- Hub staff
In a report to Monday's council meeting, Kate Allan, Director of Corporate Services, reminded us that “It is City policy to ensure that both water and wastewater are financially sustainable through rates and that taxation is not used to offset any of the cost of providing the service.”
Council approved a rate increase of 5%, beginning with the July 2022 billing cycle. ...
Bruce County’s Spruce the Bruce program has $125,000 in grant funding available to support local downtown businesses and communities through the “Community Stream” grants. Applications are now open for eligible business and property owners, municipalities, and community partners to apply for funding supports the program’s variety of grants.
These grants include: ...
- by Douglas Nadler
Recently at a protest I saw an Indigenous woman carrying a poster with the words “Colonialism is Indigenous Genocide.” After 500 years colonialism may have changed its spots, but it continues to be the scourge of the southern hemisphere as well as places such as Ukraine. Of course ...
The Owen Sound and District Junior Optimists are hosting “Art in the Park” at Hibou Conservation Area on June 4th (2:00 to 4:00 PM). This event is in support of the Optimist Club of Sydenham & District’s Grand Opening of the Optimist Inclusive Playground. The Junior Optimists will have games and activities for the children as well as an Indigenous reconciliation activity.
Members have been making items ...
I was delighted to learn of the decision of the Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board to fly the Pride Flag this June. I have been a Catholic educator for almost 40 years, and I have recently been involved in some positive conversations around equity and inclusion in my own school board (Huron-Perth Catholic) and although our board has not yet committed to fly the Pride Flag – I feel good about the trajectory of the conversations. There are many good things happening ...
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