Seeing You Now in September
Happy Labour Day!
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Despite recent controversies, John Tibbits will be president of Conestoga College for another year.
In a surprise twist, the integrity commissioner says that a lawyer working for two developers who owned land removed from the Greenbelt “failed to comply” with provincial lobbying rules.
The opposition NDP says papers retrieved through a Freedom of Information request shows that when the Ontario government was choosing someone to oversee the redevelopment of Ontario Place, they made sure that they didn’t need to approve someone that submitted an application or followed the guidelines.
The WDG Public Health COVID-19 dashboard will not be updated again until the fall.
OUTBREAKS: The spiking number of COVID-19 outbreaks in the last few weeks have mostly been wrapped up, only the outbreak on the Royal on Gordon remains in effect. There has however been an increase in the number of respiratory outbreaks, there’s now three around the region between St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Village of Riverside Glen, and Wellington Terrace in Fergus. There’s also now an enteric outbreak at Strathcona Long-Term Care home in Mount Forest.
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Here’s last week’s Police Notes entry.
You may not have noticed, but there’s one less cannabis retailer in Guelph (and 28 other locations).
Want to find all the places in Guelph where you can now buy a beer or some spirits? Click here.
A Cambridge mother is hoping the Landlord Tenant Board might finally force her landlord to clear out the life-threatening mould that’s made her home liveable since she first moved in… six month ago.
Move-In Day at Western University was made a little bit more complicated by striking members of CUPE local 2361 who represent support workers on campus.
Todd Smith’s golden parachute post-government finds the former Minister of Energy now working as Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at Candu Energy.
Coming up this week on the Guelph Politicast, we will talk to David Picard, the long-time organizer of the Terry Fox Run here in Guelph. This year, Picard hands things off to the next generation, but he’s still helping out and he’s still running. Picard is more than an organizer though, and this week he’s going to talk about how he made himself into a one-man reliquary of the Fox legacy in the Royal City.
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, Candice Lepage co-hosts as head back to space for another tangle with the most perfect creature in the whole darn universe. We’re reviewing Alien: Romulus, and we’re also going to talk about other movies released over the summer that we didn’t get a chance to talk about.
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The Labour Day Picnic is back on today from 11 am to 2 pm at the large red pavilion at Riverside Park.
The next meeting of the Committee of Management for the Elliott is on Wednesday September 4 at 1 pm in the council chambers at city hall.
The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health will hold their September meeting on Wednesday September 4 at 2 pm.
There will be two information sessions about the Affordable Housing Community Improvement Plan on Thursday September 5 at City Hall.
The Public Art Advisory Committee will next get together at the Guelph Civic Museum meeting room at 5 pm on Thursday September 5. (The agenda will be posted soon on the City’s website.)
There will be a hybrid meeting of the Property Standards Committee on Thursday September 5 at 7 pm.
This year’s Safe Semester program downtown begins on Thursday September 5 and runs on Friday and Saturday night too.
A Downtown Infrastructure Renewal pop-up will take place in Market Square on Saturday September 7 from noon to 7 pm.
The deadline to donate to this year’s Big Book Sale is Monday September 9.
Heritage Guelph will hold their next meeting in-person and online on Monday September 9 at noon.
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.
The Ward Night Market will be back at the Boathouse on Thursday September 12 from 6-10 pm.
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