Tag: Courts
Man facing 22 charges in cases across Southwestern Ontario
SARNIA â One man is facing a huge list of charges throughout Southwestern Ontario including eight separate cases in Sarnia featuring multiple counts of disguise with intent. David Drake was arrested on Oct. 23 in Chatham-Kent after being wanted on a slew of outstanding warrants in that area, Sarnia and Windsor. He has 22 sets […]
Fraud-charged Londoner swept up in crackdown on door-to-door scheme
When London police arrested Austin Acheson in February and charged him in an alleged door-to-door fraud targeting seniors, investigators warned there could be more complainants.
Applications open for Owen Sound’s Citizens’ Police Academy
The Owen Sound Police Service is accepting applications for the 2025 Citizens’ Police Academy. The CPA is an opportunity for interested community members to take a “deep dive” into the world of policing operations in Owen Sound. The program runs for eight weeks on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Owen Sound […]
London’s courts are clogged. Two veteran lawyers aim to ease the backlog
Two veteran London lawyers are launching a new mediation business, a bid to speed up resolutions to legal disputes amid notoriously long delays in bring lawsuits to trial. Â
The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election | Great Lakes Now
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Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted to their own October surprise.
Third suspect arrested in October 2023 gunpoint robbery in Hanover
Police have arrested a third suspect in a home invasion and gunpoint robbery that occurred in Hanover more than a year ago. On Sunday, a man who was wanted in the relation to the robbery on Oct. 15, 2023 was arrested without incident by the Nottawasaga OPP, Hanover police said in a news release. Dan […]
Pickleball booms, and a new London facility opens its doors: ‘Amazing sport’
Having just come off the court at Londonâs newest pickleball facility, Kathleen Steele is sweating up a storm â but she’s not too out of breath to talk about Smash. âItâs a great atmosphere,â said Steele, who has played pickleball for 12 years in and around London. âIâve already run into so many people I’ve […]
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.
Man with ‘unenviable’ record gets 2 1/2 years in latest brush with the law
The car showed up in front of a London retirement home at about 4 a.m. and was still there three hours later. That seemed suspicious, especially because there were two men sleeping in the front seats, to a concerned citizen, who called police. Police recognized the man strung out on fentanyl in the driverâs seat […]
How Toronto banks’ cases are further clogging up London’s courthouse
Big banks take note: Londonâs court doesnât want your Toronto-based cases.