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Meet Guelph’s newest city councillor
GuelphToday
18So the radical lefties vote for a lefty who doesn't live in ward 6. That tells us what we needed to know.
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Guelph's projected tax increase for 2026 currently sitting at 7.66 per cent
GuelphToday 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.
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OPINION: Guelph's small-town, small mindedness is stifling us
GuelphToday 14Given that 10 of 13 members of council are left wing and of your ilk Adam, your conclusions are telling!
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Mayor 'wouldn't be surprised' to see tax increase of 6 per cent
GuelphToday 23The 3.17% is "misleading", to be kind and to say the least. It is simply not truthful. One could call it intentional disinformation, intentional misinformation or outright ..., well, you know. The "city" increase is NOT 3.17%; the increase proposed is $11,142,753 FOR THE CITY PORTION ONLY, so the ACTUAL increase will be approximately 4.8%, very simple math, AND even exceeding the mayor's' MAXIMUM dictate of 4.5%! Shocking! Why does 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.
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Council puts $1.7M back into 2026 budget; increase hovers at just over 8%
GuelphToday 15There they go again. The "city services portion" of expenses did not increase by "3.36 per cent". The "city portion" of expenses will be increasing by about 5.2%, or over 2.5 times the current rate of inflation. Misinformation, untruth, disinformation, what else can be said. And for Guthrie to belittle the $0.78/month and the $0.31/mo, CAM it is ANOTHER amount piled on top of an ALREADY massive increase you have dumped on taxpayers. Well over 30% for your four year budget. Disgusted!
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This difficult budget actually tells different stories
GuelphToday 14More is never enough for the lefties, and after pouring more and more into "social services"/"affordable housing" every year, it still isn't enough for the likes of Caron who wants to spend more, with no regard to those paying the bills. Or, build these stupid "bike lanes" on roads like Silvercreek then needing a special snow plow for it instead of just plowing the entire road in one go. Stupid. And they want to lie about the increase.
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OPINION: Be honest, you don't think city council is worth paying for
GuelphToday 12Public Health is a horrible eg. They have modest increases compared to police, social services and library. Council appoints a majority to Police board. How often do reports have no "financial implications" when there are. eg Delhi St. Huge social service increases due to council decisions, we just don't get to see detail (the budget we see is pathetic); the library did not need a massive ramp up before opening (we've been paying for, what 2 years?). The OP argument is stupid, Council do your job, and if it gets changed, it gets changed. Has the role of councillor changed that much, or have the socialist councillors and mayor inserted themselves as social activists who don't care about massive spending? The latter. Adam, $100k+ is still a lot of money, much more than most ever see! A 7.87% tax increase, and voting for a 33% pay increase (while receiving annual increases) is just greedy! And they want to spread disinformation claiming the "city portion" only increased by 3.36%.
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A budget fought on the margins has no good decisions
GuelphToday 14"it was going to be a budget about what we can save". Really Adam? The "city portion" of the budget increased by about 5.2%, not the untruthful amount of 3.36% touted by Guthrie & co, so, truthfully, more than 2.5 times the current rate of inflation. "about what we can save"? No, there was only MORE MORE MORE spending, and even MORE isn't enough for many of them. City spending is out of control.
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Enbridge gets to build pipelines on public land for free. Waterloo Region and Guelph want to change that
GuelphToday 14Guthrie says "...So our residents can choose what kind of infrastructure they want their homes and businesses to be connected to.” Maybe Guthrie will tell us who will pay for the massive increase in electricity grid requirements if everybody gets a heat pump/EV. Wasn't long ago Alectra was at council, essentially warning of those costs, without actually saying so. We already know the city had to upgrade just to charge the few electric buses Guelph bought. How much was that? Guthrie seems to think these things are free as long as somebody else pays for it, typical socialist. Worst mayor ever.
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Guelph's tax hike finalized at 6.78 per cent
GuelphToday 12Absolutely disgusting. Now the 4 year increase is 34.4% and Cam is, what, happy? Anybody who thinks this is acceptable has no conscious. IT IS NOT OKAY!
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Reflections on the Guthrie Decade
GuelphToday 8"penny-pinching", really Adam? This is the guy who gave us a 4 year budget with a 38% tax hike! And, if he IS able to bring this year's increase down to 4%, the 4 year increase will be just under 31%. "penny-pinching" is a complete untruth, disinformation at best. 38% increase!
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Council's now going through the motions on the housing file
GuelphToday 12Adam; why don't you ask staff where the $21.4m "Housing Accelerator Fund" money went. Not the usual high level bibble babble that doesn't reveal anything, not something useless like "to improve processes", where did the money go, where it was spent (and how much is unspent). We might be shocked to learn how little it has done, the usual government throwing money around to say they are doing something.
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Enbridge asks to shut out local environmental advocates from hearing
GuelphToday 2The untruthful rant that "Enbridge is getting free access to use our public lands" needs to stop. It has been reported that they do pay property tax. There is no subsidy. Guelph Today needs to correct this. Just who funds Ferrari and his "eMerge"?
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Guelph's tax hike finalized at 6.78 per cent
GuelphToday 7Very very few will. Inflation just hit 1.8% and seniors on OAS (which is adjusted quarterly for inflation) won't see any increase for at least 6 months, let alone 6.8%.
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Mayor warns tax increase could rise above eight per cent
GuelphToday 5Please start telling the truth Guthrie. Constant disinformation. You are claiming "well over four per cent just for the city" when in reality that means it will be "well over" 6.1% for the city's increase. Inflation is 2% and the city wants three times that? And you want to tell an untruth about it, to what, make it look better? And Caron want more. Greedy and unaccountable.
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‘We just need to say no’: Mayor on provincial downloading impact to 2026 budget
GuelphToday 2Except: That is where the lie begins. The "city" portion is not increasing by 2.85%, that is an untruth. The "city" portion of 2.85% Guthrie keeps touting is actually about 4.4% and when the lefties add more expenses it will only go up. The reference to 4.6% in this article is confusing at best, so who know exactly what it is. So, increase the "city" portion by 4.4% and add something bigger than that for the outside boards and you get something bigger than 4.4%. Add more spending by the lefties and it becomes something bigger yet. The city is not being transparent in any way shape or form.
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What does the 2025 budget say about us?
GuelphToday 2There you go again Adam,"the problem with government budgets, everyone agrees they should be lower,...", except most on this council want more spending as do you apparently. The "golden oldie" you refer to is really about spending within your means which is a concept you don't seem to understand. Governments could spend within their means if they chose to. This council has chosen not to. Your analogy to houses on a street is a farce. What you should have added, the way this council spends, is "and an extra levy of 38% will be added to accomodate all those wants", and you listed a number of wants that were presented to council. The "collective good" by many of this council is "spending more" so no, it makes no sense. You clearly don't value those paying the bills, now with a four year 38% tax hike.
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Playing jazz with the council agenda predictably fails
GuelphToday 2There you go again Adam, "...while taking the hacksaw to the multiyear budget...". What a joke. A four year 38% tax hike and Guthrie "promised" to reduce that to just below 31% and you call that "taking the hacksaw". It is still a massive increase way beyond anything reasonable. You talk about "transparency" yet you spin. Nothing less than disinformation, misinformation and misleading. Not transparent. No the budget isn't transparent, the online version is virtually useless. That doesn't mean you can distort like you do.
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Council rejects staff's call to sell former drill hall
GuelphToday 5"Mayor Cam Guthrie stressed the city does not have any money in the budget..." yet Guthrie then proposed to, and voted to give away $10,000 that wasn't even asked for, while we face a 38% tax hike. Guthrie, please get a grip on reality. You need to get control of spending, not suggest and support even more. If there was "unspent money", it shouldn't have been spent! Period!
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OPINION: Sometimes a bridge just needs to be a bridge
GuelphToday 2Who has been "trying to "keep taxes below inflation" "? Certainly not Guelph City council. Certainly not Guthrie who promised to keep taxes at no more than CPI. The current 4 year budget has a tax increase of over 34%, meanwhile CPI is now at or about 2%. Just what "austerity policies of the last thirty years" are you talking about. All we have had is expansionist government at all three levels of government this entire century and before.
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