Tag: Advocacy
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.