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Georgian College seeks landlords for shared student spaces
Georgian College is expanding its partnership with an online platform helping to connect students to shared living spaces in an effort to house its growing population in Owen Sound. The college asked for the community’s help to support students “who will become the region’s future workforce” in a media release issued Wednesday. With 300 new […]
Police identify third suspect in downtown London shooting
London police have identified a third suspect in a downtown shooting and laid additional charges against one suspect
Killer conman Albert Walker loses parole appeal in B.C.
The Appeal Division of the Parole Board of Canada has turned down another challenge by notorious conman Albert Walker to receive day parole. The former Paris, Ontario, man has been serving a life sentence for the first-degree murder of a UK man in a crime that saw him dubbed The Rolex Killer. Walker was convicted […]
Suspect sought in St. Thomas homicide arrested in London: Police
A man accused of gunning down a woman and setting her home ablaze in St. Thomas last month faces unrelated charges for fentanyl possession and breaking his parole conditions multiple times, according to court records
Position Available: Program Specialist – Great Lakes Commission
The Great Lakes Commission has an immediate opening for a program specialist to assist with implementation of aquatic invasive species projects and provide support to regional collaboratives. Apply by September 8, 2024.
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023
Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before. Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance. The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]
Man acquitted in 2014 cellphone slaying sought in downtown shooting
A London man acquitted nine years ago in the shooting death of a Fanshawe College student trying to retrieve his stolen cellphone is one of three suspects sought in a downtown shooting last week that injured a man. Police were alerted by hospital officials around 5 a.m. on July 21 that a man had showed […]
Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax | Great Lakes Now
By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner
A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.
Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.
Man, 30, charged with murder, arson in St. Thomas homicide
Police charged one suspect in the death of 40-year-old Victoria Dill and are seeking another in the city’s first homicide in eight years.
What the overturning Chevron deference means for the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now
The United States Supreme Court recently overturned a 40-year-old precedent that could have major implications for the Great Lakes. In deciding two cases this term related to herring fishing and regulatory fees — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce — the nation’s highest court overturned its 1984 holding also known as the “Chevron precedent” or “Chevron deference.” In Chevron v.