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'It's a lot easier - especially for beginners': Here's why you should try birding in winter
With fewer leaves and less bird activity overall, winter makes it easier to spot and identify birds in Waterloo region and Guelph.
Guelph council backs Solve the Crisis campaign, opposes notwithstanding clause
Guelph's final meeting of 2024 saw motions supporting homelessness and addiction recovery initiatives, amendments to a provincial task force, opposition to the use of the notwithstanding clause, and calls for continued funding for supervised consumption sites and HART hubs.
Regional council votes down motion to ask police to cut $4M from 2025 budget
Coun. Rob Deutschmann brought forward a motion suggesting the Waterloo Regional Police Service be asked to cut $4 million from their proposed 2025 budget. The motion was defeated 9-6 during a meeting Tuesday.
Long-awaited Kitchener Central Transit Hub to break ground in 2025
First funded in 2016, construction on the transit hub has been slated for 2020, pushed to 2021, again to 2023 and is not due to begin some time in 2025, according to a new regional staff report.
Kitchener live-in substance abuse program for young men shutting down
Ray of Hope is a Kitchener-based outreach service provider. Their live-in treatment program for young men is being closed down due to its economic impact.
Time to end Eby Farmstead's animal display in Waterloo Park, city staff report recommends
A city staff report calling for the end of Eby Farmstead's animal display is set to go before Waterloo city council. The city's director of parks says the time for reimagining the site has come.
Encampment in downtown Guelph cleared after eviction notices issued
People who were living in tents in St. George's Square in downtown Guelph for months moved from the space on Wednesday.
Push to clear encampments gains momentum in Waterloo region, Guelph
Mayors in Cambridge and Guelph are urging the province to help address homeless encampments, including allowing mandatory mental health and addictions treatment and potentially using the notwithstanding clause to bypass court rulings. The call has raised concerns over charter rights violations and the effectiveness of forced treatment.
Demand for Christmas food program so 'overwhelming' it crashed House of Friendship's phone line
Demand to be on the list of 4,600 households receiving Christmas Food Hampers led to unprecedented levels of web traffic for House of Friendship.
After fleeing Taliban and abuse, Afghan woman in Canada for 8 years told she's being deported soon
Frozan Hassan Zai has spent eight years building a community in Canada after escaping the Netherlands with her two children. Now, because Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has deemed her marriage false, she received deportation orders Tuesday saying she must leave by the first week of December. "In this big world, there is no place we can call home," she says.