Jeff Outhit
Reporter at The Waterloo Region Record
I'm a reporter at The Waterloo Region Record, a daily newspaper in Ontario. Reach me at [email protected] or 519-580-1829.
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2 days ago |
therecord.com | Jeff Outhit
Waterloo city council has approved a six-storey apartment building where six detached houses will be demolished in the central campus neighbourhood known as Northdale. The building is meant for student rentals, fronting on Albert and on Hemlock streets, where other student apartment buildings have also sprouted. It will feature a mix of apartments with one, two or three bedrooms. It’s unclear when it will be built to help Waterloo move past its housing crisis.
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2 days ago |
therecord.com | Jeff Outhit
Waterloo city council aims to go much bigger than initially planned in spending up to $20 million to renovate a popular arena and community centre. The larger ambition will expand a library branch, add a commercial-grade kitchen, add gender-neutral washrooms and change rooms, incorporate spiritual space for wellness and inclusion, and retrofit twin ice pads at the Albert McCormick Community Centre.
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2 days ago |
therecord.com | Jeff Outhit
Images filled a screen like a housing horror show. Soiled toilets. Mouldy showers. Bare, dirty mattresses piled against each other. A stained, broken refrigerator. Broken mirrors. Torn and shredded sheets, hung for privacy. This is how some farms house the migrant farm workers they employ and it has to stop, a national coalition said Friday in calling on the federal government to impose proper housing standards.
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6 days ago |
therecord.com | Robert Williams |Jeff Outhit
Conestoga College is moving to a four-day week at most of its facilities for the summer semester, with new initiatives to limit spending across its campuses. A series of internal staff emails documenting the operational changes come as federal data shows the college received just 410 new study permits for foreign students in the first three months of 2025. That’s down 95 per cent compared to 2023, when 8,550 new study permits were approved over the same period.
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1 week ago |
therecord.com | Jeff Outhit
John (Jack) Hergott lived in a red brick house before he died fighting for Canada in the Second World War. Today, Paul Wittig lives in the same house on Esson Street in central Waterloo. With its small rooms, dark wood and corner stairs, the house feels in some ways like it did 80 years ago. Wittig recently received a postcard about Hergott. It came to the house as part of a campaign by the Juno Beach Centre to raise awareness about victory in Europe in 1945. Other houses received similar postcards.
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