- Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
While we are inviting businesses to invest in Owen Sound, let's talk about what we expect them to bring to the community besides tax dollars. That's what I was thinking as I considered the future of the Legate building.
The Legate Furniture Store was the longest running retail business in Owen Sound when it closed in 2015. The building, across from City Hall, sold last year to...
- by Laura Webster Crawford
if you believe that our current system of business is a free market, you have obviously missed the most recent collusion scandal over bread pricing the last 10 years. Good for a slap on the wrist to companies and a $25 grocery card offer to the overcharged customer. Government won't fine and charge business or industry and make it stick. CEOs don't go to jail for price rigging or....
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
Just before the new year brought its changes to the minimum wage and other costs of doing business, someone posted a sign reporting to be from the management of a Simcoe-area location of a huge multi-national pizza chain. It reflected some of the sentiments of a notice in a local Owen Sound restaurant about price increases, which the owners referred to as a "political statement".
The comments on social media flew thick and fast, some in agreement with the management and some critical. Much....
- by Mini Jacques
I've had several employers tell me that it's going to be a hardship to pay their employees the new wage. As a marketing professional who has clients who are small business owners I tell my clients they should consider two options : 1) take one month and live on the wage that they are paying their employees currently – and see if that was a living wage 2) To take a real hard look at...
I have read and heard so many opinions against the minimum wage increase and finally felt a need to give my own opinion.
As many of you know, I have operated my small Boutique, SISTERS on HURON, for 15 years . Before this time, I supported myself for all of my career on a basic Retail salary. Several of those years as a single income person. I was...
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