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Market Squared by Adam A. Donaldson

OPINION: Why do we want downtown to be just another strip mall?

OPINION: Why do we want downtown to be just another strip mall?

This week on Market Squared, we wonder what it would look like if, say, there was a bus service that could take people downtown instead of building unlimited parking
Mobile signs and overreach portents

Mobile signs and overreach portents

This week's Market Squared wonders if council is going too far with new restrictions on mobile signs. (Spoiler alert: they are.)
Don't be a menace to Gordon Street while waiting in line for a McCafe

Don't be a menace to Gordon Street while waiting in line for a McCafe

This week's Market Squared wonders how we can change traffic behaviour if there's no will on the part of people to change
We're obsessively selling a dream while refusing to acknowledge the reality

We're obsessively selling a dream while refusing to acknowledge the reality

This week's Market Squared talks about they way we're advertising Guelph, who we're advertising to, and whether or not we're dismissing people in need already here
OPINION: We need to make it easier for voting to be more accessible

OPINION: We need to make it easier for voting to be more accessible

This week's Market Squared makes a case for improving access to the ballot box by actually listening to the people who must overcome the barriers
8 Wards? Maybe we shouldn't knock it till we've tried it

8 Wards? Maybe we shouldn't knock it till we've tried it

This week's Market Squared makes a final case for not just doing the Guelph thing and settling for the status quo.
In planning matters, no one can hear your confusion

In planning matters, no one can hear your confusion

This week's Market Squared will ask if Monday's council meeting about the former York Road reformatory lands will focus on the future, or the past
OPINION: Is it time we stopped making the Church on the Hill a symbol of our town?

OPINION: Is it time we stopped making the Church on the Hill a symbol of our town?

This week's Market Squared confronts an ugly truth behind the Royal City's most prominent landmark, and why it's time to re-think its status
Cars are for closers (and other transportation revelations this week)

Cars are for closers (and other transportation revelations this week)

This edition of Market Squared looks at why the Transportation Master Plan is a fantasy, and how some councillors basically admitted as much at this week's meeting
Greyhound's gone and we're way past time for a regional transit re-think

Greyhound's gone and we're way past time for a regional transit re-think

This week's Market Squared discusses why the end of Greyhound Canada needs to finally be the start of a real discussion about expanding regional transit options