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After 170 years, Bank of Montreal is moving out of Downtown Guelph
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6I have been a customer of this branch for 16 years. In that time I needed to visit it less than 10 times in person. I usually stop by the convenient Stone Road Mall location. If I had small children I would not take them downtown to the George Square location because of the risks associated with that branch being a place where the drug addicts hang outside when it rains.
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City seeks volunteers for annual community cleanup
GuelphToday 12All those volunteers out doing the city's job for them and still a 7% tax hike. Anyway, thank you citizens for stepping up where the sunshine list club fails.
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Royal City Mission to cut hours in half amid cuts to expected funding
GuelphToday 15I have been homeless in Guelph at a time where my legs stopped working due to a flare up of MS. I took a taxi for $5 to Royal City Mission at 7am when the stepping stone puts you out on the. Street until 8 pm. I laid on a blanket in a flowerbed until the Royal City Mission opened. The ONLY food and drink I had for the day came from them. I laid on the floor at the mission until 7 pm then took a taxi for $5 back to the stepping stone and waited to get a bed for the night. I am now housed but have no money for food. In January I. Will be reduced to 7 meals per week. When I was homeless and it rained I just got wet as standing in anyone's doorway was quickly frowned upon. When these cuts to service take effect it means the unhoused will be without food shelter.showers or laundry. If you only fed your pets 7 times a week you would be arrested.
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OPINION: Council sucked the value out of the remuneration debate
GuelphToday 1Politician should be a volunteer position. Whether councillor or mayor. End of debate.
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New 10-storey private student residence proposed for College Ave. East
GuelphToday 6Whoopee more student housing just as students can't afford their OSAP and won't be coming. Also foreign student programs gutted. We will be in a student housing surplus before long. Let's build housing for the people who are here permanently and want to retire here. Senior housing of the affordable kind is what is needed.
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City had nearly $14M in unpaid property taxes last year
GuelphToday 5Then there are those in the community living on either $733 for OW or $1408 for ODSP for whom unpaid property taxes will never be a reality, just like housing.
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Royal City Mission to cut hours in half amid cuts to expected funding
GuelphToday 3I would also like to add that my temporary housing provided for a set period of time costs me $600 per month. Royal City Mission was shipping.Lunch and Supper for the 28 people living here. We also pay for that service with cash. Now I suppose we will be mostly out of luck. The deal we signed included 3 years of lodging with a monthly food charge. Yesterday lunch was a tray of stale hamburger buns with nothing on them. Quite insulting to call that an edible meal. They stopped providing any breakfast service at all when the Seed who were responsible for breakfast dropped the ball. All the dishes and utensils here were stolen by the crackheads in the first month. The wifi goes off every 9 minutes. It is impossible to transition to market rent from here. I am saving up what I can towards a car that I will live in once my time here ends.
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Mayor’s raise axed, no decision on pay bump for councillors
GuelphToday 2People in the community live on ODSP at $1408 per month and people on OW get $733.Our politicians do not require a raise now or in the near or distant future.
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Stepping Stone expansion appears to have come in well over budget
GuelphToday 3Just another example of completely missing the mark for homeless and low income Guelph citizens.Royal City Mission is open Monday Wednesday and Friday 1-7pm. They are open for lunch on Sunday.So even after the 7 million dollar cost here, which is insane, there are still HUGE gaps in service.Between 2pm-8pm Tuesdays - stand out in the rain. Between 2pm -8pm Thursdays stand out in the rain. Between 8am and 8pm Saturdays are covered. Sundays stand out in the rain from 7 am to 10am and from 2 pm to 8pm. Everyday stand out in the rain from 7 am to 8 am. If this is wrap around coverage I would hate to see spotty coverage. I took a walk to Royal City at 2:45pm and found a locked door. Took a walk to 23 Gordon after that and found a locked door. Kudos Guelph
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Royal City Mission to cut hours in half amid cuts to expected funding
GuelphToday 2Further to the abbove: The county of wellington spent 8 million dollars to create 28 temporary rooms without personal bathrooms or kitchens. People smoke crack and pass out in the common room. The only source of entertainment the TV is not usable due to connection issues with our internet connection that no staff save 1 knows how to fix. The staff here are VERY NICE PEOPLE. Drove me to appointment and brought food and drinks to my room and did my laundry when I was to sick to walk. I am grateful for the roof over my head. But the 8;million spent here will never transition anyone into housing. I may be the only one here with a plan for the future that being a move into a 1990s era campervan and parking in a different spot each night. It will still be better than the leaky lean to I was in two Christmases ago and better than spending Christmas on the wooden bridge behind the boathouse.
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Guelph man builds tiny home in woods for his homeless father-in-law
GuelphToday 1You can't even take shelter on the footbridge behind boathouse restaurant. The cops throw you off the bridge within 15:minutes.
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Stepping Stone’s third floor expansion opens at last
GuelphToday 2Sounds like a huge upgrade compared to the 8pm-7am shelter they have had without food services for the last 2 years. The addition of daytime hours coming back is great and much better than standing in the rain with no place to go. Serving breakfast also outstanding. Taking us from zero options for morning supports to a place of refuge. But what about Sundays, it rains on Sundays too?
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VIDEO: How a new DNA technique has helped solve hundreds of cold cases
All good, but with Ontario jails at 150% capacity, where will we warehouse the newly convicted? We are already cramming them in 4 men to cells built for 2. And did we not just refuse to help take guns out of personal owners hands, despite the existing program to do so?
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Royal City Mission to cut hours in half amid cuts to expected funding
GuelphTodayFurther to the above: I am now recovered sufficiently that any full time or part time work that could be done while seated would be most welcome. ODSP pays a total of $1400 per month to cover everything. We are now allowed to make $1000 a month on top of that. I can stand and walk also 45 minutes at a time. Willing to consider house pet or baby sitting too. Capable of vacuuming dusting laundry and meal prep. Please contact me by leaving an email address in the comments section under mine. I would consider any and all offers of employment at minimum wage to start.
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