If you want to know the history of a place, go to the cemetery, and this is no less true for Woodlawn Memorial Park. It’s natural in this Halloween month to seek out some spookiness, and conventional wisdom says that there’s nowhere spookier than the local cemetery, but our guest this week spent a lifetime promoting a simple message: Your local cemetery is not a very scary place. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #437 – The Cemetery is Not a Scary Place (feat. Paul Taylor)”
Get ready to plan! 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 “RECAP: City Council Meeting for October 8, 2024”
The day after Thanksgiving you might be thankful that you get a second helping of Heritage Guelph for the month of October. By now, we’ve tackled the Ontario Reformatory Lands Heritage Conservation District and the Downtown Guelph Heritage Conservation District, so now we’re going to take a crack at the Ward West Heritage Conservation District. What feedback for the plan does the committee have in store? Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for October 15, 2024”
It was a pretty straightforward meeting of Heritage Guelph this October, and it even had an obligatory stop at the cemetery. The most controversial item on the agenda, even mildly, was planned repairs to the retaining wall along the river at The Boathouse, which is one of those instances where legal requirements trump heritage ones. But that’s not the last word on this meeting, so to see what you missed, check out this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Still Has Issues with Wall Repairs”
What do you think about fireworks? The report to Committee of the Whole this month painted a pretty clear picture that something needs to change when it comes to when, where and how we deal with fireworks in Guelph, but what kind of change is needed? That was the question that prompted a near even split between the councillors and they still have to get this passed at the end of the month too. For now, let’s dive into the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Fireworks Over Fireworks”
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: Homecoming, Trail Assault and E-Bike Collision”
It’s going to be another busy meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee as they look at the present, near-future and a post-safe consumption site future in Guelph next spring. What’s in a HART Hub? You will find out at this meeting, and you will also get updates about the Delhi housing project, childcare fees for next year, and 2024 budget actuals, plus advocacy for what the County wants to do next on some big issues. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for October 9, 2024”
Last week was a very busy news week here in Guelph, four stories that each, in their way, tell the story of a growing city when it comes to the economy, public safety and accountability. For this episode of the pod you’re going to hear the news as it’s covered, live (ish) from around town as we get into some real shoe leather reporting from the streets of the Royal City. This is “Raw Audio News!” Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #436 – Raw Audio News 2”
Let’s get going on another month of council business! 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 “RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for October 1, 2024”
After a summer break that actually included one closed door meeting to launch the search for the new CEO, the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors got back to business with some business. The library became one of the first of the shared services to approve their 2025 budget, and they did it while shaving six per cent from the original 2025 forecast that was approved last year. In other news… Well, you should check out the recap for other news! Continue reading “RECAP: The Library Trims Their 2025 Budget With One Move”
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