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: Kitchen Opening, Last Call for Medals, and Backyard Theatre”
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: New Charges for Death, Baby Stroller Boosted, and “Bait and Switch” Scams”
What could have been a small one-day story about disagreements around the table at Stratford city council has become emblematic of a bigger issue. Aside from the fine line between criticism of our civic leaders and outright threatening behaviour, there’s also a question about whether their mayor and council are being as open and transparent as it should be, and one man – famously – has his doubts. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #428 – The S#!t Disturber (feat. Mike Sullivan)”
Tonight, it’s the epic midseason finale of city council. 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 July 23, 2024”
With council wrapping up for the summer it shouldn’t be surprising that we’ve come back around to one of the biggest ongoing challenges: Creating more housing. More specifically, in this case, we’re looking at the creation of a tiny home encampment somewhere in the city. Long in the works, council was presented with the opportunity to give a greenlight to the project. So what happened? Let’s recap. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Tiny Homes, Tiny Progress”
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: Airbags Stolen, Shopping Cart Arson, and More Perfume Taken”
At the last meeting before rising for the rest of summer, the Guelph Police Services Board heard from a partner in crime fighting. The program co-ordinator from Crime Stoppers Guelph Wellington came by in order to deliver the annual report, and then Chief Gord Cobey got into the latest from his desk including the Youth in Policing Program, which has the not very police-sounding code name “Yippy”. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Talks Crime Stoppers and Yippies”
The Breezy Breakfast crowd was probably not going to the most friendly of audiences for Mayor Cam Guthrie, but it was hardly like he was walking into the lion’s den Thursday morning either. The mayor took questions for an hour on a whole host of topics from Strong Mayor Powers to the City budget and from bicentennial concerns to making the OR Lands a national park. Check out the full recap below… Continue reading “RECAP: Mayor Guthrie Answers Tough Questions at Breezy Breakfast”
The housing and affordability issues are massive, and to think that one action at one level of government is going to have a measurable impact is not understand that. This week at city hall, Guelph council will talk about proceeding with a tiny homes encampment, but that’s one finger in one hole of a dam that needs a lot of repairs. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #427 – The Squeeze”
July’s meeting of the Guelph Police Services Board promises to be relatively light compared to the last few months (or for the months to come for that matter). Still, if you’re interested in crime busting matters beyond the role of the police, this should be a compelling meeting with a special guest appearance, and there also might be some interesting developments from the Chief’s report. Here’s the deal… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for July 18, 2024”
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