The Last Newsletter... of 2023!
See you in... [spooky emphasis] 2024.
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 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.
***Publisher’s Note: With the exception of one or two Space Invader entries, this is the last Tip Sheet of 2023. This newsletter will return to your inbox on Wednesday January 3.
Committee of the Whole Meeting – Tuesday January 9, 2024 at 2 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday December 28.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 4.
Planning Meeting of City Council – Tuesday January 30, 2024 at 6:30 pm.
The agenda for this meeting will be posted on the City’s website on Thursday January 18.
There are also save the dates for Wednesday January 17, Tuesday January 23 and Wednesday January 24 for other council 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.
The good news is that the Royal City Mission is going to be open seven days a week starting in January, but the bad news is that they’re cutting their hours so the Mission will only be open noon to 7 pm every day of the week.
Guelph Police are warning young people about anyone offering a deal on their school fees after three local people fell victim to a tuition scam. In other scam news, Guelph Police want you to know that emergency services will not call and ask you for money.
A conundrum of Guelph’s solid waste services, about a tonne of recyclables collected downtown is taken to the landfill everyday despite the presence of three stream bins.
The Special Investigations Unit has found no grounds to criminally charge a Wellington OPP officer in the case of a 43-year-old man who was punched and kneed while being taken into custody in April.
One man is dead and six others are in hospital due to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning at a house in Kitchener Tuesday.
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office says the Ontario government used $277 million in contingency funding between April and September, $180 million of which was spent on healthcare.
Pope Francis has announced that same sex unions can receive God’s blessings, but don’t take that as an endorsement of gay marriage.
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The Accessibility Advisory Committee picked a direction on voting methods for the next election and took care of other business in the last committee meeting of 2023.
Canadian Blood Services need 31,000 blood and plasma donors before January 7.
Guelph’s Alcot Plastics has been fined $65,000, plus an additional $3,000 fine for a supervisor, in the case of a workplace injury caused by the repeated jamming of a machine by pool noodles.
In an end of the year interview, Wellington County Warden Andy Lennox says that we’ve made good progress on fighting homelessness in 2023, but we still have a long way to go.
Even Centre Wellington is now looking at regulations on short-term rentals.
Who you gonna call? The Goose Busters of Mini Lakes in Morriston want to fire blanks to scare off the local geese for good.
Answers are few and far between about a “cyber incident” at the London Public Library, the second time this fall that a municipal library system in Ontario has been on the receiving end of a cyber attack.
An Ontario Superior Court judge has decided that suing someone for calling you a “groomer” online does not actually count as a SLAAP suit.
Noah and Olivia are the top baby names for 2023 in Ontario.
Lucasfilm is working with APTN and the University of Manitoba to develop an Ojibwe dub of the original Star Wars. Auditions for voice actors will be held in early 2024 in Winnipeg.
This week on Open Sources Guelph, Scotty Hertz and I are do one more regular show before the break. We’re talk about the labour situation in Quebec and the threat of a general strike, and we’re also talking about the Saskatchewan government’s increasing ideologic choice to regulate pronouns in that province. Also, we will have an end of the year discussion with Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield about foreign affairs, housing, and climate action.
Tune in to Open Sources Guelph later today at 5 pm on CFRU 93.3 fm!
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Guelph Storm (OHL): The Storm are now on holiday break, but it was a very, very good week before holidays! Last Wednesday, it was the Storm that did the attacking in Owen Sound, beating the Attack 3-2, and then they headed to Peterborough on Friday where the Storm were again victorious, beating the Petes 7-5. On Saturday, the Storm moved on to the Soo where it was a tight game against the Greyhounds that was only resolved with a shoot out where Guelph emerged victorious again 3-2. Despite the hattrick, the Storm are still one game behind the second-place Knights in the Midwest Division, but they’re in fifth place overall in the League. The Storm will be back in action at the Sleeman Centre against the Erie Otters on Thursday December 28, but Matt Poitras will be spending the next few weeks helping Team Canada win gold at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship in Sweden.
Guelph Gryphons (OUA): It may be fairly quiet on campus now, but there was a big move in the football program. After five seasons as the head coach of the Gryphons, Ryan Sheahan has announced that he is moving to take over as head coach at the University of Calgary. At the same time, the Gryphons announced that associate coach Mark Surya is being elevated to head coach. He started with the team in 2019 as offensive co-ordinator
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