The normal politics of your end-of-the-month council meeting will be preceded this coming Monday by the Rally to Protect Water in front of City Hall, but there’s still a lot of non-water matters for council’s consideration and debate next week. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 26 Meeting?”
Here in Canada, we like to look at the Presidential Election circus south of the border with a degree of smug self-satisfaction, but you never know, maybe people in Canada like what Trump’s standing for, whatever it is. Some of them, may even go to the University of Guelph. Continue reading “Make Guelph Great Again?!?!”
Last week, you might have read about how Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former chief electoral officer of Elections Canada, will be at the Kitchener Library next Wednesday to talk about electoral reform. Well, if you don’t want to drive 30 minutes up the road, good news! Kingsley will be in Guelph, one day earlier. Continue reading “Kingsley Coming to Guelph Too”
The Canadian Forces 11th Field Regiment has a storied history in the Royal City, 150 years of history to be precise. Yes, the regiment turns 150 years old this year, and this calls for a parade and an open house. This Saturday! Continue reading “Celebrate the Freedom of the City Parade this Saturday”
Sandwiched between an article announcing that the new MacDonald-Stewart Art Centre would be opening in November, and pictures of the visiting Canadian Hearing Society’s mobile van on page 3 of the July 17 edition of The Daily Mercury was a notice. A young man named Terry Fox was running his way across Canada in a “Marathon of Hope” in order to raise money and awareness for cancer research, and his long journey was to bring him to Guelph that coming Tuesday. Continue reading “When Terry Passed Through Town”
Every week, the City of Guelph and other groups send out notices to announce new events, imperatives, and information that you need to know. Here is this week in press releases. Continue reading “This Week in Press Releases – September 12-16, 2016”
Twice-monthly, Guelph Politico posts the latest inspection results from the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health Unit inspection of local restaurants, hotels, cafes, grocery stores and other businesses that handle food. We call it “Mangez!”, and this column highlights the latest inspections done by WDGPH, and the results they’ve posted. Continue reading “MANGEZ! Dine Safe Guide for September 1-15, 2016”
The Guelph Police Service has released the statistics from the first weekend of this year’s Safe Semester program. By and large they show an improvement over last, but some of you just can’t stop yourselves from parking where you shouldn’t, or peeing where you shouldn’t. Continue reading “First Week of Safe Semester (Mostly) an Improvement Over Last”
If you’re looking for something to do on Wednesday September 28, then you’re in luck! You will have your pick of three major political events in the Guelph area to check out. Continue reading “Three Local Political Events; One Big Night”
Hard to believe, but it’s been going on nearly a year now that Guelph has gone without a local paper. The Guelph Mercury-Tribune, Guelph Today, myself, and a few others have tried to fill the void of the old Guelph Mercury, but can anything really replace that hole left behind by a local daily newspaper, and how are we all coping with that? Well, I now know at least one lady who would like an answer to that, and she’d like your feedback as well. Continue reading “Do You Miss a Daily Newspaper? Tell This Lady About It”
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