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Yesterday, we asked: What do you most want us to ask candidates about? You can still weigh in — have your say here.
Today’s editorial is about one question we plan to put to candidates, and it doesn’t involve a road, a budget line or a building. It’s about the ballot itself — how Owen Sound elects the people who make those decisions, and whether that structure serves us as well as we assume.
Every municipality in Grey County elects its council at large. Half of Bruce County doesn’t. Owen Sound is the largest municipality in either county where no voter has a councillor of their own.
Read more, then come on back for your police reports from across the region, as well as community, government, and business news.
Editorial: Owen Sound Elects Everyone to Represent Everyone. How's That Working For Us?
EDITORIAL OPINION - Nominations close August 21. Until then, the field is provisional and the campaign hasn’t properly started, which makes this a useful moment to ask a question that tends to get lost once it does. Does the way Owen Sound elects its council actually serve the people who live here?
Miranda Miller
Editor
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