- by Blaine Courtney
Just over 12 months ago I announced that 2017 would be my final year as chairman of the Owen Sound Emancipation Festival and invited interested parties to step forward to fill my role and those of several others who will also be retiring from their Board and Committee member responsibilities. I must admit to a degree of disappointment with the response. To date we have only had one volunteer step forward and she will be taking on a valuable fundraising role....thank-you Pat,....
Construction of the British Columbia section of the Trans-Canada Railway, as most people know, is an important milestone of Chinese immigration in Canada. The migration that occurred 2 decades prior to that has been less discussed. In early 1858, gold was discovered along the Fraser River. In the following months, close to 30,000 men arrived; among them were 7,000 ...
The Owen Sound Young Naturalist club gets up and running this Sunday.
Welcome to The Young Naturalists Club! We will be meeting this Sunday Oct 29th at the Grey Sauble Administration Centre ( basement door at back of building ) at 2:00 pm and we will be having nature artists Frank and Bonita de Matteis...
Pawprints on the Heart: Animal Stories from Grey-Bruce is a new anthology celebrating the human-animal connection. Initiated by Dr. Debbie Boyd of the Grey Bruce Pet Hospital, the book is the result of a local writing contest; stories from 29 writers are included. Pawprints from the Heart will be launched at The Ginger Press in downtown Owen Sound at...
I do not want to ignore the new law in Quebec saying that when using public services a Muslim woman cannot wear an outer layer that completely covers her--the Burka and the niqab. I love the protests: non-muslim women wearing face coverings, and the bus driver wearing a surgical mask. But it is too easy to stand by and piously condemn the law, as if there are not issues of prejudice and cultural hegemony here.
As I've attended conventions for speculative fiction ...
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