Skating Into Christmas Week

News from Guelph and beyond for Monday

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 now on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

The Peel Driving School’s Guelph location is permanently closed after the Ministry of Transportation labelled them a “bad actor”.

Wellington Road 32, north of Wellington Road 124, in Guelph-Eramosa will be closed this week for work on the railway crossing.

Cambridge is working with local outreach groups to create a warming shelter for women.

Hundreds of fake gift cards that could have been worth about $133,000 if activated were seized in Kitchener bust.

Collingwood was on a boiled water advisory all weekend after a watermain break last week.

The provincially appointed supervisor at the Toronto District School Board has fired the director of education not even a year into his terms.

The federal government says that they’re finally pushing on with high-speed rail starting with a connection between Ottawa and Montreal that could be ready for groundbreaking by 2029.

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Here’s last week’s Police Notes entry.

The Market Square rink is now open for skaters.

The Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health office on Chancellors Way will be closed on Monday due to “unforeseen facilities disruptions”.

A new group called Connecting Men of Guelph is seeing a good reaction as it looks to connect adults looking for new people to socialize with.

The Guelph Legion will be chasing the ace in January.

A three-year-old girl died after being struck and killed in a collision in Cambridge on Thursday. A 31-year-old woman was also struck, suffering serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

The Region of Waterloo is in the market for a new CAO.

Chicopee in Kitchener says that they’re in for the best start in 75 years once they finish all the construction that they have going on.

Out of the 16 host cities for the World Cup next summer, Toronto’s hotel prices are the lowest.

The Trump Department of Justice says that a court-order requirement to have sign language interpreters at the president’s press events “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public.”

The WDG Public Health respiratory illness dashboard says that flu is marching on. The rate of emergency room visits has ticked up another three points to 22 per cent, which is about two points ahead of the trend at 19.75 per cent. There are nine people in area hospitals with the flu compared to two with COVID-19. The flu continues to outpace all other respiratory illnesses in terms of the wastewater signal out of the University of Guelph, which shows now a 0.95 point signal for the A strain, more than double the next highest virus, RSV-A, at 0.45 points.

OUTBREAKS: Two Influenza A outbreaks have been cleared in the region, one at Dufferin Oaks and one at Wellington Terrace, but it has since popped up at Eden House where Influenza A is facility wide. Meanwhile, there’s an unknown respiratory illness in the Arthur Unit at Village of Riverside Glen, as well an ongoing outbreak in The Elliott Community in the Edinburgh Unit.

MEASLES: There have been no new additions to list of measles exposure sites since mid-June.

Transit Detours/Notices:

REMINDER #1: Routes #1 Edinburgh College, #2 College Edinburgh and #15 College will be detoured until December 19 due to construction on College Avenue.

REMINDER #2: Route #4 is detoured from the stop at Watson and York until December 19.

REMINDER #3: The #9 Waterloo will be detoured around stops at Waterloo and Glasgow on both the inbound and the outbound trips from Monday December 8 till Monday December 22.

Upcoming Construction:

Not quite construction per se, but there will be inspecting and flushing of the sewers at various locations in the northeast end of the city from the evening of December 14 until the morning of December 18.

Coming up this week on the Guelph Politicast, we will mark the 500th episode of the show by talking to former Guelph Mayor Karen Farbridge. With the next municipal election less than one year away, Farbridge has been sharing her mayoral memories as a woman that worked in municipal politics in a new Substack newsletter. We will talk to Farbridge about how being a woman in politics has changed - and how it hasn’t - in the last 20 years.

Get the latest edition of the Guelph Politicast on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, tune in to CFRU at 3 pm for another episode of End Credits. This week, Candice Lepage co-hosts as kick-off Christmas week with a Christmas movie. We will check out the new holiday family comedy Oh. What. Fun., which you can now stream on Amazon Prime, and we will also use this occasion – episode #420 – to talk about some of our favourite movie stoners and their cannabis fuelled-adventures.

Listen to all these shows any time by subscribing to the Guelph Politicast channel on your favourite podcast app at Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Sparkles in the Park has sparked up again for another year in Riverside Park until New Year’s Eve.

The next meeting of the Accessibility Advisory Committee is on Tuesday December 16 at 3 pm in the committee rooms at city hall and online.

The Transportation Advisory Committee for Thursday December 18 has been cancelled.

Check out A Very Charlie Brown Concert live at the River Run Centre on Sunday December 21 with afternoon and evening show.

The Guelph Summer Camp Fair will take place in the new year on Saturday January 10 from 10 am to 2 pm at Trinity United Church on Speedvale.

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