After six months of rising tensions with all four of Ontario’s teachers unions, the Provincial government can now take some comfort that they’ve solved 25 per cent of the problem. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) has reached a tentative deal with the Ontario government, and the president of the Wellington unit looks forward to hanging up his picket sign. Continue reading “Local Catholic Teachers Feel Good About Having a Deal”
The City of Guelph puts out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Hall of Fame, Clean and Green, and Road Construction”
So far, there is still no confirmed case of Novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, in Guelph, but that doesn’t mean we’re not feeling the effects. In the last 24 hours, there have been a whole list of new closures and cancellations as the city’s health officials are trying to quell concerns about whether or not Guelph is ready for its first case of COVID-19. Continue reading “COVID-19: Officials Urge Calm; City and University Make Protective Moves”
The news these days is pretty much all Coronavirus, all the time, and every hour brings new cancellations and quarantines, including, as of lunch hour on Thursday, the Prime Minister of Canada. With everything from major sporting events, movie premieres, conferences, and other crowd-filled activities being cancelled, everyone’s on guard for the next outbreak. Even here in Guelph. Continue reading “Two More COVID-19 Cases in Waterloo Region as Local Events Reconsider Cancellation”
For months now there’s been a general discussion about the safety of people downtown, and it’s a discussion that got real earlier this year with two separate homicides happening within a block of each other in the span of a month. Sensing a need for a greater police presence in the core, the Guelph Police Service will be unveiling a six-month pilot project to have four additional full-time uniformed officers on the streets. Continue reading “Guelph Police Adding Downtown Resource Officers”
As you may know, Guelph Politico does a twice-a-month feature called “Mangez!” which scours the results of the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health website for the latest results on the health inspections at local eateries, bars, and grocery stores. But in the wake of dangerous health conditions found at a Stone Road nail salon, perhaps the time has come to expand our investigations into the health conditions at other local establishments. Continue reading “So How Healthy Are Guelph’s Nail Salons and Beauty Shops?”
The City of Guelph puts out a lot of information on a weekly basis, and while it all ends up on the City’s website somewhere, wouldn’t it be easier to just scroll through it all on one easy-to-read article on Guelph Politico here…? Continue reading “CITY PAGES: Art Approved, Water Day, and Baker District Open House”
Over 100 University of Guelph students led a solidarity process with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’an territory on Wednesday on campus, and then they went inside to push the administration to divest the university from fossil fuels. Although the U of G Board of Governors voted down such a motion last year, Vice-President of Finance Don O’Leary promised the protestors that he would bring it up again. Continue reading “U of G Students Push Admin to Looking Again at Divestment”
Waterloo Region Public Health has announced that they have their first local case of Novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19. A woman in her 50s went to Grand River Hospital with symptoms Tuesday after returning from a trip to Italy, which makes her and a Toronto man the latest of three dozen patients in Canada to be diagnosed with the highly contagious virus. Continue reading “First Case of COVID-19 Reported in Waterloo Region”
Two city councillors want their colleagues to take a second look at a proposed development on Whitelaw Road that was rejected by council just last month. Councillor Mark MacKinnon didn’t get a chance to vote for the project in council, but he and Councillor Dan Gibson are hoping that they might be able to convince a majority of council to change their mind and vote for it to. Continue reading “Councillors Want a Reconsideration on Whitelaw Development Vote”
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