Tag: diving
Hockey Canada trial: Defence argues woman’s story built on ‘white lie’
It started, Michael McLeod’s defence lawyer said, with “a white lie.” It’s ended up in a London courtroom where five 2018 Team Canada junior hockey players are on trial over sexual assault allegations that David Humphrey called “preposterous.” Humphrey, the first of the five defence legal teams to give a closing argument, described the 27‑year‑old […]
A great clean-up on Great Lakes Day at Kingston’s Gord Downie Pier
Ontario Great Lakes Day was held at Kingtson’s Gord Downie Pier on Saturday, a day of swimming, diving and educating the public about the importance of the freshwater basin we […]
Points North: The Good Thief?
By Maxwell Howard, Interlochen Public Radio
Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.
This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio.
One day in the early 1980s, diver Tom Farnquist was exploring the shipwrecked SS Comet in Lake Superior.
Jr. B North Stars hit rough patch in tough Midwest Division
In front of a packed crowd inside the Durham Community Centre, the Owen Sound North Stars couldn’t climb all the way back in an emotionally charged game against the Guelph Regals. In the North Stars’ first home game since the passing of their assistant coach Mat Eckert, the team paid tribute with a pre-game ceremony. […]
The Good Thief?
Tom Farnquist is in the business of preserving underwater artifacts and displaying them in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The problem is, a lot of those artifacts were technically stolen from the State of Michigan. And one day, the state notices.