- by Ryan McGreal
Last Wednesday, a bombshell report from CTV News documented serious sexual misconduct allegations against Patrick Brown, who was the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
Brown tearfully denied...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
We are in a double election year, and while all the air has been sucked out of the room by the PC leadership upheaval and the creation of ever more insulting nicknames for the sitting Premier, locally we are preparing for a civilized municipal campaign.
In 2014, many candidates' campaigns were predicated on a perception that no progress could be made because the council was very divided, and new, untainted leadership was required. Twenty-four candidates ran in Owen Sound;...
- by Hub staff
After a report from Fire Chief Doug Barfoot on the fire protection options in other municipalities (below), Owen Sound Council voted to hire a consultant to review the city's fire service. City Manager Wayne Ritchie supported this plan, stating that this council had always considered the "long game" for the residents of the city. He said any job losses from a possible transition to a composite department (part career fire fighters and part volunteer) could then be achieved by attrition, although he agreed that arbitration was the alternative.
The only dissenting vote was...
At approximately 06:26 hours Police, Fire and EMS responded to a structure fire in the 200 block of 10th Street East. Approximately 10 people were evacuated from apartments above the restaurant. The fire was limited to the kitchen area which suffered significant damage. Owen Sound Fire with the assistance of Inter-Township Fire was able to extinguish the blaze before it...
This is a letter regarding the series of articles on Owen Sound Hub called "Living on Minimum Wage"
The sad truth is that many people are living on minimum wage; many in our local municipalities are below the poverty line. At the same time there many very nice government social support programs, that truly are awesome and they take considerable amount of money from... the tax payers' pocket.
In the XXI century with the science and technology advancements and in one of a few richest countries this looks
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