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City of Guelph Sunshine List grows by 104 staffers in 2025
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18Just as a quick note there are people in wheelchairs living in Guelph on $14,701 per year.Could we not as a city direct some funds towards these people, seeing as how we can afford 1/5 of a million salaries.
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New 10-storey private student residence proposed for College Ave. East
GuelphToday 16Whoopee more student housing just as students can't afford their OSAP and won't be coming. Also foreign student programs gutted. We will be in a student housing surplus before long. Let's build housing for the people who are here permanently and want to retire here. Senior housing of the affordable kind is what is needed.
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City seeks volunteers for annual community cleanup
GuelphToday 13All those volunteers out doing the city's job for them and still a 7% tax hike. Anyway, thank you citizens for stepping up where the sunshine list club fails.
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After 170 years, Bank of Montreal is moving out of Downtown Guelph
GuelphToday 6I have been a customer of this branch for 16 years. In that time I needed to visit it less than 10 times in person. I usually stop by the convenient Stone Road Mall location. If I had small children I would not take them downtown to the George Square location because of the risks associated with that branch being a place where the drug addicts hang outside when it rains.
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More than 2 million items were checked out of the library last year
GuelphToday 5So nice that these books will enjoy resting on brand new expensive shelves a block away soon. Present shelving is just so inadequate now isn't it?
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OPINION: Council sucked the value out of the remuneration debate
GuelphToday 1Politician should be a volunteer position. Whether councillor or mayor. End of debate.
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Royal City Mission to cut hours in half amid cuts to expected funding
GuelphToday 15I have been homeless in Guelph at a time where my legs stopped working due to a flare up of MS. I took a taxi for $5 to Royal City Mission at 7am when the stepping stone puts you out on the. Street until 8 pm. I laid on a blanket in a flowerbed until the Royal City Mission opened. The ONLY food and drink I had for the day came from them. I laid on the floor at the mission until 7 pm then took a taxi for $5 back to the stepping stone and waited to get a bed for the night. I am now housed but have no money for food. In January I. Will be reduced to 7 meals per week. When I was homeless and it rained I just got wet as standing in anyone's doorway was quickly frowned upon. When these cuts to service take effect it means the unhoused will be without food shelter.showers or laundry. If you only fed your pets 7 times a week you would be arrested.
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Last chance to have your say on issues affecting Guelph
GuelphToday 11My only beef with Guelph Today is that they decide which articles will have comments or not. Seems we are barred from commenting on certain daily occurences in the community, by virtue of these no comment articles.
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‘Bit player’: Will anyone even notice that Canada is co-hosting the World Cup?
2I choose to focus on other stuff with the very little food water and air reserves the planet has left. Since we will all be extinct in the next 10 years or so I am focusing on good food, relaxation and the complete collapse of society.
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City seeks applicants for transportation focus group
GuelphToday 5Hallelujah, after 5 years on the buses, I finally have an old (paid for) minivan on the road!Nothing would bring me back to transit while I have this vehicle. Only travel about 100km a month, so my gas costs are about $10 a month. Don't feel like doing a focus group so I'll leave the comment here.
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Stepping Stone expansion appears to have come in well over budget
GuelphToday 8And another even funnier fact is that the province spends $130, 355 dollars a year to hold one inmate for a year at Maplehurst Correction Complex in Milton, a place where 80% of those held are still innocent until proven guilty, which means there hasn't been a trial, and people are waiting there 8 months to get their first court date. Now you don't feel so bad about those beds do you. Oh yeah that $130k per year per inmate is times 1500. That's only one facility.
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City had nearly $14M in unpaid property taxes last year
GuelphToday 6Then there are those in the community living on either $733 for OW or $1408 for ODSP for whom unpaid property taxes will never be a reality, just like housing.
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OPINION: If city hall is open for business, it should be open for questions
GuelphToday 5If you are able to gain the attention of people at city Hall beyond the nice people downstairs at the desks when you come in, you've cracked a code I never have and I've been here 17 years.
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Have your say: Is a pool a good idea on the roof of a 24-storey student housing building?
GuelphToday 7Sure a roof top pool. Also a swim up bar I'm guessing, with complimentary caviar. Staffed by robots. Am I missing anything?
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Stepping Stone expansion appears to have come in well over budget
GuelphToday 7Just another example of completely missing the mark for homeless and low income Guelph citizens.Royal City Mission is open Monday Wednesday and Friday 1-7pm. They are open for lunch on Sunday.So even after the 7 million dollar cost here, which is insane, there are still HUGE gaps in service.Between 2pm-8pm Tuesdays - stand out in the rain. Between 2pm -8pm Thursdays stand out in the rain. Between 8am and 8pm Saturdays are covered. Sundays stand out in the rain from 7 am to 10am and from 2 pm to 8pm. Everyday stand out in the rain from 7 am to 8 am. If this is wrap around coverage I would hate to see spotty coverage. I took a walk to Royal City at 2:45pm and found a locked door. Took a walk to 23 Gordon after that and found a locked door. Kudos Guelph
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Guelph high school students rally over OSAP changes
GuelphToday 4If they really want Dougie's attention, they should set up a student tent city on his lawn when the warm weather comes and take turns occupying it.
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Have your say: Is a pool a good idea on the roof of a 24-storey student housing building?
GuelphToday 5Yes, just go jump in a lake, but in Guelph you might have to settle for a river.
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Pandemic blessing has become a ‘curse’ for some small restaurant owners
GuelphToday 3The age of restaurants has come and gone. Even McDonald's is currently test driving a $5 value meal they don't make money on, in the hopes you'll buy something else while you are there. If McDonalds is giving away food to drive traffic, what hope does the small operator have. The answer is none.
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VIDEO: How a new DNA technique has helped solve hundreds of cold cases
All good, but with Ontario jails at 150% capacity, where will we warehouse the newly convicted? We are already cramming them in 4 men to cells built for 2. And did we not just refuse to help take guns out of personal owners hands, despite the existing program to do so?
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What Guelph is doing to boost affordable housing in 2026
GuelphToday 4Yes build more affordable housing, but please revisit your previous investment in 28 temporary units for a total cost of 10.2 million dollars. You could have built 15 permanent houses, with 4 persons to a house and housed 60 permanently, with money coming back in the form of reasonable rents each month.
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