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REMINDER: There will be no recap tomorrow because there’s no council meeting this week.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Wednesday May 7 at 2 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday April 25.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday May 14 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday May 2.
Workshop Meeting of City Council – Wednesday May 22 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday May 9.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday May 28 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday May 16.
For more information on Guelph City Council meetings, from agendas to live-tweets to recaps, you can visit that page on Guelph Politico here.
A suspicious package discovered at the Canada Post depot on Woodlawn Road turned out to only *look* suspicious, but the area was shutdown and evacuated by Guelph Police until they reached that conclusion.
The Sanguen Community Health Van is in urgent need of tents and other camping supplies to answer an expected increase in encampments starting next week.
A man with breathing difficulties and awaiting a lung replacement is the latest victim of a Kitchener landlord trying to price people out of his building with the exorbitant cost of parking.
Internal provincial government data obtained through a Freedom of Information request shows that since 2018, spending on homelessness increased by 80 per cent, while investments in community housing went down by 70 per cent.
In other news, Peel Region will have to pay $1.5 million for the board that was supposed to oversee the dissolution of that regional government.
No one was hurt, or killed, but it was a scary sight for London residents on Sunday night as a train caught on fire rolled through a residential area and towards downtown London.
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Onward Willow is collecting previously enjoyed solar eclipse so that they can be sent to Central America so that people there can enjoy their own solar eclipse this summer.
Centre Wellington still hasn’t been able to get a deal with a vendor to provide termite management services so that the township might finally be able to launch their termite control programs.
Redevelopment work has begun on the old Charles Street Transit Terminal but before it gets too far, both the City of Kitchener and Waterloo Region want to know what their financial responsibilities are.
A Kitchener man who accidentally left his laptop on a Grand River Transit bus is now being extorted by the person who found it because they say that they want $750 before returning it.
Two attempts to overturn the keffiyeh ban in Queen’s Park failed even though the premier himself said that the ban “needlessly divides” people.
Norfolk OPP want to know who made over 1,100 9-1-1 calls in the space of nine hours on Monday.
New Delhi residents are having breathing problems and the blame goes to a massive fire at the Ghazipur landfill and the toxins found among the garbage.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I are talking about the latest from the frontlines in Ukraine and how the U.S. finally approving new foreign aid might be deployed in the war against Putin, plus we will talk about the ways Ontario keeps falling behind when it comes to regional transit. For the interview this week, we will have a conversation with Ward 1 Councillor Erin Caton about their push for more social media regulation at council and the coming debate about internet voting.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Gryphons (OUA): The line-up for this year’s Gryphons Hall of Fame class includes four individual athletes, four teams and former women's basketball coach and administrator Angela Orton. The oldest inductee is the 1961- and 1965-men’s curling team and the most recent is Kelsey Gsell who was on the wresting team from 2010 to 2015. The banquet for the 2024 Gryphon Hall of Fame is on Friday June 21 at 5 pm. Tickets are on sale now.
Guelph United FC (League1 Ontario): Less than a week to go before the start of the season, the United men’s team have added Canadian midfielder Kyle Cordeiro. Cordeiro comes to Guelph from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia where he was a First Team All-Star in Atlantic University Sport, and 2023 U SPORTS First Team All-Canadian athlete, he also has previous L1O experience with Hamilton and Electric City. The United FC women will play Friday night against NDC in Vaughan while the men will launch their season against Hamilton on Saturday night at Tim Hortons Field.
Guelph Regals (Junior B Lacrosse): It was a doubly good start for the Regals last weekend as they not only won their season opening game against the Wallaceburg Red Devils, they came back from behind to do it by scoring five goals in eight minutes. The Regals ended up winning 10-7 over the Devils and they outshot them too with 44 shots on net versus 30. Up next, the Welland Generals come to town on Friday and then the Owen Sound North Stars arrive on Sunday.
Special Olympics: Swimmers Kenny Hurry, 22, Amy Shorton, 19, and Ryan Fox, 42, and coach Jerica Hamilton from the Fergus Phantoms will all be taking part as members of the South Central Ontario Team at the Special Olympics provincial games next month.
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