Justin Trudeau may be the face of the party, but it seems that Guelph MP Frank Valeriote is doing all the heavy-lifting. Now, along with deputy whip and co-chair of the policy caucus, Valeriote will head up the Liberal Party’s criticism on Veteran’s Affairs in the Commons. Valeriote’s new position in the Liberal caucus was announced Monday. Continue reading “Valeriote Adds Veterans Affairs to List of Liberal Duties”
It’s always a conundrum, does our government do enough to engage its citizens and encourage them to get involved with policy and city matters? Continue reading “City Wants Your Help to Make Government More Open”
I guess the Tri-Cities (sorry, I meant Canada’s Innovation Supercluster consortium) has gotten a taste for GO trains and likes it. Either that, or Premier Kathleen Wynne is looking to secure votes in this area for “Schrödinger’s Election” (since the provincial election is both happening and not happening). But then again, maybe it’s a case of both, a win-win if you will. Regardless, full-day GO Train service will be coming to the Kitchener-Guelph corridor in 2016, and the funding (what ever it is) will be covered with the full extent of the service extension in the upcoming provincial budget. Continue reading “GO Transit Set for All-Day Service”
Booooooooooring. It’s called the “Boring Budget,” but the 2014 Federal Budget has a great many interesting implications for the nation was he head into an election year in 2015. Continue reading “Highlights from the 2014 Federal Budget”
Not to sound either pessimistic or bitter, but how likely is the campaigning outlined below going to yield any real results? Continue reading “Region Wants more GO to Get On”
In a surprise move, the Guelph Mercury has announced that they will be closing their printing presses later this week and moving the printing operations of the nearly 150-year-old paper to Hamilton. The paper itself will stay in production and continue to be published six days a week, but that physical copy will be made in Hamilton, not the Royal City. Continue reading “The Presses Stop at the Guelph Mercury”
Not to be insensitive, but $10 goes to the first person who asks Olivia Chow about running for Mayor of Toronto. The erstwhile potential mayoral candidate, potential Lieutenant-Governor, and current MP for Trinity-Spadina, is currently on a book tour for her memoir, Olivia: My Canadian Journey and she will bring that tour into Guelph this Thursday. Continue reading “Olivia Chow Brings Book Tour to Guelph”
The Guelph Civic League is hosting a redux of Mayor Karen Farbridge’s State of the City address later this week, and it will be followed by a Q&A with the Chief Magistrate of the Royal City with citizens invited and encouraged to ask questions of the Mayor. Continue reading “GCL Invites You to Question the Mayor”
Just when everyone seemed content with the idea that Michael Sona had been run over by the bus enough times, we get breaking news yesterday that the so-called Christian Conservative Independent Andrew Prescott has reached an immunity deal for his alleged involvement in the Pierre Poutine/robocall scandal. According to CBC, Prescott has received notice that “the Crown has no intention” of charging him in connection with misleading phone calls in Guelph on the last Federal Election Day that directed voters to illegitimate polling stations. But if Prescott is getting protection from the law, does that mean he’s turning in evidence on someone else? And of course we mean someone bigger than Sona. Continue reading “Prescott Knows Pierre?”
Since things seem relatively quiet on the election front (for the moment), we can pause to reflect on a story or two that we might have missed over the holidays. For instance, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that they didn’t want to hear from Kornelis Klevering on the matter of 2011 Federal Election results in Guelph. The Marijuana Party candidate wanted the election results overturned because of the fraudulent robocalls made to Guelph voters on election day, but SCOC seems satisfied in the constitutionality of the 2011 results. Continue reading “Klevering SCOC Appeal Denied”
