Tag: court
Appeal court hearing Sauble Beach dispute May 27
Ontario’s appeal court will hear South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of a decision recognizing Saugeen First Nation owns most of the north beach at Sauble Beach. The Appeal Court for Ontario hearing will start May 27 and is scheduled for the full week. The town’s appeal says the judge’s decision raises questions that need clarification. But […]
Slope slippage monitors precautionary for Alpha Street work
Two monitors which can detect if a hill may be about to collapse will be installed on the Alpha Street hill during reconstruction of the road. The monitors were recommended by an engineering firm, given “a history of slope failure in this area,” a city report said. The city has had to repair a failed upper […]
Man found guilty of criminal negligence causing death in Sauble fire
A judge in Owen Sound found Taran Hibma guilty of criminal negligence causing death Thursday involving a tree house fire at Sauble Beach about 3 ½ years ago. Superior Court Justice Roger Chown called the circumstances “tragic.” Genesis Young, 17, died of smoke inhalation in the tree house, where she and her boyfriend Jonas Renaud […]
Man sentenced for manslaughter in 2021 city hotel death
The fourth and final person convicted in relation to the death of a 22-year-old man in an Owen Sound hotel almost three years ago has been sentenced. Robert Jackson has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the stabbing death of Kody Hunter and was sentenced by Superior Court Justice John Sproat to 15 years in jail. […]
Man gets four years for fentanyl trafficking involving overdose death
A 40-year-old Hanover man was sentenced Wednesday in Walkerton to four years in prison for trading fentanyl for lottery tickets to a mother of four who died of a fentanyl overdose. John Kevin McPhee pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice in February to trafficking fentanyl in Hanover on Dec. 11, 2020. An autopsy […]