April 15, 2021 · 0 Comments
Dufferin County councillors remember Mike Giles
By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Dufferin County councillors took the time during their regular council meeting last Thursday (April 8) to pay their respects to former chief building inspector, Mike Giles.
“Many of us on this call today and in fact probably most of us if not all, knew Mike in some capacity or another,” said Darren White, Dufferin County Warden, at the top of the meeting. “He was an integral part of our staff and really a generally great guy.”
Giles, passed away on March 21 at the age of 62. He began his career with Dufferin County in April of 1987, as a building inspector, and later assumed the role of chief building inspector in November of that year. After working three decades in Dufferin County’s building department, Giles retired in December of 2017.
March 11, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Paula Brown
“Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us.”
Dufferin Oaks healthcare staff marched to Shelburne Town Hall on Monday (March 8), International Women’s Day, as part of a call to action campaign organized by three major unions.
Unifor, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), who represent 175,000 healthcare workers across the province announced the launch of the campaign on March 7. The campaign demands immediate actions from the Ontario government and Premier Doug Ford to fix what the unions and healthcare workers say is a broken system.
“The lack of respect for care work has become painfully evident during COVID-19, but it stems from a longstanding failure to recognize the value of this work simply because women are performing it,” said Katha Fortier, Assistant to the National President, Unifor. “This is evidenced b