- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
The second in a never-ending series on changes in Owen Sound.
As Sears Canada announced this week it was seeking court protection from its creditors, sales appeared brisk at the store in Heritage Place Mall. Maybe it was the simple marketing power of the repetition of a brand name on the news, or perhaps people thought there were deals to be had. The good news...
"It used to be so simple," rings Katie Couric's voice in the opening shots. "You were a boy, or you were a girl. Girls wore pink, boys wore blue. Girls played with dolls, boys played with trucks. Girls played house, boys played sports. But that was then..." Couric explores this idea in Gender Revolution.
This National Geographic documentary will be the first of two movie nights presented by Grey Bruce Pride. Showing on...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
Transportation to and around the Bruce Peninsula, from Owen Sound to Sauble Beach and back – these have been dreams for more than a decade. And it looks like someone has stepped forward with a magic wand – and a bus.
But businesses are more than good ideas. Licences, permits, insurance and plans are as important as the hardware and the Facebook page. As Uber and Greyhound and dozens of others have found, transportation is a business fraught with logistical challenges.
All of us at the Owen Sound Hub are as keen as anyone on the idea of peninsula transportation. But we've been around the block...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
When the news is full of pictures of a smouldering tower, it is hard for anyone living in an apartment not to give thought to the safety of their own building. And when the fingers started pointing at British government departments and politicians with accusations of putting lives at risk to save money, those who live in public housing anywhere get nervous.
One local resident of a Grey County Housing apartment expressed her unease on social media, and OwenSoundHub.org set out to find the facts for her and her neighbours...
I must have been waiting for a pot to boil the day I just kept sharing posts on Facebook. Most of these I posted without comment, which suggests my brain was elsewhere engaged, or turned off.
The first was an interactive map that allows a person to find out whose traditional territory they live on with just one click. More than one person I knew had ...
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