The thing about being on panels at speculative fiction conventions is that you are never quite sure what to expect. A panel on liminal spaces in stories leads to a deep conversation about the thresholds in our lives. An editing panel leads to the best discussion of pronouns and gender diversity. Twice, a thought from a panel has stuck with me and wormed its way into a novel ...
– by Michael Craig
On Friday, well over 100 education workers, represented by CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, rallied in front of the office of Rick Byers, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP, to press their demands for higher wages. As a new trustee of the Bluewater District School Board, I joined them to express my personal solidarity with some of the lowest paid education workers in Ontario; and to protest the government’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ban this strike even before it began ...
In October, the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.4 percentage points to 2.3%, once again the lowest in Ontario. This represents the region’s lowest unemployment rate recorded by Statistics Canada since 2006. The provincial unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 5.6%, both unadjusted for seasonality ...
- by Pat Kelly
Everybody understands the power of the Globe and Mail or the National Post but less recognized and appreciated is the power of the Owen Sound Hub and the dozens of other small, community newspapers just like it across Ontario.
There are clear reasons why the Hub and others continue to thrive - because the smaller the community, the more important its newspaper. ...
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