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At least one child, two adults critically injured in plane crash at Pearson airport
26Coincidentally his administration fired hundreds of probationary air-traffic controllers, though this accident was in Toronto and thankfully not dependent on the overrun, burnt-out US air traffic controllers! So far there’s no indication of any foul-up by the ATCs but the review of the accident will take time. The black boxes should be accessible as the hull was not badly damaged by the fire.
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Party poopers: City funds for Guelph’s 200th birthday pulled from draft budget
GuelphToday 32If lower taxes were the road to satisfaction, the U.S. would be the happiest nation on earth, but year after year we see Scandinavian nations, Netherlands, Iceland all enjoying higher levels of satisfaction. It isn’t taxes but how they’re managed and what they’re spent on that makes for satisfaction and quality of life!
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Poilievre to host Canada First rally near Waterloo airport
GuelphToday 18MAGA Maple bros gathering - an event to be avoided by progressive patriots.
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Rally planned in Guelph this weekend to fight against Bill
GuelphToday 31This is not a fight against new housing! We have plenty of housing plus a plenitude of already approved planned housing - the developers are sitting on their already approved plans waiting for prices to creep even higher. Nothing in Bill 5 will provide a greater supply of low-cost or affordable housing but it will destroy irreplaceable good arable land and destroy or damage wildlife habitat endangering many native species. It will free the developers, under the aegis of provincial legislation, from any and all responsibility to protect the environment, to respect or even effectively consult local governments, local planning, landowners, or indigenous treaty rights! Ford’s interests are not low cost housing but the further enrichment of the already rich and powerful!
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Local developers respond to city's 'rhetoric'
GuelphToday 26It sounds like Councillor Downer is right. If “developer’s lack of financing, ongoing litigation, existing tenant leases or contamination that must first be addressed” is causing delay, then shouldn’t the developer have covered those bases before coming to the city in the first place? Needing financing couldn’t be a surprise and it isn’t up to the city to provide it, and “ongoing litigation” unless the city is the plaintiff isn’t something the municipality is responsible for surely. The developers need to get their act(s) together before asking the city to change anything!
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City failed to consult ahead of public space use bylaw approval
GuelphToday 19Consultation, input, transparency? Not in Guthrie’s interest and when, inevitably, his by-law gets challenged in court, he’ll claim that the failure was someone else’s! Talking out of both sides of his mouth must be exhausting - time for him to take a long rest!
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PCs' opponents decry U.S. lobbyists deals as another way Ford's putting 'insiders first'
15One of the more compelling drivers for Ford calling an early election is Conservative fears of the possible criminal charges coming out of the RCMP probe of Ford’s Greenbelt Scandal dealings with builders and developers. This became a much greater concern when the courts ruled that Ford’s private cell phone logs were subpoenable(accessible to investigators), after it became clear he’d stopped using his government-issued cellphone for all communications and was using a personal cell for both private and government business! As it will now be much easier to trace to whom he’d spoken, when, and for how long, a far more complete picture of Ford’s communication will be laid bare!
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Over 800 elementary students suspended in WDG for missing vaccines
GuelphToday 21No. Quite rightly the province mandates vaccinations for a number of highly contagious infectious diseases. The necessity of protection of the public is of paramount importance.For those who have specific objections to vaccination there are procedures to follow. Those too lazy or indifferent to societal protection needs, suspending the student is a regrettable but necessary incentive.
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27 Guelph convenience stores (so far) approved to sell booze in September
GuelphToday 18For the Romans it was bread and circuses - with Ford it’s beer in convenience/variety stores! Another Ford distraction from the real issues like affordable housing, affordable LTC, public healthcare, public education!While people are busy sniping, berating their pet targets(unionized workers, the homeless, educators, immigrants), Ford and his developer cronies enjoy a quiet summer in air-conditioned comfort and plot further privatization! Wake up kids - we’re all “marks” in Ford’s game of distraction and destruction!
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'Incredibly disappointing': Ontario halts wastewater testing for COVID, other viruses
GuelphToday 11Another move by Ford’s government to distance itself from science, facts, evidence, when it’s clear from our experience over the last four years that more, better, and earlier knowledge serves the public far better than delayed, scant, and reduced information! The same logic that fueled the Walkerton e-coli disaster under Harris, propels Ford!
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ICYMI: GuelphToday poll shows Liberals in lead locally
GuelphToday 11You can hang immigration on the federal government but housing and healthcare are provincial responsibilities. Feds transfer funding to support both but actual formulation and execution of policies is a provincial responsibility.
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Vacant Edinburgh Road residential lands on the market for $15 million
GuelphToday 19At least Wildwill is consistent; everything is “bad”, including a proposal to create more housing for a city where constant complaints of over-priced housing and lack of housing in general have been regular subjects for comment in guelphtoday. Many Guelphites in need of housing or lower cost housing are not newcomers but long-time residents, retirees, down-sizing empty-nesters! Maybe instead of filling in for PP who’s on the hustings in Alberta, having been turfed by his former constituents who tired of his “Canada is broken” lament, you’d be better advised to encourage Cam to unleash his “strong mayor” powers to advance what almost everyone agrees we need - housing!
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POLL: About three-quarters back higher defence spending, accept tradeoffs
11As even the most surface analysis of the situation would reveal, it’s far more economical to support Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine than it will be in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. Depending on whose analysis you accept, the Russian forces have been reduced by as much as 800,000 effectives to the point where they are reduced to importing mercenaries(North Korean), to recapture territories around Kursk. Canada’s skimped and short-changed military funding going back to Trudeau senior’s day. Understaffed, under-equipped, undermined by political ineptitude, leavened only by pork-barrel politics! Time to pay the price of deferring responsibilities and obligations!
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LCBO workers rally in Guelph for first day of strike
GuelphToday 13Approximately 70% of the LCBO employees are “casual” non-permanent employees. They on average earn 22.65 but some are paid only 17.65/hr. Their drive to gain permanent status, to protect full-time employment for more employees, and to prevent to transfer of employment to far lower paid, non-unionized employees is something we should applaud, not whine about why they deserve a living wage! Anyone living in Ontario ought to understand and applaud the effort to improve their desire to earn enough to provide food, clothing and shelter in today’s environment! We as citizens do not benefit from the impoverishment of our neighbours and those who serve us, as we should ask them to support our efforts to better ourselves! Anyone who really believes that Doug Ford’s drive to transfer employment from a unionized environment toward smaller private outlets is driven by a desire to serve the best interests of the consuming citizenry is deluded!
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U of G fully divests from fossil fuels
GuelphToday 12The answer to the question is quite obvious when considered in the light of our expectations of institutions of learning and most particularly in the case of universities.We expect universities to do many things but perhaps the most important is teaching the process of logical decision making. Decisions made logically, i.e. on the basis of best available evidence, and judging the impact of those decisions for the long term, are skills and practices that universities should definitely be imparting on their students! The best way to teach is by example or demonstration, and so definitely showing students that financial decisions can be both supportive of climate goals and providing acceptable or superior rates of return is responsible leadership!
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Temporary shutdowns on Paisley, Norfolk coming in support of new library work
GuelphToday 11Good news that progress toward a long awaited and long delayed new library is advancing! 30 years of dithering and wasted time was enough!
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'I'm disappointed it's come to this'; Longfield on Trudeau's resignation
GuelphToday 12That’ll be interesting but almost certainly will be no more than partisan bashing and uncover minimal evidence of “corruption” though ethical lapses seem likely. Much like PP’s constant whining that”everything is broken” when for the most part, everything seems to be “running” though not necessarily producing desired results. Having got Canada through a pandemic with significantly fewer per capita deaths than America(PP’s model), Trudeau’s time was up - as all politicians come to the end of their “best before” political lives. The biggest beef I had with Trudeau was his failure to enact electoral reform when he had a mandate to do so, once it became apparent that a majority of Canadians preferred a model which wouldn’t have best served Liberal(or Conservative) strengths!
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Owner of 7 dogs terrorizing Guelph neighbourhood now faces 18 charges
GuelphToday 15The darkest cloud had a silver lining! The story got CTV News coverage and our mayor was able to drag himself in front of a camera to vent his word salad of concern for all!
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U of G announces new 1,500-bed student housing project
GuelphToday 12I can only imagine the cries of "foul" from some of our landlord population if this were actually to happen, and they were to lose access to a captive population they could milk for sub-standard accommodations!
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Mayor shifts gears with setting next city budget, wants input first
GuelphToday 14Having mastered little beyond the art of simultaneous suck and blow which while endearing him to the thug in Queen’s Park, has met considerable blow-back from Guelph residents and council, Guthrie now intends a “collaborative” approach? I’ll believe it when we see how he reacts to “input” that he hasn’t generated!
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