Tag: diving
I Speak for the Fish: The hardest lake sturgeon dive in the Great Lakes
For two weeks each year, the St. Clair River hosts thousands of spawning lake sturgeon.
Hundreds of six-foot females plump with eggs and thousands of 4 to 5-foot-long males gather at the base of Lake Huron. In the span of a few weeks, they will arrive, group up, deposit millions of fertilized eggs on the river bottom and depart.
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. […]