It’s the penultimate meeting of this term of Guelph 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 during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for September 15, 2026”
Where’s the hottest political action in Guelph this election? It’s in Ward 5! There are 10 people who are vying for those two council seats in this campaign, especially for that vacancy left by the one incumbent running now for mayor. The other incumbent? She’s one of the guests on this edition of the podcast, but before that we will hear from one of her challengers. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #543 – Back to the 5ive (feat. Wesley Harris and Cathy Downer)”
Normally, the most continuous race during the municipal election is Ward 2. It’s usually the one with the most number of candidates, but in this election year it will have to settle for second place. On this week’s second edition of the podcast, we’ve got two candidates running in Ward 2 and are both running for city council for the second time. Sensing a pattern? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #541 – 2 Ward Not 2 Furious (feat. Michelle Bowman and Morgan Dandie)”
One last ride before Election Day. In the penultimate council meeting of this term, there will be at least a couple of big issues including another crack at the bat for the developer of the Guelph Innovation District, and since winter is coming, council will also hear the value-for-money audit results about the City of Guelph’s winter maintenance program. Get your council fix here because it’s all election all the time from here! This is the preview!!! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 15, 2026 Meetings?”
This coming Monday is Labour Day, the unofficial end of the summer, and the official start of the real campaign. With everyone back to a regular routine, and in some cases heading back to school, many folks in Guelph being really paying attention for the first time. And speaking of school, we will head to the ward that’s home to the University of Guelph and talk to the ones who want to be the next representatives of Ward 5. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #540 – Mambo No. Ward 5 (feat. Greg Cawsey and Dakota Cherry)”
The nominations are closed, the campaigning has begun, the signs are going up, and it’s not even Labour Day weekend yet! Time marches on, and so does this podcast, which this week will feature two more people running for Guelph city council, one is an incumbent looking for support to sit for another term, and the other is an insurgent hoping to replace one incumbent in his ward around the horseshoe! Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #539 – The Incumbent and the Insurgent (feat. Rodrigo Goller and Kevin Bowman)”
Nominations for the 2026 municipal election close this Friday, and you know what that means: Things get serious! With the finalized list of candidates for mayor, city council, and all the school boards in place you will start to see the campaign really begin and that means signs, and that also means press coverage. Are you ready to hear from the candidates, because you will hear from two today! Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #538 – Election Season Begins (feat. Troy Bridgeman)”
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water… circumstances forced us all back to the council chambers, or the live-stream page of the City of Guelph website, for a midsummer council meeting. The topic? A new plan to supercharge housing by cutting DCs and funding housing enabling infrastructure courtesy of the federal and provincial governments, but with an election coming timelines are getting tricky. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: We Meet in August Over the New DC Plan from Queen’s Park”
We interrupt your summer vacation for a council meeting. 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 during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for August 12, 2026”
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: Still Looking for Laptops, Paramedic Negotiations Continue, and Foundation Impact Report”
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