Erin Caton
@caton.bsky.social
Founder Environmental Sensitivities Coalition of Canada, techie, gardener, food nerd & mom. Guelph City Councillor Ward 1.
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This season can be great if you’re doing well or well enough. If you are having a great holiday, consider sharing your joy or funds with someone who’s not.
From my family to yours, I hope you have a happy holiday.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This season can be great if you’re doing well or well enough. If you are having a great holiday, consider sharing your joy or funds with someone who’s not.
From my family to yours, I hope you have a happy holiday.
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From my family to yours, I hope you have a happy holiday.
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There’s more reasons than just trade protections to keep out a lot of US dairy, and it protects more than just dairy farmers. Especially with the US attack on science and safety regulations going on. cdr.wisc.edu/dairy-recall...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There’s more reasons than just trade protections to keep out a lot of US dairy, and it protects more than just dairy farmers. Especially with the US attack on science and safety regulations going on. cdr.wisc.edu/dairy-recall...
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Starting Jan 1, you can recycle more! ✅Packaging (paper, glass, metal, plastic), plastic bags & wrappers, foam trays, coffee cups & pods, cosmetic tubes, blister packs, takeout containers & more. If it’s packaging, recycle it!
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December 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Starting Jan 1, you can recycle more! ✅Packaging (paper, glass, metal, plastic), plastic bags & wrappers, foam trays, coffee cups & pods, cosmetic tubes, blister packs, takeout containers & more. If it’s packaging, recycle it!
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I’m so glad the decision to fund winter maintenance was reversed. Big win for accessibility, and affordability for those who need to ride in winter, as well as many unintended infrastructure headaches for the city at large.
Shout out to the people who made their voices heard in Guelph!
Cyclists hit streets of downtown Guelph to protest closure of bike lanes in winter | CBC News
About 70 cyclists took to the streets in downtown Guelph on Monday night to protest the city's decision to close bike lanes for the winter months.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I’m so glad the decision to fund winter maintenance was reversed. Big win for accessibility, and affordability for those who need to ride in winter, as well as many unintended infrastructure headaches for the city at large.
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We’re getting housing built, #Guelph!
Today, Minister Rob Flack announced the City hit 85% of our 2024 housing start goal — and will receive $3.69M through the #BuildingFasterFund. Thanks to Minister Flack for visiting Guelph and bringing us this exciting news.
Today, Minister Rob Flack announced the City hit 85% of our 2024 housing start goal — and will receive $3.69M through the #BuildingFasterFund. Thanks to Minister Flack for visiting Guelph and bringing us this exciting news.
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We’re getting housing built, #Guelph!
Today, Minister Rob Flack announced the City hit 85% of our 2024 housing start goal — and will receive $3.69M through the #BuildingFasterFund. Thanks to Minister Flack for visiting Guelph and bringing us this exciting news.
Today, Minister Rob Flack announced the City hit 85% of our 2024 housing start goal — and will receive $3.69M through the #BuildingFasterFund. Thanks to Minister Flack for visiting Guelph and bringing us this exciting news.
Get to downtown @guelph.ca for the last day of Spirit of the Season and check out the punk rock market at the Guelph farmers market too. Loads of local artists and vendors to support with your holiday shopping.
December 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Get to downtown @guelph.ca for the last day of Spirit of the Season and check out the punk rock market at the Guelph farmers market too. Loads of local artists and vendors to support with your holiday shopping.
Hanukkah sameach to all our Jewish Guelphites! I hope you have a wonderful first night of celebration and contemplation. 🕎
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hanukkah sameach to all our Jewish Guelphites! I hope you have a wonderful first night of celebration and contemplation. 🕎
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Our crews are still out collecting yard waste across #Guelph. Please keep your yard waste bags at the curb, and they will be collected as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience ow.ly/yKqK50XE2ur
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our crews are still out collecting yard waste across #Guelph. Please keep your yard waste bags at the curb, and they will be collected as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience ow.ly/yKqK50XE2ur
Happy to be learning more about tactics to combat hate and division in cities from international speakers at the @strongcitiesnetwork.org sixth global summit in Toronto.
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Happy to be learning more about tactics to combat hate and division in cities from international speakers at the @strongcitiesnetwork.org sixth global summit in Toronto.
Keep in mind that testing coverage for Ontario is currently limited due to the province cutting wastewater monitoring in most locations. Flu is also very high right now. If you haven’t had your fall vaccinations and are medically able, they are still available.
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Keep in mind that testing coverage for Ontario is currently limited due to the province cutting wastewater monitoring in most locations. Flu is also very high right now. If you haven’t had your fall vaccinations and are medically able, they are still available.
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Make Asbestos Great Again
F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h... @nytimes.com
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November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Make Asbestos Great Again
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Mixed feelings about the recent Ombudsman Report "Lost in Transition" on the hospitalization of adults with developmental disabilities and the developmental services system in Ontario
Link to Media Release & Proposed Additional Solutions: tr.ee/Hgn22PfQBu or in bio.
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Link to Media Release & Proposed Additional Solutions: tr.ee/Hgn22PfQBu or in bio.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Mixed feelings about the recent Ombudsman Report "Lost in Transition" on the hospitalization of adults with developmental disabilities and the developmental services system in Ontario
Link to Media Release & Proposed Additional Solutions: tr.ee/Hgn22PfQBu or in bio.
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Link to Media Release & Proposed Additional Solutions: tr.ee/Hgn22PfQBu or in bio.
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Passing action for the renoviction and rental replacement bylaws, the vacancy tax bylaw and the build of 12 new affordable housing units is a great end of month council meeting.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Passing action for the renoviction and rental replacement bylaws, the vacancy tax bylaw and the build of 12 new affordable housing units is a great end of month council meeting.
Email councillorsandmayor@guelph.ca to show support for funding the daytime shelter. We can’t afford not to. www.instagram.com/reel/DRfPZDn...
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Email councillorsandmayor@guelph.ca to show support for funding the daytime shelter. We can’t afford not to. www.instagram.com/reel/DRfPZDn...
Magical skies for the ribbon cutting of the new pedestrian bridge (name coming soon) that connects Emma and Earl streets. Glad this is in place before we close the Speedvale bridge for repairs so folks without cars can maintain access. Great job from @guelph.ca staff on this project.
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Magical skies for the ribbon cutting of the new pedestrian bridge (name coming soon) that connects Emma and Earl streets. Glad this is in place before we close the Speedvale bridge for repairs so folks without cars can maintain access. Great job from @guelph.ca staff on this project.
We need to take a stand against the use of the notwithstanding clause which allows Premiers to push through anti-human rights legislation that equates to anti-trans violence.
1/ This Trans Day of Remembrance we honour the memory and lives taken due to anti-trans violence. Dangerous anti-2SLGBTQI hate and rhetoric continue to take hold in modern-day society.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We need to take a stand against the use of the notwithstanding clause which allows Premiers to push through anti-human rights legislation that equates to anti-trans violence.
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This is amazing news for anyone who rents in #Guelph. This bylaw will keep people in their homes by preventing bad-faith renovictions which are loopholes around rent control. @caton.bsky.social @gwlc.bsky.social @getinvolvedguelph.bsky.social @taypace.bsky.social #housing #rentcontrol #onpoli
Council votes to speed up renoviction bylaw for Guelph
'It's not acceptable to wait for another year or two years to get this implemented when it's affecting people right now,' said Coun. Erin Caton
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November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is amazing news for anyone who rents in #Guelph. This bylaw will keep people in their homes by preventing bad-faith renovictions which are loopholes around rent control. @caton.bsky.social @gwlc.bsky.social @getinvolvedguelph.bsky.social @taypace.bsky.social #housing #rentcontrol #onpoli
Thanks to @guelph.ca council for supporting my amendment to immediately begin development of renoviction and rental replacement bylaws. With the vacancy tax bylaw & affordable housing plan, this was a great night with hopeful changes on the horizon.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thanks to @guelph.ca council for supporting my amendment to immediately begin development of renoviction and rental replacement bylaws. With the vacancy tax bylaw & affordable housing plan, this was a great night with hopeful changes on the horizon.
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Caton says its a numbers game; the City is proposing to build 12 units for $3.4 million (in next item) and this save affordable units for a simple $311k. They feel that we can get at a bylaw pretty quickly and with rapidly rising rents in Guelph, we need this now.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Caton says its a numbers game; the City is proposing to build 12 units for $3.4 million (in next item) and this save affordable units for a simple $311k. They feel that we can get at a bylaw pretty quickly and with rapidly rising rents in Guelph, we need this now.
“The new Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) will aim to improve the province’s conservation authority system" to help get shovels in the ground faster on homes and other local infrastructure projects” - Guelph Today
Ah yes, building homes. Famously, the mandate of Conservation.
Ah yes, building homes. Famously, the mandate of Conservation.
The province is creating the Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) to "provide centralized leadership, efficient governance, strategic direction and oversight of all conservation authorities." Some conservation authorities will be consolidated, but the province insists no jobs will be lost.
Ontario Newsroom
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October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“The new Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) will aim to improve the province’s conservation authority system" to help get shovels in the ground faster on homes and other local infrastructure projects” - Guelph Today
Ah yes, building homes. Famously, the mandate of Conservation.
Ah yes, building homes. Famously, the mandate of Conservation.
Doug Ford up with new way to increase homelessness and more intruding on municipal decisions. Never have I ever seen a government more intent on driving up property taxes in communities that are trying to keep people off the street. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #ONpoli
Ontario bill would look at ‘alternative options’ for ending residential leases, scrap Toronto green roof bylaw. Here are the highlights
The Ford government has tabled an omnibus bill that would make changes to a whole suite of laws and regulations, from green roofs to tenant evictions and driver’s licences.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Doug Ford up with new way to increase homelessness and more intruding on municipal decisions. Never have I ever seen a government more intent on driving up property taxes in communities that are trying to keep people off the street. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #ONpoli
I was in hospital for three days and now am receiving outpatient care. I have had the opportunity to chat up loads of patients and professionals about the state of healthcare funding. The consensus is our province needs to get its priorities straight. We need accountability.
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I was in hospital for three days and now am receiving outpatient care. I have had the opportunity to chat up loads of patients and professionals about the state of healthcare funding. The consensus is our province needs to get its priorities straight. We need accountability.
Council approved the Indigenous Relations Framework for the The City of Guelph in 2024, and I'm happy to see all the progress we have made in one year towards a more inclusive and culturally expansive Guelph, in the spirit of reconciliation.
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Progress Report - Guelph's Indigenous Relations Framework
Stories of progress, learning, and shared commitments
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September 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Council approved the Indigenous Relations Framework for the The City of Guelph in 2024, and I'm happy to see all the progress we have made in one year towards a more inclusive and culturally expansive Guelph, in the spirit of reconciliation.
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👋 Hey Bluesky, we’re Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health! 🍎
New space, same mission: to protect health and promote overall well-being so everyone in our communities can thrive.
Follow for health tips, useful resources and friendly reminders about everything from vaccines💉 to well water💧.
New space, same mission: to protect health and promote overall well-being so everyone in our communities can thrive.
Follow for health tips, useful resources and friendly reminders about everything from vaccines💉 to well water💧.
September 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
👋 Hey Bluesky, we’re Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health! 🍎
New space, same mission: to protect health and promote overall well-being so everyone in our communities can thrive.
Follow for health tips, useful resources and friendly reminders about everything from vaccines💉 to well water💧.
New space, same mission: to protect health and promote overall well-being so everyone in our communities can thrive.
Follow for health tips, useful resources and friendly reminders about everything from vaccines💉 to well water💧.
Canada Post offices are still in inaccessible locations that use perfumed products and sell perfumes. Decreasing accessibility and cutting jobs is not how we build a strong country.
Seems like a good time to remind people that Canada Post will deliver any piece of mail to federal elected officials for FREE.
No stamp necessary!
Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.
No stamp necessary!
Just a reminder in case you, oh I dunno, wanna send your elected officials a sternly worded letter a day for a year or something.
Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Canada Post offices are still in inaccessible locations that use perfumed products and sell perfumes. Decreasing accessibility and cutting jobs is not how we build a strong country.