Editorial
If you tuned into the live-stream of Monday's special meeting of council, you likely felt some anxiety while hearing the harsh realities of the affordable housing crisis, not just in this community, but far and wide.
The problem is real, and it is getting worse. With the average resale price of a home in Grey County currently more than $700,000, a household income of more than $200,000 per year is required in order to afford to buy a home, meaning...
Though they have deferred official adoption of their strategic priorities for this term until the full package of 16 top priorities can be adopted at once, a read-through of the 131-page report that contains the project charters for each of the identified priorities makes clear that this council has developed an ambitious plan for their four-year term.
Fifteen priorities are outlined in the report, with the sixteenth, related to the TC Energy hydroelectric pumped storage proposal, expected to be completed...