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May 30, 2013
Editorial: Coun. Bob Bell spoke for a lot of frustrated drivers Monday when he asked Guelph Junction Railway’s board chair why the city-owned railway doesn’t spend some of its profits on moving its shunting operation away from Woodlawn Road, where it causes serious traffic tie-ups.
May 30, 2013
Dear Editor: I wholeheartedly agree with your editorial “What a time for polling” (Tribune, May 28).
Recent Comments
Monday, May, 06, 2013 - 6:06:34 AM
Keep bicycles off sidewalks "I disagree a bylaw fining pedestrians is archaic and regressive. Why wouldn't runners be allowed in bike lanes? It's safer and easier on my old bones to run on blacktop than it is on concrete. Learning to share resources is the key.
john"
Friday, May, 03, 2013 - 9:09:07 PM
Taxpayers take hit for industrial and multi-residential properties "These jobs created pay about $12 per hour. While the tax for home owners are compounded the industries tax is reduced along with multi residential complexes.More jobs.Low wages.Multi complex living.Sounds like a recipe for future slums to me.Next ele"
Tuesday, April, 30, 2013 - 6:06:56 PM
Bike lanes not for runners, says city "If you cant run in the bike lane then get the bikes off the sidewalk and walk bikes at crosswalks. Not the mention the ebike riders who travel anywhere they chose.I guess pointing finger at joggers is easier??"
May 30, 2013
Dear Editor: Colin Wackett’s comments (Tribune letters, May 28) are well taken, especially regarding the bus bay situation.
May 30, 2013
Dear Editor: I am writing in response to a letter published about the pro-life bus ads (Tribune, May 28).
May 28, 2013
Guelph Matters by Chris Clark: Readers love our Then & Now feature, and now a blogger has picked up the torch with a variation of its theme.
May 28, 2013
Editorial: It’s an interesting time for the city to be doing its first-ever formal public-opinion research on why voter turnout has been declining in recent civic elections, with an eye to seeing if anything can be done to improve turnout in next year’s municipal vote.
May 28, 2013
Dear Editor: I have just returned from a welcome stay in Guelph and have to confess the only thing to mar my pleasure was the bus transit system.
May 28, 2013
Dear Editor: I am offended, annoyed and downright indignant about two separate pieces of advertising found on our city's buses.
May 28, 2013
Dear Editor: City hall is doing a great job by working on the driver education issue (Tribune, May 23). This is a very serious matter.
May 23, 2013
Dear Editor: I just returned from another walk with my greyhound that left her terrified and shaking. She is afraid of the sound of fireworks.
May 23, 2013
Dear Editor: Thank you Jessica Lovell for sharing my allergy grief (Up for Debate, Tribune, May 16).
May 23, 2013
The View from Here column by Alan Pickersgill: I am growing increasingly sickened by the bloated sense of entitlement going around these days.
May 21, 2013
Editorial: It’s nice to see that the price of hauling and disposing of Guelph’s nonrecyclable and noncompostable waste will go down, not up, in a new 10-year contract that goes to council for approval next Monday.
May 21, 2013
Dear Editor: Who will bear this albatross of the City of Guelph’s decision to ‘grow the city’ regardless of disappearing water supply, increasing (and potentially unmanageable) sewage requirements and its decision not to pipe in required water supplies.
May 21, 2013
Dear Editor: Two issues have been in the works for a long time now, and Guelph provincial and city politics are in life-blind mind-lock on each.
May 16, 2013
Editorial: Although Guelph-based Linamar Corp. continues to roll along in impressive fashion, recent years have generally not been good for the manufacturing industry in Ontario.
May 16, 2013
Up for Debate column by Jessica Lovell: ’ve never had an allergy test, but the way I suffer, I can’t imagine that there is much in the category of seasonal, air-borne allergens that I am not allergic to, and this year I’ve been hit hard.