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The fascinating history of the Great Lakes Yemeni sailors
Abdullatif Ahmed was just 23 years old when he first stepped foot on the Medusa Challenger, a 1906-built Great Lakes bulk freighter.
“Before I came to America in 1990,” he said, “I had never even seen the sea.”
Born and raised in Juban, a rural district in southern Yemen, Ahmed was drawn to the Great Lakes by family history and opportunity.
London man convicted of child porn over kid’s doll turned into sex toy
This wasn’t what London police expected to find during a drug bust.
Ontario votes: No riding will be hit harder than this one by 25% Trump tariffs
Voters in a Southwestern Ontario riding reliant on both the auto and farming industries, say tariffs are on their mind.
Owen Sound approves 2.57 per cent tax increase
Owen Sound council has approved a total municipal levy of $36.2 million — a 2.57 per cent municipal tax levy increase for 2025. The entire blended increase, including provincial education and Grey County tax levies, will be 2.52 per cent. City council had stipulated that staff propose an increase of no more than five per […]
Witness describes ‘the shop’ in luxury home at alleged drug lab trial
The room in the large London luxury home was called “the shop.” Inside it were glass tubes and beakers, a box that kind of looked like an oven and a machine “with a glass thing on top of it” to mix liquid in, a woman familiar with the 467 Commissioners Rd. property testified. And the […]