Owen Sound Sun Times Sports

The OHL is going through ‘growing pains’ trying to clamp down on chirping

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The man in charge of curbing chirping in the Ontario Hockey League said the league is dealing with the growing pains of adjudicating the language of teenagers in an evolving game. “We have certain language we’re attempting to eradicate from the sport,” said Rico Phillips, the league’s director of culture and community. Hired in 2020, […]

Great Lakes Now Michigan

Can environmental law move beyond bedrock 1970’s legislation, while adapting to current and future challenges?

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Can environmental law move beyond bedrock 1970’s legislation, while adapting to current and future challenges?

A 2022 report titled Promises Half Kept at the Half Century Mark, by the Environmental Integrity Project, released on the Clean Water Act’s 50th anniversary said the law is “falling short of its original goals.”

Michigan, for example, has the 4th largest number of impaired lakes, reservoirs and streams assessed for water contact recreation in the U.S.

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Climate change Great Lakes Now

What Trump can do to reverse US climate policy − and what he probably can’t change

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What Trump can do to reverse US climate policy − and what he probably can’t change

By Gautam Jain, Columbia University

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As the U.S. prepares for another Trump administration, one area unambiguously in the incoming president’s crosshairs is climate policy.

Although he has not released an official climate agenda, Donald Trump’s playbook from his last stint in the Oval Office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer some clues to what’s ahead.

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Great Lakes Great Lakes Echo Water

How an infamous Great Lakes shipwreck became trendy on TikTok

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By Clara Lincolnhol As the gales of November approach, social media users are channeling an infamous Great Lakes shipwreck as tongue-in-cheek inspiration for a new fall aesthetic. It began with a video comedian Django Gold posted to TikTok in September. “Brat Summer is over. It’s time for Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Fall,” Gold says […]

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London Free Press

A proposed apartment conversion in south London is being slammed by area residents for turning units into “rooming houses,” that will see tenants evicted from their homes.

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Area residents are slamming a proposed south London apartment conversion they say will turn units into “rooming houses” and lead to current tenants being evicted from their homes. The development at 145 Base Line Rd. W., just west of Wharncliffe Road, is home to five, one-storey buildings with three apartments each. The proposal from a […]