Owen Sound Sun Times

Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together

9 min read

West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War.  But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]

London Free Press

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

7 min read

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, […]