The Sandor Report

Writing guides suggest starting an article off with something attention grabbing to capture your audience.  What if I told you Guelph will to have buses that run every ten minutes?  Do I have your attention yet? At the February 26 th Transit Advisory Committee meeting, the committee (myself included) got to see an early glimpse at plans to overhaul the Guelph Transit routes.  Some of the changes to come will be small and simple; some of them are very exciting.  In a few weeks, public consultation events will showcase the next generation of Guelph Transit and our routes , and will provide citizens with an opportunity to provide their feedback on the proposed route changes.  Today, I am going to highlight a few of them. Some of you may have read the letter to the editor in the Guelph Tribune outlining one Guelphite’s vision of a better transit system.  Included on this list are shorter routes with more efficient transfer points, the creation of a n...

With the Ontario municipal elections behind us, I would now like to make a request to all of the Councillor Elects, Mayor Elects and citizens everywhere.  For the next four years, would it be too much to ask to keep party politics out of municipal affairs? To set the record straight, there are no parties in local government.  You did not vote for a Liberal councillor or a Conservative mayor.  Likewise, to all of you newly elected officials, you do not represent a provincial or federal party.  Nevertheless, over the last 10 months of campaigning, I have heard countless times refrains such as "I'm not voting for a filthy Conservative for Mayor" or "Those scheming Liberals have taken over City Hall".  What's worse, candidates not only propagated this misconception by declaring that they would be a Conservative or Liberal politician, but in fact told citizens to vote along provincial or federal party lines. For higher levels of government, it may be easy ...