Tag: South Bruce
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 […]
Suspected drug poisonings lead to opioid alert in Grey-Bruce
Another opioid alert has been issued in Grey-Bruce after the local health unit was notified of two fatal and two-non-fatal suspected drug poisonings. The suspected drug poisonings occurred in Owen Sound and Meaford over the past seven days, with fentanyl suspected in three of the cases, including one fatality, Grey Bruce Public Health said in […]
Police ask public to stay away from area near Teeswater
Police are asking drivers to stay away from an southeast of Teeswater due to an active incident. Just before 10:30 a.m., South Bruce OPP posted on X that they were in the area of Conc. 4 around Sideroad 5 and Bruce Rd. 12 in the former Culross Township. The public was being asked to stay […]
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 […]
Boater rescued off Kincardine coast Sunday
South Bruce OPP and a Good Samaritan helped bring a boat to shore Sunday after it began taking on water. Police were called to Kincardine harbour about 12:50 p.m. for a vessel that had struck a rock just off the coast of Kincardine on Lake Huron, a police news release said. The vessel was reported […]
Brightshores announces senior leadership appointments
Brightshores Health System announced two senior leadership appointments Friday. Beth Morris, vice-president Clinical Services & Quality, chief nursing executive, will join Brightshores on Sept. 30, and Tim Pemberton, vice-president, Digital Health & Technology, CIO, CPO, will join the hospital corporation on Sept. 9. A hospital news release said Morris brings a wide range of […]
Sailor rescued Thursday after boat hit shoal off Southampton
A man was rescued from a sailboat Thursday after his boat got hung up on a shoal, about one kilometre north of the Southampton Yacht Club. South Bruce OPP and the Saugeen Shores Fire Department responded to a call for help. Southampton Fire Department retrieve the boater, who was a member of the yacht club. […]
Grey County council agrees to pay local share of court security cost
Grey County council voted Thursday to start paying court security and transportation expenses not covered by the province that for years have been borne solely by Owen Sound taxpayers. This year, those costs will be about $230,000. Once the actual amount is known, it will be included in the 2025 county budget, once the agreement […]
2 Grey-Bruce residents accused of uttering death threats
Two residents of Grey-Bruce are accused of uttering death threats following separate intimate partner violence investigations recently. On Monday afternoon at 1:15 p.m., Grey Bruce OPP responded to a South Bruce Peninsula address and initiated an intimate partner violence investigation. Police determined that a suspect had threatened to kill the partner of an ex-partner. The […]
West Grey reaffirms health care emergency declaration
West Grey’s declaration of a health care emergency remains in place, the municipality announced Tuesday. It declared a state of emergency May 28 due to concerns about public safety after South Bruce Grey Health Centre announced April 25 it would shift all 10 in-patient beds out of Durham hospital and add them in Walkerton and […]