Regional unemployment rate decreaases to 4.5 per cent in February

The unemployment rate for the Grey-Bruce region continued to be lower than the provincial rate in February. According to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s February report, the unemployment rate decreased to 4.5 per cent in February in the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region. That’s 0.3 percentage points lower than the region’s unemployment rate in […]

Low participation rates drive slumping local labour market, report says

More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s Local Labour Market Plan […]

Low participation rates drive slumping local labour market, report says

More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s Local Labour Market Plan […]

Low participation rates drive slumping local labour market, report says

More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning Board’s Local Labour Market Plan […]

Grey Bruce task force calling for income solutions to fight food insecurity

The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs, but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began Feb. 23 and will run […]

Local task force calling for income solutions to fight food insecurity

The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs, but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began Feb. 23 and will run […]

Grey Bruce task force calling for income solutions to fight food insecurity

The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs, but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began Feb. 23 and will run […]

Local task force calling for income solutions to fight food insecurity

The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says.  That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began Feb. 23 and will run […]

Coldest Night of the Year walkers raise $175,000 in Grey-Bruce

Coldest Night of the Year walkers raised more than $175,000 in Grey-Bruce last Saturday. Walkers in Saugeen Shores, Kincardine, Grey Highlands and Meaford raised $103,000 with fundraising walks to help people who are hungry or homeless. These two- and five-kilometre walks involved 527 walkers and volunteers, co-ordinated by the United Way Bruce Grey and local […]

Push-Up Challenge raised thousands for mental health support

Grey-Bruce residents who took the national Push-Up Challenge raised more than $33,000 for mental health support this month.  The event challenged participants to do 2,000 push-ups between Feb. 1 and 23. As a result, more than 49,000 Canadians raised $2.4 million for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Collectively, they did 44.8 million push-ups, the event […]