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Judge blasts driver for police chase from Grand Bend to Windsor
SARNIA — A young Windsor man who led various police units throughout Southwestern Ontario on a wild high-speed chase from Grand Bend to his hometown last summer called it an extremely foolish mistake. “I’ve learned a very valuable lesson through all this,” Jakob Monforton said to a Sarnia judge as he was being fined $4,000 […]
State drops last of charges against UM pro-Palestinian encampment protesters
Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office dropped trespassing charges against students charged with trespassing during a May 2024 raid on an encampment on U of M’s campus.
Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical
Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.
With the election of President Donald Trump, the conflict over glyphosate’s risks and benefits entered a new realm of confrontation that has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, the largest user of fresh water in the blue economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes.
Conflict over a blockbuster farm chemical
Glyphosate is the best-selling farm chemical ever in American agriculture. $2.8 billion in annual sales and roughly 280 million pounds applied annually on U.S. crop fields, most of it on corn and soybeans in Michigan and other Midwest farm states.
Lotto fever: Big Southwestern Ontario winners who made headlines
It was the $5-million mystery that gripped people across Southwestern Ontario: Who bought the winning lottery ticket that nearly hit its one-year expiry date before being cashed in? The question appears to have a happy answer. But high-profile lottery mega-wins don’t always have such positive endings. LFP’s Brian Williams looks back on other fascinating Southwestern […]