Tag: Homelessness

This Week at Council: Second Time’s the Charm for Public Space Bylaw

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It was business as unusual this past week because city council should have one last week off before the start of September. Instead, there were a couple of extra meetings, one short and one pretty long. At the first meeting, council had a decision to make about the hiring of a new CAO, and in the other there was an even tougher decision regarding a matter so deeply controversial it packed the gallery. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Second Time’s the Charm for Public Space Bylaw” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for August 28, 2024

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Get ready for a long and contentious 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 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 August 28, 2024” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the August 28 Meeting?

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You don’t normally get a lot of political controversy – especially at city council – in the last week of August, but these are exceptional times… Back from the dead, and back from a contentious February meeting on this very same subject, council will debate again implementing a Public Space Use Bylaw. Strap in and get ready for what’s sure to be a rowdy time at city hall! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the August 28 Meeting?” →

This Week at Council: Tiny Homes, Tiny Progress

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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” →

RECAP: Mayor Guthrie Answers Tough Questions at Breezy Breakfast

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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” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for July 16, 2024

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The fate of the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition project is on the line. 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 16, 2024” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 16 Meeting?

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To this ongoing debate in our community that started with some discussions around the council table almost one-year ago, an ending. Since February, Mayor Cam Guthrie has been working hard to establish a Guelph version of A Better Tent City, and those efforts seem to have fallen on the square shoulders of the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition. They’ve already taken this to Wellington County, but now it comes back to our own council. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 16 Meeting?” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #425 – Understanding Homelessness (feat. Dr. Erin Dej)

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Our daily news is overflowing with stories about the breadth of the housing crisis, and governments are responding with new measures and funding, but these actions are based in a system that wasn’t designed to handle a problem this massive, or this complicated. This partially explains why nothing we’ve tried so far has had the impact we’ve wanted, so do we truly understand homelessness on a systemic level? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #425 – Understanding Homelessness (feat. Dr. Erin Dej)” →

This Week at Council: Internet Voting Remains an Option

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It was an action-packed week at council, but it was also one of the most contentious weeks seen in the chambers in the last few months. The friction was all about exploring online voting methods for the 2026 municipal election, and whether or not council would proceed with the option reached at Committee of the Whole. Also, there was another question about whether or not too much was collected in development charges. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Internet Voting Remains an Option” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 28, 2024

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It’s going to be a busy night at council! You can click here for the amended agendas from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. Due to the relatively brief agenda, there was no live coverage on Twitter, but you can read the break down of the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for May 28, 2024” →