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Former U of G president who left in 2024 was paid $410,000 last year
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14The median income for a working age male in Guelph in 2023 was ~$65,000 and for a female only ~$52,700. Regardless of the fact that the Sunshine List threshold has remained steady since 1996, $100,000 is still a LOT of money. That 72 percent of the police force makes more than that is pretty shocking.
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Enbridge gets to build pipelines on public land for free. Waterloo Region and Guelph want to change that
GuelphToday 6Oh yes. The pendulum will swing back - once this overheated planet kills off billions of people and we retreat to the kind of subsistence living last encountered in the 15th century.
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Latest College Avenue West closure to begin March 30
GuelphToday 8Last year they said College Ave would be closed starting in June "for 10 Weeks". They didn't get the road open till Christmas - and now they are shutting it down again until November of this year (if they a lucky ...)
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U of G expecting record 7,000 first-year students this fall
GuelphToday 5@Matt Saunders: Not all landlords are gouging the students. I'm a landlord but I'm not "thrilled to rent to students at inflated rates". At my two rental properties immediately adjacent to the uni rents are roughly 2/3 of what it costs to live in residence. My student tenants stay for a long time - one who moved in in second year just left after 8 years and a Ph.D.
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OPINION: What's the point of delegating when council doesn't listen?
GuelphToday 8Charles Nash: "by making it a center [sic] for"Guelph Today: "This week's Market Squared looks at a week where advise [sic] from the public" People who live in glass houses maybe shouldn't throw stones..... Note to DGBA chair Charles Nash: Set your computer's language to Canadian English.
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OPINION: 'Downtown Guelph isn't failing, it's asking us to show up'
GuelphToday 5Meanwhile, in Guelph's main square we have four major banks all vying for the title of ugliest. And what happened to the Crown? Some of Guelph's side streets are nice, but the centre stinks. Who wants to go there?
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U of G closed due to inclement weather
GuelphToday 1Ludicrous! The university should never have closed. I'm a 77 year old returning student and I got up, cleared all the walkways at my house and walked to campus in time for my 9:30 class only to find the university was closed at 9:23. What happened to "WE, THE NORTH!" ? Back in 1967 when I first arrived in Guelph the university would never have closed for a snowstorm like yesterday's. Are we Canadians. or are we WIMPS?
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To others it’s ‘Civic Holiday Monday’ but it’s John Galt Day in Guelph
GuelphToday 1What happened to Simcoe Day?
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Council approves altered concept for St. George’s Square, wants final approval
GuelphToday 1I wonder why they never show what these things will look like on a snowy day in February ...Bring back the Crown!
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OPINION: The people get rare wins on former reformatory and Niska lands
GuelphToday 1I object to the notion that the Kortright lands are "private property". The land is under the stewardship of the Conservation Authority which is a publicly funded entity and therefore owned by all of us. (The university is in the same boat).
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OPINION: The people get rare wins on former reformatory and Niska lands
GuelphTodayIt would be a shame if the jail were torn down. My thoughts are that it could be converted into a combination of condos (take out the window bars and add balconies), low cost housing and a recreation centre. It's my understanding that the gymnasium is currently used as an emergency preparedness centre filled with things like army cots and so on. Leave the rest as a park - and off leash for dogs as it is now.
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OPINION: The people get rare wins on former reformatory and Niska lands
GuelphTodayThe bridge is OK - although stepping across the stream was never that difficult even for the nearly 80-year old me. My beef with the bridge is how wide it is - enough for the city to drive construction equipment across and destroy the woodland trails in favour of wide gravelled paths like the ones in Crane park. As long as they leave it as a dog park I'm OK with it.
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