Grey County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) wish to inform residents on the topic of “identity theft” after a 69-year old Georgian Bluffs man found out that someone had opened a Wal-Mart Mastercard in his name in early 2015 and purchased items in the Toronto area as well as Quebec. The victim became aware of his identity theft after he was contacted by a collection agency. The fraud is being investigated by York Regional Police. The victim shared the information with Grey County OPP on February 22, 2016.
What is identity theft? Basically it is when someone “steals” your identity without your knowledge and then uses your personal information to commit a crime. This can be accomplished when someone uses your name, your Social Insurance Number (SIN), your credit card number or any other piece of personal information without your consent. Perhaps you’ve never opened that account, or ordered that credit card …
Georgian College welcomes the changes to student financial aid contained in the Ontario budget released today. Important changes to funding for applied research are also being promised to Georgian and other Ontario colleges.
The transformation of the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) and other student aid programs into the new Ontario Student Grant, announced by Finance Minister Charles Sousa, will help make postsecondary education more affordable for many local residents. Under the proposed changes, many Ontario postsecondary students will be able to graduate with little or no debt. The new program starts in the 2017/18 academic year.
While the cost of attending college or university is foremost in the minds of most Ontario students, the situation is particularly critical in the geographic area served by Georgian College. Georgian has the fourth...
The Welcoming Communities Initiative is pleased to announce the launch of the Good Neighbour Network on Friday March 4th at 11:00 am at the Grey Bruce Health Unit Atrium, 101 17th St. East, Owen Sound. The Good Neighbour Network trains community members to help orient newcomers to life in Owen Sound and area. Newcomers are recent arrivals and are immigrants, refugees, and people from other parts of Canada.
One round of training occurred in November and the next one is slated for late April. Those who come to the Launch will learn how the Good Neighbour Network works, and how trained mentors can support newcomers...
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker says it was callous of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to dismiss the troubling testimony from Ontario's frontline health workers as "rhetoric" in Tuesday's Question Period at Queen's Park.
MPP Walker shared with the Premier some of the testimony heard during the pre-budget hearings, including the call from frontline staff for safer staffing levels in long-term care homes, a move also supported by the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, which represents some 440 nursing homes in Ontario.
"Hank Beekhuis of the Christian Labour Association, representing workers in long-term-care homes, told us that they 'had a resident die at the hand of another resident who was not, and could not, based on staffing levels, be adequately supervised,'" said MPP Walker. "Beekhuis also said they 'have had residents neglected...
By Cathy Hird
Some time ago, an African Caribbean minister who had just been hired by a rural Ontario church expressed her relief that the congregation had accepted her so openly, making no issue of her accent, her colour, her culture. Someone else at the meeting said, "But won't it be great when a church will hire you because of the gifts your Jamaican identity offers."
I learned something in that moment. Both people said something important about racism and inclusion in
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