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Energy News Roundup: More energy transition ups and downs

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Energy News Roundup: More energy transition ups and downs

Ford is suspending production of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at its plant in Dearborn, Michigan, from mid-November until early 2025 as EV sales continue to lag behind expectations. Since the electric pickup’s launch a couple of years ago, when Ford fielded more demand than it was able to meet, momentum has slowed, and the automaker has this year halved production of the Lightning and reduced its hourly workforce at the Dearborn plant by two-thirds.

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London Free Press

Friends speak out after death of man, 33, found unresponsive in London jail

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The man who died after he was found unresponsive in his cell at London’s troubled provincial jail faced previous trauma and abuse in the justice system, but never stopped trying to improve his life, his friends say.   Friends have identified the man found unresponsive at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre on Thursday as Matthew Bouvier, 33, […]

London Free Press

Amid latest London jail death, inquest into seven previous fatalities sputters

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Even as another fatality at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre was reported Friday, the province launched a legal battle that threatens to derail the inquest into the deaths of seven other men. The Ministry of the Solicitor General wants to curb the inquest’s examination of staffing levels, family supports and programming at EMDC, and in those efforts, […]

London Free Press

Public health officials want say in Ontario’s $10M push for safe alcohol use

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London-area public health officials are demanding Queen’s Park allow their input into how $10 million in government funding is spent to mitigate alcohol-related harms. Board members with Southwestern Public Health, which covers Oxford and Elgin counties, unanimously passed a motion Thursday requesting public health experts be involved in allocating the money for “social responsibility,” a […]

London Free Press

Inmate dies at London’s provincial jail – the 23rd over the last 15 years

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Another inmate has died at London’s provincial jail. Emergency services were called to “an institution in the 700-block of Exeter Road after receiving a 9-1-1 call in relation to an unresponsive male” at about 7:20 p.m. on Thursday, London police say. Police later confirmed the address was 711 Exeter Rd., the site of Elgin-Middlesex Detention […]