Owen Sound Sun Times South Bruce Grey Health Centre

Protestors and police feature at hospital organization’s AGM in Walkerton

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When Jana White and a few dozen other people disappointed in their local hospital organization arrived at the Best Western Plus parking lot to protest Wednesday night in Walkerton, a police officer greeted them and asked them to vacate the area. White said the Save the Durham Hospital committee protestors made it a few steps […]

London Free Press

Union blames province as London-area Children’s Aid Society cuts jobs

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The London-area child welfare agency is cutting jobs and overhauling some services in the face of a “significant” budget shortfall that its union blames on inadequate provincial funding. Nineteen unionized and four management jobs are affected by the shake-up, said the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex. Its executive director said spending cuts alone, […]

Owen Sound Sun Times

Backyard hens nearing final hurdle in Georgian Bluffs

3 min read

Chickens could soon be clucking around in some residential areas of Georgian Bluffs.  At its committee of the whole meeting on Wednesday (June 19), staff was directed by council to present an amendment to the township’s zoning bylaw that would permit backyard poultry as a permitted use on certain residential properties within the township. Council […]