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Special Meeting of City Council – Wednesday February 14 at 10 am.
This meeting is dedicated to a debate about the City’s proposed bylaw to government homeless encampments. You can see the Politico preview here.
Special Meeting of City Council – Wednesday February 14 at 5 pm.
Council will hear an objection to the application of Development Charges. You can see the Politico preview here, but since this is council sitting as a tribunal there will be no delegations.
Workshop Meeting of City Council – Wednesday February 21 at 6 pm.
After getting postponed last September, council will finally do the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. You can see the Politico preview here, but since this is a workshop there will be no delegations.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Wednesday February 27 at 5 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday February 15.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Tuesday March 5 at 2 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday February 22.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday February 20 at 10 am.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday March 7.
For more information on Guelph City Council meetings, from agendas to live-tweets to recaps, you can visit that page on Guelph Politico here.
It’s been a busy few days for the provincial government. On Monday, an Ontario appeal court affirmed that Bill 124 is unconstitutional, and Premier Doug Ford admitted that the decision will likely cost Ontario billions since they’re not appealing any further.
At the same Tuesday event where he made that admission, Ford also announced his intention to introduce legislation that will require future governments to hold a referendum before they can put a price on carbon. He also said that that the government is going to get rid of vehicle license renewals entirely since the cancellation of the yearly requirement to buy a new sticker has cost people in late fees.
The Kindle supportive housing project is nearly complete, but they won’t be able to open their doors until provincial funding is secured.
A housing advocate says that homeless encampments should be declared a national human rights crisis and that all levels of government should be taking action and co-ordinating their efforts to fight it.
The Auditor General was unimpressed with the federal government’s work developing the ArriveCAN app saying that the pandemic was no excuse for such sloppiness.
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Keep your eyes on the skies because it’s still winter, and there’s a winter storm coming tomorrow.
Naturally, the Federal Green Party’s “Leaders’ Tour” is starting in Guelph this Friday.
100 Men Who Give a Damn have given a damn to the tune of $250,000.
The Guelph Youth Singers are getting $20,000 to upgrade their equipment from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Local environmental activists say that getting to net zero by 2050 isn’t much good unless we have interim targets set by the City.
Guelph vets are warning that while warmer than normal winter weather makes for nice walking, it also makes it easier for your pet to pick up ticks.
A Wilmot woman is at the centre of a bizarre circumstance where she ordered two of the popular Stanley mugs for her and her daughter, and now dozens of people think that she got their order by mistake.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says that we should be concerned about seeing a similar rise in measles cases as what’s being called as an “alarming rise” in Europe.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I are back and we’re talking about what it means that the Mayor of Guelph is embracing Strong Mayor Powers, plus action in the council chambers as a public spaces’ bylaw is debated. We will also talk about it means for local news after Bell Media announced last week that they’re cutting nine per cent of their workforce, and we’ll queue up the return of the Ontario legislature next week at Queen’s Park.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Storm (OHL): It was another rough weekend for the Storm after losing at home against the Bulldogs 4-6 and then losing on the road against the Sarnia Sting 2-3. The Storm are now just one-point ahead of the Attack in the Midwest Division, and nine games behind the Kitchener Rangers, and wouldn’t you know it, the Storm were at the Aud last night to play the Rangers. They lost. This was a prelude to a busy long weekend with a stop in Peterborough Thursday night before facing the Otters at home Friday night and then playing the Timberwolves at the Sleeman Centre on Family Day.
Guelph Gryphons (OUA): It was a rough weekend on the hard wood as both the men’s and women’s basketball team took a lose in their last home games of the season; the men fell to Western 79-93, and the women stumbled over the Mustangs 62-68. OUA Basketball will start their playoff next week, but last weekend the men and women teams finished in sixth place at the 2024 OUA Squash Championships, while the fencing team finished the year in 13th place at the 2024 OUA Women's Fencing Championships. Perhaps that’s why two wrestlers took home the Gryph's Locker Athletes of the Week honours with 2024 OUA Wrestling Championships silver medalists Logan Stimson and Brennan Laplante-Brady getting the title. Check the rest of the weekend stats here.
Guelph United FC (League 1 Ontario): The United teams continue to staff up for the summer season. Full-back Woody Bain from Nova Scotia, long considered one of the best players from the East Coast, is joining the team from the Saint Mary’s Huskies. For the women, another prospect from out east, midfielder Bryn Canning, joins the United after previously representing Nova Scotia at the Canada Games.
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