Join local historian Robert Burcher with Special guest and Viking expert Alison Leonard for an exciting, seafaring tale of what might be the earliest visitors to North America, this Saturday at the Meaford Museum.
Robert Burcher believes that an image of a sailing vessel carved into the rock at the Peterborough Petroglyphs is not of Viking origin, but actually a leather boat built by ancient Celtic Mariners. They would have set sail from Ireland, and...
Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology Inc. (SWIFT) is recruiting for a permanent full time Chief Operating Officer (COO). If you care about your community and want to make a difference in the lives of the people living in Southwestern Ontario, Caledon and the Niagara region, come work for...
-by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
OwenSoundHub is sharing a series of stories from local people who make minimum wage. Several have asked us not to include their names and we have agreed. Not only could there be repercussions from landlords or employers, but recent conversations on social media have confirmed that the stigma and judgement of poverty remains firmly in place.
When I was doing it on my own, no, $11.60 was not a livable wage. My husband was out of the picture for 16 months, and to survive my son and I had to be subsidized by Ontario Works. We also had to use the food bank a couple times...
- by Dave Carr
Can a Permanent Resident of Canada (who is NOT a citizen) be allowed to vote in Municipal Elections and Municipal ONLY?
That's the question I'm asking you Monday morning on the Open Line on 560 CFOS between 9:05 and 10 o'clock.
The question arises from two interesting Facebook threads. The first was based on an inquiry into getting help to prepare for running for council, serving on council. One contributor who was asked to run noted he is not a citizen and therefore,
First thing I want to say is thank you to Matt McCoy for starting this page - Addicts Attic Outreach. My name is Angela and if you got a chance to read Matt's interview with the Owen Sound Hub, the child he was talking about that his daughter went to school with that passed away from an overdose was my son Andrew. Over the past couple days I've struggled with deciding whether I wanted to speak publicly about my son's death and have decided that sitting back and not...
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