Remember Kate.
Today's newsletter remembers a tireless community activist.
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 no Thursday newsletter this week because there’s no council meeting.
Special Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 14 at 12 pm.
This special meeting is actually a closed meeting separate from Committee of the Whole. The topic concerns a matter before the Ontario Land Tribunal. You can see the agenda on the City’s website here.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Tuesday January 14 at 2 pm.
Council expense policy, plans for City advocacy, and the CAO’s goals for 2025 make up the agenda for the first full meeting of the year. You can see the Politico preview 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 January 21 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 9.
Special Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 22 at 9 am.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 2.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 28 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 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.
Sad news to start the new year with the announcement that tireless anti-poverty activist and Your Downtown Guelph Friend Kate Nixon passed away from complications with leukemia over the holiday break. If you want to honour Kate, her Friends have some ideas about that.
Police are investigating after a Gulph man was scammed out of $18,000 in another crypto fraud. Remember: Friends don’t let friends invest in a blatant grift like crypto.
If the federal government wants to tax vacant land, the City of Guelph has told them that they want local control when it comes to collection.
Waterloo Region says that the number of paramedic calls responding to drug poisonings are on the rise and this is before the closure of Kitchener’s CTS, which will be shutting down in March with the others.
As Donald Trump again threatens a hostile takeover of Canada, the Ontario government is enhancing border security measures with “Operation Deterrence” (eye roll emoji).
Former Montreal-area Liberal MP Frank Baylis appears to be the first official contender in the federal Liberal leadership race to replace Justin Trudeau.
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Linamar’s Linda Hasenfratz was one of the highest paid CEOs in Canada last year with $17 million in compensation.
A Guelph man’s been charged with stealing gas six times from the same south end location.
The proposed tax levy increase for Wellington County is now down to 3.9 per cent. Additionally, the County will be taking on $85 million in debt over the next 10 years to build new garages and ambulance bays.
The new Community Resource Centre of North and Centre Wellington, home to community space and an EarlyON centre, will be open next week.
Waterloo Regional Police recovered over a dozen vehicles stolen from Kitchener’s south end during the Christmas break.
Conestoga College is getting ready for the increasingly likely Ontario-wide college faculty strike on Thursday.
The Mayor of Brantford wants his staff to look at amalgamation with Brant County; the Mayor of Brant County is not impressed.
Legal Aid Ontario is changing their eligibility to help more low income people get access to a lawyer when they need it.
The Government of Ontario has unveiled new incentives for Ontarians to improve energy efficiency at home. Welcome to the 2010s, I guess.
Canada Post says that they’re back to full domestic service levels after the strike.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I are going to talk about Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he’s stepping down as PM and Liberal leader and what happens next, plus the dysfunction at Pickering city council as far-right threats have forced them to move meetings virtual. For our first interview for 2025 we’re talking to Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield about his front row view of all the drama in Ottawa, and what he expects when Parliament eventually returns.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Storm (OHL): Starting with the thousand foot view, it’s important to note that Guelph is no longer at the bottom of the Western Conference; the Storm are one game up on the Owen Sound Attack going into tonight’s Wednesday home game against the Erie Otters. Since the new year, the Storm have won only once out of three games, and the one victory was against the Attack in the Sleeman Centre Friday night. On Thursday, they went to Windsor and were routed by the Spitfires 5-9 and they lost in a shoot-out to the Kitchener Rangers on Sunday. The Storm will be heading out the road for the next week with stops in Flint, the Soo, and London.
Guelph United FC (League1 Ontario): It’s the dead of winter, but Guelph’s soccer team is staffing up for the start of the season in the spring. Up first is defender Gianfranco Lopreiato who hails from the U of G, and then the Blue Devils FC. Next, defender Cole Fernandez and midfielder Anthony Ostrun have come aboard, Fernandez from the senior team and Ostrun from the reserve team. And finally, before the break, midfielder Gray Yates signed up for another season with the United.
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