This Week at Council: Community Permits and One Big Development

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It’s another one of those times when city council schedules two meetings in one 24-hour period. We’ll worry about that second meeting another time, for now we’re all about planning matters, and at the first meeting on this subject this year there was a first look at a major new piece of policy, and a first look at a pretty major new development in the east end. So let’s get into all of that with this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Community Permits and One Big Development” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for January 22, 2025

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It’s the last budget meeting of the year! Or the first. Depends on how you look at it! 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 this month’s Committee of the Whole meeting, follow the breakdown posted below, and you can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for January 22, 2025” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #452 – New Year, New CAO (feat. Tara Baker)

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The CAO position is the highest ranking official in local government that doesn’t have the job title of either mayor or city councillor, and it’s the only staff position at city hall that’s hired by a committee made up of the mayor and councillors. So yes, it’s a pretty important job, and it’s not like there’s any shortage of issues or needs for the new woman in charge as she enters her first full year in charge. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #452 – New Year, New CAO (feat. Tara Baker)” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for January 27, 2025

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The last time that the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors got together, at least in the interest of doing library business, it was at the end of November. So it should come as no surprise then that there is going to be one packed agenda for this first meeting of 2025! Now let’s dig into a new year at the library and what to expect when the board sits down at the beginning of next week. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for January 27, 2025” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for January 21, 2025

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Are you ready to do some planning? 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 January 21, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for January 27, 2025

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You know it’s a treat when you get two Heritage Guelph meetings in the same month! There’s only one subject for this one and it’s going to be the always popular and contentious Ontario Reformatory Lands. The work on the Heritage Conservation District plan continues and Heritage Guelph will get their chance to formally review the work to date and give staff further advice about the direction they’re going in! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for January 27, 2025” →

This Week at Council: Back to Work!

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After a long winter’s break, Guelph city council got back to business with two meetings this past week, one was entirely closed to the public but deeply impactful and the other was Committee of the Whole where some administrative stuff happened. Not irrelevant, that “stuff” included a co-ordinated plan to petition upper levels of government about the issues that matter to Guelph. But for now, what matters is this recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Back to Work!” →

POLICE NOTES: Fire Investigation, Online Harassment and More Tundras Taken

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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: Fire Investigation, Online Harassment and More Tundras Taken” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 28, 2025 Meeting?

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The month at city council comes to a quick end with the regular meeting just two weeks after Committee of the Whole. On the agenda, aside from the ratification of the committee agenda, is an item for discussion in-camera and the approval of a grant funding agreement with the provincial government. Will there be any last minute controversy? Maybe, but for now you just get the preview of this meeting… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 28, 2025 Meeting?” →

RECAP: Transit Boss Says Goodbye at First TAC Meeting of the Year

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For the first time in 2025, the members of the Transit Advisory Committee got together to say goodbye. Guelph Transit General Manager Robin Gerus announced his retirement and introduced his successor to the committee, but it wasn’t all bittersweet news. T.A.C. also talked about some changes to various fares and other work coming up in 2025. So let’s dig into the business of busing in this recap of the meeting…! Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Boss Says Goodbye at First TAC Meeting of the Year” →