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MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for November 13, 2024

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After a very consequential October meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee don’t expect things to get anymore chill for November in spite of the cool weather. At this meeting, look for a full scale update about Paramedic Services (or Land Ambulance depending on where you stand in Wellington County), and, in keeping with the season, we will also visit some budget matters. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for November 13, 2024” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #434 – The Year at Council So Far (May-August)

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So has anything interesting been happening at Guelph city council lately? Of course, there has! We’ve already covered the first third of 2024 on a previous podcast, and we will now visit that middle third, a period of time that is supposed to be more of a laid back political time as people rest and recreate over the summer. But no! The last four months at council have been all business, and this is the business!! Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #434 – The Year at Council So Far (May-August)” →

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” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #427 – The Squeeze

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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” →

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?” →

RECAP: County Staff Will Report Back to City Council About Tiny Homes Next Month

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There was a special meeting of Guelph city council last month that was essentially about a mayoral directive to explore a temporary structured encampment. Council then decided to focus on a project already in progress, the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition, and the matter was referred to a meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee. This meeting. To learn about what happened next, you need to consult this meeting recap… Continue reading “RECAP: County Staff Will Report Back to City Council About Tiny Homes Next Month” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for June 12, 2024

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There were already thoughts about the June meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee in May when a housing matter came to Guelph City Council for discussion. Now in the realm of the County of Wellington, Temporary Structured Encampments will get further discussion, but will it get any further direction? Also, it’s just one of several housing related items on this last agenda before summer vacation. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for June 12, 2024” →

Organizers Say There’s Forward Momentum After Health Housing Symposium Day #3

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“We either succeed together or we fail together,”Luisa Artuso said to kick off day #3 of the combined Guelph and Wellington County Health and Housing Symposium. Two days were held at the end of January with an invite-only crowd of local service providers, government staff and election officials, but this third day was open for the media to observe, and while a lot of ground was covered, this remains, if anything, only the beginning. Continue reading “Organizers Say There’s Forward Momentum After Health Housing Symposium Day #3” →

CITY PAGES: Waste Feedback Wanted, New Lang School Dean, and Artists Wanted

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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: Waste Feedback Wanted, New Lang School Dean, and Artists Wanted” →