Media Release:
Owen Sound Transit is extending service until 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 11th during the TORONTO 2015 Torch Relay Community Celebration. The event, taking place from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre South Parking Lot, marks the arrival of the Pan Am Torch Relay in Owen Sound.
All normal transit fares will apply for the special extended services after 6 p.m. Buses for all four routes will leave from the Bayshore Community Centre at 8:30 p.m. The Bus Terminal will close at 8 p.m. Those patrons requiring specialized transit services should make their arrangements in the usual manner.
by Kelly Babcock
At the end of last week you may have found, here on the Hub, an article about my efforts to raise some funds for the Bluewater division of the Canadian Cancer Society.
I am happy to report your success in this endeavour to the extent that you have donated over $400 to the cause.
If you had intended to be part of that but hadn't managed to squeeze that into your understandably busy schedule, there is good news. You can still make that donation by dropping in to The River Café at 986 Main Street (2nd Ave. East) in Owen Sound and leaving your donation there, or by going to The Cancer Society's collection page.
I also want to thank my musical partner, Rebecca Johnson-Morelli for her enthusiastic participation in shaving my head, and for her confirming her further participation in the show we'll be putting on for donors who gave twenty dollars or more.
by David McLaren
Well the campaign has officially started. Jim Merriam has stopped praising mules and started talking up Tories.
In a recent article in the Owen Sound Sun Times he claimed the heartland of Ontario for his Party, including Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. The riding is apparently Larry Miller's (and therefore Mr Harper's) to control "as long as he wants it."
If, as Mr Merriam insists, Ontario's rural heartland gives Mr Harper an advantage, it may be the only one he has left. After all it is Mr Harper himself who:
Those are just some of the road apples Mr Harper's government has left behind. As they say in England, there's more shite than shovels on this farm.
This is the text of a letter sent in late April by Peace and Justice Grey Bruce to MP Larry Miller.
No reply has as yet been received.
Dear Mr. Miller
Her name is Delores. Delores Brower. She was 5 foot-three with long brown hair - thirty-three years old the last time she was seen in May, 2004.
Her family has been waiting for 10 years and 11 months.
On April 19 Delores moved from the list of missing Aboriginal women to the very long list of the dead.
Is Delores the one? Is she the woman in whose memory you will ask the Prime Minister to open an inquiry into her missing and murdered sisters?
To the Editor,
Last week, we all learned that for over 100 years, our religious and political leaders, with good intentions or otherwise, systematically starved, abused, and literally killed over 6,000 of our First Nations children. As though anything could be worse, they somehow decided that eradicating the culture, languages, and traditions of our First Peoples was perfectly acceptable, even laudable. After all, it would undoubtedly be better for them to become more like us!
Now that I've put down my tissues and dried my eyes, it is time to think about what actions can be taken.
First- the abject apologies, and the acceptance of deep, deep shame. But it must never stop there. It is only action that spells a real apology.
Second (and please take note members of the Bluewater Board of Education)
As Jutice Murray Sinclair has said in the Truth And Reconciliation Commission report, education is key. We need new school books- books that tell the real story, books geared to every age level, elementary through high school. The province needs to commission First Nations authors to write them.(MPP Bill Walker, please take note.)
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