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It costs more to live in Grey-Bruce than anywhere else in the province outside of Toronto, according to the 2024 Ontario Living Wage Network’s latest report. A resident of the Grey, Bruce, Perth, Huron, Simcoe region needs to earn $23.05 hours per 40-hour work week to make ends meet this

More people are living outside of the workforce in Grey-Bruce than ever before, according to a new labour report. Nearly 110,000 people within the Stratford-Bruce Economic Region were not a part of the labour force in 2023, which is a historic high according to the Four County Labour Market Planning

The answer to food unaffordability isn’t food banks and other stop-gap programs, but rather to give people money to buy food for themselves, a local poverty reduction advocate says. That’s the long-term solution advocated for in Jill Umbach’s blog posts on the Grey Bruce Poverty Task Force website which began

In October, the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 3.6 per cent, but there are several employment vacancies in the region. “Those who want to work are working,” said Dana Soucie, executive director of the Four Country Labour Market Planning Board. The

A dead crow in Grey-Bruce tested positive for West Nile virus. This is the first bird to test positive for the virus in Grey-Bruce this year. No human cases of the mosquito-borne viral disease had been reported in Ontario or Canada this year, up to Aug. 2, a news release

More homes in the region sold in June 2023 than the previous year but prices continue to see a sharp decline in an “apples to apples” comparison metric used by realtors and active supply is at a five-year high. According to a summary of the June real estate metrics distributed

It’s hoped a study starting this fall will help determine how much local elder abuse is happening in Grey-Bruce. The study first will identify who provides services to support seniors who are victims of abuse and who is involved with prevention of such abuse. The goal then is to create

Grey-Bruce voted almost unanimously against the Ontario government’s decision to expand publicly funded medical procedures, diagnostic imaging and surgeries done in private clinics. The Ontario Health Coalition vote, held May 26 and 27, had 9,889 votes against and 132 in favour of changes the government enacted May 18 in Bill

Peter Carter met his lofty fundraising goal for the Alzheimer Society and has decided to retire from his decades-long volunteer efforts. “He had wanted to raise $100,000 for the Alzheimers and he raised $105,000, I think it was,” his wife Jo-Ann said by phone Saturday from their Teeswater home. “And