The Frying Dutchie's Man
Justice comes for a Waterloo area grocer.
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REMINDER: There will be a newsletter recapping this week’s council meetings on Thursday morning.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Wednesday December 11 at 9 am.
In the last meeting of the year, council will look at the impacts from the closure of the CTS, plus council’s support for not using the notwithstanding clause to fight homelessness and supporting the Ontario Big City Mayors’ Solve the Crisis campaign. You can see the Politico preview here.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Tuesday January 14, 2025 at 2 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 2.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 21, 2024 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 9.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 28, 2024 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.
A protest in solidarity with personal support workers facing layoffs took place at Guelph General Hospital on Monday.
Michael Renkema, business director of Dutchie’s Fresh Market, pled guilty to an appropriate baker’s dozen of charges under the Employment Standards Act.
Two clients from the Overdose Prevention Site in Kensington Market are bringing a Charter challenge to the Ontario government’s move to shut down consumption and treatment sites next year.
The Ontario government’s planned legislation to roust homeless encampments and hand out harsher penalties for open drug use won’t become law until sometime next year.
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DENSO has given away 41 bikes ahead of the Christmas holidays.
Town & Country is open again nearly two years after they were close due to fire.
It may nearly be Christmas, but Waterloo Regional Police are thinking about St. Patrick’s Day.
The Region of Waterloo says they accidentally gave $13.7 million in discounts to the Amazon warehouse in Cambridge. The chances of getting that money back are slim.
Despite a nearly 51 per cent tax levy hike year-over-year in the Town of Wilmot, their staff says that there’s “no fat to be trimmed.”
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is launching a campaign to get public support for the “deeply concerning” increase in the use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause.
Three strikes and the Liberal government’s still not out after the third non-confidence vote this fall.
Even before making another (bad) joke about making Canada part of the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got serious saying that working with Trump this time will be harder than his first term.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I are going to talk about the fall of Bashir al-Assad in Syria and the surprising online reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO in New York City. We will also talk to Ward 1 Councillor Dan Gibson about all the complicated issues that have passed through the council chambers this year, and where we might find some good news for the east end.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Storm (OHL): If you want to look on the bright side, the Storm were able to beat the Owen Sound Attack at home on Friday night 4-1. This one victory last week was able to ensure that the Storm would not sink to the bottom of the standings in the OHL Western Conference, and thanks to other losses they will have to settle for just being tied with the Attack at the bottom of the conference. A midweek match up against the Steelers in Brampton ended with a 4-7 loss while a Sunday game in Peterborough saw the Petes win 3-5. There was good news though for forward Lev Katzin whose two goals and four assists in his first three OHL games ever secured his place as the OHL Rookie of the Week last week. This weekend, it’s back-to-back games at home against the Spirit on Friday and Kingston on Saturday.
Guelph United FC (League1 Ontario): It was announced last week that Keith Mason will take over men’s head coaching duties for the 2025 League1 Ontario season. Mason returns to the team that he helped lead to a League1 Ontario title in 2021 with outgoing head coach Justin Springer, a season for which they were both awarded League1 Ontario Coach of the Year.
High School Athletics (OFSSA): The CCVI Spartans football team have capped a perfect season by taking the the Southern Bowl OFSAA Championship by beating Hamilton's Westmount Secondary School with a decisive 35-7 win that netted the Spartans their first OFSAA title. The Spartans are also making a name for themselves on the hardwood where the boys basketball team tore through Ross, Bishop Mac and GCVI to a 4-0 season so far. Ross and GCVI are tied in the girls volleyball standings after they collected two wins each last week, while Westside Secondary School in Orangeville ruled in esports with a silver medal during the Fortnite Fall Showdown provincial championships.
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