- by Martin Donald
I wanted to comment about an opinion piece that Jim Cummings had posted at the owensoundhub.org about the irony of having an Orange Lodge at the Pratie Oaten, Irish Festival at Grey Roots.
It is very coincidental that Grey Roots built the Orange Lodge in 2017, when we around the world are trying to deal with monuments, whether they be statues, plaques or schools named after individuals, that are inherently negative. We saw indigenous protests in Halifax centered around a statue of Edward Cornwallis, Protests, riots and murders in Charlottesville, North Carolina all centered around a confederate monument and we saw Grey Roots complete a building, a monument to Protestant Ethno-Nationalism.
That statement might seem extreme unless you know...
- Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
At the most recent Owen Sound Operations Committee, the discussion of untamed garbage had fingers pointing in every direction, including at the City itself.
Councillor Brian O'Leary insisted "We're enablers. We let it happen. We need to put the hammer down."
A written complaint by the Downtown Improvement Area (DIA) of discarded furniture on downtown ...
The following notice was distributed to downtown property owners and DIA members, and was published in the Sun Times, "the newspaper of record" to which we subscribe, and on the City website. And still I missed it. My apologies. But I did happen to ...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
The services and costs of having the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) provide Owen Sound with policing was presented to the OPP costing working group on September 12. That information is available to the public here.
The City has retained Levack Management Consulting of Amherstburg to ...
- by R. Michael Warren
First before I argue that Premier Wynne's higher minimum wage and other workplace improvements will benefit our economy and democracy let me make a couple of things clear.First, I've had experience meeting payrolls in my own businesses. It's challenging. Second, I'm not a left-leaning economist using this platform for political advocacy. Instead, I am ...
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