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Letters to the Editor


LETTER: Real support critical for students

LETTER: Real support critical for students

The transition of College Heights is a major concern for at least one area teacher
LETTER: Encampments must not be allowed to destroy our downtown

LETTER: Encampments must not be allowed to destroy our downtown

'Of course they must have a place to go ... It just shouldn’t be downtown, the one and only concentrated social and retail area which also belongs to all the rest of us'
LETTER: Tent encampments downtown not sustainable

LETTER: Tent encampments downtown not sustainable

' I am adding my voice to the growing chorus of those who know that while we need far more shelter for the un-housed, tent encampments in the downtown core is not a sustainable solution for anyone: not for those living in them, for the businesses and other residents nearby, nor for the city in general'
LETTER: Council decision could impact city's water supply

LETTER: Council decision could impact city's water supply

'City council took advantage of a back-door process offered by the Ford government to vote to change a significant land-use designation in the Guelph Innovation District'
LETTER: Joyful downtown celebration mixed with sadness

LETTER: Joyful downtown celebration mixed with sadness

'Impossible to be unaware of the serious troubles some residents, both housed and unhoused, are struggling with,' reader says
LETTER: Options need to be found to help those who need housing

LETTER: Options need to be found to help those who need housing

Other cities, such as Halifax, have used fishing huts while Kitchener built a 'better tent city'
LETTER: Bold actions are required to meet province's housing targets

LETTER: Bold actions are required to meet province's housing targets

Municipalities need to make disruptive changes to their official plans to make them transformative, writes West End Home Builders head
LETTER: If we can build huts for a market, we can build them for people

LETTER: If we can build huts for a market, we can build them for people

'The sick juxtaposition of huts for commerce versus huts for people, reveals a fresh canker on the face of our humanity'
LETTER: We need to pull together to address downtown woes

LETTER: We need to pull together to address downtown woes

Reader shares how downtown has changed since he moved to Guelph in 2005
LETTER: Let's put the community bus back on the road

LETTER: Let's put the community bus back on the road

On-demand and mobility transit use buses that have little in the way of ‘shocks,’ says reader Mary James.