- by Bill Stobbe
As we head closer to a municipal election this fall, all prospective councillors and mayoral candidates should be putting forward their fresh ideas on how to make Owen Sound a better place to live and work. How can we make our streets and neighbourhoods safer? How can we attract more development and support our local businesses and industries? How can we market Owen Sound as the place where people want to relocate to and call home?
- By Jim Hutton
City expenses increased by $12.3 million or 30.7% between 2011 and 2020. This was well beyond the 18.3% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the same period. ...
- by Jim Hutton
This is the second article on the impact that high taxes have on everyone living in Owen Sound - property owners and renters alike. You can read the first article on this subject at www.OwenSoundTaxes.com or here.
Owen Sound taxpayers are one of the highest taxed populations in Ontario ...
- by Jim Hutton
The first impact of successive years of high tax increases is that people move to avoid property taxes or high rents. Owen Sound has experienced annual tax increases at twice the rate of inflation over the last twenty years. We can see this when we look at the change in those filing income taxes between 2012 and 2020 as shown in graph below. (data for Meaford and Georgian Bluffs was not available at Stats) During this period, this group grew by 5.51% in Collingwood and 4.94% in Brockville that has a population nearly identical to that of Owen Sound.
- by David McLaren
What you do to the least of these, so you do to me’ is a paraphrase of Matthew 25-40.
‘The job of government is to do for those who cannot do for themselves’ is a paraphrase from FDR who actually said, “The first obligation of government is ...
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