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People show their Canada Day pride at city birthday bash
Canadians at Owen Sound’s Canada Day celebration at Kelso Beach at Nawash Park said they felt proud and lucky to live in this country. The park was busy with activity Monday, the country’s 157th birthday, under sunny skies and a cooling bay breeze. Many ate barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers, ice cream and enjoyed […]
City waterfront ‘nowhere near’ its potential, local businessman says
It was grey and cool at Owen Sound’s Westside Boat Launch as 12 people in life vests prepared to head out in a dragon boat Sunday. They paddled out past the John D. Leitch, the towering, black-hulled lake freighter moored against the east harbour wall, and tooled around the inner harbour. The Sound Waterfront Festival, […]
Great Lakes Moment: An ecosystem approach | Great Lakes Now
Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit PBS.
Traditional natural resource management used to focus on individual issues, like controlling pollution from industries and municipal wastewater treatment plants or managing a single species.
Ambulance takes man away from city duplex fire Sunday, tenants say
Owen Sound police are investigating the scene of an apartment fire, where tenants said they saw a fellow tenant lying in blood in front of the building Sunday. The man, whom tenants said lived in the unit that was on fire, was unresponsive and was worked on by paramedics before being taken away in an […]
Dyer: U.S. pursuit of Julian Assange will scare potential whistle blowers
Why are there so few whistle-blowers precisely when we need them most? Just look what happens to them.