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Letter: A Reader Reflects on Downtown Homelessness and Community Frustration

A letter to the editor on what one reader witnessed downtown and her concerns about how frustration over garbage is being directed at unhoused residents.

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The Owen Sound Current
May 21, 2026
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An overflowing city garbage can surrounded by torn open trash bags, on 2nd Ave East in Owen Sound’s “River District” downtown core. Photo credit: Richard-Yves Sitoski

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor,

This morning I witnessed something downtown that left me deeply unsettled.

Several police and bylaw officers were standing beside a number of grocery carts …

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