Author: Owen Sound Sun Times
Ambassador Bridge to U.S. reopened after protester blockade
WINDSOR – Protesters choked off access to the Ambassador Bridge Monday, wreaking havoc at the border and leaving countless travellers stranded in gridlock, as the self-proclaimed freedom fighters waved flags and played hockey in the middle of a nearby road.
NDP choose activist Lindsay Wilson as Oxford provincial election candidate
An Ingersoll woman who created a mentorship program to encourage rural women to run for office will be the New Democratic Party candidate in Oxford in the June provincial election. Ontario’s NDP party recently appointed Lindsay Wilson, co-founder of Municipal Campaign School Oxford County, to run in the riding that has been held by Progressive […]
Man arrested after SUV catapults over wall, lands on roof on busy street
An SUV ended up on its roof Monday afternoon in the southbound lanes of Wellington Street below the CN Rail-Bathurst Street overpass, a busy gateway for London’s core. The grey Dodge Journey appeared to miss a turn on Bathurst and crashed through a wrought-iron fence and a second fence before plunging several metres onto Wellington, […]
Homeless Stratford residents injured in weekend tent fire
Two people were sent to hospital with burns after the tent they were living in in the city’s east end caught fire early Saturday, Stratford police say.
As Ottawa police say they’ll ‘turn up the heat,’ protesters vow to dig in
OTTAWA – Protest leaders and truck drivers parked downtown said on Monday they were defiant and motivated in the face of increased police enforcement. Ottawa’s police chief, Peter Sloly, vowed to “turn up the heat in every possible way” on the protesters at a media scrum Monday, but he also issued a plea for more […]