City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
12That is 100% absolutely that wrong decision to make.The people who used City Hall last winter, as am emergency warming shelter, were people that were unable to access 23 Gordon Street. This article acknowledges the location was not at full capacity last winter. There are reasons why.Now City Hall is closing the door on Guelph's most vulnerable. A very bad and irresponsible decision. This will become an election issue and will end up embassassing City staff, City Council and show disconnect between a public building and it's residents.
30- Alec Purves
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
34Why is it a bad decision now that steppingstone can accommodate everyone? Oh but catch is they have to follow some rules, which is why they have chosen not to go to steppingstone and instead wreak havoc at City Hall.
8- debf
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
5Why stop there, Matt? Maybe we can turn the Basilica of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception into a transit terminal for light rail, or maybe even demolish it and put a 20 storey condo tower above, retail on ground level, and light rail right beside it. Perfect, n'est pas??John HagopianWhitby
32- usr_669030
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City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
25Taxpayers should not have to pay for this. Happy the Stepping Stone is open
11- MakeGuelphGreatAgain
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
16Yes like get rid of the bike lanes
19- Reasonable Person
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
9I would like to see what will happen to MacDonell Street next year during the Memorial cup. How embarrassing for our city. It should have been given to Kitchener for this reason! Our taxes will go through the roof!
22- Kara Beitz
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
17This is a perfect example of needing a strong mayor and council who can make difficult decisions and are not afraid to say no to special interest groups.
11- William the Great
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
15Where have you been for the past 40 years?? Multiple attempts to "revitalize" the downtown have failed. Every new one is promised to be the magic bullet.No amount of aesthetics will resurrect the downtown. Rather actual living customers and merchants who are open when customers want...NOT the other way around.
12- Doug Frank
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
23More bad coffee
4- 123abc
Internal audit turns up improper buying for city fleet maintenance
23Is this the tip of the iceberg? Audit every single department and make the numbers public.
4- nick tasillo
Council to discuss ending emergency overnight warming at city hall
16Councillor Caton .. “Not everyone is welcome at Stepping Stone for various reasons"... Citizens deserve actual transparency on what these "various reasons" are... Edge cases involving trama and safety?? Or were many tied to violence.. threats.. drugs.. repeated rule violations?? Because those are VERY different situations.. Instead, we have a councillor blurring them together to justify continuing an unsupervised shelter at city hall... Compassion without stands ins't policy.. sorry.. that's surrender.
10- Adam Cloet
OPINION: Construction is lifeline to downtown, not a death sentence
16I think we can all live with a little construction to accommodate the needs of businesses and residences and facilitate growth. What will keep people away is drug addled people, staggering around yelling obscenities, or sprawled out in storefront vestibules. These people seem to be everywhere now and yet nothing seems to be done to deter them, arrest them? We have to address this problem or the downtown will be doomed even after the work is completed.
8- J Spence
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
14And who exactly are the special interest groups - the ones who care about our city? or the ones who care only about taxes?
10- SusanR
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
18Waiting for Dunkin
6- FordTough
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
23Whose going to tell him that taxpayers also pay for stepping stone?
1- usr_615468
Guelph Fight Ford protest planned for Saturday
13Waste of Time!!!
11- Dan Porcellato
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
20This is what happens when, with the best of intentions, you try to give someone an inch , and they take a mile. Abuse a privilege (not a right) and risk losing it. Public spaces like City Hall is no place for what was described in this report.
3- KPs68
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
18It is absolutely 100 percent the right decision to make. Stepping Stone is available for anyone who needs a space and there is no need to trash the City Hall.
5- DonnaLeeg
Council to discuss ending emergency overnight warming at city hall
9Is City Hall for the people or just Cam ?
14- Doug Frank
57 per cent of pothole damage claims denied by Guelph in last two years
20A lot of the roads in Guelph were brutal this winter. I feel the City is skipping out on their responsibility.
2- Reasonable Person
