Tag: Blue Water Bridge
U.S. musician’s security caught with illegal gun at Southwestern Ontario border
SARNIA – A U.S. man working security for a hip hop artist has been banned from coming back to Canada for one year after he was caught smuggling his disassembled illegal handgun across the Blue Water Bridge on a tour bus. A Sarnia courtroom recently heard two buses arrived on the Canadian side of the […]
I Speak for the Fish: The hardest lake sturgeon dive in the Great Lakes
For two weeks each year, the St. Clair River hosts thousands of spawning lake sturgeon.
Hundreds of six-foot females plump with eggs and thousands of 4 to 5-foot-long males gather at the base of Lake Huron. In the span of a few weeks, they will arrive, group up, deposit millions of fertilized eggs on the river bottom and depart.
Trucker pleads guilty to smuggling 84 kg of cocaine across border
A Toronto truck driver’s trial in Sarnia into drug smuggling charges at the Blue Water Bridge came to an abrupt end on Tuesday.
Thanks, Mr. President: School board nixes future student U.S. trips
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
Canadians’ U.S. visits keep dropping, and local tourism may benefit
U.S.-Canada trade tensions led to a steep drop in Canadians heading south last month – a trend that, if it continues, could help boost the London region’s tourism sector, an industry watcher says. Some 1.5 million Canadians made return trips to the U.S. by car in March, a 31.9 per cent drop from the same […]