The Jersey Milk In Memoriam Edition
The death of a chocolate bar and other news.
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REMINDER: There will be recap of this week’s city council meeting on Thursday.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday July 15, 2025 at 6 pm.
Once again, there’s a tonne of new heritage designations, plus a few objections. We will also get the latest Affordable Housing Monitoring Report, and we’ll get a decision about a proposed Elmira Road apartment. You can see the agendas on the City’s website here, and you have until Friday at 10 am to register with the clerks’ office as a delegate or to send a correspondence.
Special Meeting of City Council – Wednesday July 16, 2025 at 2 pm.
On a special day and time, council will receive the Future Guelph Progress Report. You can see the agendas on the City’s website here, and you have until Friday at 10 am to register with the clerks’ office as a delegate or to send a correspondence.
Regular Meeting of City Council – Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 6 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 10.
Special Meeting of City Council* – Tuesday July 22, 2025 at 4 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday July 10.
For more information on Guelph City Council meetings, from agendas to live-tweets to recaps, you can visit that page on Guelph Politico here.
*This is the last meeting of city council before summer break.
Wellington OPP are now looking for a fourth suspect in connection to a May collision on the Hanlon where a Cambridge man was killed following an abduction.
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre is warning about an increase in so-called “bank investigator” scams where someone calls you as a bank official warning you that your account’s been compromised.
Cambridge Mayor Jan Liggett announced a massive administrative shake-up at city hall on Friday that went into effect on Monday. Many are confused.
Waterloo Regional Police are investigating what turned out to be a false alarm bomb threat at the provincial courthouse building in downtown Kitchener.
A 10-week long strike at Canadian Hearing Services by members of CUPE 2073 might finally be over after a tentative deal was reached.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a study saying that the economic benefit of dismantling barriers to interprovincial trade have been “significantly overstated.”
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The University of Guelph's Turfgrass Institute has established a sweetgrass garden bed in its teaching garden as a step toward truth and reconciliation by supporting Indigenous practices and teachings.
The Eramosa Eden Retreat is looking for a buyer interested in continuing its eco-spiritual work.
Royal City Brewing and Lost Aviator are teaming up for a coffee-flavoured beer whose proceeds will support the North End Harvest Market.
Centre Wellington council got the first look at Mo the Moose Fawn, the new statue that will soon join a refurbished Tall Man in the Elora Green Space.
The inevitable return of the Meet Big Rig Burgers, a floating food truck, to Belwood Lake has gotten mixed reviews online.
A Cambridge couple has been reunited in one place after spending eight years apart in separate long-term care homes.
Wilfred Laurier University could be facing a $180 million budget shortfall by the end of the decade.
A $30 million grandparent scam that defrauded many American seniors has been connected back to a successful Montreal real estate developer.
Bruno, a seven-year-old bloodhound who was a police dog for an Italian police service seems to have been assassinated by dog food laced with nails.
It looks we took the Jersey Milk for granted. The candy bar is being discontinued.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I will be talking about some of the underreported stories. We will look at why the Ontario government is investigating allegations of abuse inside Maplehurst correctional in Milton, and the game whack-a-mole between police and magic mushroom stores around Ontario. For the interview, we will talk about a very busy July at Guelph city council with Ward 5 representative Leanne Caron.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Royals (IBL): It was a four-game weekend for the Royals and they split the difference by winning two and losing two. After falling 2-12 to the Baycats up north in Barrie, the Royals lost a little less embarrassingly to the Majors on Friday 1-2 in London. The tables were turned on Saturday when the Royals hammered Hamilton at home beating the Cardinals 10-1 while a Sundy rematch in Barrie saw Guelph emerging as the victor 7-3. On Tuesday night, the number two Barnstormers were in town, giving a chance for the sixth place Royals to make a move on fifth.
Guelph Storm (OHL): The Storm continue to look forward to fall with the announcement of theme nights for the upcoming season, as well as the full pre-season schedule. Along with the previously mentioned game in Ayr between the Storm and the Bulldogs, there will be five other games including two at the Sleeman Cente on Saturday August 30 against Brampton and on Friday September 5 against Oshawa.
Guelph Silvercreeks (OBA): It was a busy week for the ‘Creeks as they won one, lost one, and fought another to a draw. Last Wednesday, they took on the Waterloo Tigers to 9-all finish after fighting back from a five run deficit in the fifth inning, but luck was not on their side in Brantford where all they could muster is one single run scored in the eighth and losing to the Junior Red Sox 1-6. Things changed in Stratford on Saturday, where the Silvercreeks routed the Nationals 13-5, but it’s practically a pyrrhic victory considering that Stratford has only won one game out of 13 this season.
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