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Mayor 'wouldn't be surprised' to see tax increase of 6 per cent
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10Looking at all the cuts these past years I'm honestly considering voting to whoever proposes tax increases with no service cuts next election.
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City of Guelph Sunshine List grows by 104 staffers in 2025
GuelphToday 15$100k is not enough to buy the average house in Guelph...
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Wellington County speed cameras issue 115,000 tickets in 20 weeks
GuelphToday 9Agreed, look at how many people were going above the speed limit!
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U of G plan calls for redevelopment of Walmart, Metro plazas and more
GuelphToday 16We need more, WAY MORE, student housing. Think of what Waterloo looks like near he UoW that is what we need. Thousands and thousands of units to get students out of homes that should go to families. Too many starter homes and townhouses turned into student housing...
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14 trucks pulled off road, dozens of charges in commercial vehicle blitz
GuelphToday 15Let me get this right, with a random inspection roughly half the trucks were not in compliance to such a level they were not allowed to go back into the road?!?! WHY ARE WE NOT DOING HIS EVERYWHERE AND ALL THE TIME!!!
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St. George's Square redesign calls for moving fountain and self-cleaning washroom
GuelphToday 14Completely unimaginative and designed by committee, best reaction is *yawn*...
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ICYMI: St. George's Square redesign calls for moving fountain and a self-cleaning washroom
GuelphToday 8Vogelsang Green in Downtown Kitchener is 10% the area of St George's Square and has 500% more character and actual use than this disappointing, designed by committee, proposal...
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Mayor 'wouldn't be surprised' to see tax increase of 6 per cent
GuelphToday 5So you want fewer city services, maybe just open the dump twice a week since it is already closed Mondays, fewer road renewal projects, let's just fix the main water breaks as they happen in winter, and to leave roads in a worse condition then they are. Ok, that certainly is a choice...
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South end Cineplex set to reopen late next month
GuelphToday 6Any news on upgrades?
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If you care about the environment, you will get on a bus
GuelphToday 7If there was a way for me to take the bus to work that don't literally takes 8 times longer I could consider it. Right now it is driving for me...
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New homeowners cautioned their children may be bussed to other schools
GuelphToday 6Education is the province responsibility how would they would not have anything to do with it???
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Lyon Pool gets $1M grant for upgrades, will close all of
GuelphToday 4The city got the money because it applied for it, the provincial government didn't just come over saying hey I know you got a pool that needs repair, here is the money. That is how the money is passed down from provincial and federal government to cities, through grants...
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City of Guelph Sunshine List grows by 104 staffers in 2025
GuelphToday 1Potatoes Tomatoes, two completely different things...
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Lyon Pool gets $1M grant for upgrades, will close all of
GuelphToday 5The city doesn't have enough money to maintain all its infrastructure, that is why it requests money from other levels of government through grants. If the city didn't ask for it the provincial government wouldn't just show up with it. The other option would be even higher property tax increases...
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Draft plan calls for 72 houses, townhouses in the south end
GuelphToday 5The draft plan calls for a lot more than that, including 10-15 storeys buildings facing Clair Rd. Take a look at page 108 of the report you linked in the article.
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Developer seeks final public approval for long-planned student housing project
GuelphToday 5Why so small, this is right across the university. We need towers all around it, like Waterloo, so students get out of regular housing in the suburbs. Honestly every starter home I see selling for ridiculous prices has been turned into a student house and in some cases even master bedrooms being turned into two bedrooms to fit more students...
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City, developer settle differences over Gordon Street apartment plans
GuelphToday 4Great it takes students from within subdivisions, right now the townhouse condo I live is 60% students. Families cant compete when you have 4-5 students paying $700+ per bedroom. In some cases the master bedroom has been divided into two smaller bedrooms to fit more students. These are supposed to be starter homes for families not student housing...
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OPINION: If Guelph is money pit, Queen's Park is doing the digging
GuelphTodayWe are between a rock and a hard place here, growth paying for itself is responsible for a good part of the unaffordability for first time homebuyers today. Going by your math ($30k meaning 20% of the infrastructure cost of a new detached house) a new detached house costs $120k before counting for terrain costs, material and labour...
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Business case for Guelph-Cambridge GO trains heading to council
GuelphToday 4Provincial and possibly federal government through taxes, same as everything related to transportation like the expansion in the Go trains between Kitchener and Toronto that is ongoing or the highway 6 bypass that just had the new overpass built between 34 and Maltby Rd.
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Strong mayor powers leads to re-development approval
GuelphToday 3As is practice in any multi unit building that was built over at least the last decade and a half.
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