Bob12

Calls for accountability after dog bites nine-year-old in the face

GuelphToday

So Sad. Poor girl. Even sadder the reaction of the owner.Just yesterday I was playing soccer with my kids and two owners let their big dogs off their leashes less than 100 yards away. My daughter is very afraid of dogs and panics when they start to approach. Mind you this is a park part of a school backyard.I don’t know what strong words to use to not get my comment removed, so I will leave it to your imagination……Aside from that, bylaw or whoever should be helping the city close the budget deficit by issuing massive fines. This is a public safety issue. Poor girl that got bitten, it breaks my heart.

- Bob12

OPINION: Despite the attention, we're still nowhere on housing

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Adam, direct your displeasure to the right place. Enough of the tired “build affordable housing” and blaming the local government and builders. Read. Then go read some more. Yes yes, it’s not the evil capitalists. It is the incompetent government that you keep voting in, which brought 7 million people in 10 years. That is 80 % of the problem. Plus ridiculous $200k development fees and expensive land, the latter driven by the population explosion. The evil capitalists were able to build affordable detached homes in the 60s and 70s, WITH YARDS, that factory workers could afford, while also building all the infrastructure like roads schools and hospitals, all when Canada had 20 million population, and the economy was far less efficient with no computers, advanced machinery or any modern advances in construction. Can you close that gap for me?Did you ever think about the above? Did you? Be honest.

- Bob12

City hits the brakes on allowing five-plexes on low density corner lots

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"For too long, much of our city has been locked into low-density zoning that effectively restricts housing to those who can afford detached home"Then make it affordable. It's all your fault (and the province's fault and federal gov's fault)In the 1970s single homes were attainable to the majority. The planet, and Ontario's agricultural land, your standard excuse, did not go extinct. Now we have 2x the manpower, and many x the efficiency, and vastly better technology to build family friendly detached homes with yards, in fact, cheaper relative to wages than in the 70s. Go back to sensible planning as it was, it worked then and it will work now, cut the non sense.

- Bob12

OPINION: Despite the attention, we're still nowhere on housing

GuelphToday

“Demand it”?? Government to become the “program manager”?” Did you take economic classes in Venezuela? It is astonishing this, the level of misunderstanding of big chunks of the general population.

- Bob12

Council votes to speed up renoviction bylaw for Guelph

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Sure it feels good and morally right, but this will hit the wall of economic reality, no matter the political spin. There will be no more small landlords left, only your favourite corporations owning rental stock. When will people at last understand that the root cause is not evil landlords, but federal gov that let many millions of people over the last 5-10 years with no infrastructure to support them, as well as overheating housing mania enabled by BOC, lax lending standards, fraud, easy credit etc. Blame Ottawa mainly, and the local building restrictions and enormous development fees up by 1000% over the last 15 years…plus higher taxes and very expensive maintenance.

- Bob12

OPINION: How does transit this bad keep getting worse?

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I am no expert on transit, it’s just an observation but I see very big and very empty buses. Never seen more than 5 or 7 passengers on any bus, and most of the times there are 1 or 2, or often 0 riders. Is it possible for the city to substitute the old buses with passenger vans, accommodating up to 10 or 15 riders, like the Mercedes sprinters. Buy many more of them, they will be cheaper to buy, maintain and will use less gas. Hire additional part time drivers and cover peak hours 6 to 9 am and 4 to 6 pm with high frequency vans cross crossing the city. If they cover sufficient routes, and most importantly run every 10 mins in the peak hours, people may actually use them.

- Bob12

Guelph residents celebrating after 'King of Renovictions' backs off

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I feel bad for any tenants being renovicted. No one wants that. With that being said, I see a lot of people comment here with no understanding what so everPrices for any good or any product in a healthy economy must be market prices. Rents included. Suppressing rents artificially is much worse, it distorts everything, AS DOES price caps on tomatoes- the result is no available tomatoes at the lower price, this is indisputable. I am not saying these folks should be able to pay higher rent, I am saying all of you should be buying bus tickets and protest at Ottawa for bringing 7 million people over 10 years. Rents were affordable before.If you like to dismiss the above, answer this honestly - if you are selling your car today, would you charge the price from 2019? If not, you are pressuring your buyer into deeply unaffordable purchase and cause undue harm, and you must be stopped with legislation! Understand? Or, take a job that pays 2019 wages, to help your employer

- Bob12

VIDEO: Mark Carney delivered a speech heard round the world — now what?

This is an obvious ChatGPT supplied comment, with barely any revisions from the “author”. It makes me think where we are headed if LLMs will be our go to substitute for actual critical thinking.

- Bob12