Tag: Canada
Former police officer joins call to tighten lobbying leash on city-funded boards
A former London police officer has thrown her support behind a push by two councilors asking city-funding agencies not to use taxpayersâ money to lobby council for bigger budgets.
South Bruce residents divided as DGR voting nears end
Teeswater’s residents are divided by the prospect of burying spent nuclear fuel in a deep, underground vault, people said in interviews outside the community’s post office Monday. Nuclear Waste Management Organization has secured land for a possible DGR site northwest of Teeswater, part of South Bruce. If the area is selected, the NWMO would build […]
Bush party murder trial jury shown knife found in accused’s vehicle
London police Sgt. Derek Hardman carefully pulled the large knife out of the box where it has been stored at police headquarters.
Lab studying severe storms across Canada opening at Western University
Western University is launching a new national lab to study severe storms, a project made possible by a $20-million investment from a Toronto-based fund.Â
Views on safety of nuclear fuel DGRs
NWMO DGR safety statements irresponsible I am writing about the Deep Geological Registry (DGR) proposed for Teeswater by the NWMO as a way of managing all of Canada’s high-energy nuclear waste. I can no longer remain silent as I have witnessed the reckless way that the NWMO has [dealt with] the public and municipal leaders […]
What to know as free flu, COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out ahead of virus season
Ontario’s rollout of free flu and COVID-19 vaccines for the general population has begun.
Last day for voting on South Bruce’s willingness to host DGR
South Bruce voters have until eight o’clock tonight to signal their willingness to host an underground vault for Canada’s used nuclear fuel. Votes are cast either online or over the phone in the municipal referendum. Voter information letters with instructions were to have arrived in the mail approximately a week before the voting period. […]
New home prices in London drop, buyers gain clout: ‘Tight market’
Higher interest rates that created lacklustre demand and slowed home sales in London also appear to be forcing prices on new homes to drop, the latest market snapshot from Statistics Canada shows. According to the federal agencyâs latest new housing price index â representing changes over time in the selling price of new residential houses […]
Q+A: Scorzy â one man, a quarter-century as the London Knights mascot
He’s on the ice and in the stands at home games, playoff match-ups and special events, hyping up Knights fans and earning a solid following of his own. He’s Scorzy, the mascot of London’s beloved junior hockey team. The 41-year-old Dominoâs Pizza franchise owner has been behind the mask of several Knights mascot costumes for […]
Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together
West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War. But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]