Clippers and Squalls
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Welcome to the Guelph Politico Tip Sheet, a thrice-a-week newsletter meant to “tip” you off about some of the important stuff going on in the Royal City. It arrives directly in your inbox on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
REMINDER: There will be a recap of this week’s city council meeting in Thursday’s newsletter.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Wednesday March 4, 2026 at 10 am.
Council will look back at the first year of the Lobbyist Registry, upcoming changes to the Development Charges Bylaw, and a new operating model for the Sleeman Centre. You can see the agendas on the City’s website here, and you have until Friday at 10 am to register with the clerks’ office as a delegate or to send a correspondence.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday March 10, 2026 at 10 am.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Friday February 26.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday March 31, 2026 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Friday February 26.
For more information on Guelph City Council meetings, from agendas to live-tweets to recaps, you can visit that page on Guelph Politico here.
An expected Alberta Clipper that passed through the area last night will probably be followed up by snow squalls today.
Another tower is coming for the site of the old Skyline headquarters, this one geared to students.
It was only a pellet gun, but concerns were raised when Guelph Police received multiple reports of a man downtown with a possible handgun tucked into his belt.
A local group of realtors has some ideas for accelerating housing in Guelph, while the City of Guelph says that they’re already doing everything they can do.
The YMCA in Cambridge is demanding systemic change with their one-year-old women’s shelter facing a demand that outstrips supply by a factor of six.
Cases of human trafficking in Waterloo Region are nearly triple the national average, at least according to the 2025 numbers.
An organized protest by a white supremacist group broke out in front of Hamilton city hall on Sunday, and while there were no reports of criminal activity, it’s still disturbingly notable.
Are school boards over? Doug Ford hasn’t decided yet.
According to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, as of Monday there were over 26,000 Canadians in Mexico as violence in Puerto Vallarta keeps getting worse.
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Prep work is expected to begin next week on the College Avenue site that will eventually be home to the University of Guelph’s new student residence.
Six holistic spas in Guelph have been tied to dozens of charges laid by the Guelph Police Human Trafficking Unit.
Guelph Police arrested a 12-year-old boy in the case of a stolen minivan that was involved in a hit-and-run.
Halton Regional Police believe that a missing Georgetown man might have made his way to either Guelph or Cambridge.
Wellington OPP are looking for help finding a dump truck that was stolen from a business on Wellington Road 16, outside of Arthur.
Waterloo in tightening the rules for street parties again in another attempt to rein in student St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The driver of an 18-wheeler transport truck was charged for a collision with another truck on Line 86 near Wellesley Township earlier this year that sent two people to hospital.
Keel Digital Solutions, who received supposedly ill-gotten financial support from the provincial government who is now suing them, is asking the courts to speed up proceedings as they’re teetering on bankruptcy.
Artificial Intelligence Minister (sigh) Evan Solomon has summoned reps from OpenAI to tell the government about how and why they shut down an account connected to the Tumbler Ridge shooter.
Activists added some art work to the Louvre on the weekend, a framed version of the photo featuring former Prince Andrew’s departure from police custody last week.
Ashley Madison is rebranding after several controversies; they’re no longer about affairs but about “discreet dating.”
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I will talk about the latest fallout from the Epstein files both local and abroad (including the arrest of a former prince), the very bad week for Trump from his State of the Union to the “betrayal” of his hand picked justices on trade, and why the honeymoon is over for Kier Starmer and Labour in the U.K.
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Guelph Storm (OHL): It was a good week for the Storm, now sitting five games ahead of the seventh-place team in the Western Conference. There were three games and three wins with a 3-2 sting against Sarnia, they outraced the Greyhounds 1-0 in the Soo, and then did an 8-5 drubbing of the Spirit in Saginaw. Next, the Storm are back in the Sleeman Centre tonight to receive the Rangers, and then the IceDogs are in town on Friday.
Guelph Gryphons (OUA): Reading Week is over, and the school year is winding down. U of G athletes are on the road hitting all the championships, including a stop at the OUA Track and Field Championships at the Toronto Track and Field Centre last weekend where the team secured 12 golds, seven silvers, and seven bronze. Rebecca Parker was a standout coming in first in the women’s pentathlon and long jump and breaking her own OUA record from last year. Parker was named one of the Gryph’s Locker Athletes of the Week (and was also named the OUA Athlete of the Week on Tuesday) along with Olivier Ciarlo from the men’s hockey team. Ciarlo was in goal on Sunday in the pivotal semifinals against the Laurier Golden Hawks and shut out birds all game to stop 30 shots on net, which allowed the Gryphons to take the game, and advance to the quarterfinals, by a score of 4-0.
High School Athletics (OFSSA): On Friday it was Ross shining in Guelph high school sports as the Royals advanced past Orangeville 83-45 in the junior boys basketball semifinal, and then beat Bishop Mac 3-0 in junior girls volleyball. In semifinal basketball on Thursday, the Ross seniors beat Centennial 64-56, while St. James fell to Centre Wellington, but just barely 70-69, and while most of the hockey games were postponed due to the weather the Centre Wellington/Bishop Mac semifinal game went forward, but it didn’t go in favour of the Celtics who lost 15-3.
Guelph Royals (IBL): The Royals are now shaping up the infield for the 2026 season, with the addition of new player in the form of Miguel Hiraldo, who has batted a lifetime .260 with 40 home runs, 13 triples, and 115 stolen bases across his minor league career. In terms of old faces, Garrett Takamatsu will be returning to the Royals for his third season this summer.
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