Tag: Canadian
SweetWater Gala concert Wednesday kicks off festival
The SweetWater Gala chamber music concert at Grey Roots kicks off this year’s Sweetwater Music Festival concert series Wednesday, Sept. 11. The festival runs through Sunday, Sept. 15 with some paid-admission concerts, while other concerts and events will be offered for free. Thursday’s concert at 7 p.m. at the Harmony Centre in Owen Sound features […]
So how is London doing on its goal to build 47,000 new homes?
More than 25 per cent of the way through London’s 10-year commitment to a provincial housing target, the city has seen 11 per cent of the expected homes built or started.
Delaware’s big weekend bolstered by rescheduled NASCAR race
The largest show on the Delaware Speedway calendar is bigger once more.
Paula Abdul cancels Canada tour, including London show
Paula Abdul is axing dates on her Straight Up! To Canada Tour, including one in London, after suffering a slew of injuries.
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.
London-area home sales slump in August, despite interest rate cuts
In whatâs shaping up as one of the London region’s slowest years for home sales, the local market saw one of its worst Augusts in recent history
New program connects seniors with cultural activities in Owen Sound
The Community Waterfront Heritage Centre has introduced a program that connects area seniors with cultural and community activities. The CWHC, which operates the marine and rail museum in the former Canadian National Railway Station on the west side of the city harbour, has launched its Social Prescriptions Engage Cultural (SPECS) program with funding from the […]
London doctors tap into awareness of patients with severe brain injuries
A new device used to detect consciousness in coma patients with severe brain injuries could substantially change the future of care, says a group of London researchers. Recordings of brain activity through a portable imaging tool can now determine whether an unresponsive patient feels pain, hears their surroundings or, most of all, has preserved consciousness, […]
Great Lakes Moment: Ten natural wonders of The Great Lakes Way | Great Lakes Now
Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit PBS.
The Great Lakes Way is an interconnected set of greenways and water trails stretching from Port Huron, Michigan (at the head of the St.