Shoppers Drug Mart launched its online store for selling medical marijuana on Tuesday after being licensed by Health Canada. To buy from the store, patients must fill out a prescription and be approved by a specialist. The site is accessible nationwide but products will only be sold to patients in Ontario. Cannabis sold by Shoppers will be supplied by 10 licensed producers along with oils and paraphernalia. Cannabis was legalized in Canada last October and is only available online for recreational users in Ontario until physical stores open in April of this year. Story syndicate ..read more

A Peel region girl, the subject of an evening Amber Alert late Thursday night, has been found dead, according to Police. 11-year old Riya Raikumar was found 40 minutes after an Ambert Alert went out Thursday evening.  Her body was discovered in a house in Brampton near Hansen Road North and Marshall Drive.  The girl was in her father’s care at the time.   The girl did not live full-time with her father, but was picked up in Mississauga by her father, 41-year-old Roopesh Rajkumar, at around 3 p.m. Thursday was Riya’s 11th birthday. “In a tragic situation like this ..read more

The Government of Canada is officially asking for bids from four companies to supply a fleet of fighter jet planes for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The requested 88 Fighter Jets are meant to replace the Air Force’s aging CF-18s, which have been in active service since 1984. Multiple federal governments have begun work to replace the older jets, but the project has been stalled by years of start-and-stop bureaucracy.  The current liberal government launch the current process back in 2016, and has been ironing out the details for almost three years. The four companies – Boeing, Airbus, Loc ..read more

A solidarity rally was held at the University of Guelph in support of the Wet’suwet’en and U.S. President Donald Trump made an address to the nation on Tuesday where he urged Congress to fund his border wall. The high for Wednesday is -2 degrees celsius, with a low of -8 degrees. Early morning trades by the Guelph Storm gave away dual forwards, a defenseman and picks for Nick Suzuki, Zach Roberts, Sean Durzi of the Owen Sound Attack. A BeaverTails vendor is at the University of Guelph for the duration of the school day and Hump Day Karaoke starts at 9:30 p.m. inside the eBar. An owl needle fel ..read more

Recently, we published an article about the changes to Ontario’s Public Education system made by Doug Ford & his PC party as well as Lisa Thompson who is Ontario’s Education minister. However, how fast the impact of these changes would occur in the city of Guelph was not predicted. The Upper Grand District School Board has made a decrease in positions because of the provincial revenue loss as well as the significant changes in Autism funding in Ontario. Currently, 54 elementary school teachers have received layoff notifications from Upper Grand District School Board after they finish out t ..read more

Abe Erb Brewing has announced it will be opening up a third location in the Platform building in The Junction development. The Junction development is approximately 45,000 square feet of mixed-used space in a former CN Rail building, as well as two new buildings.  The Platform building is the shared workspace facility which recently opened. The Junction’s developers call The Platform “a stylish office space that offers a collaborative hub for local business owners who are seeking an office, or offices, outside of their home.” Abe Erb will open a full-service restaurant along with a brewer ..read more

Some years ago when I went to the CNE I discovered that they had electric scooters for people with mobility issues, to rent. They requested a piece of ID they could hold, and a small monetary hold on a credit or debit card. The ID was a wonderful idea, as no one would want to leave the area without their drivers license, CNIB card, or whatever else they chose to leave, and while they’re picking up their ID, they might as well drop off the scooter. This was a wonderful way to ensure that visitors with mobility issues got what they needed, and that the items weren’t stolen or misused. Today my q ..read more

In an address to the nation on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a “humanitarian and security crisis” at the southern border with Mexico, where he aims to build a wall, with Democrats blaming the partial United States government shutdown as a result of the president “holding America hostage” in a post-address rebuttal. The president said that he would now pass on the originally promised concrete wall in favour of steel slats “at the request of Democrats” and placed the onus of the shutdown on Democrats in Congress. However, Democrats made clear that they did not support any wall, e ..read more

A solidarity rally in support of the battered Wet’suwet’en First Nation in British Columbia thundered through the University of Guelph’s student centre on midday Tuesday. The Guelph rally is just one of several taking place across the country and internationally in response to the RCMP starting a forced removal of Indigenous clans from an area near Houston, B.C. on Monday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, armed in high numbers, broke through one of two checkpoints set up by Wet’suwet’en land defenders who aim to stop a Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline from being built. After armed police ..read more

A special Zumba class is taking place at Victoria Road Recreation Centre at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, hosted by Dragonfly Zumba with Joanne. The class costs $5 in cash or email transfer to attend and those interested need to bring indoor shoes and a water bottle, according to the event page. Attendees are invited to “rock it out [and] torch a crazy amount of calories”–over 700–and enjoy the music in the recently renovated recreation centre’s Maple Room. Dragonfly Zumba will also be offering a spring session from Jan. 22 to April 30 every Tuesday and Thursday that can be signed up for. Image  ..read more