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67You mean the agenda that said he’d stop these wars on the very day he became president elect. Yet the real agenda is he wants them to continue just until he can get in office and then the very next day he’ll stop it by giving the aggressors exactly what they want? It’s like a win win for him and no one looks at how many actual human lives are lost between them and now, it’s like a non factor for you. Where did morals go?
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Familiar face is the new new CEO of Guelph Public Library
GuelphToday 9Enjoy your Sunshine list salary when you step over the homeless at the front door.
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Here’s what councillors want changed, mostly added, to city budget
GuelphToday 24Council is out of control with the wants list. So we have people who can't afford to eat and council can't afford to help Guelph City Mission to even have one daily meal done every week. Our one hospital looks to have more money taken from it's budget while it currently struggles and will only get busier with the shut downs of safe consumption sites. I could almost say ok to these things if council didn't then go on to press for more money for trails so people can walk past the homeless in the park and a $1,000,000 party to celebrate just how far our city has fallen. Does anyone have common sense on this council because it seems they would not be able to pass a basic high school accounting class. By the end of this I'm going to guess our tax hike will be 9.9%. Let's wait and see shall we.
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Slow down! Lower speed limits now in effect on these busy roads
GuelphToday 19It's frustrating in Guelph to figure out what the limit is on some streets. I say that because it will change after 500m and then change again. If you're not actively watching for signs you'd never know and I don't know about anyone else but keeping your eyes on the road and the traffic can lead to missing a sign.
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Owner of 7 dogs terrorizing Guelph neighbourhood now faces 18 charges
GuelphToday 21Finally. And all it took was a government body (Canada Post) to say we aren't going to service your area anymore. Citizens couldn't get anything to happen to protect themselves but don't mess with Canada Post. Please note where all the citizens of Guelph come in this pecking order.
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Guelph Conservative candidate says he's moving to Guelph soon
GuelphToday 17I was going to vote PC to get Trudeau out but not now. The PC's are doing a horrible job when honestly all they had to do was sit back, keep quiet and wait but they couldn't accomplish that.I've tried not listening to the way he speaks to the public like we are 5 years old or the ridiculous sound bites PP repeats over & over & over and the babyish nick names he gives people all in an attempt to emulate Trump because I didn't want to vote for Trudeau, I feel we need a change but PP makes it impossible for a moderate voter to accept him. Now putting a 24 year old candidate for a Federal GTA riding tells me he just wants those who will do as he says in his cabinet, if he wins, and that's scarier to me than Trudeau. Just one persons opinion.
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17The same way our dollar was worth 50 cents in 1995. But it’s easier to point fingers and make like it’s never happened before right?
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City/county develop $600,000 winter accommodation plan for homeless
GuelphToday 13$600,000 for a seven month band-aid to kinda sorta temporarily help out 10% of the homeless. Another short sighted emergency answer to a long term constant issue.Why not add a bit of cash from the $17,000,000 you're adding to beautifying the downtown and buy a permanent housing facility? At least that way we aren't just throwing the money away with nothing to show for it at the end. Or we could just flush the cash down the planned self cleaning toilet for entertainment instead.
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Mayor inadvertently violated code of conduct: integrity commissioner
GuelphToday 13I've got to try that at work sometime. Just break some of the rules and then admit to benefitting myself and nothing should happen right? The two tier set of rules is beyond.
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Enhanced, expedited downtown improvements get initial council approval
GuelphToday 11Boy oh boy this city council certainly enjoys spending money on frivolous "beautification" while a growing segment of it's citizens starve and or go homeless. Those extremely expensive self cleaning bathrooms are going to be perfect unsupervised tiny homes come winter. Well on a good note one way or another at least some seriously expensive tiny homes are coming with toilet facilities for the homeless. And that'll be the next thing people complain about and all because they just want the homeless to disappear instead of tackling the situation properly. This beautification band-aid is going to come off a month or so after it's done and show the ugly unhealed wound beneath it and then what?Guelph city council is ridiculous and need to be stopped before they bankrupt the city and it's citizens.
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U of G Homecoming hits this weekend
GuelphToday 17Every year UofG promises to take accountability and help with cost and every year they renege and leave us to pay the price of the disruption, indecency and the financial fall out. When will the University be held responsible for any of the things it does?
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Looks like Guelph has a Conservative Party candidate for next federal election
GuelphToday 15"common sense Progressive Conservative Party", they may have been at one time but no longer. If they were they wouldn't be proposing someone who isn't from Guelph to be our rep. A Brampton man with a suspended real estate license that's the best they could find for the Guelph riding? This common sense move is right up there with the PC $200 provincial loan you'll be receiving.People used to say about voting that they would pick the lesser of the evils and that could not be more true in these current political parties and their candidates.
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Council hears pitches to restore transit, arts and environment funding
GuelphToday 13Susan they don't care. Year after year they show they don't care. They want pretty things and niceties for themselves. Needs of the majority of citizens are bottom of the list. They've been told this, they've been begged to do different so the only answer is they just don't care.
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Slow down! Lower speed limits now in effect on these busy roads
GuelphToday 10@Wanda I believe they are main arteries not neighbourhood streets. There are areas with housing beside the 401 and that doesn't make it classified as a neighbourhood road that should be slowed to 50 or 40 km/hr.
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Builders of student housing project in court seeking property tax exemption
GuelphToday 13Under this theory I guess most of Stone Rd businesses wouldn't have to pay taxes. No tax from Stone Road Mall, no tax for Metro, no tax for Walmart, no tax for Canadian Tire but for you small tax payer 30% increase.Private business shouldn't be allowed on University land or the University should have to pay taxes on all land not directly in use for University purposes even if the land is empty. Business constantly trying to shirk their responsibilities' to the community and leaving the individuals to pick up their portion of the tab which is why our taxes are as high as they are.
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Council approves controversial public space use draft bylaw
GuelphToday 10The wording of this bylaw is so contradictory. Fully permissible locations for encampments are open park spaces BUT there can't be encampments where there is competing public use? Isn't a park a public use area?If this bylaw stands kiss parks good bye. Riverside will be one big tent city.
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Family in tears after family pet killed by loose dog while out for walk
GuelphToday 12This is so incredibly sad for this family especially for the one who had to witness this horror. My last dog was a very large shepard mix and I could tell people were fearful just looking at him. It was not their problem to 'get over' but it was an issue that I took seriously. I trained him and then trained him some more until he had perfect recall and obedience. It's doable with a lot of time, effort, patience and kindness. If he wasn't as well trained I would never let him off lease. As it was I made sure he was always within sight because of other dogs who were off lease with delinquent owners not paying attention or caring about what their dogs did. Can not count the amount of times my dog was nipped at or out right bitten by other dogs (especially the small ones).Please don't blame the dogs, it is people who are at fault but unfortunately the dogs will pay the price.
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As Black Friday looms, Canada Post lays off employees over the phone
GuelphToday 7Mail carriers are very, very well compensated for their low skill job. My postie always enjoys letting me know just how over compensated he is and thinks this strike is ridiculous. I'll take his opinion over someone that doesn't work there.
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Guelph Tool Library expected city funding, then came budget cuts
GuelphToday 11Unsurprising that a service geared to lower income people is cut from the budget and will not be receiving funding. Why are we not halting leaf pick up? A majority of Guelph citizens can't even use this program. Or how about regular bathrooms in the new downtown instead of self cleaning? Those are items that we can live without.
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Growing encampments prompt Ontario mayors to call for forced treatment
GuelphToday 10It would be helpful if mental health treatment was available to people before their lives collapsed and before being forcibly put into an institute. As it stands the wait times for treatment are from 6 months to a year or more. The other issue is a lot of people find it unaffordable. Again it is government trying a bandaid solution without ever even trying to solve the problem.
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