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May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Rob Paul No community can thrive without a strong connection to the seniors within it and keeping them engaged is the key to having them stay in it. If a community can’t offer its senior population a chance to contribute and get involved, it can lose one of the most crucial pillars of the municipality. As such, it’s important to celebrate the seniors in communities across Ontario and that’s why June is Seniors Month. To show seniors just how important they are to Caledon, the Caledon Public Lib...

May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Rob Paul  It might not be the same social in-person setting dedicated to spreading awareness, education, and showing the support most associate with Pride, but this year Caledon Pride is hoping to do the most they can given the circumstance of the pandemic. With the recent retirement of Peel Pride, Caledon Pride—led by founder Julia Bertola—is helping as many of the organizations in the area that they can get ready for June. Caledon Pride is a grassroots 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy group that’s dedicate...

May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Rob Paul On Monday, May 17, the Town of Caledon officially launched its COVID-19 Internet Grant Program. At a Council meeting last month, Caledon Council directed staff to develop an internet grant program for the Council to consider and presented the program on May 4. The program is a one-time, temporary solution to help support residents in under-serviced areas of Caledon. The connectivity issue in the Town has been a pressing issue that has further been brought to light during the pandemic due to ...

May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Rob Paul  Although the current COVID-19 stay-at-home order stops people in Ontario from gathering, it hasn’t stopped a protest taking plan throughout the Town of Erin into Caledon and along the West Credit River. It might not be the type of protest most people think of with picketers and a large number of protesters, but rather it’s a visual public protest to stop the wastewater treatment plant that the Town of Erin is planning to build. Erin has sewage issues and the Town needs a solution, but ...

May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Rob Paul With Council hoping to prioritize making Caledon age-friendly for all, they had urbanMetrics Inc. develop a 10-year Age-Friendly Caledon Action Plan. The action plan identifies key priorities and results in the form of short, medium, and long-term goals. At the May 18 Council Meeting, urbanMetrics Inc. consulting partner Peter Thoma presented the action plan to Council. Council adopted the plan and implementation will begin immediately. The reason for an age-friendly action plan in Caledon i...