez!”, and this column highlights the latest inspections done by WDGPH, and the results they’ve posted. Continue reading “MANGEZ! Dine Safe Guide for February 15-28, 2023”
Last day of the month, last meeting of the month. A busy one too. 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 on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 28, 2023”
It was a slow week at city council, but it was still a pretty consequential week as the horseshoe dealt with a sudden matter of community interest in a special meeting, and then got back to the business of refreshing the Strategic Plan. Many notes were offered in the all virtual meeting (thanks #ONstorm!), and now it will be up to the consultants to further refine things into a first draft. Here’s what happened in meeting… Continue reading “The Week at Council: The Strategic Plan Gets Further Refined”
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: More Charges in Bullfrog Stabbing, and Witnesses Need for 2022 Arrest”
Although the war still rages in Ukraine, over 200 people came out to Guelph City Hall on a cold Friday night to send the message that we haven’t forgotten. Hopes and prayers were offered that there won’t be a similar vigil at the same time in 2024, but there was also gratitude for the outreach and support, and a special message from a Ukrainian woman who now lives in Guelph after escaping the war back home. Continue reading “Guelphites Stand With Ukraine on First Anniversary of Russian Invasion”
There’s nothing terribly controversial at March’s Committee of Adjustment this month, but, as ever, controversy is in the eye of the beholder. Some plans will see current properties break off like amoebas and become two properties, some plans include demolitions, and there’s at least one case of a property that the owner feels is not zoned right. This is what’s on the agenda for March… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Committee of Adjustment Meeting for March 9, 2023”
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