- by Joachim Ostertag
The events of December 6, 1989 are engraved in my brain and soul. I learned about the killing the next morning while preparing my young children for the day and getting myself ready for the last day of training to work with men who abuse women. CBC news was on the radio but hard to hear with all the commotion of the morning. Through the noise I heard the reporter say that a gunman had killed 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. They were all engineering students. I felt numb and tried to pretend I hadn’t heard. I must have misunderstood something amid the familiar morning chaos.
- by John A. Tamming
In Bananas, Woody Allen’s 1971 take on a Central American dictator, the newly “elected” General announces that from now on, all the people shall speak Swedish and wear their underwear on the outside. Oh yes, all children under the age of 16 shall be deemed to be 16.
Such arbitrary exercise of power is not available to the elected in Canada, including (perhaps especially including) municipal councils. Instead, one’s room for action is limited ...
On December 1, 2021, several branches of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Owen Sound Police Service (OSPS), including: the OPP Community Street Crimes Unit (CSCU), OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), OPP Regional Support Team (RST), OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau (OCEB), OSPS Drugs and Intelligence Unit, ..
On December 4th, 2021, at approximately 8:15 a.m., a disturbance took place at the Owen Sound Farmers' Market, located in downtown River District.
Multiple citizens contacted police out of concern after they observed the a man threatening another man with a 16" pipe while shouting threats and ...
- Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
If you worked full time at $20/hr. it would take slightly more than 50% of your take-home pay to rent a one-bedroom apartment in this building in the City of Owen Sound. Before hydro or internet or air-conditioning or laundry.
While that is a cold dose of 2021 reality, perhaps more disconcerting was ......
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