Tues May 28: City Council Highlights + The Bathtub Incident at BWDSB

Plus: The Grey Bruce Health Coalition is rallying protestors to attend a demonstration against healthcare cuts and privatization on May 30 in Toronto

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Full subscribers will find City Council Meeting highlights and key decisions below.

The Grey Bruce Health Coalition, championed by local organizers Norah Beatty and Brenda Scott, is offering bus transportation to Toronto for anyone who would like to participate in planned protests against healthcare cuts and privatization on May 30.

Service cuts and closures at hospitals across Grey and Bruce have residents concerned about the future of our healthcare system.

Beatty and Scott wrote, “Over the last year, more than a billion dollars in public funding has gone to private for-profit clinics and for-profit staffing agencies to privatize what have been, to date, public non-profit services.

At the same time, local public hospitals are losing their emergency departments, vital care services and staff, and a number are under urgent threat of closure. Locally that would include the Durham and Chesley hospitals.”

Read more in their submission and see where you can catch a bus from Owen Sound, Meaford, Durham, Chesley or Hanover to join them and be heard on the future of Ontario healthcare.

Full subscribers, there’s a lot more for you below, including…

• More bad behaviour out of the BWDSB as we get confirmation that an elected trustee appeared on camera while attending a meeting from the bathtub

• City of Owen Sound Council Highlights from their May 27 meeting, including key decisions made

• Details about a collaborative new Bruce County Museums exhibition in partnership with the Bruce Peninsula Society of Artists (BPSA)

• Highlights from the cenotaph rededication and mural unveiling in Wiarton this past weekend

~ Miranda

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