Opinion

: Published: 15 May 2023

- by David Clark

Recently I heard an Owen Sound councillor talking on a local radio phone-in show about the need for more opportunities for resident / citizen input. Here is my evidence-supported opinion on the issue.

A post-election report about Ontario’s 2022 election, in part, highlighted a world-wide concern of “declining voter engagement and turnout” ...

: Published: 11 May 2023

- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

A longtime friend of OwenSoundHub contacted us the other day offering an opinion piece regarding the notion of paid parking for parks and recreation facilities in Owen Sound.

Certainly a hot topic in the past. The Hub was ready to post the piece ...

: Published: 09 May 2023

- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

Thanks to Owen Sound city staff who will be out May 9 on this “Provincial Day of Action on Litter”. They are volunteering to pick up litter along the river and 800 blocks of 1^st Avenue West and 1^st Avenue East "to help beautify the River District and ensure waste is put in the correct receptacle” according to the city's media release.

Litter is far from simply a "tsk! people these days" problem. Lots of the litter we pick up has already been in the correct receptacle at least once! ...

: Published: 28 April 2023

- by Douglas Nadler

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words in 1963 while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama for instigating a coordinated campaign of protest against desegregation. Was he referring only to humans, or did he acknowledge the ecological web of being too? ...

: Published: 28 April 2023

- by Michael Craig, representing his opinions as a school trustee for Owen Sound, not the policy of the Bluewater District School Board

Since I was elected to the Bluewater District School Board six months ago, I have been asking myself: What is the role of the school board and what power do trustees have to improve the schools in Grey and Bruce counties? ...