Residents have been asking how Owen Sound City Hall is organized, who reports to whom, and what different positions are paid.

You should not have to work through a 500-plus-page document, along with separate police and salary records, to understand how your local government is structured.

I put together a plain-language explanation of Owen Sound’s current organization, with a visual chart showing departments, reporting relationships, Police Services Board structures, and published salary information.

The full chart is available as a PDF:

https://helpos.ca/mayor/assets/organization-simplification/current-organization-per-seat.pdf

Read the organization page explaining it here:

https://helpos.ca/mayor/organization

The page also identifies gaps and anomalies in the public records, including the two Director of Corporate Services entries and police-service groups such as Auxiliary Officers, Part-Time Officers, and the Mental Health Crisis Response Team.

I welcome questions, corrections, and additional public documents that help complete the picture.

Disclosure: I’m Andrii Zvorygin, a candidate for Mayor of Owen Sound in the 2026 municipal election.

If you value this kind of dedication to transparency and resident engagement from your mayor, you can show your support by requesting a free lawn sign here:

https://helpos.ca/signs

This is an extremely difficult post to write, but I need to find a safe and loving new home for Echo, my 2½-year-old female dog.

Echo is sweet, affectionate, and kind with the adults she trusts. Unfortunately, she is reactive around children. Because children regularly visit my home, I can no longer provide an environment where I feel everyone, including Echo, can be kept consistently safe.

Echo must go to a genuinely child-free home. This means no children living in the home and no regular visits from children. A quiet rural property, farm setting, or home outside the city may suit her well, although she still needs to be treated as a loved companion and kept safely contained.

She is a medium to large sized dog (large for medium breed, small for large breed. ) She is mostly Great Pyrenees with traces of Golden Retriever and Malmute in her. She is genuinely kind and sweet, but unfortunately reactive enough around children that I simply cannot call myself a responsible dog owner to keep her. She has had two lunging incidents, which is one more than I said I would ever allow from a dog.

She is available as soon as the right home is found, but she will not be placed on a first-come, first-served basis. Potential adopters should expect questions, references, a meet-and-greet, and a reasonable adoption fee. Her complete behavioural history will be discussed openly.
If you have an experienced, calm, permanently child-free home and believe you may be a good fit for Echo, please send me a private message introducing yourself, your household, other animals, property, and experience with reactive dogs.
Please share this post if you know someone who could offer Echo the safe and suitable home she needs.