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As communities across Grey-Bruce continue to navigate the growing crises of homelessness, addiction, and mental health, public debate has intensified, often marked by frustration, fear, and stigma.
In today’s Letter to the Editor, reader Jacob Morris-Wheeler offers a deeply personal and urgent perspective on how shifting societal narratives are impacting vulnerable people locally and across Canada.
Morris-Wheeler reflects on his own journey to recovery and warns that a growing wave of criminalization, political polarization, and dehumanizing rhetoric risks pushing people further into crisis. He argues that addiction is a health issue—not a moral failing—and that the path forward must include compassion, evidence-based policy, and a willingness to see the humanity in every individual.
Whether you agree or disagree, his perspective is rooted in real experience, and it offers important food for thought as our region grapples with how best to respond to complex and intersecting social challenges.
Letter: A Lived Experience Perspective on Homelessness & Addiction
When we start to think about the causes of homelessness, there are many different reasons and perspectives why this happens. Affordability, housing supply vs demand, health and social reasons, financial, failed government funding and spending on infrastructure related to housing, bad policy and many more.
Public Notices
Owen Sound City Council will hold a Special Council meeting today, July 21, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall to discuss several matters in Closed Session.
The regular Council meeting also takes place today at 5:30 p.m. On the agenda: the City Manager’s Monthly Update which, despite several requests, is not accessible in writing as part of the agenda; a request that City Council approve the transfer of three City-owned properties to the Owen Sound Housing Company for affordable housing; a report on potential interim uses for the Rice House, and a lot more.
Local News
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Today: Grey Bruce OPP are investigating a Grey Highlands collision that claimed the lives of two men on Sunday; big changes coming to the local Rogers TV station; new information on the future of the Legate’s building across from City Hall; and a lot more.
~ Miranda Miller, Editor
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