Month: June 2024
Local task force calling for income solutions to fight food insecurity
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 Feb. 23 and will run […]
Police vehicle in crash at Neyaashiinigmiing
An investigation is ongoing at Neyaashiinigmiing after an officer crashed their police vehicle on Thursday evening. Grey Bruce OPP responded to a call for service at 10:45 p.m. on the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. No injuries were reported in the crash, police said in a news release. The investigation is ongoing and community […]
Ukrainian woman building new life in London fears she may have to leave
She has a doctorate and a job in London, but even that might not be enough to allow a displaced Ukrainian woman to stay in Canada.
It was one year ago the Ontario government passed Bill 63 which saw it assemble 1,500 acres of land (600ha) to create an industrial park that would become home to PowerCo, the Volkswagen subsidiary.
Central Elgin, whose lands were annexed for the Volkswagen electric vehicle battery plant in neighbouring St. Thomas, is “frustrated” by lack on progress in compensation talks, its mayor says.
Letters to the Editor: March 1, 2024
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