Month: June 2024
Bears bounce back at the Bayshore
Just get the puck on net and good things happen. It’s a saying as old as the ink in the hockey coaches’ handbook, and on Saturday night it resulted in a win for the Owen Sound Attack, 4-2, over the Barrie Colts in the Bears’ home opener at the Bayshore. Sam Sedley’s three points led […]
‘We had them’: Windsor Lancers let game against Western Mustangs slip away
WINDSOR – Once again, the No. 1-ranked Western Mustangs have pushed aside a would-be challenger. In a battle of unbeaten teams, it took the Mustangs more than three quarters to finally produce enough offence for a 21-10 OUA football win on Saturday over the No. 4-ranked University of Windsor Lancers before a crowd of 6,487 […]
Communities gather to observe National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation Chief Greg Nadjiwon stood behind a microphone in front of a sacred fire and spoke about the time he broke down crying in the halls of a former residential school near Algoma University. Dozens dressed in orange listened to the chief at the Gichi-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden near Kelso […]
Started from Alaska now it’s here, Pumpkinfest winner grown in St. Thomas with swapped seed
Saturday’s plumpest pumpkin hit the scales at Pumpkinfest 2023 in Port Elgin weighing in at 1596.50 pounds. To get there it was grown in St. Thomas by a man named John Butler, and Butler got the seed from a man in Alaska. “I just met this man on vacation one year and we swapped seeds. […]
PHOTOS: Londoners mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Londoners marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at local events on Saturday, including one at the Western Fair Agriplex sponsored by the Atlohsa Family Healing Services and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com
Hanover police seek suspects who robbed wheelchair-bound victim
The Hanover Police are seeking the public’s assistance in seeking two men who are accused of robbing a wheelchair-bound victim of sentimental personal items including photographs of deceased family members. According to a police media release distributed Friday evening, police were called to the area of 10th Street and 11th Avenue for a reported street […]
For Mayor Josh Morgan, homeless hub critics go from political to personal
Mayor Josh Morgan says the blowback has gone from political to personal after he and a city council majority endorsed a plan to open homeless “hubs” in several parts of London – including, most contentiously, his own suburban northwest community. While much of the debate appears to flare up on social media, Morgan, a married […]
Pearson: Federalism should devolve so cities have more power
There are numerous reasons for our collective sense of powerlessness, but one deeply systemic difficulty stands out: our failure to work on and solve our own problems in the very communities in which we live.
Brews News: Plenty of good stops on way to Port Dover for bikers and beer nerds
Bikers or beer nerds? There’s room for both in the Port Dover area.
Fare With A Flair: Bacon elevates braised veggies
I’m still in Irish mode this week as I share a braised vegetable dish I made a number of times on a trip to Ireland in July.