Thanks but no thanks. Planning staff for the City of Owen Sound laid out several reasons in a 40-page report presented at Monday evening's council meeting why the city should bow out of a centralized planning and shared-service model recently proposed by Grey County. Council members, on the other hand, agreed they need more information [...]

While Grey County growth plans must consider impacts on schools under Ontario legislation, there's no provincial requirement to consider impacts on health care. That should change, West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles told Grey County council at its regular meeting Thursday, and county staff agreed. Publicly funded health care I think may be even more fundamental [...]