Participants of the Healthy Communities Conference in Owen Sound will be looking to the future as this year’s event focuses on the theme of “Fostering Sustainable Communities in Grey-Bruce.”
Leith Deacon, associate professor in Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph’s School of Environmental Design & Rural ...
Always an exciting day for the students of École catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio, they came to celebrate Franco-Ontario Day at Owen Sound city hall, and watch the Franco-Ontarian flag be raised over the city.
September 25 was officially declared to be Franco-Ontario Day in 2010 in recognition of the Franco‑Ontarian flag, created by Gaétan Gervais and Michel Dupuis and raised for the first time on September 25, 1975.
Ontario is home to the largest Francophone community in Canada outside Quebec.
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
There are at least 1.7 million migrants - 1 in 23 residents in Canada - who do not have the basic rights the rest of us accept as just. On Sunday, September 18, people in the largest cities across the country joined their voices to call for change.
Amaris Terner, a high school student, signed on to organize support for migrant workers in the smallest community taking part ...
- by Eric Coleman
On September 20, Brockton Municipal Council received a presentation from employees of Grey and Bruce Counties, as well as the YMCA, on the issue of homelessness. Following the presentation was a lengthy discussion on the issue. The agenda and video can be found here: What follows is my response on the issue and discussion.
- 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?
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