Tag: Advocacy
Who is working to preserve and restore wetlands in Metro Detroit? | Great Lakes Now
By Erica Hobbs, Planet Detroit
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Wetlands don’t often come to mind when thinking about major metropolitan cities like Detroit. Bogs, marshes, vernal pools, and swamps contrast starkly with the city’s skyscrapers, roads, and industrial plants, and up to 90 percent of the area’s wetlands along the Detroit River have been lost since European settlement.
As eviction deadline nears, worried tenants wonder where they can go
Carol Rogers says she’s at her wit’s end. Diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, Rogers faces a deadline of Sept. 30 to vacate her apartment unit at 435 Nelson St. in London’s SoHo neighbourhood. Nelson received an N13 eviction notice in May from her landlord, 435 Nelson Inc., who said she had to move […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear case with broad implications for PFAS cleanup | Great Lakes Now
By Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio
This article was republished here with permission from Wisconsin Public Radio.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that could have sweeping effects on state environmental regulators’ authority to force businesses to clean up PFAS pollution under the state’s spills law.
Y calling for Peace Medal nominations
The YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce is looking for the next local recipient of the YMCA Peace Medal. Residents are invited to visit ymcaowensound.on.ca/peace-week and nominate a deserving person or group for this award before Friday, October 18. The prestigious YMCA Peace Medal honours people of all ages from coast to coast who are […]
Tenants’ group frustrated as ‘toothless’ renoviction bylaw moves ahead
London tenants are a key step closer to getting more protection from renovictions under a bylaw approved by a council committee Monday.
Kidney Foundation provides peer support for those with failing kidneys waiting for a transplant
Betty Seminowicz said she felt the need to give back after her brother donated a kidney when hers failed in 2008. On Saturday, Seminowicz was recognized for her volunteer efforts during the Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Walk at Harrison Park in Owen Sound. Her volunteer duties include supporting patients undergoing dialysis treatments and providing peer support […]
LHSC bringing in executive who helped turn around Brockville hospital
An executive who helped a Brockville hospital out of a financial hole is joining London Health Sciences Centre as it grapples with a projected $150-million deficit. The board of directors at Brockville General Hospital announced Nick Vlacholias, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer, is taking a job at LHSC. Vlacholias has accepted an executive […]
A spectacular failure: The “Salt Combines” of Huron
Peter McEwan and Sam Platt’s discovery of salt in the Maitland River flats in May 1866 ignited a salt boom in Southwestern Ontario. A lot of southern Ontario was on the Michigan salt bed that stretched from Kincardine to Windsor and over to central Michigan. It was an extraordinary find of an inexhaustible mineral vital […]
Michigan advocates hail ‘groundbreaking’ settlement to civil rights complaint over hazardous waste facility | Great Lakes Now
By Brian Allnutt, Planet Detroit
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Michigan environmental advocates are hailing a “groundbreaking” settlement to a civil rights complaint filed with state regulators over the expansion of a hazardous waste facility in Detroit.
Groups file petition to stop nuclear plant from reopening along Lake Michigan – Great Lakes Commission
Residents and advocacy groups are asking the federal government for a hearing to try to stop the Palisades nuclear plant in Southwest Michigan on Lake Michigan, officially shut down in […]