Owen Sound Did This in 2012 While Its Leaders Watched. They're Doing It Again.

A businessman over a $2.50 tag in 2012. A nursing student over a cardboard box in 2026. Same City, same courtroom reflex, same shrug from the top.

Cartoon produced using AI by David Clark.

EDITORIAL OPINION

In the spring of 2012, the City of Owen Sound took a man to court over a garbage bag.

Dave Taylor, who had run an electronics store downtown for 15 years, put his trash out on the sidewalk and, the City said, failed to affix a $2.50 tag. He maintained the tag had been on the bag and figured someon…