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Market Squared by Adam A. Donaldson

OPINION: 'Guelph has become a cold and mean place in recent weeks'

OPINION: 'Guelph has become a cold and mean place in recent weeks'

This week's Market Squared looks at how the Public Space Use Bylaw puts the 'Royal' in Royal City
OPINION: Messy process leads to messy policy in public space use bylaw

OPINION: Messy process leads to messy policy in public space use bylaw

This week's Market Squared, now a sensitive protected space, looks at how council did everything wrong to get to the only solution it wanted
In Guelph, and across Ontario this week, Doug Ford embraced cruelty

In Guelph, and across Ontario this week, Doug Ford embraced cruelty

This week's Market Squared considers the pending disaster of closing the province's safe consumption sites, and why the premier doesn't seem to care
Can we fix a broken system, or should we build a new one?

Can we fix a broken system, or should we build a new one?

This week's Market Squared hopes that something comes out of this year's AMO conference other than platitudes
A midsummer's transit rant

A midsummer's transit rant

In this week's Market Squared, if you thought there were no more issues with transit, you were wrong.
With apparently no new ideas, the mayor is raising the dead

With apparently no new ideas, the mayor is raising the dead

This week's Market Squared interrupts your summer vacation with an issue you thought was over and done
OPINION: Unfortunately, new hospitals don't just happen

OPINION: Unfortunately, new hospitals don't just happen

This week, Market Squared is forced to remind you that building a new Guelph hospital is easier said than done.
OPINION: I have no idea what was decided on tiny homes at council this week

OPINION: I have no idea what was decided on tiny homes at council this week

This week's Market Squared is still deeply confused after this week's four-hour meeting on the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition project
When does criticism become a threat at city council?

When does criticism become a threat at city council?

This week's Market Squared wonders if there's room in these troubled political times for some straight talk in the chambers
Doing something on housing is not the same as doing anything

Doing something on housing is not the same as doing anything

This week's Market Squared wonders if we've reached the last chapter in the playbook on local housing solutions.