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REMINDER: There will be recap of this week’s city council meeting on Thursday.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Tuesday July 8, 2025 at 2 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday June 26.
Shareholder Meetings of City Council – Tuesday July 9, 2025 at 4 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday June 26.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday July 15, 2025 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 3.
Orientation Meeting of City Council – Wednesday July 16, 2025 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 3.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 10.
Special Meeting of City Council* – Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 10.
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*This is the last meeting of city council before summer break.
Guelph broke a 141-year-old record on Monday reaching 33.8 degrees Celcius at the hottest point of the day.
A portion of Speedvale Avenue West was off limits Tuesday as five different stations in four municipalities responded to a shed fire near Wellington Road 32.
Reid's Heritage Properties (which is separate from Reid’s Heritage Homes despite the name) has filed for bankruptcy, apparently overleveraged to the point that their liabilities were valued nearly four-to-one over their assets.
Centre Wellington Townhip council disbanded the Elora BIA’s board of management after apparently years of operating outside the compliance of the 1992 bylaw that created it.
The Region of Waterloo has reached a settlement with the developer of Amazon’s fulfillment centre in Cambridge after the project was mistakenly given a $13.7 million discount; the Region is getting 75 per cent back.
Less than six months after moving to producer-responsible recycling collection, those producers are already saying it’s getting too expensive, and the Ontario government’s now looking to lighten their burden.
Let’s call them mixed reviews for the latest renderings of what the redeveloped Ontario Place might look like. Also, the Ontario government still has no idea where they want to put the temporary Science Centre.
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The Elliott Community is now an accredited Butterfly Home, an internationally recognized designation for an institution’s approach to dementia care.
A Guelph man in his 80s was scammed by an apparently convincing deep fake of Doug Ford on Facebook.
More community mailboxes have been hit by thieves, this time in Rockwood.
It turns out the cause a vehicle fire on Highway 7 between Guelph and Rockwood Monday evening was not suspicious.
Eden Mills Cemetery has create a new entrance sign to help people learn more about the history buried there.
Per a vote of Waterloo City Council, there will be no interim arts space in the old St Columba Church.
The OPP charged a Paris man after they clocked him driving with not just one, not just two, but three mattresses on his roof.
About 10 more Beer Store locations are being marked for closure later this summer.
The Ontario government is naturally blaming school boards for not having air conditions in all schools.
Canada’s first beach cleaning robot will see action in provincial parks around the Great Lakes this summer.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I will be talking about the latest in the war on (the nuclear program in) Iran and the fog of peace, plus we will talk about the state of Canada/First Nations relations in the wake of both the federal and provincial government’s passage of massive omnibus bills. Follow up on that, we will talk to new Guelph MP Dominique O’Rourke about the new government’s opening moves and why she’s excited about them (and thinks you should be too).
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Royals (IBL): Apparently, the Royals were saving all their runs for Sunday’s game in Kitchener. By the end of nine innings, Guelph had more than tripled up on the Panthers finishing 22-7. It was the second part of a sudden turn around for the Royals, who, after seven losses, beat the Red Sox at home on Saturday 7-5. The two wins managed to drag the team out of eighth place in the league… into seventh. Coming up this weekend it’s back-to-back games against the Maple Leafs and the Royals will be at home on Canada Day hosting Kitchener.
Guelph Storm (OHL): Sure it’s hot outside right now, but would you rather think about hockey? Well, Mark Pape is and the second round pick from Shaker Heights, Ohio signed an OHL Scholarship and Development Agreement with the Storm this week! Forward Ryan McGuire, who signed with the Storm in 2020, is making a move of his own, and he’s heading east to join the X-Men at St. Francis Xavier University. (Yes, they are the X-Men!) As for actual hockey games, a new Labour Day Classic is coming to Ayr this September as the Storm and the Bulldogs will play a preseason game on September 1.
Guelph Gryphons (OUA): Speaking about the fall and sports, University of Guelph Athletics has released the schedules for the 2025/26 rugby and field hockey seasons.
Guelph Silvercreeks (OBA): Not a great week for the Brantford Red Sox as even the junior team took a hit from a Guelph team. In this one, the Silvercreeks expanded their season scorecard to 4 and 3, breaking out with eight runs at the top of the second and adding four more in the third. The Junior Red Sox were never able to catch up and left town Sunday with a 13-2 loss. Last night, the Silvercreeks were in Kitchener to reckon with the Junior Panthers.
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