By Cathy Hird
I've been thinking about conversations, difficult ones in particular, and the challenge of opening up topics where we disagree. Intentionally facing uncomfortable issues is hard. But people are different from each other. Sometimes the difference comes at us from nowhere.
An example. The setting is a line in a store, any kind of store...
By Jon Farmer
November 11th is complicated. We mark it with ornate public ceremony, great bursts of munitions and music, and – most importantly – silence. A crowd gathered around the cenotaph on 1st Avenue West in Owen Sound to mark this Remembrance Day. A thousand people stretched north along the sidewalks and steps of the library and art gallery, and spilled east along the 9th Street Bridge wrapping along the top of the eastern bank. Men and women in uniform stood side by side with civilians of all ages, almost all wore poppies. The Canadian flag hung at half-mast. The mood was quiet and thoughtful.
Memorials in parks and buildings throughout Owen Sound remind us that there were times during the past century when Canadians were clearly and collectively touched by war. Plaques explain...
The Hub asked Jake Doherty, former publisher of The Owen Sound Sun Times, Kingston Whig Standard and the Hamilton Spectator, about the changes in newspapers over his career. Parts One and Two here.
-by John (Jake) Doherty
The essential questions in South Africa then were more racial than religious but more lethal most certainly. And thus less open to visiting journalists. To get my visa application signed, I had to promise its ambassador to Canada that I was prepared to look at both sides of the apartheid policies that gave total control to the white minority with no black representation in government or its police and military.
To work around this, I constructed a template of crosshairs that ran west to east and another that went north to south. The first represented the importance of South Africa's pivotal position between western democracies and the then Soviet Union; in effect democracy versus communism. The second reflected the social justice issues championed by North American democracies (particularly Canada) and the totalitarian regimes in the southern hemisphere. Put together, did they represent the gun sight on a lethal weapon, or the cross of redemption?
My test came quite quickly after a brief stop in Kenya to visit a
by Kelly BabcockWednesday, November 11th, from 6PM to 8:30, at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library, join Dave Hawkins of 8th St. Music Factory for Collaborative Hour & Open Mic - the Ukulele edition. No experience with the ukulele? No problem! The 8th Street Music Factory will be providing ukuleles for all to try. admission: free
Thursday, November 12th, at 8PM, at Heartwood Concert Hall, 939 Main St., come out and see Ian Sherwood and Coco Love Alcorn live at Heartwood Concert Hall. Ian and Coco; two ECMA nominated artists share the stage for an evening of original music and storytelling at it's best. admission: $15, doors at 7:30PM
Thursday, November 12th, at 9PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., It's Jazz Jam! Come out and jam on any kind of jazz you want. Bring an instrument or your voice and join Kaelin Murphy at the Avalon! admission: pay what you can
Friday, November 13th, at 9PM, at the Avalon Jazz Lounge & Patio, 229 9th Street E., Koopa Troop brings the nostalgic sounds of video games to life in a quirky 5-piece ensemble. Donning their Nintendo-themed costumes, 5 Toronto jazz musicians embrace their inner nerd and become a live, musical nostalgia machine. admission: pay what you can
Saturday, November 14th, at 12 Noon, at Frog Ponds Café, 209, 8th St. E., SHORE THING from ...
-by Curtis Healy
Out there on a strip of land created by the St. Lawrence, commonly called Grosse Isle, there are graves, names in a direct line, names of my grandfathers and grandmothers, of my mother and my father. They came here fleeing a natural disaster neglected by a government under an act of union that claimed they were citizen-subjects of the same country. The city of Montreal is about to pump untreated sewage into the waters that create this sacred ground, claiming that it will have dissipated before it can wash up and profane it. But from one section of the water to another, like the black rock screams, it is all connected; those who landed in Montreal, the 6000 dead the stone speaks for, buried their dead at the typhus quarantine on Grosse, before they made their way west, to join them in the pit.
Even if you don't take the page of ancestors or sacred, personal heritage grounds into the equation, have the people of this city, forgotten their own history, both local and national? Have they never heard of or simply forgotten ...
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