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Special Meeting of City Council – June 20
Council met for the first time since last week’s technical gremlins stopped the planning meeting before it could even get started. In the first of a number of make up measures, council approved the 15 Forbes Avenue Heritage Permit (HP22-0002) for a Detached Additional Residential Dwelling and a Detached Garage, it was a consent item on the planning meeting agenda, and no one on council felt the need to add any additional commentary. The meeting was over in about 15 minutes, and less than 10 tweets.
Click here to see the complete recap of the meeting.
The next meeting of city council is a triple play. On Monday there’s the shareholder meeting for GMHI, the shareholder meeting for Guelph Junction Railway, and then the regular council meeting for June. You have until Friday at 10 am if you want to register with the clerks office to be a delegate or to send a correspondence for any of these meetings.
For more information on Guelph City Council meetings, from agendas to live-tweets to recaps, you can visit that page on Guelph Politico here.
Police are investigating an armed robbery at the gas station at Edinburgh and College Monday morning. The suspect is described as male, white with an average build and height, and he was wearing a royal blue hoodie, black track pants, a black balaclava, sunglasses and running shoes.
A Guelph man has been charged by Peel Regional Police repeatedly trying to solicit sex from a young person in 2019 while he was a teacher at a Mississauga high school. Police believe there are more victims.
An appeal of city council’s decision to designate the stone building at 919 York Road is going to the Ontario Land Tribunal, but no hearing date has been set yet.
A rare air quality warning has accompanied the return of hot, humid weather to the Guelph area.
Considering the heat, it’s a good thing that Wellington County’s social services committee is spending $1.5 million to install air conditioning at county-owned housing in Fergus.
Hillside is still looking for volunteers. Their vaccine mandate is making it hard to find volunteers, and it’s also become the latest front in the anti-vax wars with musician Shane Phillips, who performed at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, among those making a fuss.
Both Wellington, Dufferin, and Guelph Public Health and Public Health Ontario are now both updating local COVID-19 cases numbers on a weekly basis. You can get the latest statistics in Friday’s newsletter. You can also check the Public Health site for the latest vaccination rates.
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The in-person festivities for the National Indigenous Peoples Day were a pretty big success.
The Grove Hub at the University of Guelph officially opened on Tuesday in a star-studded and in-person affair.
A U of G grad student from the Red River Métis has designed an orientation package for the all incoming Indigenous students to the College of Biological Science.
A Guelph grandmother has been spurned to action out of concern for her autistic grandson to help fight for a new alert system for autistic children.
Downtown drop-in centres are seeing three-times the number of people looking for help.
More than 40 charges were laid against commercial vehicles in a joint Guelph Police Service, Wellington County OPP and Waterloo Regional Police safety blitz last Thursday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger may be coming to town. Rumour control says that he’s shooting a part of this new Netflix series UTAP at the old Ontario Reformatory this week.
Puslinch residents are asking Guelph Junction Railway to do something about all the railway ties piled up along the tracks.
Wellington County will be one of the locations that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry will be laying out rabies vaccine bait in the not too distant future.
Edward Lake died by suicide the day after Father’s Day. His three children were killed in a car crash in 2015 by drunk driver Marco Muzzo.
Carolyn Burjoski, a Waterloo Region teacher whose delegation to a school board meeting earlier this year was deemed to be bordering on the transphobic by the board chair, is now seeking an Ontario court’s authority to make the board hear entire delegation (in addition to suing the board for $1.75 million).
Novaya Gazeta founder and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov raised $103.5 million USD for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine by selling his hard won Nobel Prize medal.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I will talk about the Toronto Police’s report into racial discrimination and the service’s reaction, plus we will talk about the end of another session on Parliament Hill. In the back half of the show, we will have some sound from National Celebration of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples festivities in Riverside Park.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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