Owen Sound Sun Times

Owen Sound Emancipation Festival a chance to reconnect

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As the Emancipation Festival and Picnic marked its 162nd year in Owen Sound over the weekend, participants celebrated the event’s roots as a close-knit family reunion, along with its transformation more recently into a welcoming community celebration.  Festival chair Linda Johnson said Saturday at Harrison Park, that she has been coming to the Emancipation Day […]

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Pavelka: How overcrowding impacts the world’s tourism hotspots

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Joe Pavelka, Mount Royal University Every summer, millions of people jet off on vacations around the world. The United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates that international arrivals, the measure of global travel, will be two per cent higher than the pre-pandemic total was in 2019. However, as more of us are taking vacations, some of […]