By Jon Farmer
A couple of weeks ago, when our city's name could be found in news articles around the world, I asked my Owen Sound friends a question over Facebook. I wanted to know why we leave, stay, and come back to our city. The responses were typical of small towns across Canada. We leave for education and work. We stay away when the work and lifestyles we aspire to can only be found in different places. We come back for love of people and place. As much as Owen Sound's latest tag line -- "where you want to live" -- has been ridiculed, there's truth in it but we need to ask why exactly that is before we can spread the word...
City Council approved staff principles for water and wastewater invoicing of properties affected by the freezing of water services over the past few months.
"We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding during the past few months. It is amazing how much our community has been very supportive of each other through this ordeal. The staff from the Water Division have been doing an exceptional job and are continuing to work as quick as possible to have the balance of the frozen services restored to all properties", said Mayor Ian Boddy. "We applaud their efforts!"
The invoicing principles are as follows:
by Hub Staff
Aly Boltman made the following deputation to Owen Sound City Council March 30, 2015
"Thank you for the opportunity to speak to council this evening. I'm Aly Boltman. I have presented to council about Branningham Grove twice before, in September, 2008 and August, 2009. The council at that time consisted of Mayor Lovell, Deputy Mayor Arlene Wright as well as Councillors McManaman, Lemon, Pink, Adair, Haswell, Twaddle and Christie.
"Tonight, only councilors McManaman and Lemon and Deputy Mayor Arlene Wright remain from the council that served between 2006 and 2010.
"In your agenda package, you will see a summary from my past deputation documents outlining Branningham Grove's importance from both an architectural and cultural heritage lens. For the sake of those who may not have an adequate history of the building, I'll take a brief moment to review.
By Kimberley Love
There's an old joke that goes "even paranoids have enemies". It's a good time in Canada to keep that joke in mind. Prime MinisterHarper has pushed forward Bill C-51 using scary language – "a great evil descending on our world" – to amplify the so-called terrorist threat to Canada. And he's used that emotionally charged language as cover for legislation that intrudes on the rights of individual Canadian citizens.
So let's ask the real question. Which is the greater danger to Canada: terrorism, or the fallout from anti-terror legislation that sacrifices our rights?
People concerned about the over-reach of government into the rights of individual Canadian citizens - rights to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and due legal process have been asking this question. This backlash produced cosmetic changes to C-51 announced Friday. But you would have to be naive to imagine that such a question was relevant to the considerations that brought C-51 forward in the first place. Bill C-51 is one of a series of distractions, aimed at diverting theattention of the electorate from the real issues facing Canada in the upcoming federal election.
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