Jordan Snobelen

GUELPH – A group of recently sheltered people may soon find themselves living on the streets again.

GUELPH – The cost of a planned upgrade to the Stepping Stone emergency shelter in Guelph has increased to nearly $5 million from the nearly $4 million estimated back in February, when the project was formally announced.

WELLINGTON COUNTY – Parents applying for licensed childcare spots in Wellington County will soon have a one-stop place to go online where they can find and apply to area programs.

GUELPH – The situation has been described as a crisis, complex, a failure (both morally and systemically), overwhelming and simply as “crap.”

GUELPH – Wellington County politicians aren’t declaring intimate partner violence an epidemic – for now at least.

KENILWORTH – Wellington North staff began exploring a full-cost-recovery model for the Mount Forest cemetery during the winter, with subsequent reports to council on fee increases needed to get there, and historical operating costs, comparisons with other cemeteries, and a proposed increase schedule

OTTAWA – The Liberal government has introduced Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which the government says will safeguard Canadians from online hate and protect children online.

ERIN – Oh, to be the mayor of Erin, if only for a day.

WELLINGTON NORTH – A fire department incident report, recently obtained through a freedom of information request, reveals more about what happened leading up to and during a Jan. 25 fire that closed St. Mary Catholic School in Mount Forest.

ABOYNE - Around 30 women gathered in Aboyne Hall on March 4 to hear about local struggles with finding licensed childcare spaces in the county, and how the system works.

TORONTO – An appeal panel has reversed the decision of the province’s gaming commission that resulted in a two-year suspension of horse trainer Anthony Beaton last year.

WELLINGTON NORTH – Two Arthur-area meat processors will receive an influx of federal and provincial tax dollars for facility upgrades.

OTTAWA – Top federal public health and intelligence officials won’t be appearing before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about recently declassified documents detailing investigations that led to the firing of two scientists from the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory.

ARTHUR - The Township of Wellington North is purchasing a 4.88-acre lot at the dead end of Gordon Street in Arthur for future work related to the community's wastewater treatment plant.