It’s not a tribune, it’s a tribunal! 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 Blue Sky, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 15, 2025”
Let’s workshop about water! 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 this council meeting in the thread below, and you can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 14, 2025”
It’s not great, it’s not even good, but it is getting better. That was the message from this month’s Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee meeting as politicians and staff from both the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington got a couple of key updates about the response to homelessness. Along with that information, you can learn more about childcare changes, the 2025 budget and fighting hospital offload delays in this month’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: JSSLAC Hears That There’s Progress on Fighting Homelessness”
We have a weird situation: We’ve elected two new governments at both upper levels in the last four months and the hope is that they can turn things around, and yet, these are also, essentially, the old governments. How can we possibly expect better results from the new old people in charge, and are we even more alone than ever here on the local level? We’ll put this to one of the people whose job it is to advocate. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #470 – The Poverty Elimination Gut Check (feat. Dominica McPherson)”
Let the planning commence! 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 Blue Sky, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 13, 2025”
Money! Much of this month’s Committee of the Whole meeting was about it, but there was also some new climate change policy, a formal farewell to a city councillor with a new job, and, yes, some controversy. What was supposed to be consent item about seeking permission for a request for proposals for daytime shelter services opened a potential kettle of fish when it comes to council at the end of the month. For now, here’s the recap of May’s CoW meeting! Continue reading “This Week at Council: A Whole in the World”
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: Kidnapping, Distraction Theft and More Indecent Acts”
Members of Guelph city council and senior staff will once again go to the other side of downtown to sit with members of the County for this month’s Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee. What’s on the agenda? Assets and managing them, some new projects, plus an update on childcare funding, supporting people who were homeless through the winter, and a formal answer to a long-standing matter of interest. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for May 14, 2025”
There was a lot going on at the Board of Health for this month’s meeting, but the thing probably everyone came to hear about was this question: What the heck is going on with measles? Although there was a lot of discussion about various Public Health programs, what you probably heard about from this meeting is the news that the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph region is now an at-risk area for measles transmission. Let’s get into it! Continue reading “RECAP: Board of Health Hears Area is Now Risk Area for Measles”
The recent federal election was the formal turning of the page from the premiership of Justin Trudeau to the one led by Mark Carney. For long-time political observers, the difference between the two men in both style and substance is stark, but there’s no doubt that the change in leadership in March is at least half the reason the Liberals got a near majority last week. And yet, the question remains: What happened to Trudeau-mania? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #469 – Whatever Happened to “Sunny Ways”? (feat. Mustafa Zuberi)”
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