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Single complaint hits the brakes on 14 years of charitable bike repairs

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Ridiculous and shame on whoever complained. This is not in a subdivision or on a downtown street. She’s bothering nobody and doing a wonderful deed with her time and efforts. It’s been going on for many years with no negative effects, only positive. I’ve donated bikes here, but don’t know her at all. This is what community looks like. Bah humbug Mr. or Mrs. Scrooge!

LCBO stores could reopen Tuesday after tentative deal struck

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Cashiers and shelf stockers making $30 an hour should be grateful for what they can get at a government run employer and that they don’t work at Walmart for minimum wage!

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Deal to end LCBO strike thrown into question, union says job action continues

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Lots of other options. The ultramar in aberfoyle sells spirits if you’re running low and need it today. Plenty of stock of wine in the grocery stores. Let them strike until they run out of strike pay and have to get actual retail jobs.

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Guelph General eliminating up to 39 personal support workers

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This is what responsible organizations do. They regularly review the needs of the organization, the current resources, and the financial position of the enterprise - and they structure to align those three. I hope that being a publicly funded hospital that patient needs were the first factor considered in this move, and I'm confident that they were. CITY OF GUELPH - why have I never, EVER seen this type of announcement from you? Do you really need each and every employee on the payroll? All 2000 of them? All NINETEEN General Managers? Take a page from the Hospital's playbook - let's see those pinkslips fly!

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As Black Friday looms, Canada Post lays off employees over the phone

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It’s like the LCBO all over again. Striking public sector workers in low skill jobs want the public’s support because their jobs are so vital to the economy and to our day to day lives. Meanwhile the public yawns and say “oh, you’re not working? Sorry, we didn’t notice.” The real world has adapted and changed, time for Posties to do the same.

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U of G looks to demolish historic conservatory; city wants to save it

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This is none of the City of Guelph’s business. Fire half the heritage department tomorrow, use those funds for grants to property owners needing help preserving worthwhile properties that they’re actually interested in owning, and stay out from the rest. Unless it is something of great significance like the basilica or a founding property from the 1800’s, you have no business telling someone like the university what they can do with their buildings.

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LCBO stores could reopen Tuesday after tentative deal struck

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True daily, the workers chose to strike. The LCBO didn’t lock them out.

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Staff identify city-owned sites for potential housing projects

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Let’s declare the Sleeman Centre surplus and redevelop it…. Sigh. Which of the City of Guelph’s Nineteen General Manager’s came up with that brilliant idea for consideration? This seems like a make work project to keep bureaucrats employed. Throw a couple dozen extra sites on the map so we can hire a couple managers and a new department to rule them out.

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Property taxes likely to rise 6.08 per cent next year, council confirms

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All this council does is take from the hardworking and give to the entitled and activists. It would be one thing if they actually did any good work to help the truly needy, but with the wasted resources on heritage designations, dark sky initiatives, electric buses, operations campuses, bicycle traffic lights and so many other pet projects and virtue signaling money pits, it's no wonder that this city needs 2000 employees and NINETEEN General Managers to run a city of 130,000 people. Enough is enough. Taxpayers work too hard to give it all away to this nonsense.

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Council to consider guidelines for home security cameras

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Just the fact that they are looking at this and fireworks is clear demonstration that the city of Guelph employs too many bureaucrats costing us too much money. Where is headcount review? Where are the cuts? What happened to the mayors order to reduce the tax increase? Everything seems to be back to normal at city hall - too many people making up priorities to make it seem like they need to be there.

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Looks like Guelph has a Conservative Party candidate for next federal election

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A Brampton realtor is not the way to get Guelph to vote Conservative. We’re ready, but we need someone who lives here and has some history in this community . Bad move Pollievre, you could have done way better.

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Ontario’s ‘unofficial estimate’ of homeless population is 234,000: documents

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Awful that young able bodied people who are making bad choices are taking limited spaces and resources from those who are truly unhealthy and disabled. Get off the drugs and get to work. 230,000 jobs available.

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Property taxes likely to rise 6.08 per cent next year, council confirms

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Farewell Mayor Guthrie. October 26, 2026 can't come soon enough. Austerity candidates, start preparing your campaigns now.

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Owner of 7 dogs terrorizing Guelph neighbourhood now faces 18 charges

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Yep, the Assistant General Manager of Not Looking Foolish must have read the comments and informed the Standing Committee of Nineteen General Managers.

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Guelph General eliminating up to 39 personal support workers

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Or... maybe the hospital did a careful review of staffing requirements, especially post-COVID, and determined that the resources were more useful in other areas, and they are redeploying those dollars into human and other resources in areas where they will make a larger positive impact on patient needs and quality healthcare. But you go ahead and shout in all caps about how terrible it is that they aren't just spending more tax dollars needlessly.

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Downtown patio season returns, with half the interest

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Ridiculous comment. I'm glad you can afford another 10% in property taxes every year. I can't. It's taxpayers that are (literally) subsidizing those who don't or can't pay taxes. Which is fine, that's how redistribution of wealth works in a welfare state - but we've reached our breaking point on taxation of the middle class in this city.

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A midsummer's transit rant

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Show me a comparable size Ontario city <150k that’s not run as part of a larger region (so anything in Waterloo, Halton, Peel, Durham, York doesn’t count) that has something significantly better. We’re not 905, and many of us don’t want to be 905. GTA transplants should have looked at the bus schedule before they moved here if they were counting on Guelph Transit to get them around like the TTC does. That would be like me moving to the moon and complaining there isn’t any air. What did I expect?

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With years of disruption coming downtown, city looks at ways to mitigate

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I just looked it up and the City of Guelph has a CAO, 3 Deputy CAO's, and NINETEEN General Managers. A city of 135,000 people needs 23 executives (plus executives of the police force, the fire department, and who knows what else...) and how many executive assistants to support them? The waste, the waste....

27 Guelph convenience stores (so far) approved to sell booze in September

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Those locations already sell cigarettes, gas, lottery tickets. The sky is not falling despite what chicken little predicted. Maybe they’ll even be able to hire more people and some more struggling people in our community will be able to get jobs!

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Church redevelopment plan sparks traffic, parking and other concerns

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This is right downtown, steps off Eramosa St. And it is currently a church building, where there used to be plenty of traffic and parking on the street. If not density here, then where?