Council has introduced concierge service for parking concerns
31Perhaps what you need to do is to make a $1,200 donation to Cam Guthrie's election campaign, like Mike Watt, one of the building's owners did?https://guelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022-Election-Financial-Statement-Guthrie-Cam.pdfRegarding Strong Mayor Powers, prior to the election, Guthrie was part of a unanimous vote against Strong Mayor powers coming to Guelph. Guthrie said he wouldn't use them at all, so he lied to voters.We don't need a mini-Trump in Guelph. It's time for Guthrie to go.
5- Susan Watson
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
27Cut city payroll a reasonable 10% for starters…
7- Ben There
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
29Adjusted the math from Oct 30: Cam, your 2.85% is simply not truthful. One could call it intentional disinformation, intentional misinformation or outright ..., well, you know. The "city" increase is NOT 2.85%; the ACTUAL increase will be approximately 4.4%, very simple math, AND essentially at your' MAXIMUM dictate of 4.5%! Shocking! Why do you and the city intentionally do this? It is a deceptive practice. The city's public budget is virtually useless, so it is difficult to be precise with the math. Thanks Cam. Another unaffordable tax increase.
3- H Mat
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
22So Cam and Council could make a bold move by stopping the New Library till the library has a 0% increased budget (or not allowing the library folks to move into the Guelph built building). Force the library to put overdue fees back in place rather than allowing people to keep books for an endless time period without penalty, maybe I'll then bring mine back. These people need a dose of reality - live within your means, full stop!
10- Poster99611
New private Catholic school planned for Guelph
24All Catholic schools should be private schools. No other religion is subsidized by the provincial government
5- 123abc
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
26Mayor Cam Guthrie you "didn't want them to feel like they were under the gun,"? Really? They should 100% feel like they're under the gun! The tax payers are struggling under the gun to pay these high taxes! Maybe if you didnt push this growth mandate we wouldn't scrambling to pay for all these things in such a short amount of time making our taxes so high!
2- Dean Martin 2
Province releases boundaries for 7 proposed conservation authority districts
25What Todd is really saying is, good bye conservation and hello mass unplanned development. There is no need to do away with the conservation boundaries we have now. What a pathetic excuse for not building housing.
2- Lorraine Pagnan
Province announces traffic-calming funding on eve of speed camera ban
16Sigh, the donations were always purely voluntary. The rest is simple physics as anyone who has played contact sports will understand. The faster an opponent is moving when the collide with you the more it hurts. When the “opponent” is a vehicle weighing a couple of tonnes it really matters. The faster you are travelling the longer it takes to stop. The faster you are travelling the less time you have to react. What is so hard to understand?
11- Arthur K
Thresholds to donate piece of Guelph land to Indigenous group
15The next encampment. All good intentions end up bad.
12- MakeGuelphGreatAgain
Province announces traffic-calming funding on eve of speed camera ban
16Wow... enough to build about fifteen roundabouts. Thanks Doug! If you really wanted to calm traffic, you'd fund alternatives to driving. I still can't even safely bike to Rockwood (should be a twenty minute ride) or take a train anywhere but Toronto (sometimes).
10- Matt Saunders
Province announces traffic-calming funding on eve of speed camera ban
14Ready, shoot, aim.. all over again. Unless a policeman comes with each sign the signs won’t have much effect. As for the speed bumps and roundabouts that has been left a bit late in the year so essentially useless until construction season in the spring, when, to be fair, the construction will slow things down. And all this because people couldn’t handle the fact that a speed camera drew it to their attention that they weren’t as good drivers as they thought they were.
12- Arthur K
Reductions in rent supplement program likely to result in more area homeless
12Major Guthrie is correct: Many citizens of Guelph can no longer afford the endless increases to property tax bills we've had to endure over the past 10 years or so. Not only that, but many people don't want them. And to present the choice to property owners as being between encampments in public spaces and unsustainable increases in property tax bills is disingenuous and short-sighted.
13- Keleigh
Province announces traffic-calming funding on eve of speed camera ban
11Because the speed cameras were never really about safety
14- nic k
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
21Another year and we’re all still waiting for Guthrie to finally take control of the budget. He knows or should know by now, that the boards have expenses that are rising because of our economic situation. Time for him to look at reducing city expenses to offset that. Do we really need those downtown Cafe meetings? The 200th party? The vacant Old Drill hall that costs $125,000 a year? Free transit for students and seniors? How about right sizing staff? Do we still need all the people that were hired to speed up the building permit process (which has ground to a halt)? Do we really need to pay for the Mayor to have his own Communications Manager? How about that new Administrator position that was added to the budget last year to help Councillors with their work? THE TAXPAYERS EXPECT THE MAYOR TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN SAY HE DOESN’T CONTROL THE OUTSIDE BOARDS! Maybe it’s time for us to reach out to Doug Ford to ask if they can find a way to reign in Municipal spending!
3- Chris5
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
21Definition of insanity in Guelph: Vote the same councilors in over and over again and expect a different result.
2- J Seriously?
Favouritism? An oversight? Arthur Street parking leads to heated council debate
18What is this?If parking is not allowed, then this council should stick with the rules - parking is on the discretion of GPS officers, who may or may not drive by here.Stop Guthrie and his pet projects.
4- Gruntfutak
Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
18This is truly sickening
4- Let
Province releases boundaries for 7 proposed conservation authority districts
18Time for Ford and his autocratic regime to be booted out of office. A record of corruption, mismanagement, backtracking, catering to Conservative cronies, misuse of public funds. Ford is one of the worst premiers this province has ever had.
3- Robert Carley
Council has introduced concierge service for parking concerns
16I was thinking of the "mini-Trump" label too. More and more Politicians and Moneyed people are ever-more arrogant and entitled than ever before.
5- Doug Frank
Province releases boundaries for 7 proposed conservation authority districts
16Looks like a plan to put CAs under convenient Ministerial control, so a few lines can be moved for the profit of Doug's developer buddies. Nothing to do with conservation or flood control, all about promoting selective land speculation - the hallmark policy of Doug's Conservatives.
4- D'Arcy
