This month’s Guelph Public Library Board meeting was relatively brisk with some brief updates about the year end variance and the main library project. The meatier stuff was in the annual report about the Library’s I.T. concerns, and the partnerships between the Library and other community groups, which were a reminder that there’s more to library services than giving you something good to read. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Hears How GPL Resources Go Beyond Books”
After three years and three different locations, the COVID-19 Assessment Centre – now called the Guelph COVID, Cold, Flu Care Clinic – will close its doors on Friday March 31. After seeing over 184,000 patients in the course of the last 36 months, and expanding beyond COVID-19 to cold and flu last fall, the workload of managing these viruses now moves back to the regular order of family doctors and walk-in clinics. Continue reading “Guelph COVID Assessment Centre Closes Its Doors on Friday”
After a week off for March Break, council returned for a busy work week that saw a major piece of a major heritage project completed, and some new work on the local economic development and tourism picture. But along with the regular order of business, there was some irregular order as council met at 10 am on Wednesday as a new measure of inclusion for the Muslim members of our community this Ramadan. Shall we recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Economic Development and OR Lands Boundary Approved”
The City of Guelph, and it’s various partners and agencies, put 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: New GO Service, Flood Warnings, and Tree Planting”
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: St. Patrick’s Results, Bus Threat, and Search for Fire Footage”
The monthly meeting of the Grand River Conservation Authority membership made quick work of a number of items, but they dwelled on a couple of key details including the water quality of the Grand River watershed as evaluated by Conservation Ontario, and a matter of contaminated land in a wetland in Cambridge. Plus, there’s good news if you’re interested in doing to pheasant hunting! Here’s the recap for March… Continue reading “RECAP: Water Conditions and Contamination Main Points of GRCA Meeting”
The first Committee of the Whole meeting for spring brings some cleaning to the council chambers. New, long-in-the-works plans will finally come before the horseshoe for consideration, and will cover the topics of water and transit. Speaking of cleaning, a key bit of government policy will get some streamlining, and committee will hear about another year of good water quality. This is what’s on the agenda for April’s Committee of the Whole meeting. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 4 Meeting?”
On Thursday night, Councillor Dan Gibson hosted a town hall at City Hall that gathered representatives from many different sports groups around the city to look at the challenges facing local sports and to begin the process of organizing. Despite the forward momentum on the South End Community Centre, it was the main point of the town hall that we’re still lacking space for just about every sport you can think of. Continue reading “RECAP: Guelph Sports Groups Agree That They Need More Space (Plus Video)”
Council will fill their minds with thoughts of economic development. 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 “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for March 22, 2023”
We’ve always thought of Guelph as a uniquely artsy place, but is that still the case? Like with just about every aspect of life, COVID-19 had an effect on the arts; it’s hard to get out and see a band, or a local theatrical production, or to take part in a local festival when there’s no going outside. But as we recover from COVID we’re learning that the pandemic is not the only pressure point on the arts and local artists. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #365 – The State of the Arts”
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