At the next council meeting, Guelph’s councillors will review this month’s committee decisions, appoint some people to boards, and look at expanding the borders of the City’s Downtown core. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 26 Meeting?”
Twice-monthly, 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 June 1-15, 2017”
The next phase of Guelph Hydro’s future will be decided on this night! You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for June 13, 2017”
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” John F. Kennedy said that, and it seems a fitting reminder that our tremendous financial inequality in modern society is far from sustainable. Someone said a long time ago that you will always have the poor among you, but that doesn’t mean that we have to prove him right. Though as he sit here in the year 2017, the poor is still among us, and we seem no closer to a solution. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #82 – Linda Terry, Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North Dumfries”
Get ready to plan at this month’s planing meeting of council. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for June 12, 2017”
When we last left the council discussion about what to do with Guelph Hydro, the Strategies and Options Committee (SOC) was given permission to pursue the potential of merging with similar sized utilities in our area. This special council-as-shareholders meeting of the Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. will present the results of that work so far and the potential next phases going forward. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 13 Meeting?”
There’s more than just planning scheduled for this month’s planning meeting. Motions on fees, and the structure of Heritage Guelph also come forward in this, the first of two city council meetings next week. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 12 Meeting?”
Financial statements, splash pads, and the transit realignment are all on the docket for this month’s committee meeting. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of today’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s committee meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: Committee of the Whole for June 6, 2017”
There was a bit of controversy today with the Guelph150 banners, one of the entries being labelled taboo because the memory of the crime it references is still fresh in the heads of many Guelphites. But there’s still lots of Guelph History to learn from this interesting and informative Downtown Guelph Business Association promotion, and this is only 10 of them… Continue reading “10 Interesting Factoids From Guelph150”
About 20 people joined Peter Julian for breakfast, maybe lunch, at Breezy Corners in Downtown Guelph today. Julian follows Charlie Angus and Niki Ashton as the third leadership candidate for the NDP to make a campaign stop in Guelph, and he made a pitch to the city’s strong activist spirit to lend him their support for a grassroots-driven party that hearkens back to the New Democrats own origins. Continue reading “Peter Julian the Latest NDP Leadership Candidate to Make Royal City Stop”
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