Author: Clean Technica
SIMS: Political consequences start to mount for convoy-backing area mayor
If you’ve got time to break away from the Winter Olympics or the police crackdown in Ottawa, watch the YouTube stream of Thursday night’s Warwick Township council special meeting on fire services. There were a lot of flames shooting out during the tiny Lambton County municipality’s political debate, but not about what was happening down […]
Cold weather slows investigation into house fire that killed three
CHATHAM – Investigators probing an early morning rooming house fire in Wallaceburg that killed three people have been slowed by frigid temperatures as they try to pinpoint what happened and why. While the size of the sprawling home, which has several units and two stairwells, also presented a few challenges, “the weather is going to […]
Key witness in cousin’s murder trial out of jail –– with strict warning
A key Crown witness in a murder case involving her cousin was released from jail Friday afternoon under a strict order not to be impaired in any way when trial resumes Tuesday morning. “These are easy conditions,” Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman told Kirsten Bomberry. She was thrown in jail Wednesday after she contributed little […]
Western University students urge school to declare sexual violence ‘crisis’
Western University’s student council executive is calling for the university to declare a sexual and gender-based violence crisis in the shadow of what some say is a deeply rooted culture there. The University Students’ Council is expected to endorse the motion, designed to put pressure on the university to take rapid action, at its meeting […]
Pearson: Did our once proud Canadian institutions fail us or did we fail them?
If we could speak to our ancestors, we would hear of other moments in history when it felt as though the sun was setting on the human journey. I recall my grandmother telling me as we walked an Edinburgh, Scotland, street that the entire nation felt as though their historic run was ending when the […]