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POLL: Liberals, Tories have solid support, but other voters are wobbly

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After what the liberals did to Canada in the last 5-10 years it truly baffles me how and why anyone would continue to vote Liberal at the federal level. Our housing and healthcare are on life support, the deficit is ballooning, they love to divide and virtue signal, crime is a problem and our GDP per capita is declining, meaning poorer quality of life for Canadian citizens.

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City approves ‘demoviction’ of Victoria Road apartments

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Who are they kidding, they intend to profit off of the property like all other developers and landlords. There’s a legitimate concern here - why are they taking away affordable family size affordable apartments only to replace them with units of less size? I smell something fishy

Five parks identified in city’s homelessness response

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There needs to be buildings, affordable rent for these people - not parkland amenities to promote the living of individuals in the green spaces of our city. This is a failure of our elected officials.

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Guelph mayor looks to pause new bike lane installation

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I don’t have an issue with bike lanes but do have an issue where active transportation is being prioritized. For example - the whole community between Victoria and Watson along York has no bike lanes and almost no sidewalks. School kids walk on roads, there is no crosswalk to safely catch a bus - to me that is a higher AT priority than bike lanes on Speedvale or Scottsdale. And yes I agree - multi use paths, like on Woodlawn, are the way to go.

Ontarians to begin receiving $200 'taxpayer rebate' cheques

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3 billion could end homelessness in the province with money left over to open a couple of high volume diagnostic imaging centres (MRIs, CTs) - but hey, everyone including the millionaires of the province need a $200 vote buying cheque.

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Company looking to build student housing takes tax decision to land tribunal

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Private developers wanting yet more subsidies but still making tonnes of cash. Sorry but DCs should be part of the process - if they did this for all developers then who funds municipal infrastructure? Taxpayers.

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Draft city budget defers $1.1 billion in ‘low priority’ projects

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We live in East Guelph across from the reformatory lands. In this pocket of Guelph we have 20+ school kids walking on icy, narrow and hilly roads without sidewalks to school bus pickup locations. School kids of all ages and some with disabilities on the roads with cars. Unlike the rest of Guelph there is no municipal park here - none within a 25 minute walk. But there is City owned green space that is just left unattended and waiting for a neighbourhood park. Multiple residents have complained to the City about this, including complaints to the mayor, council and city staff. They all try to defer it. It’s a growing pocket of Guelph that our mayor promised to invest in 5 years ago when he came for a ribbon cutting event - and since then he has ghosted us! Doesn’t even have the courtesy to respond to emails about it.I for one can’t wait to vote our mayor out in the next municipal election. Let’s see how “strong” he is then.

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Back to the polls: Prime Minister Carney expected to call federal election Sunday

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What a mess of an election and candidates. The LPC has done everything to be booted out of office, yet none of the parties offer someone like Carney. I’m voting based on performance and what the Liberals have done on housing, immigration, budget etc .. well they won’t be getting my vote. But who the heck do I vote for instead?

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ICYMI: GuelphToday poll shows Liberals in lead locally

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Oh good grief, hasn’t the LPC done enough damage already? I like Carney, but the party is almost the same. The same folks who dropped the ball on the immigration, housing, healthcare files are supposed to make us believe they will help solve the crises they helped create? I don’t trust them.

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Input sought on staff-recommended St. George’s Square re-design

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This redesign has been going on for 12 years - do they need to have yet another public input session on it?

OPINION: Does Guelph have power issues, the political kind?

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Word. Absolutely agree

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Political hesitation 'galvanises' support for national urban park

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I can’t believe Mike Schreiner would not have fully supported a national urban park. What better use is there from a Green perspective? And Lloyd .. oh my

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OPINION: Tiny homes get predictably tiny reception at the county

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Agree with all but borrowing Conestoga’s mayor. Yes it is shameful that we got to this spot. And what’s even more frustrating is UoG adding 1300 more than their annual allotment of their first year students - further displacing elderly, people with disabilities and low income families to the street or to find housing in other cities. It’s a mess and it’s being caused by lack of will by municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments. Give us housing and healthcare solutions before more people.

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Police officers could be coming back to UGDSB schools under new provincial legislation

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What a waste of resources by our provincial government. This is not the USA. What’s next - security detectors located at school entrances? Ford wasting money on pet projects.

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Ford promises anti-encampment bill without notwithstanding clause

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So Doug has had 6 years to make this growing problem better. They have had ample opportunity to increase disability supports, improve mental health services, and build affordable and supportive housing with wrap-around supports. Instead we see encampments everywhere and no funding to make the situation better. So now there is power to remove encampments - but will where they go? In greenspace next to our backyards? To hospital ERs? He has done NOTHING to improve access to housing for these individuals and now they will just be dispersed to other areas of the City. This is a do nothing move yet again by our politicians both at the provincial and municipal level.

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Group forms to try and save historic U of G greenhouse

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Who’s kidding who? If they put a garden there it will last a year or two before plans for a new build begin. I don’t understand how it would cost 5 million to fix a greenhouse, seems like a huge overestimate.

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'I'm disappointed it's come to this'; Longfield on Trudeau's resignation

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The LPC is toast. They divide the populace constantly, are unable to do basic math and virtue signal at every opportunity. They ignored the warnings from their own senior staffers on how rapid population growth would put pressure on housing and healthcare - but they still decided to ramp it up to million+ newcomers annually. Only in the last 2 months have they decided oops we made a mistake on that file. My 80 year old Canadian born parents have been waiting 5 years for a family doctor. ERs are at capacity, surgery backlogs have increased, housing costs have doubled. Tent encampments abound, record food bank usage, ballooning deficit ..An election now please - another few months won’t change the inevitable from happening.

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Doug Ford confirms Ontario election to begin Wednesday

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What a waste of taxpayer money, and he’s making it so no other parties can get out and make their case. This government has failed us miserably on affordable housing and healthcare - yet they still seem to spend, spend and spend some more - 3 billion on vote buying cheques just before an election speaks volumes. Anyone else see the Walkerton news where a thousand residents lined up starting at 2 am the night before for a chance at a family doctor?

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Conestoga College president has contract extended

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Has Conestoga lost their collective minds? From turning the college into a diploma mill, creating a housing problem in the surrounding cities, to his comments and name calling to another college president — this guy is a disaster! What is the board over there thinking??

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We have a 'crisis of caring' says MPP Mike Schreiner

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Doug Ford thinks that handing out $200 cheques will make us forget about Bill 124 and the tens of thousands who left healthcare because of it. We won't.Doug Ford thinks that distractions like removing bike lanes and burrowing a tunnel will distract us from things like a 2 billion dollar tax funded private spa, the family doctor shortage or the greenbelt fiasco. It won't.I like Mike quite a bit and he is correct with his assessment of the current government. I am curious though .. Did anyone in attendance ask his thoughts on an urban park at the reformatory lands? He's kept mum on that issue.

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