Dog Bites Woman (And Other News)
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In development news, the Holiday Inn may be returning to Guelph at a new north end location, while a new music venue will taking over the old Onyx space downtown.
For the 11th time in the last 15 months, the emergency department at Louise Marshall Hospital was closed for part of the weekend.
A traffic stop in Waterloo led to over 200 firearms being seized from a residence on Victoria Road North here in Guelph. A 39-year-old man from Guelph, was arrested and charged with careless use of a firearms and transport firearm or restricted weapon because of the 17 guns he had in his car.
A so-called safety patrol is walking around the University of Toronto’s downtown campus in the name of protecting Jewish students on campus.
A group representing 100 Canadian universities says that they’ve seen a 45 per cent drop in the number of international student enrollment, which is more then they were anticipating after Ottawa capped the number of visas earlier this year.
The WDG Public Health COVID-19 dashboard will not be updated again until the fall.
OUTBREAKS: After a couple of weeks off, COVID-19 is back in a big way. There are now outbreaks in Guelph at Homewood, LaPointe-Fisher, the Royal on Gordon, Stone Lodge, and the Village of Riverside Glen plus Wellington Terrace in Fergus. There’s also a respiratory outbreak at both Riverside Glen and Wellington Terrace, plus the Shelburne Long-Term Care Home.
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Here’s last week’s Police Notes entry.
Residents at several Brant Avenue apartment buildings have started to organize to fight their eviction notices.
Public Health is looking for the dog that bit a Mount Forest woman last week so that they can confirm it doesn’t rabies.
The Elora Centre for the Arts has reach 75 per cent of the way to their fundraising goal of $4.5 million for a new addition and other renovations.
The Town of Erin is spending $20,000 to update their branding.
An $11 million lawsuit has been filed against the Grand River Conservation Authority, the Township of Centre Wellington and the County of Wellington for a 2021 car cash claiming negligence.
Brant County is home to the first human death caused by rabies in Ontario since 1967.
A reminder to not take candy from strangers after Hamilton Police discovered someone making fentanyl-laced gummies "disguised as candy."
Accusations of intimidating rape victims and the past support for convicted rapist Danny Masterson have chilled the warm welcome for new Linkin Park frontwoman Emily Armstrong.
Coming up this week on the Guelph Politicast, we will talk to Betty Stone as we continue on a journey back in time to the beginnings of the Terry Fox Run in Guelph. Stone was the first organizer of the run, and she will share with us her memories of how it all came together, why it mattered so much to her, and why she thinks the Terry Fox Run still matters 43 years later.
Get the latest edition of the Guelph Politicast on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, tune in to CFRU at 3 pm for another episode of End Credits. This week, Tim Phillips co-hosts as we go back to the afterlife and catch up with some old friends in the hotly anticipated haunted comedy sequel so nice they named it twice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. We’re also going to talk about the works of Michael Keaton, star of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and look at some of his best performances, whether he’s playing a ghost or not!
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The deadline to donate to this year’s Big Book Sale is today!
Heritage Guelph will hold their next meeting in-person and online on today at noon. (See the Politico preview here.)
The first two virtual “Public Information Centres” about the GRCA’s draft Conservation Areas Strategy will be held Tuesday September 10 at 9 am. To sign up, click here.
The Economic Development Advisory Committee will next meet in the committee rooms at city hall on Tuesday September 10 at 3 pm.
The United Way Guelph Wellington Dufferin will be holing their campaign kick-0ff on Thursday September 12 at 12 pm, at the Shelldale Community Centre in the gymnasium.
The next meeting of Committee of Adjustment will take place in the council chambers at city hall on Thursday September 12 at 4 pm.
The Ward Night Market will be back at the Boathouse on Thursday September 12 from 6 to 10 pm.
The Guelph Jazz Festival runs in multiple locations from Friday September 13 through Sunday.
There will be a virtual open house for the City’s Municipal Service and Financing Agreements policy on Friday September 13 at 1:30 pm.
This year’s Safe Semester program downtown continues on Friday September 13 and Saturday night too.
Ghost Walk of Guelph is back for another season on Friday September 13 at 8 pm.
The Guelph Comics Jam is on Saturday September 14 from 10 am to 6 pm at their Old Quebec Street location.
The Village Fall Fair is Saturday September 14 from 11 am to 2 pm in Margaret Greene Park.
The annual general meeting for Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis is on Monday September 16 at 5:30 pm on Zoom.
The next meeting of the Transit Advisory Committee will take place in the committee rooms at city hall on Thursday September 19 at 5:30 pm. (The agenda will be posted soon on the City’s website.)
The annual Take Back the Night commemoration is on Thursday September 19 at 6:30 pm in Marianne’s Park.
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