Category: Owen Sound
Dog show in Harrison Park here for three days
Dogs of all kinds have returned to Harrison Park for the annual three-day show which ends Thursday. Grey Bruce Kennel and Obedience Club’s show offers the chance for a close-up look at the widest variety of dogs most people would ever see in one place. There are morning shows starting at 8 a.m. and early afternoon shows. […]
Summerfolk preparing to entertain Owen Sound
It’s two weeks until Summerfolk, the 49th annual music, arts and crafts outdoor festival on the west shore of Owen Sound. Organizers are arranging which performers will stay in which hotel rooms, the lanyards for volunteers are being printed and their assignments are going out, festival artistic director James Keelaghan said by phone Friday. There’s […]
New hospital funding ‘helpful’ but doesn’t cover inflation
Grey-Bruce hospital administrators welcomed $8.566 million in new permanent base funding but some said it’s not enough. The money will be distributed $5,962,500 to Brightshores Health System, $1,808,100 to South Bruce Grey Health Centre and $795,400 to Hanover & District Hospital. Brightshores will see permanent base funding go up by 3.1 per cent. It’s […]
Crime severity index data for Grey-Bruce, by police service
Statistics Canada’s annual crime severity index and weighted clearance rates for police services in Ontario include data for Grey-Bruce. The conventional crime rate is a measure of crime volume. It adds up all crimes reported by police and divides that total by the population for the area. This means a murder has the same impact […]
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]