Owen Sound Sun Times

Simcoe-Grey has three candidates registered to run to be the next MPP in the Feb. 27 election. Incumbent Progressive Conservative Brian Saunderson is seeking a second term. Liberal candidate Ted Crysler finished second in the 2022 election in the riding. And returning Green candidate Allan Kuhn finished fourth behind the NDP in the last election. [...]

Snow removal, public space and washrooms dominated the discussion as South Bruce Peninsula council got a first look at architectural plans for the new town hall in Wiarton Tuesday. Grant Diemert from GM Diemert Architect Inc. attended the regular council meeting as a delegation and presented a brief slide deck to councillors. Diemert's presentation included [...]

Owen Sound is inviting nominations for the 2025 Arts, Culture and Volunteer Awards. Beginning on Friday, the public can submit a nomination for the awards online at owensound.ca/awards. The Arts and Culture Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the area's creative landscape and historical preservation. The award categories include: outstanding group, outstanding individual, outstanding event, most [...]

Police are investigating after an individual in Arran-Elderslie was allegedly defrauded out of about $35,000 through a cryptocurrency investment scheme. South Bruce OPP attended an address in the municipality after an individual there reported being the victim of a fraud. The investigation found that over the course of a year, the victim made a series [...]

Nick McGregor will be Huron-Bruce's provincial New Democratic Party candidate in the Feb. 27 election. McGregor announced his candidacy in a news release Wednesday. He said he's a Goderich high school teacher, director of Huron County Pride and proud OSSTF District 8 member. For too long, people in Huron-Bruce have been left behind by governments [...]

Elections Ontario offices in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound and Huron-Bruce are expected to open in the next day or two. There are dates and actions for voters to consider as the Feb. 27 provincial election approaches. Elections Ontario encourages voters to visit its website, linked at the bottom of this story,to confirm information and thereby ensure they'll [...]

The provincial New Democratic Party in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound was to field James Cameron Harris as its candidate in the Feb. 27 election. Cameron's nomination was to be made official Wednesday night during an online nomination meeting. He's the only nominee, he has been approved by the provincial NDP and he stands ready to accept the [...]

The Ontario Elite Hockey League senior men's loop is headed to the playoff season. The quarterfinal matchups are set with this year's playoffs taking on an additional weight with the winning moving on to compete for the Allan Cup. The Durham Thundercats, Milverton 4-Wheel Drivers, and Lucknow Lancers did not qualify for the J.F. Paxton [...]

The Owen Sound Harold Sutherland Construction Junior Attack under-13 team are Silver Stick champions. On Sunday evening, the Owen Sound Junior Attack defeated the South Oxford Storm 6-0 in the gold medal game of the International Silver Stick Port Huron Finals at McMorran Place in Port Huron, Mich. The win earned Owen Sound the banner [...]

The Bluewater District School Board is seeking public input for its 2025-26 budget. With planning underway for the development of its annual budget, the board is inviting students, parents and guardians and other community members to complete a short online survey. The information will help board trustees identify priorities to align resources for students in [...]

Trump tariffs were the main issue at the start of the Ontario election campaign - in fact, Doug Ford called a snap vote, claiming he needed a strong mandate specifically to stand up to American protectionism. But then after two calls with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, US President Donald Trump said he would [...]

The Municipality of Meaford is reviewing applications for its Interim Chief Administrative Officer position. An approved recruitment committee is reviewing applications after the posting for the position closed on Jan. 24, with the process expected to take approximately six to eight weeks once interviews begin in the coming weeks. The municipality is looking for an [...]

Visitors to Grey Roots will see howfuneral customs have changed since the Victorians. The centrepiece of the museum's new exhibit, Going Out in Style," is a professionally restored horse-drawn hearse carriage used until the 1940s in Grey County. It's among 130 artefacts and images from the museum's collection used in the exhibit. The exhibit focuses [...]

Bruce Power has started the Major Component Replacement of its Unit 4, the third unit of six undergoing renewal as part of the Life-Extension Program at the nuclear generating station near Tiverton. The outage of Unit 4 kicked off on the weekend and is anticipated to last three years as work is undertaken to extend [...]

Liberals in Huron-Bruce have nominatedIan Burbidge as their candidate inthe Feb. 27 provincial election. The quick election call by Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford, in a riding held by Progressive Conservative Lisa Thompson since 2011, has challenged other political parties to field their candidates in time. Burbidge was acclaimed as the local Liberal candidate on [...]

Georgian Bluffs has opened the online licensing portal for its Short-Term Rental Accommodation Licensing Program. All STRA operators in the municipality are now required to obtain a licence under the program, which has been developed over the past two-and-a-half years after extensive consultation with STRA operators, local businesses and the community. Those requiring a licence [...]

Police, fire and paramedic officers require more specialized training and tools to keep up with constant change

Bruce County has launched its Spruce the Bruce community development program, which provides grant funding to businesses, property owners , community partners and others to revitalize and grow downtown businesses and communities. This year's program, which launched Saturday (Feb. 1), is the 16th year it has run, with over $125,000 in funds available to participants. [...]

Grey Bruce OPP recovered more than $2.3 million worth of stolen large commercial vehicles in various stages of disassembly in Chatsworth Township and charged someone. Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release that its Community Street Crime Unit found the vehicles at a property on Sideroad 5 in the township. There were four stolen [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday halted his threatened 25 per cent tariffs against Canada and Mexico, after calls with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum - but only for a month. Nevertheless, the threat of tariffs, which could be implemented in 30 days, still loomed large for the Ontario party leaders, [...]

A cloud of uncertainty hung over the Grey-Bruce agricultural community on Monday, with an expected 25 per cent tariffs on all imports going from Canada into the U.S. set to take effect. Late Monday afternoon, media reports said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had secured a 30-day reprieve from the tariffs, which were scheduled to [...]

The Owen Sound & District Chamber of Commerce issurveying its members on the potential impacts of recent American tariff threats. It is asking about specific tariff impacts on their operations, potential changes to their supply chain, pricing or customer base, and insights into how the chamber can better support them. So far, the response has [...]

More than 2.5 million Ontarians are without a family doctor, the entry-point for patients into the publicly funded health care system.

I just felt like I kind of got my swagger back." Carter George's sentiments after earning a second-straight win between the pipes for the Owen Sound Attack in a 5-3 victory over the talented Brampton Steelheads probably goes for the whole team. After playing the role of backup goaltender for two straight games - a [...]

U.S.-made toothpastes, firearms, motorcycles, furniture, ketchup and more also about to jump in price

No shadow, spring is on the way. It's unclear if the people's pleas swayed Wiarton Willie as they gathered amid Wiarton's towering snowbanks and shivered on a crisp Sunday morning - eight below freezing. What is clear is the prognosticating pug-nosed groundhog pleased the crowd when he predicted an early spring at 8:07 a.m. I'm [...]

Gabriel Smith fought. James Petrovski scored a goal. Declan Waddick threw a bone-crushing bodycheck in the neutral zone. It wasn't a typical Owen Sound Attack win, but they all count in the standings. The Bears beat the Ottawa 67's 3-1 inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Saturday afternoon. It was an emotional and at [...]

Grey County's climate initiatives manager will be host for a climate action information session at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library on Wednesday at 1 p.m. In 2022, Grey County unveiled its climate action plan, Going Green in Grey, 2022-2050," after several community consultations. One of the key concepts of that plan [...]

While the United States' protectionist president threatens imminent tariffs, a local wood manufacturing consortium CEO is deeply concerned. The Wood Manufacturing Cluster of Ontario is a group established as a not-for-profit organization in 2011 by sevenwoodcompanies in Grey, Bruce, Huron and Perth counties as a way to work together. Now 170 members employ about 6,000 [...]

Meaford council voted on Monday to stay out of a waterfront property dispute over an area commonly referred to as Centreville Beach. Deputy Mayor Shirley Keaveney tabled a motion asking council to allocate $5,000 to hire a lawyer to examine options for acquiring the beach property. For years locals used the small beach area at [...]

Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said Friday in Chesley he is committed to investing in health care in rural Ontario. Schreiner and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Green Party candidate Joel Loughead spoke to about 15 people outside the Chesley hospital, which has been representative of health-care challenges in rural Ontario in recent years. The Chesley hospital [...]

Was that a collective student cheer that exams were cancelled or just the howling winter wind? Bluewater District School Board cancelled all high school exams this week due to the multiple days of bus cancellations and school closures. Winter weather included up to 100-kilometre per hour wind gusts and widespread snowfall, especially in Bruce County. [...]

Southwestern Ontario may be Ground Zero for the impact U.S. tariffs would have on the provincial economy, national economists warned.

There is no evidence yet that housing treatments meant to stimulate play reduces reactivity in piglets under stressful challenges

Candidates fan out in bid to lure voters in early stages of short campaign

Winter storms slammed Bruce County particularly hard this week but by Thursday afternoon, just one county road remained closed. County road crews have contended with widespread snow accumulations of 50 to 70 centimetres and at timeswind gusts of 80 - 100 kilometres per hour this week. Thursday afternoonthe county ended its significant weather event [...]

Local author Gwen Lamont's life story about uncovering the buried memories of a chaotic and abusive childhood is being converted into a screenplay. Lamont signed an agreement with Dog Eared Productions for Penny Eizenga to write, produce or co-produce the screenplay of her book The View From Coffin Ridge: A Childhood Exhumed for a feature-length [...]

Progressive Conservatives in Huron-Bruce had their incumbent candidate nominated two months ago for Ontario's snap election call, while other parties are playing catch-up. Election day is Thursday, Feb. 27 and just two parties have announced their candidates. The riding runs from Southampton to south of Grand Bend along the Lake Huron shoreline. It includes Saugeen [...]

Donations and government grants have secured a 19.6-acre swath of coastal fen and forest on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula. The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy and the Greenough and North Bruce Wilderness Alliance (the Wilderness Alliance) announced the Simon Bay Coastal Fen and Forest Nature Preserve, near Stokes Bay, is now preserved land. Protecting Ontario's sensitive and [...]

A new LiUNA Local 1059 training centre planned for Walkerton will provide workers and apprentices with the hands-on experience needed for careers in the skilled trades. The Ontario government announced on Wednesday that it was investing more than $6.3 million from its Skills Development Fund to support the development of the approximately $12.5-million project in [...]

Grey County's Sydenham Campus makerspace" is competing with Georgian Bay School of the Arts and could put it out of business, the GB Arts' co-founder said. Alan McIntosh, GB Arts' manager, said the makerspace within Grey County's regional skills training hub is breaking a county promise to not run arts and craft courses, which are [...]

With the area under grass and legumes shrinking, expanding forage acres remains a tough sell.

The people have spoken - after they finished eating. The European Bakery and Cafe in Owen Sound took home this year's People's Choice Award at the third annual Soup's On competition in support of Alzheimer Society Grey-Bruce. Eight vendors crafted 16 styles of soup for the competition and fed 661 people this past Saturday at [...]

Leaders of all four parties campaigning across the province

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr. Martin Misiak's overtime winner will make the Ontario Hockey League highlight reel. The Chicago Blackhawks draft pick danced around Bruce McDonald and picked the corner to give his Erie Otters a 4-3 win over the Owen Sound Attack inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Wednesday night. As his Otters teammates rushed the ice [...]

The province's Special Investigations Unit has terminated an investigation relating to a man who was injured while in police custody in Walkerton, after determining the injury was caused by punching a cell wall. The SIU's director Joseph Martino terminated the investigation based on the SIU's preliminary inquiries in the case, including a review of video [...]

It is like a three-way cross between Registered Education Savings Plans, Agristability, and a pension plan.

Two new tenants have been welcomed into Heritage Place Shopping Centre. It was announced Wednesday that Happy Earth Shop, a one-stop eco-products, body and home store, as well as Wizard's Castle VR Arcade had arrived at the mall in Owen Sound. Happy Earth Shop, located near centre court, is described as a business dedicated to [...]

The Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre arena floor and board replacement project will cost significantly more than expected, with the city planning to defer other projects at the facility, while remaining hopeful that provincial funding will come through. On Monday, Owen Sound council approved a non-standard procurement for the project from CIMCO Refrigeration at a [...]

An Alliston man has been arrested after someone withdrawing funds from an ATM in Markdale was reportedly robbed at gunpoint. Just after 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, Grey Bruce OPP received a report of a robbery involving a firearm at a financial institution on Toronto Street North. The suspect had fled before police arrived, Grey [...]