- by Michael Craig
What are we to make of the imposition of the Emergencies Act last February to clear Ottawa streets of ‘Freedom Convoy’ trucks? And the Ford government’s passage last week of Bill 28 to deny CUPE workers the right to strike, using the notwithstanding clause to shield the legislation from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
What these two events have in common is ...
– by Jim Hutton
Soon you will take your place at the first meeting of Council for the term. Given the times in which we live, this term will likely be one of the most challenging terms in many years. The Owen Sound voters elected you, because they believe that each and every one of you are the best suited to take on the many challenges we are facing – skyrocketing taxes, our homeless population, our failing transit system ...
– by Staff
David Galway
I feel this is Us, going forward.
Press Association photographer Jacob King was in the right place at the right time with the right skills and detemination to grab this image of a protester getting carried away for throwing eggs at King Charles ...
The Ontario government has announced that it intends to break its loudest, clearest election promise, by inflicting a fatal 7,400 acre wound on the vital and wildly popular Greenbelt.
It is clear that this attack would end the critical role the Greenbelt plays to stop sprawl and protect farmland, forests, and the source of our drinking water, ...
– by Michael Craig
On Friday, well over 100 education workers, represented by CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, rallied in front of the office of Rick Byers, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP, to press their demands for higher wages. As a new trustee of the Bluewater District School Board, I joined them to express my personal solidarity with some of the lowest paid education workers in Ontario; and to protest the government’s use of the Notwithstanding Clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ban this strike even before it began ...
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